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Ancient cooking pots reveal gradual transition to agriculture
Posted on November 1, 2011 | No CommentsHumans may have undergone a gradual rather than an abrupt transition from fishing, hunting and gathering to farming, according to a new study of ancient pottery. -
Teutoberger Wald, 9 A.D. – Strategic Implications
Posted on October 31, 2011 | No CommentsThe Battle of Teutoberger Wald (9 A.D.) in which tribal Germans defeated a highly professional and disciplined Roman Army is not only one of the most decisive battles of the western world, but a historical example of successful asymmetrical warfare -
Roman coin hoards discovered in Shropshire and Worcestershire
Posted on October 30, 2011 | No CommentsBritain's Portable Antiquities Scheme announced this week details about two recent discoveries of Roman coin hoards -
Scary Stories of the Ancient Greeks and Romans
Posted on October 29, 2011 | No CommentsCenturies before movie and television audiences thrilled to tales of werewolves, vampires and wizards and Halloween became the second biggest celebration of the year, the ancient Greeks and Romans were spinning scary stories about monsters, ghosts and the afterlife -
Ancient depiction of childbirth found at Etruscan site in Tuscany
Posted on October 28, 2011 | No CommentsAn archaeological excavation at Poggio Colla, the site of a 2,700-year-old Etruscan settlement in Italy’s Mugello Valley, has turned up a surprising and unique find: two images of a woman giving birth to a child. -
Researchers recreate face of ancient human
Posted on October 26, 2011 | No CommentsA reconstruction based on the skull of Norway’s best-preserved Stone Age skeleton makes it possible to study the features of a boy who lived in Scandinavia 7,500 years ago. -
The anatomy of a mercenary: from Archilochoas to Alexander
Posted on October 24, 2011 | No CommentsXenophon, who marched so many perilous Persian parasangs as a soldier-of-fortune and survived, has probably penned the most exciting, if not the best, memoirs by a mercenary to date. -
Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor: Minoans and Mycenaeans abroad
Posted on October 23, 2011 | No CommentsRecently, some new finds of frescoes, papyri and weapons of Minoan and Mycenaean inspiration in Egypt and the Near East have brought renewed interest in, and speculation about, the foreign contacts of the Late Bronze Age Aegean -
Classical Precariousness vs. Modern Risk: Lessons in Prudence from the Battle of Salamis
Posted on October 23, 2011 | No CommentsOn September 19, 480 B.C., the ancient world faced a pivotal battle. Under the command of the despotic King Xerxes, a fleet of Persian warships had converged off the Greek coast near Piraeus, the port city that served Athens. -
Snow White’s Apple And Claudius’ Mushrooms: A Look at the Use of Poison in the Early Roman Empire
Posted on October 23, 2011 | No CommentsIn comparison to the Roman Republic, the Early Empire witnessed an increase in the number of suspected poisonings