Karl Hulker, head of archaeology at the Heritage Collective, said he understood there were remains of the original Roman town beneath the prison.

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Juliet Stevenson appeared in the original 1991 production of the play, while Sigourney Weaver starred in Roman Polanski's 1994 film.

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Excavations in the 1970s uncovered the remains of a Roman barracks, an Anglo-Saxon cemetery and the foundations of the original Norman Minster.

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He showed it to an expert, who found the needle-and-thread theory "entirely original, " says Mr. Humphrey, whose own scholarly work has examined arenas for Roman chariot racing.

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Lining up a Roman archive photo with the ruins of the Coliseum was impossible for Alison Victoria because the original vantage point doesn't exist anymore.

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Antony and Cleopatra is part of a Roman season at the Globe which marks the 400th anniversary of the first recorded performance at the original theatre.

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BC, shortly after the city itself, the original library enjoyed the passionate support of the Ptolemies, the Greek-speaking dynasty that ruled Egypt up to the Roman conquest.

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