Ice Cap Shows Ancient Mines Polluted the Globe
Publisher: The New York Times
Author: Malcolm W. Browne
Samples extracted from Greenland's two-mile-deep ice cap yield evidence that ancient Carthaginian and Roman silver miners working in southern Spain fouled global atmosphere with lead for some 900 years;
Underground Rome
Publisher: The Atlantic
Author: Tom Mueller
A good way to study ancient Rome is to explore the cellars -- and subcellars -- of modern Rome.
WOMEN'S CULTS OF ANTIQUITY: THE VEIL RISES
Publisher: The New York Times
Author: Eric Pace
The excavation of a mysterious shrine in southern Italy has renewed scholarly interest in a shadowy all-woman cult that was among the oldest and most prestigious of all the religious groups of ancient Rome.
Roman Empire's Fall is Linked with Gout and Lead Poisoning
Publisher: The New York Times
Author: John Noble
An article shared on the Paideia Institute's Online Public Classics Archive
Bridges of Rome: Spanning the Centuries
Publisher: The New York Times
Author: Thomas Sterling
Rome's history seen through the history of the bridges along the Tiber.