LONDON - While the Roman Empire flourished over a thousand years ago, it seems its citizens dealt with problems all too common today. British archeologists have discovered ancient artifacts including ...

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Archaeologists unearthed a rare piece of Roman jewelry made from 2nd or 3rd century rock crystal in their five-year-long excavation of a Roman settlement on Britain's west coast. The jewel, which has ...

In the early centuries of the Roman Republic, elaborate jewelry was rare and even discouraged by law. Roman society valued austerity, and regulations such as the Oppian Law limited how much gold women ...

Imagine the angst that a rich Roman woman must have felt in the year 61 when she had to abandon her gold and silver jewelry, buried beneath the floor of a house in the British town of Colchester.

These jewelery hawkers were sitting on a gold mine! A treasure trove of rare ancient Roman jewelry was discovered under a department store in England — which happens to sell the modern-day versions.

Cache of Roman jewelry and coins discovered near Kiryat Gat Coins in trove date from 54-117 CE, likely hidden during the Bar Kochba revolt By Gabe Fisher 5 June 2012, 2:37 pm Roman-era coins and ...