Viggen

hehe, also in the BBC

Another review has been completed for our Roman Books section, thanks to community member Neos Dionysos. The purpose of this book is to examine the changing aspects of the Western Roman Empire after the death of Valentinian until the arrival of Theodoric the Great. Using this, the focus falls on the 'generalissimos' of the Western Roman Empire which, for lack of a better term, is all you could call them. The men who took the position of patrician and magister militum assumed a whole new power base and influence... ...read the full review of Generalissimos of the Western Roman Empire

he Egyptian authorities have given the go ahead for the underwater exploration of what appears to be a Roman city submerged in the Mediterranean, Egypt's top archaeologist said on Monday. Zahi Hawass said in a statement that an excavation team had found the ruins of the Roman city 35 km (20 miles) east of the Suez Canal on Egypt's north coast.Archaeologists had found buildings, bathrooms, ruins of a Roman fortress, ancient coins, bronze vases and pieces of pottery that all date back to the Roman era, the statement said. Egypt's Roman era lasted from 30 BC to 337 AD. full report at Reuters

lol, do we know each other? in anycase, sure any review is very welcome, cheers viggen

hello and welcome to unrv.com Some places you should visit; The Astronomical Clock http://utf.mff.cuni.cz/Relativity/orloj.htm Loreta Curch http://www.loreta.cz/en/index.htm Jewish Quarter including the cemetery http://www.to-prague.com/prague_directory/.../jewish_quarter not directly in prag but defenitely worth a visit is http://www.kostnice.cz/ the weiredest church on earth decorated with the remains of 40,000 human skeletons! hope that helps cheers viggen

Well, this is more for europeans hehe, some infos about this competion are here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest basically the last couple of years it was dominated by bands with no personaltiy bubble gum terrible pop or whatever you want to call it, and well then came Lordi ..the most unlikely winner every (just compare it to previous winners like Celine Dion, ABBA and Katrina and the Waves) i think this years winner are, well i think a revolution (in a Song Contest sense) hehe here is the video of the winning song from the crazy fins with the cool masks http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6666637566522776701 Go Lordi Go...

Archaeologists exploring one of Rome's oldest catacombs are baffled by neat piles of more than 1,000 skeletons dressed in elegant togas. The macabre find emerged as teams of historians slowly picked their way through the complex network of underground burial chambers, which stretch for miles under the city. They say the tomb, which has been dated to the first century AD, is the first known example of a "mass burial". full article at the Telegraph

Experts have discovered that the brooch belonged to soldier Quintus Sollonius who would have been stationed at the forefront of the Roman empire 2,000 years ago. there you go... Spectacular brooch find may 'unlock secrets of Hadrian's Wall'

Another review has been completed for our Roman Books section, thanks to community member Ursus. David S. Potter surveys the political, military and cultural events of the Empire from CE 180-395. His work is thorough, incorporating and elucidating various strains of primary evidence. The author then places the evidence into a central thesis which he echoes consistently throughout the work

I remember when i was in Namibia on holiday, all the houses in the town of Swakopmund were neat and looked pretty (old german style, it was a german colony) but somehowe something was missing, took me a couple of minutes......they had no grass around the house, just desert sand hehe...

The Tuscans' proud claim to be the descendants of the ancient Etruscans has taken a knock .A DNA comparison of Etruscan skeletons and a sample of living Tuscans has thrown up only "tenuous genetic similarities", said lead researcher Guido Barbujani of Ferrara University. "If the Tuscans were the direct descendants of the Etruscans the DNA should be the same," said Barbujani, a genetecist who coordinated the study with Stanford University in the United States. via Ansa.it

Discovery of remains of a gigantic palace in Bolaghi Gorge and its similarity to the constructions of the time of Darius I, Achaemenid King, in Persepolis show that it was built during the same period of time. full article at CHN

Here is the Amazon link for US customers Roman Britain and the Roman Navy.

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, attended a ceremony on Sunday to launch the building of a Tibetan health and cultural center. Planned at Huettenberg is an international center of Higher Tibetan Studies,' which local Carinthian officials say will include 'the first and only training center for Tibetan medicine in the western world.' via Moster&Critics Huettenberg (actually in correct german its H

Another review has been completed for our Roman Books section, thanks to community member Lost_Warrior. Taylor Caldwell's A Pillar of Iron is a historical fiction novel based on the life of Marcus Tullius Cicero. The way Caldwell tells this story is highly sympathetic towards Cicero, however that does not in any way lessen the novel

I am Austrian, so that means some germanic and slavic and a dash hungarian...

IT WAS not until midway through the live television interview that the BBC interviewer started to grow suspicious. The driver was interviewed on TV after being mistaken for a specialist on music downloading The man whom she believed to be an expert on internet music downloads seemed to know precious little about his subject. Not only that, but the stocky black man with the strong French accent bore little resemblance to the picture on the expert`s website, which showed a slim white man with blue eyes and blond hair. via Times Online OMG, this is so hilliarious, you can see a part of the show on video on Youtube, just look at the cabbies expression of surprise in the beginning, but to be honest, i have seen worse performences from real "Experts" on TV The Video

Brazilian archaeologists have found an ancient stone structure in a remote corner of the Amazon that may cast new light on the region's past. The site, thought to be an observatory or place of worship, pre-dates European colonisation and is said to suggest a sophisticated knowledge of astronomy. full article at the BBC

Ship logs and pottery show how the geomagnetic field has changed. While sailors plied the Seven Seas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, little did they know that their ships' logs would one day help scientists to reconstruct the history of the Earth's magnetic field. Geophysicist David Gubbins and his co-workers at the University of Leeds in England have used old navigational data, combined with records taken from archaeological artefacts, to figure out how the direction and strength of the magnetic field changed between 1590 and 1840, roughly the time between Francis Drake's voyages on the Golden Hind and Charles Darwin's journey on the Beagle. full article at Nature

THE lost world of Cleopatra`s palaces has been dug out of the muddy Mediterranean sea bed by a man dubbed the Underwater Indiana Jones. The results of Franck Goddio`s excavations, comprising 500 priceless finds that shed light on 1,500 years of ancient history, will be put on public view today for the first time. full article at Times Online

A marble head of the Emperor Augustus has been found at a large and well-appointed Roman villa just discovered outside the capital . The head, practically a bas-relief, shows the emperor in profile in his middle years. via Ansa.it

A carved monolith unearthed in Mexico may show that the Olmec civilization, one of the oldest in the Americas, was more widespread than thought or that another culture thrived alongside it 3,000 years ago. Findings at the newly excavated Tamtoc archeological site in the north-central state of San Luis Potosi may prompt scholars to rethink a view of Mesoamerican history which holds that its earliest peoples were based in the south of Mexico. full article at Reuters

Archaeologists have unearthed a large Roman cemetery in a Gloucestershire gravel quarry. More than 100 people are believed to have been buried at the site, near Fairford, which dates back 1,600 years. It is thought the dead were interred according to their age, as children's bodies have been found in one area with adults in another section. full article at the BBC

An ancient king's war chariot found in a tomb near Rome has helped rewrite the history of the Romans and their Sabine rivals. "This chariot is an exceptional find," said archaeologist Paola Santoro . "It shows that the city of Ereteum remained independent long after the Sixth Century BC." "In other Sabine cities like Custumerium, conquered by the Romans, the custom of putting regal objects in king's tombs had died out by that time". via Ansa.it

Well, while i cant guarantee you anything, i will speak with PP if we maybe can come up with some sort of help for you. I do happen to know a place were you can get it for under 200 bucks, + shipping, although still, this book better be good lol...