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  Excavations Uncover Hints of Nero’s Theater in Rome, and Much More A dig at a palace set to become a hotel has unearthed traces of a theater that archaeologists hypothesize was built by Nero, the emperor with a disputed reputation for tyranny and debauchery. From: The NewYork Times Visit Website  https://www.weaversnest.org/  for more information on Archaeology and History.                                          

              Bronze Age Dwellings Unearthed in Romania ORADEA, ROMANIA— Romania-Insider reports that traces of three Bronze Age dwellings estimated to date to between 1700 and 1550 B.C. have been found in western Romania by researchers from the Ţării Crişurilor Museum, the University of Cologne, and the Romanian Academy. Mud bricks, ceramics, bones, tools, hearths, and storage pits have been uncovered. Soil samples from the site will be analyzed for information about the local environment and precise radiocarbon dating. For more on archaeology in Romania, go to " Ancient Tattoos: Ceramic Female Figurine ."                                             (Ţării Crişurilor Museum) From  https://www.archaeology.org/news/11612-230726-romania-bronze-age Ancient Rome Tried to Tame Natur...

Archaeologists find ancient cave in Israel that serves as ‘portal to underworld’ Archaeologists found an ancient cave in Israel that allegedly serves as a portal to the underworld.  In a recent excavation, the archaeologists in western Jerusalem found more than 100 ceramic lamps squeezed into the cave's crevices. They theorised in a new paper that these were most likely used to conjure up dead spirits and their secrets —a practice known as necromancy. From WION  Archaeologists discover 125 tombs including two rare sarcophaguses at Roman-era cemetery in Gaza Archaeologists have found at least 125 tombs in a 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery discovered in Gaza last year, most with skeletons still largely intact, and two rare lead sarcophaguses. The impoverished Palestinian territory was an important trading post for civilisations as far back as the ancient Egyptians and the Philistines depicted in the Bible, through the Roman empire and the crusades. From ABC Archaeologists may...