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i was deleting that post shortly afterwards when i realized it wasnt an actual coach but a "symbolic" coach for the dead person inside the coach going to the afterlife. So they might have modelled it on "existing coaches" at the time but its artistic and not an actual coach model...
here the image again
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What does the Roman Republic mean to you? A few might admit they've never heard of it. For others it's merely a long period of ancient history before the Romans invented orgies and interesting tyrants. Yet it appears that the system of government adopted by the Romans between the rejection of monarchy and the acceptance of autocracy is something very inspiring to some of us. Time and again writers refer to the Roman world seeking some sort of guidance for their own goals and motives, something I find somewhat ironic because Roman Republicanism was never set in stone. Instead it was cast in bronze, malleable, demanding continual polishing, and ultimately good for material when the original vessel was no longer holding water....
...continue to the review of The Life of Roman Republicanism by Joy Connolly
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Map showing Roman Empire overlaid on one of the USA
...found at authors Brian Igoes website http://www.caesarcato.org/Rome%20USA.html
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...i didnt find anything on the coaches at that website....
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this is very common in the alps, just a kilometer from were i live we have also a road like this
here the google images for Warmbad (warmbaths) near Villach my hometown. (as you can see there are hot springs, and were hot springs were, Romans were not far away
Viggen: It's so cool that you live around these ancient tracks. They are really deep. So, two men side by side = 4 feet? The wheels on that covered wagon look wider to me but the cabin is smaller in width. I can't imagine traveling for days (especially older people) in something too small. I'm annoyed that this picture is posted on the German museum for Roman artifacts but there's no place that I could see any text that appeared to give an explanation of their replica. If I post the link, could you possibly take a quick look to see if anything is there? I cannot read German.
sure, go ahead...
btw. there is a currently a "Roman" exhibition in my local musuem, i probably only have time to go in June, but i can ask if they have exact measurements of the tracks...
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this is very common in the alps, just a kilometer from were i live we have also a road like this
here the google images for Warmbad (warmbaths) near Villach my hometown. (as you can see there are hot springs, and were hot springs were, Romans were not far away
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in the Alps you have loads of Roman road tracks, here an example in bavaria (via raetia) with two people as reference
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Interview by Ian Hughes
Ian Hughes for UNRV: Today we have the distinct pleasure to interview noted author and historian Professor Jonathan Harris about his latest book The Lost World of Byzantium.
UNRV: The first question to ask concerns your research interests. On the Royal Holloway website it states that these lie in “Byzantine History 900-1460; relations between Byzantium and the west, especially during the Crusades and the Italian Renaissance; the Greek diaspora after 1453”. What made you focus on the Byzantine Empire rather than on the Crusades which appear to have remained far more popular amongst Western historians?
...continue to the Interview with Jonathan Harris on The Lost World of Byzantium
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Welcome back and thanks for sharing!
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Experts say the villa is the most significant discovery of its kind in 10 years, and could have been home to a Roman emperor.
From their research, archaeologists believe the villa had three-storey structures similar to those found at another Roman villa in Chedworth, Gloucester. This means there is reason to believe the villa belonged to a family of extraordinary wealth and importance.
Experts also found hundreds of discarded oyster shells, a perfectly preserved Roman well and the stone coffin of a Roman child.
Amazingly, the coffin had gone unnoticed and held flowers until it was identified.
via Sky News
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Book Review by Guy
The young student many times begins his or her studies of ancient Rome by learning only about the famous personalities, the pivotal dates, and the crucial battles. This might leave the student with the sterile impression that the ancient history of Rome was only about shining marble buildings, clean tidy roads, great orators, conquering generals, countless decadent emperors, and innumerable grand monuments.
Too often, the mud and the grime, the pungent and putrid odors, the deafening noise from the crowded bustling streets, the many foreign tongues heard at the busy markets, and the sounds and confusion of any major ancient city are forgotten. Only later the student might want to learn the true nitty-gritty of everyday life for the ordinary resident of Rome.
...continue to the full review of The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
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Book Review by Thomas A. Timmes
Following his widely acclaimed hit series, Marius’ Mules, noted author and historian S.J.A. Turney continues to research and write highly popular novels. With over twenty successful books to his credit, Praetorian: The Great Game is book one of a brand-new series. Book two, Praetorian: The Price of Treason, was released in December 2015, and book three should follow shortly. Praetorian: The Great Game is not a book for the faint of heart! But if you enjoy reading non-stop action and breathtaking suspense, this book is for you. Written to please Romanophiles and historians alike, each chapter is a masterpiece of imagery, composition, and solid historical research...
...continue to the review of Praetorian: The Great Game by S.J.A. Turney
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Using the world’s largest and most sophisticated x-ray microscope, scientists have read a little deeper into one of the iconic relics of the ancient world: a library of charred scrolls that survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius almost 2000 years ago. Last year, researchers managed to decipher some of the letters on the carbonised papyri. Now, unexpectedly, they reveal in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have established that the scribes who copied the ancient texts knew the secret of metallic ink.
via the Guardian
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Review by Ian Hughes
If a member of the public was to be asked the question of when the Roman Empire fell, the usual answer would be centred on events in the fifth century, and some may even give the specific date of 476 – the year when the last emperor in Rome was overthrown. For many scholars this is an unacceptable situation, as they know that the Roman Empire in the East continued into the next millennium, never mind the next century.
Part of the reason for this state of affairs is a legacy of the historians of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries. For them the Eastern Roman Empire – now known as the Byzantine Empire – was a degenerate, money-loving, corrupt entity dominated by court intrigue and eunuchs: a far cry from the majesty of Rome in the first century AD. In his new book Byzantine historian Jonathan Harris asks the question of why, if the inhabitants were as lazy, corrupt and inefficient as usually depicted, could their empire have lasted for nearly a thousand years longer than its Western counterpart...
...continue to the review of The Lost World of Byzantium by Jonathan Harris
p.s. interview with the author coming soon!
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In Apotheon, you play Nikandreos, a soldier on a quest to defeat Zeus when Hera, Queen of Olympus, calls on him to bring down the corrupt pantheon of Greek gods. That's pretty much the same plot as Sony's bloody, boob-heavy God of War franchise, but where the latter might task you with, say, ripping the skull and spinal column out of Hermes, Mortal Kombat-style, and then using it as a flail to beat Aphrodite to death, Apotheon is a more lyrical affair, as elegant as the art that inspired it.
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Ben-Hur remake a.k.a. Fast and Furious A.D.
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Book Review by Michael Mates
The course of Empire often runs like a normal distribution curve, with success and failure measured on the vertical axis, and time, usually a few centuries or so, on the horizontal. The Byzantine Empire, by contrast, looks like a sine wave, a succession of up-and-down roller coaster curves, lasting 1,123 years, from the foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD to its fall in 1453. (The Byzantines themselves, with some justification as self-described Romans, would claim 1,480 years, from the establishment of the Roman Empire in 27 BC.)
Romane’s book examines one of the political-military high points, the period from 959 to 1025, showing how the Empire benefitted from relative stability of rule; protection of core territories; strategic use of tribute; and skilled use of heavy cavalry, combined-arms tactics, siege warfare, stable rule (with only one emperor assassinated during the period), and clever and profitable alliances to ensure survival...
...continue to the review of Byzantium Triumphant: The Military History of the Byzantines 959-1025 by Julian Romane
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Yup, its really great to see this kind of posts from guy
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Fragments of an ancient Greek text telling of an invasion of Greece by the Goths during the third century A.D. have been discovered in the Austrian National Library. The text includes a battle fought at the pass of Thermopylae.
via Live Science
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Amazing if true!
A thousand years after the Vikings braved the icy seas from Greenland to the New World in search of timber and plunder, satellite technology has found intriguing evidence of a long-elusive prize in archaeology — a second Norse settlement in North America, further south than ever known.
The new Canadian site, with telltale signs of iron-working, was discovered last summer after infrared images from 400 miles in space showed possible man-made shapes under discolored vegetation. The site is on the southwest coast of Newfoundland, about 300 miles south of L’Anse aux Meadows, the first and so far only confirmed Viking settlement in North America, discovered in 1960.
via Ny Times
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Book Review by Alex Johnston
In her new book, SPQR, Mary Beard writes about the history of the first millennium of ancient Rome – roughly covering the period of time from Rome’s foundation, on the implausibly precise date of 21 April 753 BCE, to the year 212 CE when the Emperor Caracalla made every free inhabitant of the Roman Empire a full Roman citizen. Yet she chose to begin the book roughly three-quarters of the way into that millennium, with a discussion of the suppression of the Catiline rebellion by Cicero in 63 BCE. Why did she do that?
...continue to the review of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
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...fascinating!!!!
About 3200 years ago, two armies clashed at a river crossing near the Baltic Sea. The confrontation can't be found in any history books—the written word didn't become common in these parts for another 2000 years—but this was no skirmish between local clans. Thousands of warriors came together in a brutal struggle, perhaps fought on a single day, using weapons crafted from wood, flint, and bronze, a metal that was then the height of military technology.
“If our hypothesis is correct that all of the finds belong to the same event, we're dealing with a conflict of a scale hitherto completely unknown north of the Alps,” says dig co-director Thomas Terberger, an archaeologist at the Lower Saxony State Service for Cultural Heritage in Hannover. “There's nothing to compare it to.” It may even be the earliest direct evidence—with weapons and warriors together—of a battle this size anywhere in the ancient world.
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....looks like Syrian Forces are busy retaking Palmyra, hopefully archaeologists can get there soon to assess and maybe safe whats left to safe...
Roman Palmyra: Identity, Community, and State Formation by A. M. Smith
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We won’t ever see the glorious structures of Palmyra again. ISIL/Daesh destroyed the Temple of Bel, the Temple of Baalshamin and the Arch of Triumph in 2015, and beheaded the elderly head of antiquities, Khaled al-Assaad. Thank whichever god you serve for the photographs, the museums that hold ancient reliefs and inscriptions, and books such as Smith’s Roman Palmyra. The outrages of 2015 came after Smith had completed his work on the community that thrived in the Syrian desert, located at an oasis on the frontier between Rome and Parthia. Therefore it stands as a monument in its own right to a rich period (the first three centuries AD) that saw the pastoral settlement develop into an important trading city with influence throughout the Roman empire....
...continue to the review of Roman Palmyra: Identity, Community, and State Formation by Andrew M. Smith II