As the researchers write, Roman girls wore lunula amulets until marriage to protect themselves from evil. In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves , which Roman priestesses and ...

In addition to this, the woman is depicted wearing a necklace featuring an amulet in the shape of a crescent Moon, known as a lunula. Typically, lunulae were worn by young unmarried girls, and ...

Excavations at the site revealed the amulet in a Roman grave dated to between A.D. 230–270, tucked under the lower jaw of a man's skeleton. Known as a phylactery, ...

A silver amulet found next to a skeleton in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of being Christian in Roman times.

An 1,800-year-old silver amulet discovered buried in a Frankfurt, Germany, grave, still next to the chin of the man who wore it, has 18 lines of text written in Latin on just 1.37 inches of silver ...

This is a Jewish amulet, also found in a remote corner of the Roman Empire, and also dating to the third century, so I think this is quite an analogous find,” Bohak said.

A small, silver amulet found by a skeleton in a nearly 2000-year-old grave in Frankfurt, Germany may offer new insights into the early spread of Christianity throughout the Roman Empire.

A silver amulet found next to a skeleton in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of being Christian in Roman times.