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Other Roman and Byzantine period artifacts were also found at the site, including kitchenware, war tools, jewelry, and coins. So far, archaeologists have only excavated a fraction of the site.

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This exceptional situation has enabled researchers to precisely identify and map a complex network of artificial canals predating the first millennium BCE. For this study, archaeologists used an ...

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Historian Alexander Bevilacqua joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultural rebirth which came to be known as The Renaissance. When did The Renaissance begin? What was it ...

"Many artifacts used in daily life, such as kitchenware, weapons, jewelry, and coins from the Roman and Byzantine periods, have come to light in the excavations," Sezgin reported, as per Sozcu.

In the ancient Roman world, which I study, biological sex and gender expression did not always line up as neatly as the president is demanding to see in today’s government. In antiquity ...

The first-of-its-kind find outside the borders of the Roman Empire add a level of intrigue to the origins of the stash. A surprisingly well-preserved shirt of Iron Age chainmail added another ...

an archaeologist and architectural historian with a focus on Byzantine water systems. What would become Constantinople began as an ordinary Roman town within the empire. When Constantine the Great ...