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1) Who protected and maintained the hundreds of public monuments in ancient Rome? We know at least some of the monuments had caretakers who lived close by and were devoted
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1) The tomb of Cossinia, who served as a Vestal Virgin in Rome for a remarkable 66 years during the 3rd century AD. Incredibly, the remains of Cossinia were discovered
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1) In the mid 2nd century AD, two brothers stood on the bank of the newly constructed Foss Dyke canal near Roman Lincoln. Bruccius and Caratius Colasunus had together invested
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New coin: Roman silver denarius of Trajan minted around 107-108 AD, celebrating the victorious culmination of his Dacian Wars. The near mint state denarius depicts a Roman trophaeum; a victory
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1) May 6th, 319 AD. A normal spring day across Roman Britain. Little do the inhabitants of Britannia's towns and cities know they are about to witness one of nature's
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1/4) In 75 BC, a band of pirates captured a young Roman nobleman who was on his way to study in Rhodes. From the start the 25-year-old Julius Caesar refused
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1) It's easy to forget that the ancient world was made up of real people with familiar hopes and fears; where life for many was a daily struggle against poverty,
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1) Imagine if Neil and @TheRealBuzz had walked on the Moon wearing the BIS Lunar Spacesuit. Designed by the British Interplanetary Society in 1949 by a team that included Arthur
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The Gemini Tow Test Vehicle (TTV) was one of two vehicles made by North American Aviation for @NASA in the 1960s. It was built to help develop a way to
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1) Thread: Does this intriguing Roman epitaph reveal a succession conspiracy playing out during this week in 117 AD? Marcus Ulpius Phaedimus, 28 year-old freedman and main attendant of the
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1) A thread of fate and fortune that will make you ask "..can it really be?" A little-known treasure of glittering gold whose discovery almost seems to defy belief. This
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1) A thread of Roman treasure, wartime intrigue, secrets, lies and obsession.21st June 1946 – Mr Sydney Ford walks into his local Suffolk police station a troubled man. He has
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