Iron Age necropolis that predates Rome unearthed near Naples
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Live Science ^
| May 6, 2024 | Tom Metcalfe
An ancient necropolis discovered near Naples, Italy was used to bury the dead about 2,800 years ago, around the time the city of Rome was founded about 100 miles (161 kilometers) to the northwest.The discovery gives researchers a rare insight into the Iron Age cultures that existed before the Roman domination of
the region. The astonishing finds near the town of Amorosi, about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Naples, include 88 burials in "pit tombs" of both men and women.The men were typically buried with weapons, whereas the women were often buried with bronze ornaments, including bracelets, pendants, brooches...
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Villa near Mount Vesuvius may be where Augustus, Rome's 1st emperor, died
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Live Science ^
| April 30, 2024 | Tom Metcalfe
The ruins of a Roman villa near Mount Vesuvius, discovered under the remnants of another villa built above it many years later, may have been where Augustus, the first Roman emperor, drew his last breath, archaeologists say.The earlier villa, which excavations suggest was inhabited before the first century A.D., seems to have
been destroyed in the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, and the later villa was built there in the second century...She noted that the site corresponds with writings by the Roman historians Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio, who recorded that Augustus died in A.D. 14 at...
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Baby boy airlifted to Rome for treatment after Italian PM intervenes
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MSN / The Daily Mail ^
| April 26, 2024 | Ed Holt
A one-month-old British boy with a serious heart condition has been airlifted to a hospital in Rome for treatment not available on the NHS. The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, personally intervened to make sure the child could travel to Italy on a specially equipped military aircraft with medical professionals. It
is understood the infant was being treated for a congenital heart condition at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children when his parents, who have not been identified, were told the specialist treatment would not be possible in the UK. His father, an Italian citizen, decided to appeal directly to Ms...
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Pompey the Great [Prominent People of Ancient Rome]
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UNRV.com ^
| prior to April 25, 2024 | unattributed
...By the age of 17, Pompey was an active participant in his father's campaigns, and was busily building a foundation for his own military career.Pompey rose to prominence serving Sulla in the first major Roman civil war, defeating the forces of Marius in Africa. For this he earned, or was mocked with,
the title Magnus (the Great)....he coerced a command in Spain against the rebel Sertorius, simply through the fear of his legions... Pompey returned to Rome in triumph.Upon returning from Spain, Pompey helped mop up the war with the gladiator general Spartacus, claiming much of the credit in the...
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[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis removes cardinal-vicar, auxiliary bishop of Rome reportedly over tensions and Rupnik case
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LifeSite News ^
| April 6, 2024 | Michael Haynes
[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis removes cardinal-vicar, auxiliary bishop of Rome reportedly over tensions and Rupnik caseCdl. De Donatis and Bishop Libanori have been marked by key involvement with, but differing stances on, the Fr. Marko Rupnik case.ROME (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has removed the cardinal-vicar of Rome and one of the city’s
auxiliary bishops, in a move which is suggested to be due to personal conflicts and objections to the Pope’s handling of the Father Marko Rupnik case. Announced by the Holy See Press Office bulletin April 6, Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Angelo De Donatis as...
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Pope: ‘I’m not considering resigning but would be ‘bishop emeritus of Rome’
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Vatican News ^
| By Vatican News
The Italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera” releases several passages from Pope Francis’ autobiographical book entitled "Life. My Story in History," written with Vatican journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona, set to be released on March 19 by HarperCollins. In the passages released on Thursday, the Pope clarified that were he to resign, he would
not choose to be called “Pope Emeritus” but simply “Bishop Emeritus of Rome." In that case, he would live in the Basilica of St. Mary Major “to return to being a confessor and bring communion to the sick.” The Pope clarified this possible scenario in case of his...
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Belisarius and Procopius celebrate the defeat of the Goths at the Siege of Rome, March of AD 538
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Gloria Romanorum ^
| March 6, 2024 | Florentius
In March of the year AD 538, the late Roman general, Belisarius, pulled off one of the most incredible feats in military history: he successfully defended the massive city of Rome—with its 12 miles of circuit walls—with a scant 5,000 soldiers, against a vast army of Goths that outnumbered his own some
15 or 20 to 1. Indeed, by the time the Gothic King Vitiges broke up the siege after twelve frustrating months, it had become unclear which side was the besieged and which was the besieger. Unable to prevent the Romans from bringing in supplies or leaving the city...
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**LIVE** PRESIDENT TRUMP HOLDS A “GET OUT THE VOTE RALLY” IN ROME, GA – 3/9/24 5PM EST
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Right Side Broadcasting Network ^
| March 9, 2024
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Muslim Brotherhood Leader: Oct 7 Paves Way for Conquest of Rome - "Rome will one day be in our hands, and every house and every tent will have a Muslim in it."
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Front Page Magazine ^
| 6 Mar, 2024 | Daniel Greenfield
The first rule of Islamic fight club is that non-Muslims aren’t allowed to talk about it. And
if it must be talked about, it has to be treated as a local phenomenon. That means insisting that Hamas is attacking Israel for political reasons, the Houthis are shooting at ships for political reasons, the Fulani are massacring Christians in Nigeria for political reasons, the Pakistanis, the Taliban, the Iranians, the Syrians, the Iraqis, ISIS and Mohammed who decided to stab someone on a train are all doing it for completely unrelated reasons. On the other side, devout Islamic leaders focus on...
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Rome's GENIUS border defense strategy | 3D modeling the Rhine frontier [18:55]
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YouTube ^
| February 17, 2024 | Historia Militum
We covered Roman frontiers in Britain, Jordan, Egypt, and the Neverlands... We thought its time for the largest one; the Rhine frontier! It
is often said that Augustus founded and built the Roman border with the Rhine, that he installed stone forts along it, and that it was an unshakable border meant to repel any invasion. This video aims to dispel the above myths and shed some light on Roman borders. It wasn't one emperor who built it, it took decades for the wooden forts to slowly become permanent stone ones, and the border was very dynamic network that shifted...
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A monumental Etruscan tomb discovered in the necropolis of San Giuliano, north of Rome
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Arkeonews ^
| February 25, 2024 | Oguz Buyukyildirim
After years of work, archaeologists discovered an impressive Etruscan tomb partially hidden underground in the rock-cut necropolis of San Giuliano in Barbarano, north of Rome.The Etruscan Necropolis of San Giuliano is carved into the reddish rocks of the Marturanum Park, a protected natural area in the municipality of Barbarano Romano, on the
road between Rome and Viterbo, in the heart of Southern Etruria.According to archaeologists, no known Etruscan necropolis presents such a variety and richness of burial types as San Giuliano. Dating back to the 7th century BC, it stands on the sides of a tufaceous cliff occupied by a...
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Archaeologists Find Evidence of Hallucinogenic Drug in Ancient Rome
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hyperallergic.com ^
| February 11, 2024 | Elaine Velie
Physiological reactions to a plant called black henbane were well documented throughout the Ancient Mediterranean world. A
bust of Emperor Trajan surrounded by black henbane seends and flowers and a femur discovered by archaeologists (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic) Two new archaeological finds suggest Roman subjects at the northern edge of the ancient empire used a hallucinogenic and poisonous plant called black henbane, the effects of which were described by Greek philosopher Plutarch as “not so properly called drunkenness” but rather “alienation of mind or madness.” Dutch zooarchaeologists Maaike Groot and Martijn van Haasteren and archaeobotanist Laura I. Kooistra published their...
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Towering Colossus of Constantine reconstructed in Rome
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AFP ^
| 06/02/2024 - 17:18 | Staff
Two giant feet, a knee, a bicep and an enormous head -- archaeologists have reassembled these few marble fragments to reconstruct the Colossus of Constantine, a larger-than-life statue of the first Roman emperor to embrace Christianity. Rome officials unveil a reproduction of a 13-metre high Colossus of Constantine. © Tiziana FABI /
AFP A reproduction of the 13-metre seated statue, a bronze cloak draped over Constantine's left shoulder, was publicly unveiled on Tuesday, offering a rare view of the towering statues built in ancient Rome to glorify the gods or emperors. "The impression one has before this sculpture of the...
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[Catholic Caucus] Rome, We Have a Problem
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Crisis Magazine ^
| February 1, 2024 | February 1, 2024
[Catholic Caucus] Rome, We Have a ProblemIf ever there were an emergency message to Rome, this is it. It
might have been the SOS a year ago as some bishops witnessed large numbers of other bishops using their pastoral canonical privilege to bypass the iron-fisted prescriptions of Traditionis Custodes. But it is certainly the frightened alert in light of the Extraordinary Form Mass held at the U.S. Capitol last Tuesday. It was a Jericho-Walls-crumbling moment. This time it was not Jewish priests and Israelites circling the city and blowing their horns but Catholics worldwide storming Heaven. Or, a parallel more...
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The Fall of Rome, Updated
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AnnCoulter.com ^
| January 31, 2024 | Ann Coulter
Third-worlders killed three Americans in Jordan over the weekend, and our political establishment is ready to start World War III. Which is more of a national security threat: terrorists 6,000 miles away, or our wide-open border? People
have different ways of evaluating threats, but the most basic test is: Which one kills more U.S. citizens? Americans killed by Islamic terrorists in Islamic lands so far this year: 3. Americans killed by third-worlders who entered our country illegally so far this year: 150... How about Americans murdered by illegals? Every year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests nearly 2,000 illegal aliens...
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Bureaucracy Kills: A Lesson from Rome
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Foundation for Economic Education. ^
| January 1, 1963 | William Henry Chamberlin
The greatest collapse of a mighty state, a large human society and a fruitful civilization of which we possess a reasonably accurate record, has been immortalized by Edward Gibbon’s historical classic, The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire. Henry Adams remarked that Gibbon did not really explain the fall; but this
criticism is not altogether just. As the following excerpts from The Decline and Fall show, the philosophic historian offered a number of reflections on the symptoms and causes of the drama which he set out to describe: "This long peace and the uniform government of the Romans introduced...
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Italy: Hundreds perform fascist salute in Rome
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Arutz Sheva ^
| 14/1/24
Video A viral social media video shows hundreds of men dressed in black standing in a central street in Rome and performing the Nazi salute several times. The
gathering was held in memory of three neo-fascist activists who were killed in 1978. The three were members of the ‘Italian Social Movement’ and two of them were killed, presumably, by left-wing activists, with the third killed by a police officer after a riot broke out in that spot. The video has caused controversy in Italy. Italian authorities have announced they are opening a criminal investigation. The ceremony is held each year...
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Italian Hospitals Collapse: Over 1,100 Patients Waiting to be Admitted in Rome
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Euronews ^
| 05/01/2024
The worst situation is in Rome and its region, where more than 1,100 patients are waiting to be admitted, according to the Italian Society of Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care. Just a few days ago, ambulances were queuing outside hospitals in Rome. In other regions, such as Lombardy, patients are crammed into
waiting rooms until a bed becomes available. In cities such as Turin, hospital overcrowding has even led to a shortage of stretchers for patients. Emergency departments in Italian hospitals are in chaos and on the verge of collapse. The worst situation is in Rome and its region, where...
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This 2,300-year-old mosaic made of shells and coral has just been found buried under Rome
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CNN ^
| December 20, 2023 | Silvia Marchetti
A five-year dig into the side of Rome's Palatine Hill yielded treasure last week when archaeologists discovered a deluxe banquet room dating from around the first or second century BC, featuring a sizable, intact and brightly colored wall mosaic.Estimated to be around 2,300 years old, the work is part of a larger
aristocratic mansion, located near the Roman Forum, that has been under excavation since 2018.Almost five meters long (16.4 ft) and featuring depictions of vines, lotus leaves, tridents, trumpets, helmets and mythological marine creatures, the mosaic scene was painstakingly created using mother of pearl, shells, corals, shards of precious...
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Genesis - Afterglow (Live in Rome, 2007)
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195,510 views Nov 18, 2009 Genesis - Afterglow Circo Massimo, Rome, Italy 14/07/2007
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