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The complete layout of the wall of the first Roman camp in Vindonissa discovered, along with medical and military equipment of the legionaries

The emergency archaeological intervention promoted by Cantonal Archaeology on Zürcherstrasse Street in Windisch (in the Swiss canton of Aargau) has concluded within the expected timeframe, according to sources from the institution in mid-July. The excavation team, composed of around twenty specialists, worked for eleven months on an area of approximately 4,000 square meters—the future site […]

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The “Barbarian Invasions” forced Roman legionaries on the Danube frontier to survive on hunting and fishing, as supply routes were cut off

The Roman soldiers who guarded the Danube frontier almost two thousand years ago did not live on bread and vegetables alone. The analysis of more than 10,000 animal bones found at the Diana-Karataš fort, in eastern Serbia, demonstrates that meat was a regular part of their diet and that it varied significantly over the six […]

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El misterio del babuino y el ibis: la luz lunar revela por qué los antiguos egipcios deificaron a dos animales tan distintos

Una investigación publicada en la revista Time and Mind ha devuelto a la primera plana científica una cuestión que durante décadas ha desconcertado a egiptólogos y primatólogos: por qué el dios Thoth, una de las deidades más complejas del panteón nilótico, adoptaba simultáneamente la apariencia de dos especies animales tan radicalmente diferentes como el ibis […]

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