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Engraving Reveals Roman Lightning Ritual at Hadrian???s Villa
14+ hour, 28+ min ago (146+ words) Marble slab bearing reference to Roman deity of nocturnal lightning. The engraved marble slab found buried under ancient Roman villa. (Italian Ministry of Culture) The inscription’s spelling reflects ancient Latin orthography: “V” serves for modern “U,” so the text is…...
Why Ancient Rome’s Fiercest Gladiators Were Almost Vegetarian
14+ hour, 34+ min ago (27+ words) Most people assume that Roman gladiators built their strength by eating meat. Archaeologists, however, have discovered that their diet …...
A Roman Villa Mixed the Pharaohs' Most Expensive Pigment Into Its Plaster Like Cheap Filler
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (525+ words) Archaeologists analyzing wall fragments from a Roman villa in northern Italy have found something that shouldn't be there: grains of Egyptian blue, the oldest synthetic pigment ever made, mixed throughout the plaster itself rather than painted on top of it....
Rare Italian Forest Herb Defies Expectations With Surprising Genetic
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (77+ words) Deep in the mountain forests of southern Italy, a rare blue-flowered herb has been quietly rewriting what scientists think they know about plant rarity. Aegonychon calabrum, a perennial understory herb restricted to a handful of sites in the southern Apennines,…...
Grapevine Gene VvbHLH10 Doubles as a Salt-Alkali Shield and Bud Growth
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (509+ words) A single transcription factor in grapevine has emerged as a double agent in plant biology, simultaneously arming vines against one of agriculture’s most punishing soil stresses while also coaxing dormant buds into active growth....
Fermentation Rewrites the Antioxidant Story of Black and Yellow Highland
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (57+ words) On the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, at an altitude of nearly 3,000 meters, farmers have cultivated highland barley for centuries and turned it into traditional fermented foods and beverages, including the region’s characteristic barley wine. A new multi-omics study published in Food…...
What Is Spolia? Roman Reuse at Sardis
2+ day, 55+ min ago (569+ words) What does spolia mean? At Sardis, archaeologists found a late Roman wall built with pieces of an older temple, alongside other evidence of stones reused in streets and monuments. The post What Is Spolia? How Roman Sardis Reused Its Ancient…...
Ancient Rome???s biggest fresco and mosaic open to public for first time since discovery 3 decades ago
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (433+ words) ROME -- Authorities on Tuesday unveiled what is believed to be the largest fresco and mosaic complex of ancient Rome, a first century A.D. depiction of a maritime city in what became the largest bath complex in the world. Mayor Roberto Gualtieri…...
Fungicide Residues Found in Nearly All Saudi Grape Samples, But Health Risk
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (774+ words) Grapes are one of the world’s most versatile food crops, arriving on dinner tables as fresh berries, sweet dried raisins, and tender vine leaves wrapped around rice and meat in traditional dishes across the Middle East and beyond....
Ancient walnut genomes reveal new routes to better breeding
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (307+ words) EurekAlert! Identification and functional characterization of JrCYP98A2 as a key regulator of lignification and shell thickness. Walnut breeding begins with a simple question: where can better taste, higher nutritional value, and stronger resilience be found? A new genomic study of Persian…...