Word: antica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...antiquities, estimates cost of the immediate restoration of the Colosseum at $430,000 and, of the crumbling walls and underpinning of the Forum, another $4,000,000. But Rome has the highest municipal debt in Italy, around $3 billion: it is in effect bankrupt. And the deterioration of antica Roma is only one in a series of revelations of decay in Italy's most famous monuments that have popped up, like Banquo's ghost, to alarm conservationists this summer...
These statements and many other things, among them new and remarkable sayings from the lips of Jesus, appear in an ancient papyrus lately unearthed in the ruins of a Roman villa at Ostia Antica. The papyrus is a copy of the legendary "Q Document," the source book for the four Gospels, as well as a new account of Jesus' life written by his brother James. Its existence is known only to the small group of scholars who have prepared the translation and to a few wealthy men who are financing publication of a Bible containing the new revelations...