An artist’s depiction of the temple at La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz as it would have looked in the first century AD. Marie Millet, INRAP In April, archaeologists excavating at La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz, ...

Archaeologists in northwest France have unearthed what may have been a temple to the Roman war god Mars, dating to the first century B.C. The temple, or sanctuary, is part of a Roman complex spread ...

Archaeologists in France have discovered dozens of Roman-era graves of men who were buried with "curse tablets," at least one of which was written in an extinct language. Excavations underneath an ...

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