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No, It's Not Pompeii: This Roman City on the Black Sea Just Revealed a 105-Square-Meter Mosaic
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (340+ words) Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy announced the find on social media alongside a second discovery from this year’s campaign: a head of Eros, the Greek god of desire — a figure familiar to English speakers mainly through his Roman counterpart, Cupid — carved…...
Spain's 'Iberian Pompeii' Just Unearthed a Face-Smashed Statue Older Than the Roman Empire
1+ week, 1+ day ago (480+ words) That destruction, though, belongs to the final phase of the Iberian city — centuries after the head was carved. It’s the reason Libisosa has kept archaeologists busy for nearly thirty years: few sites its size have yielded this volume of material....
Tabula Peutingeriana, the only surviving road map of the Roman Empire
1+ week, 6+ day ago (625+ words) On November 26, 2007, the Austrian National Library did something it hardly ever does: it took the Tabula Peutingeriana out of its climate-controlled display case and allowed the public to see it for a few hours. Due to its extreme fragility, the…...
The back cover of an 8th-century codex hid ten papyri, six of which remain undeciphered because no one knows what language they are written in
3+ week, 2+ hour ago (744+ words) In 1919, when someone began to carefully examine the binding of an 8th-century codex preserved in the Chapter Archive of the Cathedral of Barcelona, they discovered that the back cover hid something more than leather and stitches. Beneath the skin, placed…...
Codex Gigas, the largest medieval illuminated manuscript, was created by a single monk who took 30 years to complete it
3+ week, 1+ day ago (733+ words) Legend says that a single man completed the largest medieval book ever made in one night, with the help of the devil, to avoid being walled up alive. Modern paleography confirms part of the story and debunks the rest. The…...