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University of Southampton archaeologists Professor David Peacock and Dr Lucy Blue have just returned from a pioneering expedition investigating Roman sites in the East African country of Eritrea alongside colleagues from the University of Asmara. The University group is the first from the UK to work in the country since it won its independence more than a decade ago. They are already planning to return to this remote area on the shores of the Red Sea, previously part of Ethiopia. full article at innovation reports

Here are all the books we listed in the fourth week of May; The Beginnings of Rome by T.J. Cornell Augustan Culture by Karl Galinsky Res Gestae Divi Augusti by Augustus, J. M. Moore, P. A. Brunt Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 by Arthur Hugh Clough, James Atlas, John Dryden, Plutarch The Roman World 44Bc-180Ad by Martin Goodman Between Republic and Empire by Kurt A. Raaflaub, Mark Toher, G. W. Bowersock Rome: An Oxford Archaeological Guide by Amanda Claridge, Judith Toms, Tony Cubberley feel free to comment or discuss any of those books listed above, has anoyne read one of those already? cheers viggen

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Well one could argue that if christianity was the major factor then the the Byzantine empire shouldn`t have lasted another thousand year longer then it has. So i agree with Primuspilus, there are other factors that played a much bigger role then christianity... cheers viggen

It was just a sparkle on the horizon, where the sun hit what appeared to be a flat plain on an otherwise steep, untamed mountain in the Peruvian Andes. But Peter Frost, a British-born explorer and mountain guide, surmised that the perch would have made a perfect ceremonial platform for Incan rulers. So Frost and the adventure hikers he was leading slogged through heavy jungle growth and at 13,000 feet uncovered remnants of the Incan civilization that flourished there. They found looted tombs, a circular building foundation and the stonework of an aqueduct. full article at Sun Sentinel

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Workmen found part of a Norman causeway and arches under Abingdon Road and archaeologists were called in. The road has now reopened after six weeks and it is hoped the ruins will go on show to the public. It is believed the remains are part of the great Grandpont causeway built by Robert d'Oilly, an Oxford nobleman who fought at the Battle of Hastings. full article at the BBC

One of the last great mysteries of Britain's past is being unravelled by archaeologists in the first ever survey of the "people's land" - urban commons that have been protected from development for up to 1,000 years. Significant finds are expected from up to four years' research into swaths of open space close to the heart of some of the country's busiest cities and towns, from undisturbed bronze age burial sites to temporary medieval fairgrounds. full article at the Guardian Unlimited

The remains of five Roman bodies have been uncovered during redevelopment work at Humberside airport. The bodies of four adults and one child were found when archaeologists carried out excavation work. The bodies are at least 1,700 years old and were lying east to west, which suggests they were Christians. One body was lying face down. The remains have been taken to Lincoln where they will be cleaned up and examined. via BBC

A well-preserved graveyard possibly 1,000 years old has been discovered at an archeological complex of Inca and pre-Inca temples on the outskirts of the Peruvian capital, experts said on Wednesday. Archeologists this week unearthed the remains of 30 people, including 19 still intact as mummies, dating from between 1000 and 1500, making them some of the oldest mummies ever found in Peru. full article at Reuters

The remains of 28 early humans found buried at the bottom of a cave shaft in northern Spain may belong to a group that died suddenly in a "catastrophe". Experts conducted an analysis to determine whether it was likely the bodies accumulated in the shaft over years or were dumped at the same time. They concluded the 350,000-year-old death chamber may have held the victims of a disease outbreak or a massacre. full article at the BBC

another article about the mapping by Monterey Herald The map can be seen online here Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project

Maybe this one is something for you... The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars cheers viggen

Hello pompeius, I think you have the same opinion on the book then primuspilus. First Man in Rome cheers viggen

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A ROMAN settlement full of fascinating artefacts has been uncovered near Burton Dassett. But funding is urgently needed if the local volunteer archaeologists are to complete the important excavation. Volunteers from the Felden Archaeological Society have discovered an array of items dating as far back as 500 BC, including flints, pottery and metal clips believed to be from a toga. Aerial photos and geophysical tests have shown evidence of a one km sq stone settlement between Northend and Burton Dassett lying underneath the earth. full article at Banbury Guardian

Thousands of years ago, images of giraffe, antelope, elephant and rhino were scratched onto rock faces in the middle of a desert near Kalacha, in the extreme northeast of Kenya. To this day there is no consensus on exactly why. Almost every twist of the path along the base of the embellished hill offers another tableau. full article at News24.com

hehe, seems to work fine now! cheers viggen

Here are all the books we listed in the third week of May; Augustus Caesar (Lancaster Pamphlets) by David Colin Arthur Shotter Justinian: The Last Roman Emperor by G. P. Baker The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine by Pat Southern The Civil War by C. Julius Caesar, Jane F. Gardner Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire by Anthony A. Barrett Hannibal: Enemy of Rome by Leonard Cottrell Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 by Arthur Hugh Cloug, James Atlas, John Dryden, Plutarch feel free to comment or discuss any of those books listed above, has anoyne read one of those already? cheers viggen

Hello edpalu and welcome to UNRV! You might find those threads interesting Languages: Greek and Latin and The passion of the christ. cheers viggen

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As Rich Friedman twists the handle of the T-shaped auger, the steel blades bite into loamy brown soil in a field where scientists suspect Anasazi farmers grew corn 1,000 years ago. Friedman is part of a Boulder-led research team that collected 60 soil samples around the Chaco basin this month in an ongoing effort to determine where the Anasazi grew all the corn they would have needed to feed the thousands who periodically gathered in the canyon. full article at Rocky Mountain News

More than Lm111,000 are being invested to restore the building formerly known as the Roman Villa in Rabat, which has been renamed the Roman Domus. The Roman Domus is expected to open again in a few months' time after intensive restoration and with new electricity and plumbing, security services, sanitary facilities and offices. full article at The Times of Malta

Personally i believe the single most important event was the rise to purple of Commodus. (and i dont mean it in a positive way). Till 180 AD the Roman Empire was in my opinion solid as a rock, only a few decades down the line and 20 emperor laters (if you take Septimius Severus out of the equotion, who did restore stability, but developed a highly militaristic and bureaucratic government). the empire laid in shambles and since Marcus Aurelius the empire has never been the same again.... regards viggen

At the start of the 20th century, a Danish mathematical historian named Johan Ludvig Heiberg made a once-in-a-lifetime find. Tucked away in the library of a monastery in Istanbul was a medieval parchment containing copies of the works of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes, including two never-before-seen essays. To mathematicians' astonishment, one of the new essays contained many of the key ideas of calculus, a subject supposedly invented two millennia after Archimedes' time. The essay caused a sensation and landed Heiberg's discovery on the front page of a 1907 New York Times. The other new essay, by contrast, mystified mathematicians. A fragment of a treatise called the Stomachion, it appeared to be nothing more than a description of a puzzle that might have been a children's toy. Mathematicians wondered why Archimedes, whose other works were so monumental, should have spent his time on something so frivolous. full article at Science News Online