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Creating modern theatre in an ancient space
As the sun sets over the Roman Theatre at Verulamium, audiences enjoying its latest summer season of productions will know that some 2,000 years previously, people were doing the same. But what is it ...
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Ancient Roman theater discovered beneath town hall thanks to massive earthquakes
An earthquake in Croatia led to a chain of events that helped archaeologists recently discover an ancient Roman theater, officials say. Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media announced the find ...
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Gladiators, Theater & Ancient Roman Entertainment
As Greece’s “Golden Age” of theater experienced its descent, Roman comedy began to find its footing. According to the ancient Roman historian Livy, the Roman theater evolved in five stages ...
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Ancient Roman theater discovered under century-old Croatian town hall
An earthquake in Croatia led to a chain of events that helped archaeologists recently discover an ancient Roman theater, officials say. Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media announced the find ...
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From theater of the Romans to weapons from era of Genghis Khan: See latest finds
After an earthquake damaged a city hall in Croatia, renovation work on the building’s basement unearthed the ruins an ancient Roman theater. Photo from Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media ...
Students locate ancient Roman army camp beyond empire’s northern border. See it
Roman soldiers typically stayed at temporary camps for a few days or weeks before continuing marching. The Hoog Buurlo camp may have “served as a stopover en route to another camp at Ermelo-Leuvenum, ...
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The Only Ancient Greek Theater on the Ionian Islands Is Finally Unearthed
In 31 B.C.E., Roman emperor Augustus ... Lefkada residents were made to settle. Ancient Lefkada was deserted, with many of its buildings, including the theater, being mined for construction ...
Smaller Greek island with 70 beaches that experts warn you should see before it gets too popular
GREECE has around 6,000 islands off the mainland and some are getting more popular by the year. Condé Nast Traveller has ...
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Ancient Greek and Roman Studies
View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...
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Reinventing Concrete, the Ancient Roman Way
The Theater of Marcello and Markets of Trajan ... “We take that and use exactly the same proportions that ancient Roman engineers did,” she said. To make the clay chemically active ...
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Hike Through Ancient Roman and Biblical History in Turkey’s Rugged Mountains
It was the first and only commercial activity at the ancient sites we encountered during nearly a week in Pisidia. The 9,000-person Roman theater in Selge. The mighty city defied foreign rule ...