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Now THAT jigsaw wasn't built in a day! Experts recreate 2,000-year-old Roman frescoes from thousands of fragments of wall plaster By JOSE RAMOS Published: 09:06 EDT, 19 June 2025 | Updated: 09:40 ...
Digging into the chalky orange-brown soil of western Germany, archaeologists exposed the ruins of an ancient Roman military ...
Baths, wine, and sex make life worth living’: how ancient Romans used public baths to relax, work out and socialise.
Archaeologists have assembled the “world’s most difficult jigsaw puzzle” to reveal huge frescoes that once adorned a luxury villa in Roman London.
By Peter Edwell for The ConversationStanding in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo voices from 1,800 years ago.
Standing in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo ...
Experts have reconstructed 2,000-year-old Roman frescoes from thousands of fragments in a remarkable archaeological achievement. The parts were discovered at a site in Southwark, near London ...
UK Archaeological ‘jigsaw’ reveals 2,000-year-old Roman wall paintings It is believed the frescoes once decorated at least 20 internal walls of a high-status Roman building between AD 40 and 150.
In a dense forest in southern Italy, archaeologists have discovered a Roman wall, over two millennia old, constructed to halt the infamous rebel gladiator Spartacus and his army. Built by the ...
Inspiration for the wall decorations was taken from other parts of the Roman world - such as Xanten and Cologne in Germany, and Lyon in France.