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Archaeologist solves ‘jigsaw puzzle’ of Ancient Roman fragments hidden for nearly two millennia

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Archaeologist solves ‘jigsaw puzzle’ of Ancient Roman fragments hidden for nearly two millennia

Researchers in London recently announced that a giant “archaeological puzzle” has been solved, revealing artwork that’s been hidden for 1,800 years. The Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) announced in a June 17 press release that one of its experts successfully reconstructed a collection of Roman wall plaster. The collection of painted ancient plaster is the … Read more

Alexander The Great’s tunic uncovered at ancient burial site — a few millennia after the fact

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Alexander The Great’s tunic uncovered at ancient burial site — a few millennia after the fact

What a Great find. New archeological research has uncovered a piece of cloth with a “physical description [that] exactly fits” a tunic worn by the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great. It consists of “a cotton textile dyed purple which sandwiches one or two layers of a whitish material made mainly of the mineral huntite,” according … Read more