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Woman Finds 2,000-Year-Old Roman Bust at a Texas Goodwill

by Sarah Rose Sharp May 8, 2022May 6, 2022

The sculpture, which she bought for $34.99, is now on view at the San Antonio Museum of Art.

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Pompeii Heats Up With a New Exhibition of Erotic Art

by Elaine Velie April 24, 2022April 25, 2022

The show encompasses 70 works from the archeological site’s vast troves, including the famous “Leda and the Swan” fresco recovered in 2018.

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These Stunning Roman Mosaics Were Hidden Under Croatian Streets

by Elaine Velie April 19, 2022April 19, 2022

Archaeologists discovered the mosaic floors during excavations before the city began construction on sewage and water pipes.

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Large Roman Mosaic Discovered in Central London

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 24, 2022February 24, 2022

The elaborate mosaic is the largest discovered in London in half a century.

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Those Ancient Roman Pots May Actually Be Portable Toilets

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 13, 2022February 14, 2022

Whether museums will be excited to discover that they’re the proud owners of these “chamber pots” remains to be seen.

Posted inHistory

Ancient Rome and the Myth of the Black Avenger

by Sarah E. Bond December 12, 2021January 12, 2022

Long before Black Panther, early modern Europeans embraced a different kind of Black avenger, one largely constructed by White abolitionists.

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A Dazzling Corrective to the White-washing of Ancient Rome

by Anthony Majanlahti July 25, 2021July 23, 2021

Focused on mosaics, the only technique whose color doesn’t fade over time, Colors of the Romans helps audiences look at the ancient society as those living then would have seen it.

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What Can Shackled and Beheaded Skeletons Reveal About Roman Servitude?

by Sarah E. Bond June 30, 2021August 4, 2021

The mere mention of slavery continues to grab attention, even if the evidence is inconclusive.

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How Foreign Women Have Been Tokenized Since Ancient Roman Times

by Nandini Pandey April 6, 2021April 7, 2021

We can see the Atlanta shootings within an even longer history of desiring, dehumanizing, and discarding foreign women.

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Did the Ancient Romans Use Infographics?

by Sarah E. Bond September 30, 2019August 4, 2021

A new book by classicist and historian Andrew M. Riggsby investigates the types of information technologies drawn, painted, and inscribed on the surfaces of the ancient Roman world.

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The Colors of the Ancient Mediterranean in Vivid Dimensions

by Sarah Rose Sharp April 3, 2019April 18, 2019

A new exhibition at University of Michigan’s Kelsey Museum of Archaeology dives deep into the material and application of pigment and in doing so highlights a colorful, international history.

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A Virtual Reality App that Reconstructs Ancient Rome May Have Exploited Its Developers

by Sarah E. Bond February 19, 2019August 4, 2021

The virtual reality tour of Rome at the heart of Rome Reborn started as a digital humanities project collaboratively developed by dozens of artists, classicists, archaeologists, and 3D modelers.

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