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  • 2,000-year-old Hasmonean coin discovered by child evacuated on Oct.7

    03/18/2024 6:03:31 AM PDT · by george76 · 14 replies
    Jerusalem Post ^ | FEBRUARY 21, 2024
    While exploring the area around the hotel that he had been evacuated to along the Dead Sea, Nati Toyikar came across an ancient coin dating back to the Hasmonean period.. An 11-year-old boy found a 2,000-year-old coin belonging to the Hasmonean king and high priest Alexander Yanai, Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Tuesday. Nati Toyikar was evacuated from his home, Kibbutz Magen, following Hamas's October 7 attacks. He is currently living in one of the hotels for evacuated residents along the Dead Sea, where, on one of his explorations, he unexpectedly found an ancient coin from the time of Hasmonean...
  • Marine Archaeologists Discover 10 Shipwrecks, Including One From Roman Era

    03/16/2024 9:43:49 AM PDT · by george76 · 10 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Mar 15, 2024
    Marine archaeologists have identified 10 shipwrecks, including one from the Roman era, in the waters around a Greek island in the Mediterranean. The finds came to light during a multiyear project carried out by a team in collaboration with Greece's National Hellenic Research Foundation and the country's Ministry of Culture. The project has been surveying an area around the island of Kasos, which lies in the Aegean Sea, a portion of the Mediterranean between the Greek peninsula to the west and Turkey's Anatolia peninsula to the east. "This research was conducted to shed light on the maritime history of the...
  • March 16 ~ Anniversary of the Assassination of Valentinian III in AD 455

    03/16/2024 10:50:14 AM PDT · by Antoninus · 4 replies
    Gloria Romanorum ^ | March 16, 2017 | Florentius
    March 16 marks the anniversary of the assassination of the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III in AD 455. Though he reigned for thirty years, Valentinian III presided over the slow but steady dismemberment of the Western Empire and was considered a weak and vacillating emperor. He had risen to the throne at the age of six or seven and was therefore under the thumb of powerful figures at court for most of his reign. Fortunately for him, one of these figures was the capable general Aetius who successfully defended the empire from the potentially cataclysmic invasion of Attila and his...
  • Belisarius and Procopius celebrate the defeat of the Goths at the Siege of Rome, March of AD 538

    03/09/2024 8:59:25 AM PST · by Antoninus · 11 replies
    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...
  • Evidence that Pontius Pilate Converted to Christianity

    03/08/2024 9:48:35 PM PST · by Jonty30 · 37 replies
    www.goorthodox.com ^ | March 1, 2022 | Global Orthodox
    While Pontius Pilate's wife, Claudia, has been glorified as a saint, what happened to Pontius Pilate himself? There are three writers from the Early Church who say he became a Christian. There is a similar tradition in Ethiopia, and sometimes there one can find icons of Pontius Pilate, together with his wife Claudia. The fate of Pontius Pilate after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is disputed among historians. According to some, Pilate killed himself while in exile to Gallia. Others suggest that he was executed during the reign of Emperor Nero. According to legend, the bad omens accompanying...
  • Italian Catholics reverting to ancient Roman gods, seers and sorcerers

    03/05/2024 8:47:42 AM PST · by ebb tide · 33 replies
    The Catholic Herald ^ | March 5, 2024 | Jules Gomes
    Italian Catholics reverting to ancient Roman gods, seers and sorcerersA startling number of lapsed Catholics in Italy are reverting to the deities of ancient Rome and turning to pagan seers, astrologers and psychics, attesting to a potentially catastrophic collapse of Catholicism in its traditional bastion. Over 160,000 sorcerers are doing brisk business in the occult and New Age practises, with over three million Italians consulting the so-called “maghi” every year for advice. This involves shelling out an astronomical €8 billion, according to data from the Osservatorio Antiplagio. Between 10 to 13 million Italians – almost all of them baptised Catholics...
  • 222: Elagabalus

    03/11/2024 10:05:09 AM PDT · by CheshireTheCat · 7 replies
    ExecutedToday.com ^ | March 11, 2018 | Headsman
    March 11, 222 marked the downfall of the Roman emperor Elagabalus (or Heliogabalus, in the Greek rendering).* Notorious to posterity for lapping the field in outrageous sensuality, he was the 14-year-old cousin of the deposed brute Caracalla and stepped into the purple because his crafty grandma won the civil war that ensued Caracalla’s assassination. By family heredity he was by that time already the high priest of the Syrian sun-god Elagabalus,** in the city of Emesa (present-day Homs, Syria). History has flattered the youth with the name of his novel god, although in life the former was simply Marcus Aurelius...
  • Rare Coin Naming Bar Kochba Leader 'Eleazer the Priest' Found in Judean Desert

    03/04/2024 9:40:16 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 18 replies
    Haaretz ^ | March 4, 2024 | Ruth Schuster
    A rare coin from the time of the Bar Kochba revolt, bearing the name "Eleazer the Priest," has been discovered at the foot of a cliff in the Judean Desert by Israeli archaeologists.The coin bears a date, 132 C.E. – the first year of the Bar Kochba revolt. It apparently rolled out of a cave in the cliff face where Jewish rebels had holed up, hiding from the furious Romans during the rebellion, says Dr. Eitan Klein, deputy head of the Israel Antiquities Authority's anti-theft division, which is trying to beat the legions of looters to ancient treasures in the...
  • Ancient Roman city of Pompeii, archaeologists have unearthed a fresco depicting the Greek mythological siblings Phrixus and Helle

    03/04/2024 5:17:46 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 7 replies
    Arkeonews ^ | March 2, 2024 | Oguz Kayra
    Archaeologists excavating a house adjacent to the House of Leda in Insula 6, Regio V, in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have unearthed a fresco depicting the Greek mythological siblings Phrixus and Helle (also known as Ellie).Still astonishingly colorful some 2,000 years after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius wiped out the city, the frescoes were unearthed during restoration work around the mansion of the House of Leda.The director of Pompeii Archaeological Park, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, described the discovery as a poignant reflection of history unfolding.The unearthed fresco depicts two refugees at sea from ancient Greece, Phrixus and Elle, brother and...
  • Marmore, the Highest and Oldest Artificial Waterfall in Europe, Created by the Romans

    03/04/2024 5:02:43 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 12 replies
    Arkeonews ^ | March 4, 2024 | Leman Altuntas
    Approximately eight kilometers away from the town of Terni in Umbria, Italy, there is a waterfall that is one of the highest waterfalls in Europe: Cascata delle Marmore or the Marmore's Falls.In reality, this waterfall is not natural. The waterfall is the world's tallest man-made waterfall, standing 541 feet tall (165 meters). Its towering presence is a 2,000-year-old testament to human engineering.Romans created in 271 BC the former hydraulic system and the shape of the waterfall. During the Roman era, the River Velino had become vastly enlarged and had created a vast swathe of swamp-like, stagnant water. This unhealthy wetland...
  • A Manual for Adversity - Nearly 2,000 years after it was written, Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations is rediscovered by each succeeding generation.

    03/04/2024 8:43:50 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 17 replies
    City Journal ^ | Winter, 2024 | Darran Anderson
    The idea that wisdom is found through exploration has long been with us. It is a cornerstone of many cultures and the driving force behind scientific inquiry. We venture forth into the undiscovered, leaving behind the familiar, and the distractions and temptations therein, as the early Christian desert fathers and mothers did in Egypt. One need not travel far to satisfy this impulse. Extremes of experience have long fueled enlightenment, as memoirs of exile, debauchery, and disaster promise to this day. Many of the adventurers had no choice, however. Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy while imprisoned, facing execution on...
  • Rome's GENIUS border defense strategy | 3D modeling the Rhine frontier [18:55]

    03/03/2024 6:59:25 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 9 replies
    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...
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - Julius Caesar and Leap Days

    02/29/2024 12:43:11 PM PST · by MtnClimber · 8 replies
    NASA ^ | 29 Feb, 2024 | Image Credit & License: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc., Wikimedia
    Explanation: In 46 BC Julius Caesar reformed the calendar system. Based on advice by astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria, the Julian calendar included one leap day every four years to account for the fact that an Earth year is slightly more than 365 days long. In modern terms, the time it takes for the planet to orbit the Sun once is 365.24219 mean solar days. So if calendar years contained exactly 365 days they would drift from the Earth's year by about 1 day every 4 years and eventually July (named for Julius Caesar himself) would occur during the northern hemisphere...
  • Roman funerary altar found partially buried in Torre river

    02/26/2024 11:58:41 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 10 replies
    Heritage Daily ^ | February 22, 2024 | Mark Milligan
    Archaeologists have recovered a Roman funerary altar which was found partially buried in the Torree river in the municipality of San Vito al Torre, Italy.The discovery was made by Ervino Silvestri after he noticed a block of partially exposed limestone and contacted the local authorities.Archaeologists from the ABAP FVG Superintendency conducted a series of excavations to not only free the monument, but gain further information about the surrounding archaeological stratigraphy.A preliminary examination dates the altar to the Imperial Era (31 BC – AD 476), which has been found almost completely intact except for the upper right corner.On the front is...
  • 1,800-year-old Roman tombs in Bulgaria included medallion featuring an emperor and glass bottles for collecting mourners' tears

    02/22/2024 9:47:29 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 8 replies
    Live Science ^ | February 18, 2024 | Kristina Killgrove
    In December 2023, a farmer unexpectedly found the graves while plowing his field in the village of Nova Varbovka. Because this region was a Roman province called Moesia in antiquity, archaeologists from the Veliko Tarnovo Regional Museum of History came to excavate the graves.Both graves were built of brick, with plaster lining the walls and a large slab of limestone covering them. The larger of the two was roughly 10 feet (3 meters) long and contained the remains of two adults — a man and a woman who were both around 45 to 60 years old at death — buried...
  • Ancient language found on 2,100-year-old bronze hand may be related to Basque

    02/22/2024 9:34:06 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 25 replies
    Live Science ^ | February 20, 2024 | Tom Metcalfe
    An inscription carved into a 2,100-year-old hand-shaped amulet from northeastern Spain seems to be related to Basque and may be a rare example of an ancient language spoken in Europe more than 5,000 years ago.In a new study, published Tuesday (Feb. 20) in the journal Antiquity, researchers revealed that the inscription is the oldest and longest ever found in a Vasconic language, a group of languages that includes modern Basque. Until now, the only known ancient Vasconic texts were mainly from a few words written on coins from the region, the researchers said.Archaeologists unearthed the amulet in 2021 at the...
  • Bipartisan Congress duo unveil bill providing expedited citizenship for immigrants who enroll in military

    02/19/2024 4:21:54 PM PST · by packagingguy · 68 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | February 9, 2024 | Rachel Schilke
    Two members of Congress who were U.S. Military Academy classmates and later reconnected on Capitol Hill are looking to provide avenues for immigrants to gain citizenship while also building up recruitment for the military... “The legislation addresses two challenges facing the United States: an influx of migrants looking to work, build a better life for their families, and contribute to our country, as well as a recruitment crisis within the ranks of our Armed Forces,” according to a release first shared with the Washington Examiner. Ryan said in a statement on the Courage to Serve Act that he and James...
  • Scientists Make Breakthrough Discovery While Experimenting With Urine: ‘WE CAN REUSE A VERY SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE COBALT’

    02/19/2024 8:14:10 AM PST · by Red Badger · 32 replies
    www.thecooldown.com ^ | February 18, 2024 | By Jeremiah Budin
    “The combination of readily available and relatively harmless substances and high energy efficacy gives our method potential to work for large scale extraction.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scientists have experimented with many types of materials in hopes of making EV batteries, their storage, and their recycling more efficient. One of the latest breakthroughs, developed by a team from Linnaeus University in Sweden and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in India, is derived from perhaps the most unexpected substance yet: urine. The new method, which the scientists described in a study published in the scientific journal ACS Omega, summarized by Anthropocene, can be...
  • PAS reports on wealth of archaeological treasures found in UK

    02/19/2024 12:12:42 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 8 replies
    Heritage Daily ^ | January 31, 2024 | Mark Milligan
    ...The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a project managed by the British Museum to address the lack of provision for metal detectorists (and the general public) to be able to notify relevant authorities of archaeological discoveries and document objects in a curated database...In the latest annual report that covers 2022, the PAS has documented 53,490 new submissions, 94% of which have been submitted by metal detectorists, and of which 1,384 have been reported as treasure under the Treasure Act 1996.Bronze Age: 1,210 objects were recorded, which include a stone wrist-guard, a gold hoard containing a decorated bracelet and two gold strips...
  • Divers Recover Lost 'Temple of Zeus' Sculpture From Sea Bed

    02/18/2024 11:04:07 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 45 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Published Feb 12, 2024, Updated Feb 16, 2024 | Aristos Georgiou
    ...The stone relief, which depicts a prancing horse, was located near the mouth of the Akragas River off the coast of San Leone—a town on the southern coast of Sicily.... One of Italy's 20 regions, the island is located just off the "toe" of the country's "boot."Sicily was first settled by ancient Greek colonists in the 8th century B.C., although the island was eventually conquered by the Romans in the 3rd century B.C...While more research needs to be conducted to uncover the true nature of the find, experts believe it may have been designed as decoration for the Temple of...