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Beneath an H&M in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, lie the remains of an ancient Roman stadium, open to all who care to look
Beneath an H&M in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, lie the remains of an ancient Roman stadium, open to all who care to look. Entirely free of charge: one need only descend to the menswear department
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An Ancient Roman Icehouse on the Minus-First Level of Turin's Central Market
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An Ancient Roman Road in an IKEA Car Park in Rome
Archaeology · The East · Museums · Heritage
Ruins of the sunken city of Canopus found off the coast of Alexandria in Egypt
Ruins of the sunken city of Canopus have been found off the coast of Alexandria in Egypt. During excavations, archaeologists uncovered limestone buildings, an ancient dock, water reservoirs and monumental statues, among them a sphinx bearing images of the pharaoh Ramesses II. The port of Canopus was one of the
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As Virginia Woolf wrote in "The Waves", "Life is the mainspring of a watch
As Virginia Woolf wrote in "The Waves", “Life is the mainspring of a watch. How swiftly life runs from January to December! We are borne along by a stream of things, so familiar now that they cast no shadows. We float, we float…”. I hope that one more
Archaeology · The East · Observations
When I looked out of the car window as a child at such strange hills, it seemed to me that inside them there were secret rooms, corridors, whole buildings and defensive towers
When I looked out of the car window as a child at such strange hills, it seemed to me that inside them there were secret rooms, corridors, whole buildings and defensive towers. If you take a closer look at the ruins of Uruk, that is just how it turns out.
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Part of the great chain that guarded the approach to Constantinople from the sea
Part of the great chain that guarded the approach to Constantinople from the sea. Galata Tower Museum, Istanbul. A link just like this one, or this very one, was formerly displayed at the Archaeological Museum
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During excavations in Staraya Ladoga, archaeologists have uncovered stonework dating from the reign of Oleg the Wise, who ruled in the Novgorod land in the 880s
Originally the Ladoga fortress was protected by wooden walls, built after an enemy raid around 860-870, and only in the 10th century was a mighty stone fortification raised in their place. Staraya Ladoga, founded no later than the middle of the 7th century, is among the oldest settlements in
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Cupid and Psyche, 4th century AD, Ostia Antica
Archaeology
Archaeologists of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences have discovered a 2nd-century BC tomb near the Bulgarian village of Kapitan Petko Voyvoda in the Topolovgrad area; the find is already being called the richest Hellenistic-era burial known in the country
The tomb belonged to a high-ranking Thracian warrior, buried together with his war horse and a great quantity of precious objects. The Thracians were an Indo-European people who emerged in the Bronze Age. They lived in the Balkans and historically occupied a territory that includes most of present-
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Polish Angler Pulls Medieval Sword from the Vistula
A Polish angler has pulled a medieval sword from the Vistula. As the law requires, he handed the find over to the capital's Office for the Protection of Monuments. According to preliminary estimates, the sword dates from the 13th to 14th centuries, the time of the founding of