Environmental consultants SLR examined a road, thought to be built in the 1st century BC, at Bayston Hill quarry, Shropshire.

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After all, those details have been shared often enough, starting not with Elizabeth Taylor (1963), Shakespeare (1623) or even Plutarch (1st Century AD).

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Although Romans have had a love-hate relationship with all things papal since the Catholic Church began calling Rome its home since the 1st Century.

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The effect of this, soaking in the thermal springs pool while flanked by seven limestone pillars from the 1st century A.D.

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Paul Roberts, the exhibition's curator, says the painting offers a unique insight into the life of Pompeii's citizens in the 1st century AD.

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Analysis of the pottery shows the site dates from the end of the 1st Century, through to the middle of the 4th Century.

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In another section of the exhibition, large vibrant pieces of fresco from a villa in Pompeii, dating back to the 1st Century BC, hang on the wall.

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The catacombs of Rome, which date back to the 1st Century and were among the first ever built, were constructed as underground tombs, first by Jewish communities and then by Christian communities.

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Dr Tomber said that it has always been presumed that the flow of the trade between Rome and India lasted between the 1st Century BC through to the end of the 1st Century AD, but that there is growing evidence that this trade continued much longer, into the 6th and early 7th Century - although not necessarily continually.

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The vessel is thought to be a relic of the the 1st or 2nd century B.

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