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Travel: Ancient Rome’s first responders

Richard Hodges investigates pestilence and climate chaos in the eternal city The trams rumbling along the Viale Trastevere wake me. The bell…

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Rich bronze artefact deposits found at ancient French settlement
Two deposits of spectacular bronze artefacts dating back to the 9th century BC represent the latest discoveries made during a series of archaeological excavations and surveys conducted in the Allier department of central France since 2019.
Earliest Christian monastery found in Egypt
Inscriptions were also found on the walls of several buildings, with passages from biblical and early Christian texts written in Greek.
Samurai armour goes back on display after conservation
The armour is the property of National Trust's Snowshill Manor in Gloucestershire and is part of the largest collection of its kind in the UK.
Bronze Age and Jutish cemetery excavated in Kent
One of the most exciting discoveries was that of a massive square pit burial holding the skeletal remains of a horse and a wolf-sized dog