The mosaic, recovered in 1860s Reims, France and dated to the third century CE, shows about 35 different gladiatorial and ...
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Is this 1,800-year-old mosaic the first known image of a woman fighting wild beasts in an ancient Roman arena?
A researcher may have identified a depiction of a female hunter—known as a venatrix—in an ancient Roman mosaic. According to ...
When you think of a fight between an animal and a human in ancient Roman sports, the mental image is usually of a big man vs.
A new chemical and microscopic analysis of Pompeii residues documents a sacrificial rite that had only been previously ...
A drawing by Jean Charles Loriquet, after he found the mosaic in 1860. It shows part of the mosaic with the leopard and ...
For the first time, researchers have conducted a quantified analysis of the Roman siege at Masada. The team, from Tel Aviv University’s Sonia & Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, used a blend of ...
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