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While archaeologists have unearthed a large number of artifacts pertaining to the ancient Roman Empire, and have inferred many aspects about the official history of its leaders, very little is known at this point about some basic facts, such as the size of the population living in the city of Rome, the capital of the... |
6 October 2009
14:11 GMT |
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At an ancient port site, located just outside of the Italian capital city of Rome, archaeologists from the United Kingdom have discovered a new amphitheater, which they argue could have served ceremonial purposes. Roman emperors may have used the structure as a welcoming site, for foreign dignitaries traveling to the... |
1 October 2009
06:57 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Washington have recently developed a new series of algorithms that allows them to digitize the entire city of Rome in less than a day. Using a collection of hundreds of thousands of tourist photos, taken within the limits of the city, the new software can easily stitch them together, ... |
16 September 2009
05:47 GMT |
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Paradox Interactive, a developer and publisher best known for the Europa Universalis grand strategy series, has a track record of offering quality post launch support for their titles. Crusader Kings, one of their early games, is still getting semi official support every now and then, and Hears of Iron 2 received a p... |
16 December 2008
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A team of Italian volcanologists from the University of Naples Federico II, comprised of Claudio Scarpati, Giuseppe Luongo and Annamaria Perrotta, have managed to use the latest techniques in order to render a pretty accurate image of the final hours in the life of a Pompeii-based house during the eruption of mount V... |
12 December 2008
15:51 GMT |
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Every year, in autumn, the Italian capital city of Rome looks like it’s under siege. But ancient Barbarian hordes have been replaced by tens of thousands of starlings, birds weighing no more than 80 grams (3 ounces) each, which cover priceless historic monuments with guano and other droppings. There is little a... |
27 November 2008
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For most of you, the Google Earth project doesn't require any supplementary explanation, but for those who are not that much up to date, I'll explain it briefly. The goal of the project is to map the planet's cities by means of satellite (or other high-distance aerial) images, allowing users to zoom in... |
13 November 2008
09:39 GMT |
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Paradox Interactive, the developer and publisher of the very popular Europa Universalis series, has released new details regarding the Vae Victis expansion for its latest game, Rome, which deals with the history of the Roman Republic.Europa Universalis: Rome is a grand strategy title and the expansion is aiming to ad... |
12 November 2008
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Passing by the Colosseum or by other ancient Roman ruins always sparks the same dreams, and makes the same questions pop in our minds: “What was it like back then? Is it really true what they say...?” For those who don't have a very vivid imagination, but also for those who do, Virtuality, a high-te... |
7 November 2008
10:28 GMT |
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A recent discovery of a Roman tomb that holds the remains of a former general who got to be a gladiator after being held in high regard by Rome's emperor proves that this may be the source of inspiration for Russel Crowe's character, Maximus Decimus Meridius, from Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" movie. The ... |
18 October 2008
06:45 GMT |
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In the depths of some Roman ancient tombs two new species of live bacteria have been discovered. They could prove useful in protecting the monuments with high cultural heritage importance, says a new study. The Saint Callistus catacombs are part of an enormous graveyard that spreads on an area of 15 hectares (ab... |
26 September 2008
08:33 GMT |
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The bronze statue depicting the twin founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, being nursed by the she-wolf, seen for centuries as the symbol of Rome and the Roman empire and currently housed inside the museum atop the Capitoline Hill, might have in fact been created in the 7th or 8th century or even later - not in the ye... |
12 July 2008
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Although this is not the first time when an ancient burial ground is found near Rome, the one recently discovered is amongst the few belonging to people of a lower social class. It is located near the main airport of today's Rome and was dated to the 1st, possibly the 2nd century. The remaining skeletons indicat... |
10 June 2008
09:44 GMT |
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I really, really wanted to love Europa Universalis: Rome. I've been playing Paradox grand strategy games since the time that Europa Universalis II didn't even have any worthwhile mods, trying to get Moldavia and Wallachia out of the Ottoman yoke. I've then tried my hand at building a Right wing world e... |
22 April 2008
08:21 GMT |
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Paradox Interactive really isn't wasting any time. After they have recently launched the expansion pack Napoleon's Ambition for their Europa Universalis 3 history simulating game, they are now ready to once again amaze the gaming crowd with a new game set in the Roman period.As with all the Europa Universal... |
3 April 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Initially, Byzantium was a Greek city located on the European shore of the Bosporus strait, which separates Asia Minor from Europe. Understanding the importance of this settlement, surrounded from three parts by water, the Roman emperor Constantin re-founded this city in 330 AD, naming it by his name Constantinople. ... |
8 March 2008
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1. The romans were the creators of the first large western empire, perfectly organized administratively, communicating through a network of roads and served by a powerful army united under the leadership of the emperor. The cohesion of all those territories was achieved by imposing the Latin language upon the conquer... |
6 February 2008
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This is one of the best known legends of the antiquity, that of the Rome's foundation. The story starts with Romulus' and Remus' grandfather, Numitor, and his brother, Amulius, both inheriting from their father the throne of Alba Longa. But Amulius eliminated his brother and banned Numitor's daugh... |
26 November 2007
06:49 GMT |
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Now a Da Vinci Code-style hunt for the Holy Grail has been triggered by recent statements made by Alfredo Barbagallo, an Italian archaeologist. He claimed that the cup is buried underneath a chapel-like room of the Basilica of San Lorenzo Fuori le Mura, one of the seven Rome churches visited annually by Christian pi... |
23 June 2007
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Nowadays, Rome combines modern traits with signs of the mightiness of the ancient imperial city. But now you can visit a virtual model of the imperial capital with the world's biggest computer simulation of an ancient city."Rome Reborn 1.0" displays nearly the entire city at its peak in A.D. 320, under the Emper... |
12 June 2007
02:47 GMT |
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If you enjoyed the 2000 movie "Gladiator", you should know that some of its facts were real. A "superstar" gladiator, like Maximus, the general-turned-fighter character of Russell Crowe, has been found on a newly discovered mosaic at the residence of the infamous Emperor Commodus, played in the movie by Joaquin Phoe... |
8 May 2007
03:50 GMT |
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Apple is currently one of the world's giants because it is known in the entire world for numerous products developed by the company such as Macs, iPods, iTunes and for the upcoming iPhone. At this time, more and more users are attracted to buy a Mac and let the old fashioned Windows PC away because the Apple pro... |
21 March 2007
07:55 GMT |
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