Roman ruins in Britain

New discoveries from 3rd century (?) in Britain:
Roman Ruins in Britain

Article on Bactrian Gold, rediscovered in Kabul

Horde of Bactrian treasures, thought lost from Kabul Museum or destroyed by Taliban, turn out to have been hidden by museum curators years before the Taliban takeover. They were rediscovered intact in Kabul in 2004. Old article from National Geographic, but I need to save it.
"Lost" Treasures of Afghanistan

Timewatch - The Mystery of the Headless Romans

Rehabilitating Nero?

National Geographic online story about Nero, the Domus Aurea, and a monument to the Emperor at modern Anzio (his birthplace). Rethinking Nero (Nat. Geo.)

There's a graphic feature along with the article with reconstructions of the area covered by the Domus Aurea, and some interior views of the palace (although I can't get the last of the set of images to work, the ones showing the Esquiline wing of the palace). Graphic reconstructions of Domus Aurea

Don't take notes on a laptop (Scientific American article)

Scientific American: Notetaking by hand

Seven wonders of the buddhist world BBC Documentary

How the National Archaeological Museum (Athens) saved its treasures in WWII

http://www.lifo.gr/mag/features/3728
Article translated from a Greek magazine that details how heroic curators and scholars buried the statues and vases of the museum beneath the floor in the days before World War II broke out. Thus, the antiquities were saved. Too bad they didn't have the Trojan gold.