Search results for journal of roman archaeology

Archaeology Jul 21, 2023

Examining the contribution of cultural heritage values to steppe conservation on ancient burial mounds of Eurasia

During our history, ancient civilizations have considerably shaped the global ecosystems through a coevolution of landscape and local populations. In some cases, the legacy of the disappeared civilizations is still visible ...

Archaeology Jun 21, 2023

An archaeological first: A poem by Virgil appears on the remnants of a Roman oil amphora

Measuring just 6 centimeters wide and 8 centimeters long, the magnitude and exceptionality of the discovery has left the European archaeological community flabbergasted. It is a fragment of an oil amphora from the Roman region ...

Archaeology May 25, 2023

Proof that part of the Roman Empire smelled of patchouli

A research team at the University of Cordoba has identified, for the first time, the composition of a Roman perfume more than 2,000 years old thanks to the discovery of a small vessel of ointment in Carmona.

Archaeology Apr 27, 2023

Roman military camps in desert found by archaeologists using Google Earth

Three new Roman fortified camps have been identified across northern Arabia by a remote sensing survey by the University of Oxford's School of Archaeology. Their paper, published in the journal Antiquity, reports the discovery ...

Archaeology Apr 14, 2023

Early Romans may have been the first to breed flat-faced dogs

A team of osteoarchaeologists, archaeologists and veterinarian scientists from Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Atatürk University, University of Environmental and Life Sciences, ul. Kożuchowska, has found evidence of early ...

Archaeology Mar 14, 2023

Lasers and chemistry reveal how ancient pottery was made, and how an empire functioned

Peru's first great empire, the Wari, stretched for more than a thousand miles over the Andes Mountains and along the coast from 600 to 1000 CE. The pottery they left behind gives archaeologists clues as to how the empire ...

Archaeology Mar 14, 2023

Roman era gravesites with unusual funerary rites

A team of archaeologists from KU Leuven and the Royal Belgium Institute of Natural Sciences, both in Belgium, reports unusual funerary practices by early Roman Empire–era people living in what is now a southwest part of ...

Archaeology Mar 6, 2023

Archaeologists dug for evidence of the Rosetta Stone's ancient Egyptian rebellion—here's what they found

The Rosetta Stone is not known for its content, but as a lexicon of Egyptian hieroglyphics. The decree inscribed on the stone, however, discusses a violent revolt—largely lost to history—that shaped the trajectory of ...

Archaeology Feb 28, 2023

Steel was already being used in Europe 2,900 years ago, shows study

A study by an international and interdisciplinary team headed by University of Freiburg archaeologist Dr. Ralph Araque Gonzalez from the Faculty of Humanities has proven that steel tools were already in use in Europe around ...

Archaeology Feb 22, 2023

Volunteering for cranial surgery in medieval Italy

Sometime in the period from the 6th to the 8th century, a woman willingly underwent surgery to scrape a hole into the top of her skull. The procedure must have gone well, at least well enough for her to survive and to try ...

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