Not long ago, the ancient Roman site was neglected and crumbling.
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Cane corsos go all the way back to ancient Roman times.
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Winter decorations date back to the ancient Roman feast of Saturnalia.
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According to ancient Roman mythology, Venus and Mars engaged in an adulterous affair.
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The flower pot turned out to be part of an ancient Roman sarcophagus.
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Four ancient Roman coins were discovered beneath Katsuren Castle on Okinawa Island, Japan.
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He also explains why the ancient Roman philosophy of stoicism is still resonating today.
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And scientists use new technology in an attempt to "unravel" some ancient Roman scrolls.
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His videos range from simple to complex, American comfort food to ancient Roman throwbacks.
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The leather scraps could have been bits from ancient Roman shoes, the report speculates.
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The barbarity of horse racing, the ancient Roman Colosseum, even Mr. Ed. Who cares?
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In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted, peppering the ancient Roman city with ash and rock.
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The massive lump of decaying sewage sits alongside ancient Roman mosaics and priceless medieval altarpieces.
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A nearby set in the same studio is made up like an ancient Roman city.
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Ancient Roman culture may be one of the most heavily replicated historical fantasies in Hollywood.
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After its brief appearance in ancient Roman law, solidarity was mostly forgotten until the modern age.
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He has called this model "Jupiterian", a reference to the ancient Roman king of the gods.
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Long ago, Portofino was an ancient Roman colony, seized by the Republic of Genoa in 1229.
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There are several important differences between the ancient Roman practice and what we are witnessing today.
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Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, killing thousands of residents in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.
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Instead, using this ancient Roman technique, we could built a structure that would remain intact for centuries.
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How are you supposed to know this, unless you have an advanced degree in ancient Roman history?
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During their occupation, Islamic State fighters toppled the gates along the ancient Roman promenade, the Decumanus Maximus.
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But these recipes might give you an idea of what this popular ancient Roman sauce tasted like.
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ANCIENT ROMAN BOXING GLOVES DISCOVERED NEAR HADRIAN&aposS WALL The cult of Jupiter Dolichenus is shrouded in mystery.
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The 1,200-acre estate sits along an ancient Roman road and contains multiple structures from the 17th century.
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The ancient Roman god of love was named Cupid, but he bears a striking resemblance to Eros. Wings?
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Unfortunately, the baths themselves — boasting genuine (and actually ancient) Roman lead pipes — are off-limits to the public.
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The city has closed streets and reduced the speed limit in many places to an ancient Roman crawl.
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What is the common thread connecting the ancient Roman Pantheon, the U.S. Capitol and today's super-tall skyscrapers?
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Fiennes, who, in the film, wears jeans and an ancient-Roman beard, did not pretend to be Darbyshire.
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Once you're done, try adding your garum to these recipes from Patrick Faas's book of ancient Roman recipes.
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He's known as the second richest man in the Ancient Roman Empire, and the guy that took down Spartacus.
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Two men were arrested as they made illegal excavations at the ancient Roman site of Ratiaria in northwestern Bulgaria.
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Vespucci was reading Cicero's lessons about the ancient Roman republic to help him better serve the modern Florentine republic.
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Weighty gold rings, inspired by the flat-topped, elliptical shape of ancient Roman examples, curve boldly across the finger.
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This necklace has an ancient Roman coin bearing the face of Emperor Hadrian, who reigned between AD 117-138.
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They nod to the ancient Roman fasces, used to communicate strength through unity, and represent the original 13 states.
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The child-sized hand was discovered in April during an excavation at the site of Vindolanda , an ancient Roman fort.
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Archeologists working at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, Italy, found the man's remains almost 2,000 years after he died.
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Y.) compared House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to an ancient Roman leader in an interview that aired Sunday.
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More bones and additional evidence will need to be uncovered before scientists can confidently say that ancient Roman whaling occurred.
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Rampaging across Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State destroyed churches, shrines and sites, including the ancient Roman city of Palmyra.
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In one sequence, the grandchildren are seen going through Spartacus training, sparring with fake swords and dressed in ancient Roman costumes.
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An apse at each end of a square means an ancient Roman basilica; lancet windows and elaborate stained glass are Gothic.
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Killing Eve wraps season 2 with a wide shot of Eve visibly bleeding onto the floor of some ancient Roman ruin.
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But with a record number of tourists headed there, some worry that the ancient Roman site could slide back into disrepair.
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Large sections of Norcia's ancient Roman city walls -- which suffered damage and cracks in the previous quakes -- crumbled, along with towers.
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This cheese transcends the ages — it is as relevant to the contemporary dinner table as it was to ancient Roman banquets.
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Her sculptures distill all that's great about Ancient Roman, Asian, and Arab designs through the lens of an irreverent New Yorker.
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I went to Baden Baden for a visit to the famed Freidrichsbad, a walk-through spa modeled after ancient Roman baths.
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ISIS militants have previously held the city for 11 months and have destroyed a number of ancient Roman structures and monuments.
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How could the greatest empire in the world, ancient Roman historians asked themselves, have fallen into the hands of a Caligula?
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Galen of Pergamon, one of the most influential physicians of the Ancient Roman world, was a big proponent of this theory.
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The Domaine is grandiose, with 18 kilometers of wine cellars that serve as art galleries dug into ancient Roman chalk pits.
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The hotel has an ancient Roman stone column and a sunny courtyard, but its myriad glazed tiles are the standout element.
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With ancient Roman and Celtic origins, the horseshoe became known as a protective force because it was traditionally made from iron.
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The ancient Roman amphitheater — the only one of its kind in the region — is a well-preserved auditorium and residential complex.
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Even in the olden times, babies were bottle-fed — the pottery has been found amid the ruins of ancient Roman nurseries.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's love for ancient Roman emperor Augustus Caesar offers some insights into how he views being a leader.
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Developers can simulate just about anything in a headset, from the rings of Saturn to the aqueducts of the ancient Roman empire.
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He said that ancient Roman settlements that were not buried under modern cities such as London, Milan, Budapest or Belgrade were rare.
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The ancient Roman amphitheatre, where Islamic State shot dead around 20 men as it took over the city last May, appears unscathed.
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The festival of Lupercalia The ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia has been one of the earliest records of the term Valentine's Day.
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Although we live in a technologically advanced society, the general approach to water infrastructure today would be recognizable to an ancient Roman.
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The Cryptoporticus is a breathtaking system of underground vaulted galleries that literally formed the foundations of the ancient Roman forum, or marketplace.
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The origins of Saint Valentine and Valentine's Day are a bit murky, but we know it started in the ancient Roman days.
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In his series The Art Of Love, which was written in 2 C.E., the ancient Roman poet Ovid offered tips for lustful women.
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He was writing about ancient Roman medicine, and a lot of the remedies they were using would seem ridiculous even in the 1850s.
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So they bought the store and launched Bluemercury, a name that's a combination of Marla's favorite color and ancient Roman messenger god Mercury.
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I live in Wales, and I sometimes go down to Bath, Aquae Sulis, the ancient Roman spa city in the southwest of England.
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Trilobites Underwater archaeologists have found a 2,000-year-old skeleton belonging to a victim of the famed Antikythera shipwreck from ancient Roman times.
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It started with the ancient Roman harvest festival of Pomona, named after the goddess of fruitful abundance, which took place on November 1.
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This UNESCO World Heritage site in Spain's region has stunning clay mountains that have remnants of ancient Roman gold-mining mechanisms and techniques.
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Little girls are likely to be angels with feathered wings, while their older, curly-haired sisters are apt to impersonate ancient Roman beauties.
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I took the way through Rome's historic Jewish ghetto, now a tourist destination of curving cobblestone streets, medieval buildings and ancient Roman ruins.
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Even the greatest orator in history, the ancient Roman Marcus Tullius Cicero, once ran from the Forum in terror without saying a word.
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Benito Mussolini was obsessed with the words, architecture, and symbols of ancient Roman power as a means of historically collocating his own authority.
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Divers found a bronze lamp depicting the ancient Roman sun god Sol, a statue of the moon goddess Luna, fragments of jars, and more.
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If this news about ancient Roman concrete sounds familiar, it's probably because you're remembering work done by the same researchers a few years ago.
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The horizontal "Decumaria" (2018), made of moon gold, oxidized silver and red clay, resembles the austere ornamentation one imagines paneling an ancient Roman temple.
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All members of the ancient Roman Catholic order, which now runs charities, hospitals and disaster relief in 120 countries, swear allegiance to the pope.
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The exhibition's central object is a recreation, in glass made by Williams, of an ancient Roman perfume bottle now held in the British Museum.
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Gutted by WWII bombardment, for instance, the Croatian city of Zadar had to be rebuilt around its (largely intact) ancient Roman and Renaissance core.
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Archaeologists have unearthed a beautifully preserved sets of mosaics from the ancient Roman city of Ucetia, which was previously only known by its name.
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It was a call to arms credited to ancient Roman senator Cato the Elder, who inspired his countrymen to crush Rome's rival in battle.
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The sheep will graze at The Tumulus on the heath, an ancient Roman monument that folklore claims is the gravesite of Celtic queen Boudica.
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The launch of the two Praetor models - named after Ancient Roman officials - coincides with the business jet industry's flagship show in Orlando from Oct.
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ANCIENT ROMAN BOXING GLOVES DISCOVERED NEAR HADRIAN&aposS WALL Archaeologists recently unearthed the final resting place of an ancient racehorse among the ruins of Pompeii.
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Enormous haul of ancient Roman coins unearthed in Spain Sue O'Connor, the lead archaeologist for the project, discovered the pieces shortly after getting her PhD.
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Lost or severely damaged were ancient Roman walls, Gothic and Baroque churches and centuries-old paintings crushed beneath tons of brick and sandstone and marble.
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An amateur historian just unearthed a treasure that would turn any archaeologist green with envy: an ornate gold ring dating back to ancient Roman times.
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On that trip, we skipped the macabre crypt of the Capuchin friars, a subterranean chamber lined with bones, in favor of more ancient Roman catacombs.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Archaeologists have discovered a well-preserved, 2,000-year-old "fast food" counter at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.
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It may seem odd that I carry around with me an ancient Roman artifact, but the truth is that it cost only $28 on eBay.
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Of course there's an Italian McDonald's with an ancient Roman road passing through it; what could be appropriate for the franchise that popularized the drive-through?
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Seneca, the ancient Roman writer, said we should live each day of our lives as if it may be the last -- because it indeed may be.
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Barbeau, who frequently uses strange metals (including ancient Roman lead) in his experiments at Duke, discovered tons of battleship steel behind a building on Duke's campus.
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Caesarea, Israel (CNN)The two divers knew they found something special in the shallow waters of the ancient Roman port of Caesarea, on the Mediterranean Sea.
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When the ancient Roman politician Lucius Lucullus noticed his night's menu looking dull, he gave instructions to his cook to prepare a lavish, multiple-course feast.
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Beneath the soil in Cologne, Germany, lies a bibliophile&aposs dream: an ancient Roman library that once held up to 20,203 scrolls, according to news reports.
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And last but not least, the newly refurbished Lanesborough Hotel opposite Hyde Park, will open a luxurious wellness club taking design inspiration from ancient Roman baths.
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Maybe. Whether you're planning to visit Hungarian springs or ancient Roman baths in the U.K., there a few things to know before you take a dip.
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Trilobites Archaeologists have found ancient Roman coins buried in the ruins of a 12th-century castle in Okinawa, and no one knows how they got there.
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Depending on your sources, its origins can be traced back to an ancient Roman fertility festival involving sacrificial goats or to a Chaucer poem about birds.
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A German farmer was awarded nearly $1 million by the German government after archaeologists uncovered an ancient Roman bronze horse head on his property in 19383.
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According to the ancient Roman scholar and writer Marcus Terentius Varro, a structure made of hexagons is more compact than one made from squares or equilateral triangles.
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We asked the Game of Thrones star this question while she sat on folding chair amid the ancient Roman ruins of Italica outside Seville, Spain last fall.
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They hoped to answer a debate over whether the crucifixion depicted on the cloth was T-shaped, Y-shaped, or some other manner of ancient Roman execution.
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ROME (Reuters) - The volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii probably took place two months later than previously thought, Italian officials said on Tuesday.
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For that explanation, we look to the ancient Roman festival Lupercalia, a Pagan holiday that celebrates fertility and the coming of spring which falls on February 15.
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Read: Ruins of ancient Roman city wash up on Turkish coast The city served as a center of worship to the sun for more than 2,500 years.
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The villages hit by the quake in the Marche region are along the ancient Roman road, the Via Salaria, that leads from Rome to the Adriatic Sea.
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This week, magazine designers go for the jugular, Trump turned down Warhol prints, the state of the digital in 22017, ancient Roman cities, female photojournalists, and more.
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Depending on whom you ask, bacaro comes from the Venetian word for "wine" or "a good bar," or even from the ancient Roman god of wine, Bacchus.
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There are stone basins dating to ancient Roman times that were likely used for the preparation of garum, the fermented fish sauce ubiquitous in the era's cuisine.
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Today, the technique, known as muography, has been used by archaeologists to analyze ancient Roman structures and Mexican pyramids, and by geologists to explore features such as volcanoes.
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He paused before a relief of a ship tied to a mooring block in a harbor, found at the site of the artificial ancient Roman harbor of Portus.
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A new book by classicist and historian Andrew M. Riggsby investigates the types of information technologies drawn, painted, and inscribed on the surfaces of the ancient Roman world.
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Indeed, ancient Roman piers and breakwaters, some of which were constructed more than 2,000 years ago, are thought to be stronger today than when they were first constructed.
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In the original, a high-tech theme park with western, medieval and ancient Roman-themed sections staffed by super realistic robots goes haywire when the androids start rebelling.
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That is, until researchers discovered ancient whale bones within the ruins of a fish-processing site in the ancient Roman city of Baelo Claudia, near today's Tarifa, Spain.
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston recently mounted "Life, Death & Revelry," an exhibition that juxtaposed two works: an elaborate ancient Roman sarcophagus and a video it inspired.
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Snapshot: Above, part of the excavation of Herculaneum, an ancient Roman city that was destroyed in 79 A.D. in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which also buried Pompeii.
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A popular archaeological site around 30 miles north of the capital Amman, Jerash is home to a well-preserved ancient Roman site and is a major tourist attraction.
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The Frank Lloyd Wright designed Little House is renting for $2,500/night, while the ancient Roman Villa of P. Fannius Synistor room can be procured for $2,000/night.
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That is, until researchers discovered ancient whale bones within the ruins of a fish-processing site in the ancient Roman city of Baelo Claudia, near today&aposs Tarifa, Spain.
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Archaeologists led by Miomir Korać are currently scouring the area in preparation for further construction at the site, which was once home to the ancient Roman city of Viminacium.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Gladiators reenacted fights in the amphitheatre of the ancient Roman city of Carnuntum whose archaeological remains stretch over 10 square kilometers (3.86 square miles) in eastern Austria.
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Some of the killings took place at an ancient Roman theater in Palmyra, where Islamic State last year put at least 25 government fighters to death, the Observatory said.
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KOSTOLAC, Serbia (Reuters) - Serbian archaeologists at the site of the ancient Roman city of Viminacium have found an intact sarcophagus with two skeletons bedecked with gold and silver adornments.
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"Some photos remained, others changed, there's no damnatio memoriae," he said with a laugh, referring to the ancient Roman tradition of erasing the memory of a betrayer or traitor.
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In the cypress-lined streets around his home, boasting foreign embassies, government palaces and ancient Roman sites, and with the Mediterranean glittering in the background, few people backed Saied.
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A private, sun-kissed refuge in the crystal-clear waters of the Mediterranean, complete with the remains of a 16th-century watchtower, ancient Roman basins and a medieval well.
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The medieval period in particular, with the rise of Christianity, saw ancient Roman gods re-carved as saints, and scarce materials like gold melted down to make new objects.
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Image: Pompeii Archaeological ParkThe volcano that destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD affected both the citizens of the ancient Roman city and their animal companions, as a remarkable new discovery shows.
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Throughout our history, urine has been used to treat everything from burns, scorpion stings, baby rashes, and even "affections of the anus," according to ancient Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder.
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From the ancient Roman conqueror Marcus Aurelius, to statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin, right through to Shay Carl whose Maker Studios was acquired by Disney for half a billion dollars.
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Theories abound about the holiday's origins: It may have grown out of the ancient Roman festival Hilaria, the establishment of the Gregorian calendar, or any number of vernal equinox celebrations.
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In one episode you might learn about the ancient Roman epicurean Apicius, and in the next, Soma could make a risotto with apples and bacon and serve it for breakfast.
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The pedestrian-friendly route begins narrow and dark along an ancient Roman wall, cutting through the heart of the Gothic Quarter, then ends in the bright openness at the harbor.
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Palmyra has some of the most extensive ruins of the ancient Roman empire, some of which were dynamited by Islamic State in what the United Nations calls a war crime.
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Canova created only one sculpture for the United States: a monument to Washington, made to look like an ancient Roman leader (a suggestion of Thomas Jefferson's), writing his farewell address.
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Others have suggested that its use in ancient Roman pipes — the word "plumbing" and lead's abbreviation on the periodic table, Pb, both come from Latin — helped bring down that empire.
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This file photo released on Sunday, May 17, 2015, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows the general view of the ancient Roman city of Palmyra, northeast of Damascus, Syria.
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At L'Archestrate, in Paris, he made daring adaptations of recipes he excavated from ancient Roman cookbooks, and shocked the culinary establishment with wonderfully mad flavor combinations, like lobster with vanilla sauce.
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Image: John Reid/Trimontium TrustArchaeologists working at an ancient Roman battlefield in Scotland have discovered a type of pierced sling-bullet that made a whistling sound when hurled at the enemy.
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There's a classical vibe to some of his trove, like the French copy of a Roman bust of Marcus Aurelius and the framed grouping of plaster imprints of ancient Roman seals.
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A collaboration, rooted in a long-running program between Northwestern and the Art Institute of Chicago, resulted in a course and an award-winning exhibition featuring an ancient Roman-Egyptian mummy.
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Dr. Mass and her team work with museums, private clients, auction houses, art fairs and artists on everything from large-scale contemporary outdoor sculpture in the Hamptons to ancient Roman sculpture.
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For the last month we have been drinking fianos, wines from an excellent white grape that thrives in Campania, with origins that in some opinions extend back to ancient Roman times.
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In the current scheme of things, the misuse of PMLA is reminiscent of an ancient Roman phrase - "Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant" - which loosely translates to: they create desolation, and call it peace.
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Written by a single master scribe in rustic capitals, an ancient Roman calligraphic script, and illustrated by three different painters, Vergilius Vaticanus is one of only three illuminated manuscripts of classic literature.
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In an ancient Roman city like this one, he explained as we downed Campari and sodas, a decumano (Decumanus Maximus in Latin) was the most important street, where all business took place.
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Institute for the Study of the Ancient World In 1830, a Norman farmer working a new piece of land near the village of Berthouville plowed up 50 pounds of ancient Roman silver.
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Russo said the Roman poet Horace and ancient Roman historian Marcus Terentius Varro had related that Romulus was buried behind the "rostra" - a tribune where speakers addressed the crowd in the forum.
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From the pyramids and Sphinx to the Citadel of Qaitbay and an ancient Roman amphitheatre near the Mediterranean Sea, the country's historic sites face growing threats from harsher weather and rising seas.
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Jerusalem (CNN)Israeli archeologists say they have made a dramatic discovery adjacent to the Western Wall in Jerusalem after unearthing what they believe could have been a theater dating from ancient Roman times.
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Later that year, Mr. Mashadani participated in Islamic State operations near the ancient Roman ruins of Palmyra, Syria, which was taken by the Islamic State in 2015 and held for about a year.
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Its new name references its resemblance to the ancient Roman cistern in Istanbul, although its 221 20173-foot columns that form a matrix over 87,500 square feet are a more recent work of infrastructure.
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The two other paintings are a poignant Crucifixion by a follower of Duccio di Buoninsegna and a lively, panoramic picture of an Ancient Roman procession by Giovanni di Ser Giovanni Guidi, Masaccio's younger brother.
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An area near Svishtov once hosted a "major Ancient Roman military camp and city" called Novae, which lasted from the 1st century AD until the 4th century AD, as noted in Archaeology in Bulgaria.
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Somewhere between an actor, amateur athlete, and armchair historian, Zilli's obsession with Roman history began at the age of nine, when he dressed as an ancient Roman for Carnevale, the Italian version of Halloween.
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The origin of their name is the Latin word for dog — cane — possibly because, as the ancient Roman author and naturalist Pliny the Elder wrote, early Roman visitors to the islands encountered huge dogs.
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As a compliance issue, selling drugs and making people addicted to them is itself complying with a higher law, covered by the ancient Roman formula lex quodquod cupio ("the law [is] whatever I want").
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Other sights along the tour include the ancient ruins of the Roman Forum, and the first and second levels of the Colosseum; the massive amphitheater used in ancient Roman times for gory gladiator fights.
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Researchers discovered whale bones from the North Atlantic right whale ( Eubalaena glacialis ) and the Atlantic gray whale ( Eschrichtius robustus ) within the ruins of an ancient Roman fish-processing facility located along the Strait of Gibraltar.
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File photo - Actors, dressed as a Roman pretorian guards, hold their helmets at a parade during a show reviving the ancient Roman circus in the central Spanish village of Banos de Valdearados August 22, 2004.
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Romanian Police found 128 pieces of ancient Roman military personal equipment, 134 pieces of antique ceramics, and 189 coins (from the Hellenistic, Roman Republican, and Roman Imperial periods) that had been stolen from archaeological sites.
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At first, Massey thought the ring was a gold coin, because he found it in the middle of a stash of 60 ancient Roman coins that were buried in the field, he told the BBC.
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ROME (Reuters) - Elton John will perform in an ancient Roman theater in Pompeii in July as part of a world tour to showcase his new album "Wonderful Crazy Night", his Italian promoter said on Friday.
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Even pieces of ostensible criticism reach, almost unfailingly, a passage of barely hidden astonishment, writers gazing at his references to the ancient Roman working class or Thomas Cromwell like they just peeked inside the Matrix.
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The 90-minute work takes inspiration from ancient Roman frescoes and "Feast of Herod With the Beheading of St. John the Baptist," a painting by Bartholomeus Strobel the Younger, to explore the ideas surrounding time.
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The idea of a man falling in love with, and copulating with, a created woman dates back at least to Pygmalion's Galatea, a narrative reproduced in the ancient Roman-era Metamorphoses by Ovid and elsewhere.
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I saw my life pass before me, and not just my life but the lives and legends of the whole rhizome — the bogs in Lesotho, the ancient Roman portals that we brightened in the solstice.
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Read: Temple to ancient Roman cult resurrected beneath London The other room, attached to the banquet hall, has a tall circular podium, which archaeologists say would have been used by the ruler when making announcements.
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The half-day tour that features just the ancient Roman Forum and the Colosseum, called Skip the Line: Ancient Rome and Colosseum Half Day Walking Tour (also by City Wonders) ranked third on TripAdvisor's list.
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Wherever I went, the photos were amazing; in a one-hour trip, I mapped the most beautiful landmarks inside the ancient Roman walls surrounding the city of Rab, Croatia with a bunch of 2249-degree experiences.
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It had all of these positive associations: it had been used by these preeminent ancient Roman writers, it had a good ring to it as well because it fell into in vitro, in vivo, in fimo.
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Within a year, the social network will launch a new currency to be known as Libra, in honour of an ancient Roman unit of mass—it is also the word for "pound" in many romance languages.
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One of the longest eclipses lasted an estimated 107 minutes, but that was back when the most exciting news of the day was Constantine the Great renaming an ancient Roman town after his mother (in 318).
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Hours earlier, Mr. Berlusconi held a unity rally in an ancient Roman temple with his coalition partners, Mr. Salvini and Giorgia Meloni, a post-fascist candidate fresh off a trip to Hungary to visit Mr. Orban.
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For the atmospheric "Skybox," presented by New York Live Arts and performed offsite at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, the choreographer is inspired by ancient Roman frescoes, a 17th-century mathematical theory and a late mannerist painting.
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The name "Sur" means "city wall," and refers to the 16-foot-thick ancient Roman walls, longer than Jerusalem's and better preserved than Rome's, which loop around the municipality and embrace the older parts of Diyarbakir.
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In each case, the fasces served as a visual argument for his own authority by referencing both Italian history and the long history of the ancient Roman fasces as a symbol of legitimate and necessary force.
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An important source of minerals during the heydays of the ancient Roman and Egyptian civilizations, the mines now have a new function -- as a guide in the search for new sources of gold in Egypt's eastern desert.
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The skeletons were found at the foot of a massive coal-fired power station where searches are being carried out before another unit of the electricity plant is built on the site of an ancient Roman city.
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Palmyra is the site of some of the most extensive ruins of the ancient Roman empire, and temples and tombs were dynamited by Islamic State fighters in what the United Nations has described as a war crime.
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During the trip, Mr. Robey joined other guests of Mr. Rolet's at a performance of "Nabucco," an opera by Verdi that was part of a summer opera festival held in an ancient Roman theater north of Avignon.
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She chose an area in the outskirts called Tor Fiscale, then a shantytown inhabited mostly by postwar refugees, some living in makeshift homes in the arcades of the ancient Roman aqueducts that still crisscross the countryside there.
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Another motivation for the cartoons is to help us manage the content of "The Tragedy of Lucretia" and "Story of Virginia," both horrendous accounts of women who die to protect patriarchal honor in the Ancient Roman period.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Jordan's Ministry of Tourism and Antiques has banned a popular Lebanese band, known for its largely politically and sexually charged lyrics, from performing at an ancient Roman theater on religious grounds.
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You can walk through the Forum, the heart of the ancient Roman empire; stuff your face with lamb, pasta, and artichoke (the latter comes in season in January); and peer up at Michelangelo's work in the Sistine Chapel.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan's minister of health said three Mexicans and one Swiss tourist were wounded along with four Jordanians when a man went on a stabbing rampage in Jersah city, a major tourist destination near ancient Roman ruins.
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A new book by classicist and historian Andrew M. Riggsby investigates the types of information technologies (IT) drawn, painted, and inscribed on the surfaces of the ancient Roman world and explores how they shaped the daily life of Romans.
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Tammy Nguyễn's inspired reinvention of the myth of Narcissus, straddling the stately hexameters of ancient Roman poetry and emergent ecological disaster in the 21st century, occupies a world apart from Hà Ninh's slightly demented vision of a parallel universe.
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But it's in the sequel, Queen of the Damned, that Rice created a fascinating range of complex, dominant vampira: the ancient Roman Pandora, Lestat's mother, Gabrielle de Lioncourt, and the 6,000 year old Egyptian twin sisters, Maharet and Mekare.
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Hilary Becker, an assistant classics professor at the University of Mississippi who plans to join the faculty at Binghamton University in New York this fall, is completing a book titled "Commerce in Color," about the ancient Roman pigment trade.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads For centuries, the ancient Roman city of Ucetia in southern France was known only by its name, but archaeologists have recently unearthed traces of it near Nîmes, including beautifully preserved sets of mosaics.
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Palmyra's ancient Roman temples and archway, blown up by Islamic State fighters last year, will be restored once Syria recaptures the city from the ultra-hardline Islamist group, the head of the antiquities authority said on Saturday.
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Palmyra has both symbolic and military value as the site of ancient Roman-era ruins - mostly destroyed by Islamic State - and because of its location on a highway linking mainly government-held western Syria to Islamic State's eastern stronghold.
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Valentine's Day is a fixed day on the calendar (be sure to tell that to the next person who asks what day is Valentine's Day) and the ancient Roman calendar included a mid-February holiday even before Saint Valentine's time.
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By exploiting the latter, scientists have recreated a map of the United States in slime mold, as well as ancient Roman road networks between the 1st and 4th century AD. All it takes is a bit of oatmeal to tempt them.
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In the past few weeks, this issue has again caused intense — and somewhat malicious — debate in the UK, where a cartoon depicting a dark-skinned Roman father elicited an uproar over whether there truly was diversity in ancient Roman Britannia.
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Archaeologists have reconstructed part of Carnuntum - which they say used to be a hub of the Roman Empire around 1,700 years ago - for tourists, who can now relive ancient Roman culture in the gladiator school, public baths and a museum.
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At the center of the 3.2-acre site is a public pedestrian arcade that re-establishes an ancient Roman road and a museum displaying the Roman temple of Mithras in its original location, where it was discovered 60 years ago.
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JERASH, Jordan (Reuters) - Three Mexican tourists and one Swiss were wounded along with four locals in Jordan on Wednesday when a man went on a stabbing rampage in Jerash, a major tourist destination near ancient Roman ruins, the health minister said.
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The only constant, perhaps, is that alcohol is a disruptive force that by its very nature defeats efforts to control it, from ancient Roman bans on the debauched Bacchic rites in the first century B.C. to the great American experiment, Prohibition.
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Also from the 15th century, the Sanctuary of Madonna delle Grazie, located on the alleged site of ancient Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro's villa, suffered earthquake damage for a second time — its gabled sandstone façade was restored after one in 1705.
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As fires raged out of control across Southern California, a new blaze erupted in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, near iconic landmarks like the U.C.L.A. campus and the Getty Museum, home to old masters paintings and ancient Roman statues.
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In a letter sent to the Getty on May 9, the Italian culture ministry raised questions about a 19th century painting of the Oracle of Delphi, an ancient Roman mosaic floor decorated with the head of Medusa, and two stone lions.
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By dusk virtually every evening, the Via Domitiana, an ancient Roman road that runs parallel to the sea, is transformed into a long runway for women, many from Africa, who offer their bodies to passing drivers for a little money.
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Civil rights and environment groups opposing the mine argued it would destroy ancient Roman mining shafts in the Rosia Montana village, its surrounding hillsides and pose an environmental risk from the cyanide used to process ore, a normal industry practice.
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Earlier, riders tried to cool down with bottles of cold water against the backs of their necks as they pedaled on the Pont du Gard, an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge set against a dramatic landscape of rocks, trees and water.
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Look past the absurdly sexist premise of swarthy backwoodsmen abducting women for marriage — the source material can be traced back to Ancient Roman legend "The Rape of the Sabine Women" — and there's plenty of admire about Donen's robust CinemaScope musical.
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It's such a heavily historic part of the world and you see it everywhere, the whole city of Aleppo is built around ancient Roman ruins, dating from the Roman era to the Ottoman era, there's these white marble temples and mosques and bathhouses.
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When I meander through this spare exhibition, I can't help but also think of the psychologically charged portraiture from the ancient Roman outpost in Fayum, Egypt, a place and time (around 2015 CE) where the realms of the material and spiritual intermingled.
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Working at the American Academy of Rome earlier this year, surrounded by Renaissance and Baroque art that memorializes ancient Roman history wrought with political and religious violence, American artist Kara Walker began to reflect on her own country's religious and political origins.
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At the Met shop, merchandise has often been specifically created for the store — the silk scarves styled from patterns of the pottery collection, the bracelets reproducing ancient Roman and Greek pieces, a clutch purse based on a 14th-century silk and wool tapestry.
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It features a major theater, built in the 1st century CE, as well as a number of other ancient Roman ruins and monuments, as well as a Gallo-Roman Museum built on a vast archaeological site just north of the newly discovered neighborhood.
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From a violent barber ("Sweeney Todd" with Hugh Wheeler) to ancient Roman farce (1962's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," with librettists Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart) to fractured fairy tales ("Into the Woods" with James Lapine).
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Square-blocked neo-Classical-style ceiling moldings — a nod to the global fascination with the excavation of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, which began in 1748 — distinguish the ceilings; sets of molded classic French doors trimmed in gold leaf divide the space.
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The name BVLGARI is spelled out in huge glistening letters across the front with the company's signature ancient Roman "V" in place of the "U"; earlier this month, the letters "weren't quite visible enough," Mr. Rapone said, so workers were busily polishing away.
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Read: Temple to ancient Roman cult resurrected beneath London He believes the cenote under El Castillo could represent a 5th direction -- the "axis mundi" or center of the world, which the Maya depicted as a huge tree, known as The Tree of Life.
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ANCIENT ROMAN BOXING GLOVES DISCOVERED NEAR HADRIAN&aposS WALL "This discovery is significant because this evidence is rarely found," explained Emanuela Gualdi-Russo, an anthropology professor at the University of Ferrara, and one of the study&aposs authors, in an email to Fox News.
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It's believed that this custom began in Europe, USA Today reports, with some tracing it all the way back to the ancient Roman festival Saturnalia, in which people celebrated the new year with wild, drunken parties (during which time we assume some kissing took place).
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WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc said on Sunday it was pulling its sponsorship of the Shakespeare in the Park production of "Julius Caesar" in New York over a portrayal of the assassinated ancient Roman leader that resembles U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Associated Press reports that the ancient Roman ruins date back to the reign of Emperor Hadrian, in the second century AD. The buildings are thought to be the barracks for the Roman Praetorian guards, and the site could cover as much as 10,000 square feet.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc and Bank of America Corp pulled financial support on Sunday for the Shakespeare in the Park production of "Julius Caesar" in New York over its portrayal of the assassinated ancient Roman leader that resembles U.S. President Donald Trump.
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There's the famous Ancient Roman story of Pero, who nursed her imprisoned father Cimon; there are examples of women breastfeeding sickly adults in pre-industrial England; in 2007, a Muslim cleric controversially announced that he thought it was OK for women to suckle men.
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She said there were too many to choose just one, listing Elizabeth Taylor's sapphire sautoir, the Monete collection featuring ancient Roman coins, a necklace with a 24.46-carat Colombian emerald from the Cinemagia collection and the Flamingo necklace from the recent Wild Pop line.
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W. Brent Seales, who heads the University of Kentucky's Digital Restoration Initiative, told CNN he and his research team just returned from a trip to England where they took detailed images of the scrolls from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, using a facility called a synchotron.
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For those who don't want to take prescription drugs or undergo hair-replacement surgery, there have long been a variety of natural remedies, which can be as dubious as they are creative, from hippopotamus fat in ancient Roman times to castor oil rubbed onto the scalp.
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It seems that these existential issues -- or what U.S. politicians call "the people's business" when they run for office every four years – were not considered important enough in the best ancient Roman tradition that the bosses don't concern themselves with trifles (de minimis non curat praetor).
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The idealistic project and the name "Fallen Fruit" draw inspiration from an ancient Roman law, as well as an Old Testament passage in Leviticus: "Nor shall you gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the needy and for the stranger," it reads.
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Less than an hour away from Douar Hicher, along the Mediterranean, were the upscale restaurants of La Marsa, home to wealthy Tunisians and expatriates, and the ancient Roman waterways of Carthage, which were lined with sprawling villas still occupied by the corrupt relatives of Ben Ali.
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Mr. Greenblatt's more than a dozen books include the best-selling biography "Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare," and "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern," a study of the 15th-century rediscovery of the ancient Roman poet Lucretius, which won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.
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Ms. Beard, a professor at the University of Cambridge and the author of more than 10 books on the classics and classical era, is an authority on ancient Roman culture, but the line that got the biggest response struck a modern (though by no means exclusively modern) note.
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The excavation at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii unearthed the remains of the man, who was thought to have crushed while attempting to flee the eruption in 79 A.D. After discovering the unfortunate man's skull, however, experts now think that the he befell a different, but similarly gruesome, fate.
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Sebastian Vazhakala, the co-founder with Mother Teresa of Missionaries of Charity-Contemplative Brothers, sought a place to live in Rome in 1979, he moved to a run-down area — just off what was once the ancient Roman road of Via Praenestina — populated by roughly 8,000 living in improvised shacks.
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The current Neptune pool is the third iteration; like so much of the Castle, the idea started simply, as a reflecting pool for night-blooming lilies, then morphed into a utilitarian swimming pool and was later reimagined as a fantastical pièce de résistance incorporating ancient Roman fragments that Hearst snapped up in Italy in 1922.
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There's more than one reason to drive out to Pula at the southern tip of the peninsula but you really only need one: the first-century A.D. Roman arena is the world's sixth largest ancient Roman amphitheater of the more than the 200 that still exist, once holding more than 20,000 gladiator-loving spectators.
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Williams developed the designs with Andrew Jordan, with whom he has worked for almost 10 years.) The look alludes to both the ancient Roman Venus Barbata — or bearded Venus — and to the Ephesian Artemis, a Greek deity depicted in statues with row upon row of breasts, or maybe eggs (or even, possibly, bull's testicles).
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Credit...CreditSusan Wright for The New York Times It's easy to imagine lounging in the garden at the sprawling villa of Julia Felix, a savvy Roman business woman who lived in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in the first century A.D. There would have been wine to drink, and fresh figs, apricots and walnuts to savor.
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ROME – Archaeologists excavating an unexplored part of Italy&aposs volcanic ash-covered city of Pompeii have discovered a street of houses with intact balconies that were buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. Some of the balconies even had amphorae — the conical-shaped terra cotta vases that were used to hold wine and oil in ancient Roman times.
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