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The Tucson artifacts, sometimes called the Tucson Lead Crosses, Tucson Crosses, Silverbell Road artifacts, or Silverbell artifacts, were thirty-one lead objects that Charles E. Manier and his family found in 1924 near Picture Rocks, Arizona, that were initially thought by some to be created by early Mediterranean civilizations that had crossed the Atlantic in the first century, but were later ...
The list of Roman hoards in Britain comprises significant archaeological hoards of coins, jewellery, precious and scrap metal objects and other valuable items discovered in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) that are associated with period of Romano-British culture when Southern Britain was under the control of the Roman Empire, from AD 43 until about 410, as well as the subsequent ...
Roman sculpture. Allegorical scene from the Augustan Ara Pacis, 13 BCE, a highpoint of the state Greco-Roman style. The study of Roman sculpture is complicated by its relation to Greek sculpture. Many examples of even the most famous Greek sculptures, such as the Apollo Belvedere and Barberini Faun, are known only from Roman Imperial or ...
Pottery, coins and jewelry, along with other artifacts, have been found from the Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman Period and World War II, officials said. One of the first pieces ...
807,000 sq ft (75,000 m 2) in 94 galleries. The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [ 3 ] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
A trove of 27 silver Roman coins, dating back to the 1st century BC, has been unearthed during restoration work at the Acropolis of San Marco and Santa Teresa, according to the Sicilian government.
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Roman site and museum. Devil's Causeway, Roman road to Berwick upon Tweed. Featherwood Roman Camps, on Dere Street between Chew Green and Bremenium. Habitancum, Roman fort at Risingham. Housesteads (Vercovicium) Hunnum, (also known as Onnum, and with the modern name of Haltonchesters), Roman fort north of Halton.