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Smells like witch spirit: How the ancient world’s scented sorceresses influence ideas about magic today
My current research is focused on how magic and scent were linked in ancient Rome and Greece, ideas that continue to shape views of witches in the West today. Greeks and Romans of all walks of ...
Discovery of ritual bath sheds light on Jewish life in ancient Rome
The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...