Did the Ancient Egyptians of the Old, Middle and New Kingdom ever reach Malta and the Central Mediterranean?
A number of ancient Egyptian artefacts have reached the Maltese islands over the centuries. The Phoenicians seem to have been the main importers of these artefacts in antiquity, and yet some archaeological specimens reached the islands before their time.
Myth and History in Oikist Traditions: Archias of Syracuse
In this paper I shall briefly introduce an oikist tradition that grew around the foundation of Syracuse in the middle of the eighth century BCE.
Shape of the Beast: The Theriomorphic and Therianthropic Deities and Demons of Ancient Italy
Until recent times, the idea of a human-animal hybrid belonged only in tales of folklore and fantasy and the realm of science fiction.
Tiberius, Tacfarinas, and the Jews
Despite this relative wealth of sources, their combined evidence does not allow of a clear explanation as to why exactly Tiberius expelled the Jews from Rome in AD 19. Although they preserve broadly similar accounts of the circumstances surrounding this expulsion, they differ among themselves in several points of detail and interpretation.
Livy and the Bacchanalia
Livy begins his account by claiming that the Bacchanalia had come to Rome from Etruria and Campania.9 Classical Bacchic cult was a ritual enactment of the maenads
The Origin of the Etruscans
Herodotus says that the Etruscans came from Lydia. The question is whether this is correct. My answer is: yes, but the Lydians lived at that time (also) in another area.
The Huns and the End of the Roman Empire in Western Europe
The Huns and the End of the Roman Empire in Western Europe Peter Heather English Historical Review:Â Vol.110 No.435 (1995) Abstract Based on the…
The Elusive Etruscans: The Quests for the Origins of the Etruscan Civilization
The Romans prided themselves on their ability to embrace the very best aspects of each culture that they encountered. There was one culture in particular, however, that held their fascination: the Etruscans.
Augustus and the Governors' Wives
Until the last century of the Roman Republic it was an established principle that officials assigned provinces outside of Italy would not be accompanied there by their wives, whose duty was to remain behind to look after their husbands’ interests.
Bioarchaeology in the Roman World
In particular, human skeletal remains, which can elucidate various past behaviors through careful scienti?c analysis, have largely been ignored as a credible source of information about the ancient Roman world of both the living and the dead.