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Cooking Apicius: Roman Recipes for Today by Sally Grainger The Roman Empire And the New Testament by Warren Carter A Critical History of Early Rome by Gary Forsythe Rome, the Greek World, and the East by Fergus Millar History of the Later Roman Empire by Stephen Mitchell Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius by R. Malcolm Errington

This article was brought to us by forum member Honorius Flavius Tiberius Constantinus was born in 540AD in the province of Thrace. Not much is known for hes early life except that he was a close friend of the emperor Justin II. He was given the position of Count of the Excubitors and assumed control of the government after Justin befall to a mental breakdown in 573... ...continue with the article on Tiberius Constantinus

It's not the end of the world, experts announced today. The opening passage of a thousand-year-old Christian prayer book discovered in Ireland does not say that doomsday is near. The newfound prayer book, they explain, is an ancient Latin translation from the Greek known as the Vulgate. But the King James Bible, which was translated from Hebrew to English more than a thousand years later, assigns different numbers to the psalms. full article at National Geographic

One of the oldest boats discovered in Scotland is being excavated and raised from its site in the Tay Estuary. The Carpow log boat, as it is known, situated near Abernethy, was discovered in 2000. Identifying it as a log boat, used for fishing and wildfowling, Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust radiocarbon dated it to 1000BC - the late Bronze Age. full article at 24HourMuseum

The cover story is about the 2000 year celebration for Carnuntum. Exatly 2000 years ago, Carnuntum was founded by Tiberius, and just a few years later it became one of the biggest cities of the Roman Empire. The austrian television is in the process of making a documentary of Carnuntum. They invited reenactors from all over Europe to participate in this film. The same people who make this had made in the past the award winning documentary of Oetzi the Iceman, so i am sure this will be fantastic! Here is an english link to the archaeological park of Carnuntum

LOL, if you think that german is a slavic dialect then yes, you do have no clue

ah, nice one, i hope you enjoy it, (for me this one would be way too strong...) If you ever get a chance, try my local Bock Bier, it is only available during christmas and easter time, it is stronger then normal beer (because of longer storage time) but with 6.9% aclohol still drinkable... Villacher Festbock link goes to german site cheers viggen

one might consider that the modern state Italy is a relatively young one... In the years after the roman empire fell, there were the Lombards, which made the Popes call the Franks (more germans) for help and basically created the Papal state, but later the city states like Genua or Venice, did they care about something called Italy? I doubt it. It would be interesting to know if a Michelangelo call himself Italian? I dont know, did Marco Polo call himself italian? I dont know... I do know however that anyone in Europe that claims to be pure descendant of state that existed 2000 years ago is simply wrong. In Europe with mass imigration for thousands of years, there aint not such thing as pure... p.s. The Romans back then cared little were you are from, so why should we now? my 2 cents...

...on this list, Austria is third, which is ok, because i am happy!

Another review has been completed for our Roman Books section, thanks to community member Favonius Cornelius. The late Roman Empire if anything, can be characterized by a pattern of gradual destabilization by the erosion of the old established ideals, be they governmental form, religion or cultural infrastructure. It can also be characterized by rebellion, that infernal rash which would spring up and confound the Caesars in nearly every corner of the Empire at one time or another. One particular area which tended to attract rebellion was the far flung province of Britannia, and Guy de la Bedoyere sets out to uncover the roots and reasons for this phenomenon in his book Defying Rome, the Rebels of Roman Briton... ...read the full review of Roman Britain: A New History by Guy de la Bedoyere

This is a feature not a bug I will correct them as only admin level can do those changes... cheers viggen

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Feet have trodden on a stretch of Roman road for the first time in 1,600 years. A section of the road has been fully uncovered in the final stages of an archaeological excavation on the former Shippams factory site in Chichester city centre. Jo Taylor, of Pre-Construct Archaeology, which has been carrying out the project with Gifford Archaeology, said the road probably dated from the late first century AD. full article at Porthsmouth Today

Iron Age villagers living in west Somerset were 'behind the times' according to evidence unearthed by a team of archaeologists.The team has been investigating the site at Maundown Water Treatment works near Wiveliscombe. Six round houses dating back to 100 BC have been revealed by the dig. A site of this age should show signs of square Roman houses but the existence of only round houses shows the village was behind the times in property style. full article at the BBC

Wow, i am austrian, and never heard of that guy from the book A Sailor from Austria, i defentiley have to look into that one, if you liked that one spurius, you will enjoy this book too The Battle of the Otranto Straits: Controlling the Gateway to the Adriatic in World War I ...

May i mention Noricum? The regional celts united there and had a kingdom for a while, even after they were peacefully integrated into the roman empire, they had for a long time their own princeps, btw. not every celt was a brit or a french

Pantagathus, i am devasteted, no austrian beer on your site

"Nobody's Watching", a pilot made for last year's upfronts that was never picked up, is being put back into development by NBC after gaining attention on . From the ZapTV article: "I love the spirit of the experimentation," NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly says. "And I think if we can actually have something find an audience on the web, gravitate over to the network, continue with a web presence and have them feed each other, that could end up being a really cool thing." I watched the pilot and i must say i liked it, very different, could be a good one... ...way to go Youtube!

Are you guys talking about this book? The Last Legion

Physicist Costas Soukoulis and his research group at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory on the Iowa State University campus are having the time of their lives making light travel backwards at negative speeds that appear faster than the speed of light. That, folks, is a mind-boggling 186,000 miles per second

The pharaohs of ancient Egypt owed their existence to prehistoric climate change in the eastern Sahara, according to an exhaustive study of archaeological data that bolsters this theory. "Around 5,500 to 6,000 years ago the Egyptian Sahara became so dry that nobody could survive there," said Stefan Kr

Archaeology fans around the world will soon be able to visit an ancient tomb providing clues to the mysterious Sabine civilization, thanks to a virtual reconstruction going online shortly .The 3D project was developed to coincide with a new exhibit of objects in Copenhagen's Ny Carlsberg Glypotek Museum, which houses a number of the finds from the large chamber tomb, located around 100km northeast of Rome. The 3D reconstruction will shortly go online at www.principisabini.it via Ansa.it

Interesting, i am a subscriber to the online editon of the WSJ, but i cant find the article anywhere... In anycase, congrats Mr. Dalby

Another review has been completed for our Roman Books section, thanks to community member FLavius Valerius Constantinus. The