However, according to a new archaeology discovery, service stations were being used all the way back some 2,000 years ago by the Romans. Researchers came to this conclusion after the interesting ...

Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by ash and lava in AD 79, has unearthed a new treasure — a private bathhouse built 2,000 years ago ... coins and a younger man.

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Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery shows that women were closely related while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage. An examination of ...

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Based on this measurement, the characteristics of the underground can be assessed, and man-made material can be ... the beginning of new era. That is Iron Age or even Bronze Age, but more likely ...