Enlarge / The Tomb of Caecilia Metella is a mausoleum located just outside Rome at the three mile marker of the Via Appia. Among the many popular tourist sites in Rome is an impressive 2000-year-old mausoleum along the Via Appia known as the Tomb of Caecilia Metella, a noblewoman who lived in the first century […]
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Falerii Novi was once a walled town just north of Rome, likely founded around 241 BC as a relocation site for a Falisci tribe that had rebelled against the Romans. Located on a volcanic plateau, archaeologists surmise that the new site was chosen because it wasn’t as easy to defend, thereby discouraging further uprisings. There
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This artist’s impression shows what the two-legged walking crocodiles might have looked like. Anthony Romilio We’re all pretty familiar with modern crocodiles and their low-to-the-ground, four-legged stance. A set of mysterious fossilized footprints discovered in South Korea may rewrite what we know about the locomotion of some ancient cretaceous crocodiles. An international team led by
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NASA has uncovered evidence of an ancient oasis on Mars, which could once have harboured alien life. Rocks rich in mineral salts discovered by NASA’s Curiosity rover in the Red Planet’s Gale crater suggest that the 100-mile-wide basin was once dotted with shallow briny ponds. These waterways are thought to have overflowed and then dried up
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It turns out ancient babies drank animal milk out of teeny cups, a bug in some Android phones gives hackers complete control, and the film Joker broke a box office record. Here’s the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign
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Filaments ofthe gigantic web are believed to fuel the birth of galaxies and supermassive black holes (Source: PA) Faintly glowing wisps of gas have given astronomers a rare glimpse of one of the universe’s largest but most elusive features – the intergalactic filaments of the cosmic web. The threads, which are excited by the intense
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We’ve been wrecking the planet for a very long time indeed (Picture: DeAgostini/Getty Images) There is little doubt that humanity is having a dreadful effect on the other lifeforms that dwell on Planet Earth. Unfortunately, this process looks to have been going on for a very long time indeed. A new study published in the
College junior Claire Huffman is currently in “Ancient Epic Poetry”. Credit: Mariri Niino In a new classics course, students from Penn and from Yale-NUS College in Singapore have the chance to study epic poetry together and visit each others’ home countries. “Ancient Epic Poetry” is a collaboration between Penn Classical Studies Department Chair Peter Struck
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Today’s Google doodle celebrating St. Patrick’s Day includes a hidden word, but you have to know the ancient Irish ogham alphabet to decipher it. Created by the Irish artist Ross Stewart, the doodle leads to a search for “St. Patrick’s Day.” The image depicts a traditional Irish scene, with a stonemason arranging rocks that spell
