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Five theatrical masks discovered at an ancient Turkish site are dated to the time of the Roman Empire. The masks were found alongside a 5,000-seat theater built by the Romans in the first century C.E.

A video filmed in Osmaniye, Turkey on November 19, 2025 highlights the discovery of five new theatrical mask reliefs at the Roman-era Kastabala theater, supporting future restoration of the historic ...

OSMANIYE / ISTANBUL, 20 November (BelTA - Anadolu) - Five theatrical mask reliefs have been discovered during excavations in the theater area of Kastabala, an ancient city in Osmaniye, southern ...

Masks were central to theater performances in ancient Greece. Credit: Carole Raddato, CC BY-SA 2.0 Archaeologists in southern Turkey have uncovered five new Roman-era theatrical masks, adding fresh ...

A new high resolution digital dataset and map—named Itiner-e—of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is presented in research published in Scientific Data. The findings increase ...

How often do you think about the Roman Empire? For a team of international researchers who went all in and mapped the ancient Roman road system, the answer — truly — is every day. And now, anyone can ...

A comprehensive new map of Roman roads has boosted the known size of the empire’s land transport network by almost 60 per cent – and it is available for anyone to explore online. The project, called ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great Britain to North Africa and has added more than 60,000 miles of roads that ...