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A Stunning Collection of Rarely Seen Ancient Roman Sculptures Is Coming to North America for the First Time
One of the world’s finest private collections of Greco-Roman antiquities is owned by the Torlonias, a wealthy Italian family.
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Mysterious Stone Face Found Beneath Roman Villa
Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman villa in the ancient city of Ptolemais, located in present-day Libya. Among the findings, the team discovered an enigmatic stone face that does not appear to ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too
In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Cecilie ...
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Mystery as face-down body of footless Roman with KNIFE in back found at site of ancient fort…abandoned 3,000yrs earlier
THE BODY of a Roman man buried face-down with a knife in his back - and missing his feet - has sparked mystery at the site of a huge, newly-unearthed fort. The eerie discovery was made in Spain ...
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A Stunning Collection of Rarely Seen Ancient Roman Sculptures Is Coming to North America for the First Time
A relief of the harbor at Portus dating to the second or third century C.E. Torlonia Foundation / Lorenzo De Masi One of the world’s finest private collections of Greco-Roman antiquities is ...