Another woman takes over a top job at the Vatican, this time running the city state administration
ROME (AP) — Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican: Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was ...
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Country Life Was Better than City Life In the Roman Empire
A bioarchaeological investigation has revealed that the quality of life in the countryside was better than city life in the ...
Cleveland Museum of Art to return prized bronze thought looted from Turkey
Towering bronzes depicting emperors once graced an ancient shrine in a region of what is now Turkey that was once part of ...
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Cleveland Museum Will Send $20 Million Statue Back to Turkey After Years-Long Battle
The Cleveland Museum of Art will return a headless bronze sculpture to Turkey after the Manhattan D.A. identified it as ...
Smithsonian Magazine15h
Archaeologists Unearth the Ruins of a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Basilica Beneath an Office Building in London
The remarkably well-preserved basilica was part of a public meeting place where citizens and politicians could socialize, ...
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2,000-year-old remains of London's oldest Roman basilica discovered under office building
Remains of a civic basilica give archaeologists clues to what the original layout of Roman London looked like.
Archaeologists discover London's first Roman basilica under office building
An office building from the 1930s in London was about to be demolished — until remnants of the city’s first Roman basilica ...
Cleveland Museum to Return Prized Bronze Thought Looted From Turkey
The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...
Braga’s full of food and history: Swap overcrowded Porto for Portugal's new capital of culture
Founded in Roman times as Bracara Augusta over two thousand years ago, Portugal's oldest city has a little-known cultural ...
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Why do we celebrate Valentine's Day and who was Saint Valentine?
Each Valentine's Day, millions of Americans gift their partners or loved ones with flowers, cards or candy as a token of their affection on Feb. 14. But while some see it as a commercialized "Hallmark ...
Swap Porto for Portugal's new capital of culture
Swap Porto for Braga, Portugal's 2025 Capital of Culture. This historic yet hip city offers Roman ruins, spiritual festivals ...
An Ancient Burial Ground Has Been Preserved Under an Alpine City for More than 2,000 Years
Archaeologists have already found more than 200 tombs—and they think that might be just the tip of the iceberg.