University of Leicester Archaeological Services, the same group that discovered King Richard III under a car park in Leicester, has found a Roman cemetery in another car park in the same city.
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Dr Xavier Riaud discusses the fascinating series of events which lead to the identification of her mummy through the examination of her dentition by Dr Zahi Hawass and his team.
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Dressed for the Occasion: Clothes and Context in the Roman army
Modern images and reconstructions of the Roman soldier’s appearance nearly always show a fully-armed, often grim-looking combatant, wearing helmet and armour and sporting several weapons.
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‘Like a Certain Tornado of Peoples’: Warfare of the European Huns in the Light of Graeco-Latin Literary Tradition
The paper deals with the art of warfare of the Huns, who invaded Southeast Europe in the last third of the 4th century A.D. and dominated there through the third quarter of the 5th century
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The History and Architecture of Petra
Petra was a city of wealth, prosperity, and enormous ingenuity that allowed the Nabataean people to settle and even thrive in one of the harshest environments on earth.
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A Brief History of Property Tax
You can have a Lord, you can have a King, but the man to fear is the tax assessor. ~ Anonymous citizen of Lasgash
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Rome and Parthia: Power Politics and Diplomacy Across Cultural Frontiers
Persia and Parthia were two of the great ‘others’ that shaped the limits of the Graeco-Roman world, and were also imagined worlds where European values were explored, excluded, and projected.
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1,700 year-old Roman cemetery discovered under another car park in Leicester
Posted on May 5, 2013 | No CommentsUniversity of Leicester Archaeological Services, the same group that discovered King Richard III under a car park in Leicester, has found a Roman cemetery in another car park in the same city. -
Rare bronze rams from the First Punic War discovered
Posted on April 22, 2013 | No CommentsThe ten rams (Latin rostra), each weighing around 125 kilogrammes and made of bronze, were mounted on the prow of the warships (ancient triremes or quinquiremes), and were used to ram the enemy ships. -
Research sheds light on ancient Egyptian port and
Posted on March 27, 2013 | No CommentsNew research into Thonis-Heracleion, the remains of a port-city that served as the gateway to ancient Egypt, has revealed dozens of sunken ships, which may help give us a better understanding of how maritime trade operated in the Eastern Mediterranean. -
Stone ships show signs of maritime network in Baltic Sea region 3,000 years ago
Posted on March 25, 2013 | No CommentsIn the middle of the Bronze Age, around 1000 BC, the amount of metal objects increased dramatically in the Baltic Sea region. Around the same time, a new type of stone monument, arranged in the form of ships, started to appear along the coasts.
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