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Below are the newest releases for April... Greeks & Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers Scipio Africanus: Rome's Greatest General Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409 The Digest of Justinian Defying Rome: The Rebels of Roman Britain Loyalty and Dissidence in Roman Egypt: The Case of the Acta Alexandrin Antony & Cleopatra Archimedes and the Roman Imagination Clodia: A Sourcebook Collins Gem Ancient Rome: The Entire Roman Empire in Your Pocket Julius Caesar ...i also updated the bestselling book section for March...

John R. Clarke was educated at Yale and is currently a professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Clarke has authored several books on Roman art and culture, including Roman Sex and Roman Life. Roman Life and Roman Sex quickly became two of my favorite books on Roman culture. Having recommended them to various Romanophiles, many others seem to enjoy them as well. In fact, for a long time Roman Sex was UNRV's most viewed book review - though presumably many of the people googling the phrase 'Roman sex' were not necessarily looking for a scholarly treatment of the subject! In any event, it is a pleasure to be conducting this interview with John R. Clarke.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Thats apparently a valid english sentence... ..as someone noted in the comments of that link, "...but even though I know better, each time I look at it, I think it is spelled incorrectly."

(btw. the shared borders of finland and sweden do have the most masculine appearance of all countries )

thanks everyone for your kind words

Hmm, I am a bit late, but in case you missed it, Austria (my native country) won for the first time the Oscar for best foreign-language picture. The story goes something like this... The Counterfeiters is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a mischievous life of cards, booze, and women in Berlin during the Nazi-era. Suddenly his luck runs dry when arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. Immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills there and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who is there on a secret mission. Hand-picked for his unique skill, Salomon and a group of professionals are forced to produce fake foreign currency under the program Operation Berhard. The team, which also includes detainee Adolf Burger, is given luxury barracks for their assistance. But while Salomon attempts to weaken the economy of Germany's allied opponents, Adolf refuses to use his skills for Nazi profit and would like to do something to stop Operation Bernhard's aid to the war effort. Faced with a moral dilemma, Salomon must decide whether his actions, which could prolong the war and risk the lives of fellow prisoners, are ultimately the right ones. You can read a little more about this fascinating movie at the Chicago Tribune and watch the trailer (with even more info on this true story) at the offical home page!

Below are the newest releases for March... Rome and Environs: An Archaeological Guide The Walls of Rome Roman Warfare, 300 B.C. to A.D. 450 The Transition to Late Antiquity, on the Danube and Beyond Romanization in the Time of Augustus Barbarism and Religion: Volume 4: Barbarians, Savages and Empires Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture An Atlas of Roman Rural Settlement in England ...i also updated the bestselling book section for February...

Always amazes me that people try to find stuff in a book that is thousands of years old, has been fiddled around for centuries before even translated and those translations were very often wrong? ..so can we all agree that god thought one day, "what the heck", lets make a big bang and let evolution play it out? Everyone wins cheers viggen

Below are the newest releases for February... Blood of the Caesars: How the Murder of Germanicus Led to the Fall of Rome Rome and Her Enemies: An Empire Created and Destroyed by War Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories Romanization in the Time of Augustus Roman Gardens: A Cultural History A Compendium of Roman Law Founded on the Institutes of Justinian Augustus: Caesar's Web - Power And Propaganda In Augustan Rome ...i also updated the best selling book section for January...

Doctor Matyszak has become one of the celebrated scholars visiting the UNRV fora. I thought it an excellent idea to ask him a few questions pursuant to my review of his "Sons of Caesar." ...go to the Interview with Dr. Philip Matyszak

An ancient tannery in the archaeological complex of Pompeii, a city destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the first century, will be restored, officials said Monday. The tannery

Well, if Jesus is written on the tomb then it is a fake It should be not so difficult to get a statistical number, just figure out what was the available "name pool" at the time at this specific area and time, and you should get a fairly accurate number... ...i believe Jesus, Mary and Joseph were very common at the time? cheers viggen

welcome back... and how are the grades doing? cheers viggen

Hello Historicus, thanks for your post here, this could be interesting; Shall we focus on Rome first? How many days will this tour be? How many stops (locations) are there planned on this tour? Is this just for people in the US or could people from say Europe skip the flight and jump right on the starting point of the tour? cheers viggen

I know which type of article (given the choice) I prefer to pick up and post links to. ...when posting there was no choice, it was the only one, i got... cheers viggen

Hadrian: Empire and Conflict'' (July 24 - Oct. 26) will feature some 200 loans from 31 countries and take place in the British Museum's specially refitted circular Reading Room. Hadrian ruled the Roman Empire from 117 to 138 A.D. and ordered the building of a wall dividing England and Scotland. The Roman emperor also was picked because multiple new discoveries offered a ``chance to write new history,'' which is part of the British Museum's purpose, he said. The exhibition will reveal the many faces of Hadrian, a skilled and ruthless military leader who crushed the Jewish revolt of 132 A.D. and faced down rebellions in Britannia, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Mesopotamia. full article at Bloomberg

A Canadian archaeologist has identified a small fishing village in Tonga, established nearly 3,000 years ago, as the birthplace of Polynesia. Matangi Tonga online reports that Professor David Burley drew his conclusion from his final excavation at Nukuleka, east of the capital Nuku'alofa, six months ago when they found pieces of Lapita pottery. full article at Radio Australia

A new archaeological fortress, known as Manco Pata, was discovered in the town of Kimbiri (Cusco), located in the Apur

The History Channel will broadcast a 2 hour special on the 21st of January called "Life without People" What would happen to planet earth if the human race were to suddenly disappear forever? Would ecosystems thrive? What remnants of our industrialized world would survive? What would crumble fastest? I made a litte page from the info i got from the History Channel Life without People So, what do you think, what would it be, life without us? cheers viggen

A rare 2,000-year-old Roman lamp has been bought by the Yorkshire Museum after it was discovered in North Yorkshire. The copper lamp - depicting the face of a wild, violent and drunken nymph - in the shape of a female head was found by a metal detectorist near Tadcaster. full article at The Press

An ancient city excavated on Kerala's Malabar coast had trade links with many key centres around the world as far back as 500 BC, fresh archaeological evidence says. The Institute of Physics in Bhubaneswar has also concluded that the site, which archaeologists named Pattnam, was actually the ancient city of Muziris. It is located seven kilometres from Kodungallur in Ernakulam district. According to P.J. Cherian, director of the Kerala Council of Historic Research (KCHR), the city had maritime links with cities along the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Arabian Sea and South China Sea. 'The antiquity of Pattanam extends back as far as the first millennium BC as determined by the Institute of Physics,' said Cherian. KCHR and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) are conducting the ambitious research as part of the Muziris Heritage Project. full article at News Post India

Yup, thats the idea, but we only will find out in 2009 cheers viggen

We just started to send out the first newsletter of the year, hope you guys are enjoying it... We have an archive for past newsletters, were you can also sign up, in case you havent yet... cheers viggen

Something to ponder about... ...let`s say you want to leave a message to the people in the year 4000. You could write that message onto a USB Memory Stick or a DVD or on a Hard Drive or on a piece of paper. What is your guess what the chances are that (assuming the sealed box would be found and all 4 are in good condition) archaeologists would be able to identify all 4 pieces as some form of a message? I have a hunch that the archaeologists of the 5th Millenium will have a very hard time to figure out what the heck the USB Memory Stick, the HD and the DVD actually is. Maybe a "gift to the gods?" some sort of jewelry? a primitive craft device? Now assuming there is an experimental archaeologist that thinks that this could be some sort of data storage device. How will he get to the information? I mean i have some floppy disks lying around and have no way of actually getting to this information, first i dont have a floppy drive anymore and second, those operating systems of today kinda dont like old stuff, and when i talk about old stuff i am talking of 10 years maximum, nevermind 2000 years.... If the archaeologist of the year 4000 sees the piece of paper, chances are, he will grab it and starts to decipher the writing, right?

All roads lead to Rome, even virtual ones. A museum on Tuesday unveiled a virtual reconstruction of one of the bustling arteries that led into ancient Rome, allowing visitors to wander through rebuilt monuments and interact with the city's political elite. Using a concept similar to that of online virtual worlds, the project creates characters _ or avatars _ that roam the ancient Via Flaminia, exploring funerary monuments that lined the road, bridges and arches, as well as the villa of Livia, wife of Rome's first emperor, Augustus. The Virtual Museum of the Ancient Via Flaminia reconstructed the initial part of the road, digitalizing 1.8 million hectares (4.45 million acres) of terrain. Major stops include Livia's palace, the Milvian Bridge on the Tiber River and a triumphal arch built by the Emperor Constantine. The virtual reconstruction, which cost more than