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How an Ancient Plant Became the World’s First Birth Control and Rome’s Love Potion. Then Went Extinct Because of It
BC, while Rome was still a minor city-state in the Italian peninsula, the ancient city of Cyrene flourished as one of the ...
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The History Of Valentine’s Day: From Ancient Rome To Modern Romance
One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided ...
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The Numbers Behind Ancient Rome: Stats that Define *the* Supercity of the Ancient World
Ancient Rome wasn’t just the capital of a vast empire ... 1,000,000: Rome’s population by 1 A.D. The city was the first in history to reach this milestone, a feat not surpassed until 19th ...
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Rome's Ancient Catacombs
A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient catacombs of ... To find catacombs, go to Rome, home of some of the oldest and longest ...
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Elon Musk and the history of the ‘Roman salute’
Martin Winkler, in his study of the history of the gesture ... of symbols and gestures that he claimed were derived from ancient Rome: the battle cry, purportedly of Roman origin, “alalà ...
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Hoard of over 1,000 coins from Ancient Rome found with metal detector
According to a release from Museums Worcestershire, a trove of 1,368 silver and gold coins from the Iron Age and Ancient Rome were found by an anonymous metal detectorist searching an unnamed area ...