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I did that. That's when it disappeared. Obviously, I am not the only one. It's a problem and should be fixed. It is actually a feature not a bug , whenever you have more then one window open of the forum this will happen for security reasons, cause all is cookie driven, so when you pop up a new window while typing you get a new cookie, erasing the old one (the one you are typing in), however whenever this happens to me, it always saves the html code so you should be able to copy and paste it... cheers viggen

@Nephele, well hehe, the sign up form is actually on almost every content page at Unrv.com and there are by now over 5.000 (for example on every book critic like the last one http://www.unrv.com/book-review/greek-roman-warfare.php There is an archive link below to see all the previous issues.... @Gaius Octavius tried the spamfolder? cheers viggen

We recently upgraded our newsletter script so we can send now in HTML. This is nothing radical and we wont, as far as i can see, do anything else with it other then insert links, but nevertheless a nice new touch i believe. We "tested" this new functionallity today on our newest promotion we just sent out, so check your mail [if you have subscribed] (or the front page or the Trajan Forum) for more details...

...oh, we austrian cherish our Habsburg tration with a passion, not for nothing, some people even call the whole of Vienna a sort of Habsburg-Disneyland

With the exciting launch of Ancient Warfare magazine, UNRV.com is pleased to offer 5 free (6 magazines over 1 year) subscription accounts. On top of this fantastic offer Ancient Warfare magazine also sponsors two edition of the newest book from Arthur Keaveney "The Army in the Roman Revolution". Everyone who wishes to be included in the random draw simply needs to reply to drawing@unrv.com . Warfare (minus two-thousand years) Why did early civilizations fight? Who were their generals? What was life like for the earliest soldiers? Ancient Warfare is the new bi-monthly magazine that was created specifically to answer those questions.

A bit later then usual but nevertheless my monthly roundup on new books... For the Glory of Rome: A History of Warriors and Warfare Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History Marcus Aurelius in Love Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity The Army in the Roman Revolution Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America I also updated the bestselling books page for May 2007 cheers viggen

Review by forum member "Caldrail". When we talk about ancient warfare, inevitably the discussion drifts toward the arms and equipment of the day. The relative merits of sword and shield can give rise to raging arguements over what might be seen as minor details. Our love of artwork reflects that as many books featuring Greek and Roman warfare are packed with colourful graphics depicting major variations of arms and equipment. However aesthetic they may be, most books of this type do not go into much detail about how wars were fought by the men who used these items... Read the full review of Greek & Roman Warfare by John Drogo Montagu.Review by forum member "Caldrail".

Tourists puzzled by the jumble of buildings in classical and modern Rome can now find their bearings by visiting a virtual model of the imperial capital in what is being billed as the world's biggest computer simulation of an ancient city. "Rome Reborn" was unveiled on Monday in a first release showing the city at its peak in 320 AD, under the Emperor Constantine when it had grown to a million inhabitants. Brainchild of the University of Virginia's Bernard Frischer, Rome Reborn (www.romereborn.virginia.edu) will eventually show its evolution from Bronze Age hut settlements to the Sack of Rome in the 5th century AD and the devastating Gothic Wars. full article at Reuters

There are diverse aspects to the ancient Egyptian civilization that many of us are fascinated by: the building of pyramids, the tombs that store mummies or hoards of gold, as well as the captivating paintings on the walls. But few of us direct our attention to the ancient Egyptians

The discovery of the first confirmed collection of gladiator remains has allowed scientists to apply forensic analysis - such as seen in television dramas like CSI, except with real science and not just fluorescent sprays and swabs - to bones, providing startling new evidence of just how gladiators lived and died. Instead of the all-out brawling of gladiators depicted in film, the injuries discovered on the remains suggest the fighting in a nearby arena was organised and refereed, with fights between pairs of evenly matched gladiators. These gladiators would have been trained, well fed and given regular medical attention. full article at CosmosMagazine

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A rare Old Testament manuscript about 1 300 years old is finally on display for the first time, after making its way from a secret room in a Cairo synagogue to the hands of an American collector. The manuscript, containing the "Song of the Sea" section of the Old Testament's Book of Exodus and dating to around the 7th century AD, comes from what scholars call the "silent era" - a span of 600 years between the third and eighth centuries from which almost no Hebrew manuscripts survive. full article at IOL

Frogs' legs, a delicacy most closely associated with the French, is in fact, a Czech dish, according to archaeologists. Although the edible amphibians are closely associated with Gallic cuisine - so much so that English people refer to the French by the derogatory nickname "the frogs" - ancient Czechs were eating them more than 5,000 years ago. New research by archaeologists has uncovered the kitchen remains of hundreds of frogs' legs in a hill fort east of Prague. Most of the 900 bones found in a pit are hind legs (the part which has the most meat and which is traditionally eaten), and came from males. This suggests they were deliberately caught in the spring during their mating season. full article at the Independent

A battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and 2 crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa's Kruger National Park... I know that Buffalos are dangerous, but did the Lions? (and what about the crocs? hehe) what an from Kruger National Park in South Africa (been there 4 times myself) cheers viggen

I was wondering about one thing for a long time, is it just me or does it feel that italians of today dont really care about their "roman" heritage? I live close to the italian border and have so lots of contact with them; Every time i mention our site and that the site is about "their" glory past, they sort of shrug shoulder, maybe a "nice" and move on, no interest whatsoever. Did i just have bad luck, or is it just the way it is, Italians dont care? cheers viggen

More royal pyramids stand in the deserts of northern Sudan than in all of Egypt. For 3,000 years, a succession of African civilizations rose and fell along the Nile River in ancient Nubia, at one point expanding north to the Mediterranean Sea. Relatively little is known about these peoples. While Egypt hosts up to 200 foreign archeological teams a year, Sudan until recently has averaged 10 to 12. "This is the period that really interests me," Grzymski says, "from 750 BC to AD 350. "And halfway through this period, you have the incredible invention of their own writing, still largely undeciphered. It's a scholarly mystery." full article at The Star

Andrea Carandini, a professor at Rome University, used radar scans to look for structures in the grounds of the Palazzo del Quirinale, the Italian news agency Ansa reported. The palace is on the Quirinal Hill, named after Quirinus. Carandini said his scans show what may be porticos built during a renovation of the temple by Julius Caesar and his nephew, the Emperor Augustus. The porticos are under the palazzo's English Garden. full article at ImediNews

Thanks to community member Pertinax, we have added another review... This is a dense and wide ranging work, with heavy annotation and a formidable bibliography. The earnest scholarship is to be expected from titles published by Routledge. This is not a work for casual reading, though its structure allows one to move between major subject areas without reading all of the text. This is a work of considered scholarship and makes great efforts to give the reader intellectual and social bearings in the classical world,. The essence of the book is that it is the first large scale history of ancient medicine in a single volume since the Victorian era... The entire review of Ancient Medicine by Vivian Nutton

The Italian mission operating at Kom Mady area, Fayoum governorate discovered the first hall for practicing "Bowling" game in the world. The discovery was an open building dates back to Ptolemy era which ground was covered with huge blocks of limestone and have a course with depth of 10 centimeters and with elevation of 20 centimeters. The course has in the middle a square shaped hole with dimensions of 12 centimeters that is opened to a big pottery fixed under the hole. An archeological source at the Italian mission stated that the mission found "two balls" of polished limestone one of them the same diameter of the course while the other in the size of the square hole. full article at Elmasla

The remains of a wealthy Roman man, buried 1,600 years ago near London's St. Martin-in-the-Fields church, is providing clues for archaeologists trying to understand a little-known period in the city's history. The remains of the man, who was in his early 40s when he died about A.D. 410, went on display yesterday at the Museum of London. The museum also is showing items found in tombs nearby that date from a period when the Saxons of northern Germany ruled the city. full article at Bloomberg

Human remains found in a 1,400-year-old Chinese tomb belonged to a man of European origin, DNA evidence shows. Chinese scientists who analyzed the DNA of the remains say the man, named Yu Hong, belonged to one of the oldest genetic groups from western Eurasia. The tomb, in Taiyuan in central China, marks the easternmost spot where the ancient European lineage has been found. "The [genetic group] to which Yu Hong belongs is the first west Eurasian special lineage that has been found in the central part of ancient China," said Zhou Hui, head of the DNA laboratory of the College of Life Science at Jilin University in Changchun, China. full article at National Geographic

I cant find anything on the web regarding those courtcases, however i did found more info one could wish for about the proposal for the capital

A once in a life time event will soon happen in the german speaking world. The special german character

thanks everyone for the kind words cheers viggen

In nearly every hunting-and-gathering society studied by anthropologists, there is a fairly strict division of labor between the sexes: men hunt and women gather. If this were true for ancient groups, then the archaeological record would be dominated by the hunting activities of men. The gathering activities of women, on the other hand, would be nearly invisible. University of Wyoming archaeologist Nicole Waguespack, in the December 2005 issue of the journal American Anthropologist, acknowledges the problem but argues that it's not as simple as it seems. full article at the Columbus Dispatch