Archaeologists Discovered the Pieces of a Fifth-Century Board Game. They Tell a Big Story.
The games in questions could be either Ludus Latrunculi or Doudecim Scripta, both of which were known board games played with ...
Fresco of Sethlans' forge found in 5th-century BCE Etruscan tomb on Italian farm
Archaeologists discovered a painted Etruscan tomb in Tarquinia, Italy, revealing frescoes that offer new insights into ...
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Religion: In the Fifth Century
To the world headquarters of the Society of Jesus, adjoining the Vatican, went all the Jesuits in Rome one afternoon ... Now it faces the troubles of its fifth century. * The Vatican—to whose ...
Valentine's Day, a tame holiday with a wild past
Pope Gelasius I is said to have replaced the Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia with St. Valentine's Day in the fifth ...