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Advanced imaging technology has revealed 79 new pieces of graffiti on a wall in Pompeii’s theater district. Until now, these inscriptions had been too faint for the human eye to see.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-say-theyve-identified-traces-of-a-2000-year-old-love-note-still-etched-into-a-wall-in-ancient-pompeii-180988163/Open linkView original on lemmy.worldArchaeologists Say They've Detected the Largest Stand-Alone Ancient Roman Villa Ever Unearthed in Wales
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-say-theyve-detected-the-largest-stand-alone-ancient-roman-villa-ever-unearthed-in-wales-180988032/Open linkView original on lemmy.world13
CommentsMetal detectorists in western Wales found two ingots, known as lead "pigs," that were used to produce tools and weapons. They date back to AD 87, based on lettering written on them.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/roman-treasure-unearthed-wales-ceredigion-amgueddfa-cymru-museum/Open linkView original on lemmy.world21
CommentsThe Petralona skull, embedded In a cave wall for 300,000 Years, appears to be neither Homo sapiens nor Neanderthal. The remains were discovered in the 1960s within a limestone cave near Thessaloniki
https://www.iflscience.com/this-mysterious-skull-baffled-scientists-after-being-embedded-in-a-cave-wall-for-300000-years-82562Open linkView original on lemmy.world19
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A 180-foot-tall giant with a 35-foot-long erect phallus has lurked for hundreds of years. The National Trust has purchased the land around England’s Cerne Abbas Giant, which will help protect the site
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-massive-hillside-figure-has-mystified-historians-for-centuries-now-a-fundraising-campaign-has-successfully-secured-the-surrounding-landscape-180988145/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
A treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines has been discovered inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the Nile Delta. A symbol indicates pharaoh Shoshenq III (830 to 791 BC).
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/treasures-found-egypt-tomb-solves-mystery-burial/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
A secret tunnel once used by emperors is opening beneath the Colosseum | CNN
The hidden corridor was first uncovered between 1810 and 1814 by French excavators under architect Carlo Lucangeli, then reopened in 1874 and studied again in the 1990s. During the 2020–2021 restoration of the entire site, archaeologists fully mapped the tunnel and began a new phase of conservation.
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