Archaeologists from the Zinman Institute of the University of Haifa in Israel have discovered in the ancient city of Hippos the remains of a monumental Roman gate , which could be the entrance to a sanctuary of the Greek god Pan, traditionally represented as half man and half goat. Already last yea
Tombs of high priests of the gods Thoth and Horus have been discovered in the region of Minya, Egypt. Photo taken on January 30, 2020 shows tombs containing sarcophagi around 3,000 years old, discovered in Al Ghoreifa, Minya, 300 km south of Cairo. Tombs of high priests, around 3,000 years old a
When Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. Rectina and her husband, who lived in a luxurious seaside villa in Herculaneum, began packing up her large library of papyri for safe keeping. Rectina, who was a personal friend of Pliny the Elder, who at the time was across the bay at Misenum in command of the Roman
Near the Algerian town of Tipasa, next to the road that goes from Cherchell to the capital Algiers in the north of the country, are the ruins of a unique monument that Muslims call tomb of the Christian and that, at first glance, it looks a lot like the mausoleum of Augustus in Rome. This is no coin