The Lycurgus Cup, an ancient Roman feat of pioneering nanotechnology in the fourth century exhibited at the British Museum. Credit: The British Museum/ X (formerly Twitter) The mysterious Lycurgus Cup ...

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At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

The image depicted a fragment — almost a meter square — that survived from a much larger Roman mosaic, long since destroyed. This mosaic had once adorned a room in an ancient villa at O Castro de ...

After discovering the ancient artwork in a suburb of Thessaloniki, Greece, the man surrendered it to the police. Authorities are analyzing the statue and investigating why it was abandoned Sonja ...

This was done to ensure the blessings and favor of the two gods for the coming new year. It was not until ancient Roman times, and while Rome was growing in power, that New Year festivities began to ...

This is believed to be the first ... Discovery of 'Punk' and 'Emo' Fossils Challenges Our Understanding of Ancient Molluscs Jan. 8, 2025 — Researchers have unearthed two fossils, named Punk and ...

Shortly after Musk made the gesture, the term "Roman salute" started trending online. While it appears similar to the Nazi salute associated with Adolf Hitler, the gesture has ancient roots.

The ancient Romans definitely had a habit of hiding ... Although these latest finds have yet to be valued, Roman hoards can sell for mind-blowing sums, as the following examples show.

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient ... the fall of the Roman Empire, the ...

The Roman God of Justice was called Justitia and she holds the scales of justice. The Tarpeian Rock was a steep cliff in ancient Rome. It was commonly used during the Roman Republic as an ...

"The gesture of the raised right arm or hand in Roman and other ancient cultures that is attested in surviving art and literature had a significantly different function and is never identical with ...