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About 300 million years ago, volcanic ash buried a tropical forest located in what is now Inner Mongolia, much like it did the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. [More]
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Feed SubscriptionA Rare Roman Sculpture Makes Its New York Debut
A $3.8 million sculpture will be the standout piece among more than 80 important medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque objects at the exhibition Collecting Treasures of the Past VII, on view at the Blumka Gallery in New York City from January 26 to February 10. The sculpture depicts the ancient Roman ...
Read More »Ancient artifacts yield their secrets under neutron imaging
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, neutron images in 3 dimensions have been taken of rare archaeological artifacts here at ORNL. Bronze and brass artifacts excavated at the ancient city of Petra, in Jordan were recently imaged in 3 dimensions using neutrons at HFIR's CG-1D Neutron Imaging instrument. The data that is now being analyzed will for the first time give eager archeologists and ancient historians significant, otherwise wholly inaccessible insight into the manufacturing and lives of cultures that once occupied settlements within the Roman Empire, Middle East, and Colonial-period New England.
Read More »Goverments Can Create Jobs And Returns By Investing In Groundbreaking Infrastructure
From Roman aqueducts to Chinese rail, enormous infrastructure has the potential to transform a society. To fix these economic doldrums, the government should partner with the private sector to solve society's problems
Read More »Journey to a Giant World: Launch Shots of the Juno Mission to Jupiter [Slide Show]
NASA launched its Juno probe on August 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will be a meeting of mythological mates , as Juno is named after the queen of the Roman mythological gods and has been sent to enter orbit around the planet named after Juno's husband Jupiter
Read More »Hadrian-henge: Roman Emperor’s Villa Oriented to Catch Solstice Rays
By Eric Hand of Nature magazine Hadrian's villa 30 kilometers east of Rome was a place where the Roman Emperor could relax in marble baths and forget about the burdens of power. [More]
Read More »Sneak Peek: InterContinental Porto–Palacio das Cardosas Hotel
The InterContinental Porto–Palacio das Cardosas opens June 15 in Porto, Portugal, and it’s the country’s first InterContinental location. Situated in the old city of Porto—a UNESCO World Heritage Site and onetime outpost of the Roman Empire—the hotel offers guests luxury accommodation in convenient proximity to the famous port wine lodges ...
Read More »Ancient Roman Ship Had On-board Fish Tank
By Jo Marchant of Nature magazine A Roman ship found with a lead pipe piercing its hull has mystified archaeologists. [More]
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