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EXILED FOR HIS SENSE OF HUMOUR POET OVID HAS LAST LAUGH
Exiled for his sense of humour, poet Ovid has last laugh... READ MORE›
FRENCH CEMENT-MAKER'S MURKY TIES TO IS IN SYRIA
Contacted Friday, Lafarge reiterated that it regrets and condemns the unacceptable mistakes committed in Syria... READ MORE›
COLOSSEUM TO OPEN UP HIGHEST LEVEL THE VIEW OF THE LOWLY PLEBS
The highest level of Rome's ancient Colosseum will be opened to the public for the first time in 40 years on November 1, Italy's culture minister said Tuesday... READ MORE›
RAIN IN MEXICO ACCOMPANIED BY FALLING FISH
MEXICO CITY - Civil defense officials in northeast Mexico say a light rain was accompanied by small fish that fell from the sky... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Ancient Rome
AMATEUR U.K. ARCHAEOLOGISTS STUMBLE ON A ROMAN MASTERPIECE
Among the first to spot it was Joy Appleton, who leads the Boxford History Project and who was a driving force behind the excavation... READ MORE›
MAJOR UNDERWATER ROMAN RUINS DISCOVERED OFF TUNISIA
"It's a major discovery," Mounir Fantar, the head of a Tunisian-Italian archaeological mission which made the find off the coast of Nabeul, told AFP news agency on Thursday... READ MORE›
SYRIAN REFUGEE IS AMONG VICTIMS OF LONDON FIRE
Abdulaziz Almashi, who said he met Mr. Alhajali at a Syria Solidarity Campaign event, described him as so lovely and recalled how they became fast friends... READ MORE›
DELTA ENDS THEATER COMPANY SPONSORSHIP OVER TRUMP LOOK-ALIKE KILLING SCENE
Delta ends New York theater company sponsorship over Trump look-alike killing scene in 'Julius Caesar' production... READ MORE›
DIVERS TO SCOUR LAKE FOR EMPEROR CALIGULA'S 2,000-YEAR-OLD PLEASURE SHIP
Caligula's massive, ornate ships on Italy's Lake Nemi were rumored to be the sites of wild orgies and other excessive indulgences in ancient Roman times... READ MORE›
THE WORLD'S OLDEST COMPUTER IS STILL REVEALING ITS SECRETS
But it was true that the existence of the Antikythera Mechanism challenged all of scientists' assumptions about what the ancient Greeks were capable of... READ MORE›
LASERS REMOVE CENTURIES OF GRIME, REVEALING LONG-HIDDEN ROMAN FRESCOES
The painstaking seven-year restoration, backed by the Vatican, focused on two burial chambers commissioned by successful bakers working in ancient Rome in the fourth century... READ MORE›
ROME WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY, BUT ITS CONCRETE HAS LASTED CENTURIES
The simple answer is because ancient Romans used a different mixture to make their concrete -- one designed to get stronger as its chemical structure changed... READ MORE›
UN TO DEPLOY PEACEKEEPERS TO PROTECT WORLD HERITAGE SITES
UN peacekeepers will protect world heritage sites from attacks by Islamist militants Unesco has said... READ MORE›
'AUSTERITY TREE': ROMANS INCENSED AT SPARTAN CHRISTMAS FIR
One person wrote on Rome's Facebook page It would have been better to not put anything up rather than that horror... READ MORE›
SCIENTISTS IN ITALY REDISCOVER SNAKE THAT WAS USED BY ANCIENT GREEKS AS A WEAPON OF WAR
Snakes were introduced to places conquered and settled by the ancient Greeks for religious cults or war rituals, the scientists said... READ MORE›
UNDER ENGLISH GARDEN UNPARALLELED REMAINS OF ROMAN VILLA
Chedworth was built as a dwelling around three sides of a courtyard, with a fine mosaic floor, as well as two separate bathing suites... READ MORE›
THE ANCIENT TRAGEDY JOHN KERRY USED TO EXPLAIN SYRIA
By 149 B.C., Carthage had been largely defeated and subdued... READ MORE›
ANCIENT MONUMENT IN SYRIAN CITY OF PALMYRA DAMAGED BY ISIS, EXPERT SAYS
ISIS militants have severely damaged a major Roman monument in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, an antiquities official said after visiting the site on Saturday... READ MORE›
THE BEST LOCAL NEWS INTERVIEW OF 2016
She needs to be in a comedy club or on Saturday Night Live, one Facebook commenter said... READ MORE›
WHY EVERYONE IN EUROPE SHOULD ADOPT THE DRACHMA
As greece teeters on the edge of the eurozone perhaps it's time we returned to the currency once used in ancient britain... READ MORE›
SYRIAN FORCES RETAKE ANCIENT CITY FROM ISIS
Syrian Forces Retake Ancient City of Palmyra From ISIS State Media... READ MORE›
BUSINESS OF STYLE THE WORLDS MOST EXPENSIVE POP-UP SHOP
Europeans grow up ''surrounded by history, as though in an outdoor museum,'' Alexis Kugel explains... READ MORE›
THE REFUGEE WHO FLED WAR-TORN SYRIA ONLY TO DIE IN LONDON FLAT BLAZE
A refugee from Syria has become the first named victim of the deadly blaze that ravaged a London apartment block... READ MORE›
ATHEISM IN THE ANCIENT WORLD REVIEW - DISBELIEF HAS BEEN AROUND FOR 2,500 YEARS
There were no ancient equivalents of wars using religion as a premise the crusades or jihad ... READ MORE›
COMMENT: NO, TONY ABBOTT, YOU CAN'T DISMISS SOCIAL MEDIA AS 'ELECTRONIC GRAFFITI'
Comment no tony abbott you can't dismiss social media as electronic graffiti... READ MORE›
DESPITE SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO KILL IT OFF, LATIN STILL SURVIVES IN ROMANIA
Under orders from Moscow, Romanian communist authorities banned the teaching of Latin in 1948... READ MORE›
ACTOR'S CALL FOR COLOSSAL CLEANUP INSPIRES ROMAN CITIZENS TO ROLL UP SLEEVES
Even Rome's mayor, Ignazio Marino, who is under intense pressure to resign, thanked Gassmann for the initiative... READ MORE›
THE CRUELLEST EARTH: A SNAPSHOT OF SOME OF THE WORLD'S DEADLIEST MINES
Everyone of us who has gold here in the Western World has some connection back to these people, Mr Brown said... READ MORE›
FIVE YEARS AFTER GADDAFI, LIBYA TORN BY CIVIL WAR AND BATTLES WITH ISIS
Civil war between a militia coalition, Libya Dawn, which holds Tripoli, and the elected parliament in Tobruk has raged since the summer of 2014... READ MORE›
EXPERTS PREDICT ISIS SIEGE OF PALMYRA WILL END IN 'TOTAL DESTRUCTION'
Will isis siege of palmyra end in total destruction ? experts warn syria's glories of the ancient world will be blasted one by one... READ MORE›
THREE ARRESTED IN BOMB PLOT TARGETING SOMALI IMMIGRANTS IN KANSAS
The men were charged with plotting to bomb an apartment building filled with Somali immigrants in Garden City in Kansas... READ MORE›
ISIS DESTROYS ROMAN MONUMENT IN PALMYRA
A UNESCO world heritage site, Palmyra boasts 2,000-year-old towering Roman-era colonnades and priceless artifacts... READ MORE›
THE WORLD'S OLDEST COMPUTER IS STILL REVEALING ITS SECRETS
The existence of the Antikythera Mechanism challenged all of scientists' assumptions about what the ancient Greeks were capable of... READ MORE›
2,000-YEAR-OLD HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENTS FOUND IN LONDON MUD
So far, 87 have been deciphered, including one addressed in London, to Mogontius and dated to A.D... READ MORE›