Europe
Archeologists find 2,000 year old graves in Paris necropolis: Part II on Gaulish-Roman burial sites
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Archeologists find 2,000 year-old graves in Paris during the building of a train station expansion near Notre Dame Cathedral.
Culture
An Emperor in Bronze and a Satyr in Gold
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A coin marks a point in time in a way few other artifacts do. My bronze coin isn’t just a piece of metal with a Roman emperor’s face on it – it’s an artifact of his reign, a holdover from that era which testifies to what happened to that point and what might have happened if the contingencies of history had turned out differently.