Food, music and culture have made the Italian southern city of Naples famous around the globe. But there’s another Neapolitan ...

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The Ancient Graffiti Project, a research team that has included around 70 people over the past several years to locate and study graffiti from the early Roman Empire, has painstakingly documented and ...

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Deep beneath Rome’s Domus Aurea, archaeologists have unearthed a rare ingot of Egyptian blue — the world’s first synthetic pigment.

In the best restaurants along the Bosphorus strait Roman Abramovich’s high dining is setting tongues wagging as much as it once did in London. “I love Abramovich so much,” enthuses Omer ...

In the best restaurants along the Bosphorus strait Roman Abramovich’s high dining is setting tongues wagging as much as it once did in London. “I love Abramovich so much,” enthuses Omer Ataysin, an ...

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Shortly after Musk made the gesture, the term "Roman salute" started trending online. While it appears similar to the Nazi salute associated with Adolf Hitler, the gesture has ancient roots.

and about a dozen audience members responded with Roman salutes. The German phrase “Sieg heil ... as a stamp of approval for their targeting of Jews, immigrants, people of color, and so many others.” ...