The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and ...

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This week calls for some throwback thinking. If you can recall how Roman numerals work, you'll get at least one question correct.

In December, workers installing natural gas pipelines near Athens uncovered a Roman-era statue of Hermes buried upright in a brick-lined pit near the Acropolis. Thessaloniki weeks ago unveiled a ...

The cemetery dating to the Roman era between 42 AD and 410 AD was uncovered ahead of construction work to widen a highway in Cambridgeshire. Archaeologists found impressions of the shroud the ...

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Shortly after Musk made the gesture, the term "Roman salute" started trending online. While it appears similar to the Nazi salute associated with Adolf Hitler, the gesture has ancient roots.

They uncovered a rare late-Roman-era boundary stone with a Greek inscription, dating back approximately 1,720 years. The find sheds new light on ancient land ownership and taxation practices ...

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Winkler, who wrote a book about the salute. There is no Roman art, writing, or coins that display the gesture, according to Winkler. "The gesture of the raised right arm or hand in Roman and other ...

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It establishes a Fingerprint Bureau at the tail end of the Victorian era in 1901,” says Read. “Fingerprints are complex. … CID head Edward Henry develops a system for sorting them based on ...