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Rare Ancient Roman Helmet Was Just Discovered In A Strange Location, But That's Not The Strangest Part About It

Imagine Ancient Rome at its peak, spreading across Europe like an unstoppable tide of sandals and swagger. Today, we can still visit some of the best Roman ruins in Rome, but the empire stretched far ...
Smithsonian Magazine

See a Restored Ancient Roman Helmet—and Two Shiny New Replicas

The 2,000-year-old Hallaton Helmet is now on permanent display at the Harborough Museum in England Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent Over 20 years ago, amateur archaeologists found what looked like a ...
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This 2,000-Year-Old Roman Helmet Used to Look Like a ‘Rusty Bucket’. Now It’s Restored Almost to Its Former Glory

In the early 2000s, amateur archaeologists in the UK dug up a large and extremely rusted metal object somewhere in Leicestershire. It certainly didn’t look like much. However, this would prove to be ...
The Olympian

Ancient chief buried ‘extremely rare’ Roman equipment. Archaeologists just found it

Archaeologists in Denmark found a “rare” Roman helmet buried by an ancient chief along with hundreds of weapons and other artifacts. Photo from the Vejle Museums Archaeologists in Denmark recently ...
Artnet

A Painstakingly Reconstructed Ancient Roman Helmet Goes on Display

Over two decades ago, a group of amateur archaeologists stumbled upon what appeared to be an ordinary, unremarkable clump of metal in a field in Leicestershire, the U.K. Initially dismissed as a mere ...