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Roman Nida hid an entire sacred district beneath a school site

Construction of a modern school in Frankfurt opened a window into the religious center of an ancient Roman city. Beneath the site lay a walled complex with temples, ritual shafts, offerings and traces ...

Routine wall work in Italy uncovers Roman building with mosaics, frescoes, and painted ceilings

According to Euronews, architects working at Villa Celimontana were strengthening an old wall and instead uncovered part of a decorated structure — its rooms holding mosaics, frescoes, and painted ...
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The desert temples of the Nazca, pyramids, pilgrims, and the sacred landscape that gave birth to the lines

Beneath the sands of the Peruvian desert, the buried pyramids of Cahuachi once drew thousands of pilgrims to a sacred world of ritual feasting, trophy heads, and offerings to the gods. Here, at the ...

The vast Bronze Age masterpiece that lay hidden in the mountains for centuries

Hidden high in the Tian Shan mountains, the sacred open-air site of Saimaluu Tash preserves 90,000 ancient petroglyphs, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

See a Rare Ceiling Fresco From Pompeii That Archaeologists Are Carefully Reassembling, Piece by Piece, Like an Ancient Puzzle

Archaeologists at Pompeii have partially reconstructed a rare ceiling fresco depicting scenes from Greek mythology. The ceiling was once located inside the banquet hall on the upper floor of a home ...

Archaeologists Just Discovered a Roman Mosaic—and an Unsolved Ancient Mystery

The Vigiles were ancient Rome’s firefighters and night watchmen.
The Independent

Pompeii archaeologists unveil stunning fresco ceiling in ancient banquet hall

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New York Post

Spectacular fresco lost to Pompeii disaster 2,000 years ago finally being pieced together by archaeologists

The pieces are finally coming together. Archaeologists have come closer to restoring a stunning Pompeii ceiling fresco buried beneath ash for millennia, revealing an iconic scene from Greek mythology, ...
JSTOR Daily

Shaping Roman Landscape: Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Wall Painting in Early Imperial Italy

This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2 Level AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons ...
The Conversation

The US has acknowledged Bears Ears and Grand Staircase as sacred for over a century, but keeps stripping away protections

President Donald Trump signed proclamations on July 13, 2026, cutting the size of Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by roughly 90% – meaning nearly 3 million acres ...
Daily Breeze

Cal Flyn explored the Earth’s wild places to write ‘The Savage Landscape’

Cal Flyn traveled tens of thousands of miles around the world to research her book, “The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness,” journeying to remote areas in Africa, Antarctica and the Amazon ...
The New York Times

Rare Pompeii Ceiling Is Restored From Fragments, Depicting Scene From Myth

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