• Appia altar reunited with its cover

    Updated: 2025-05-31 08:15:27
    An ancient funerary altar discovered in Rome’s Appia Antica archaeological park has been reunited with its cover 1,800 years after they were unceremoniously separated. Archaeologists discovered the cover just eight inches in front of where the altar had been found two years earlier. The lid was upside-down but otherwise in excellent condition. The altar was … Read the full post →"Appia altar reunited with its cover"

  • Ancient flood preserves hundreds of Roman bridge pilings in Utrecht

    Updated: 2025-05-30 06:13:16
    Evidence of a major flood that swept through Roman Utrecht around 100 A.D. has been discovered in an excavation of the Merwede Canal Zone. The flood was wreaked havoc with the Roman infrastructure of the city, sweeping away a bridge and leaving a gully 33 feet deep and 150 feet across in its wake. Utrecht … Read the full post →"Ancient flood preserves hundreds of Roman bridge pilings in Utrecht"

  • Oldest baked bread flying off the shelves

    Updated: 2025-05-29 05:58:27
    The oldest baked bread in Anatolia has been reproduced for sale in Eskişehir, northwestern Turkey. The historic loaf dates to the Early Bronze Age (ca. 3300 B.C.) and was unearthed at the Küllüoba Mound. Spurred by the loaf’s recent unveiling for public display at the Eskisehir Archaeological Museum, the municipality commissioned a replica and it … Read the full post →"Oldest baked bread flying off the shelves"

  • Queen Margherita’s elevator restored

    Updated: 2025-05-28 04:28:00
    An electric elevator installed for Queen Margherita of Italy in 1905 has been restored, not to its original function, but to its original wood paneled beauty. The elevator connected the first floor where the queen and her ladies lived to the ground floor of the Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, a royal hunting lodge on … Read the full post →"Queen Margherita’s elevator restored"

  • World Trade Center Revolutionary War gunboat reassembled in public

    Updated: 2025-05-27 04:03:00
    It’s been 15 years since the remains of an 18th century ship were discovered 22 feet below of the surface of the World Trade Center site, and at long last it has arrived at its new home: the New York State Museum in Albany. It will be the centerpiece of the museum’s celebration of the … Read the full post →"World Trade Center Revolutionary War gunboat reassembled in public"

  • Picture of the Week #861

    Updated: 2025-05-26 00:18:10
    Gatehouse of Castle Rising Castle from the castle keep. Photo May 2015. Continue reading

  • Picture of the Week #859

    Updated: 2025-05-11 23:34:08
    St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St. Edmunds. Photo May 2015. Continue reading

  • Picture of the Week #858

    Updated: 2025-05-04 22:03:50
    Peterborough Cathedral. Photo May 2015. Continue reading

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