Toxic carbon dioxide emissions were measured in the Roman temple of Plutonium, god of the underworld, in Hierapolis (Turkey). In ancient times, they had been used to sacrifice animals during mysterious rites. Hell and radiation! At Hierapolis, near Pamukkale in Read More …
A monetary treasure of more than a hundred pieces has just been discovered on the site of the most severe defeat of Rome, in Germany. A catastrophe which stopped the policy of imperial expansion beyond the Rhine. It is the Read More …
Dodecahedron means a geometrical object with twelve faces. The Roman dodecahedrons are small objects (usually bronze and between 4 centimeters to 11 centimeters in size) with twelve equally-sized faces and holes in the middle of each side that surrounds a hollow Read More …
Since the middle of the 1st century BC, a period of degradation was in full force, and along with it, came an epoch of limitless sexual freedom. The reasons for this degradation were civil wars that hit the economy hard. Read More …
There is a very interesting manuscript in one of Rome’s libraries. Publius Lentulus, a Roman senator and Governor of Judea during the reign of Augustus, wrote a letter to the Emperor, in which can be seen a description of the Read More …
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