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Two million-year-old blood and fat on stone tools found in South Africa are giving clues about what hominids ate and how they lived, says an Australian researcher. Molecular archaeologist, Dr Tom Loy of the University of Queensland, reported his analysis of biological residues found on quartz stone tools at a recent ancient biomolecules conference in Brisbane. "I looked at them and there was blood everywhere," Loy said of the tools, which are among the oldest of their kind, and came from the Sterkfontein caves 60 kilometres northwest of Johannesburg. full article at ABC.net

The ruins of the bridge, which would have once crossed the River Tyne, have been undisturbed for thousands of years in Corbridge, Northumberland. The site has been monitored since the 1970s by archaeologists concerned at erosion of the remains by the river. Tyne and Wear Museums' archaeology team, with the help of volunteers and trainees, started work on the excavation two weeks ago. The team has already uncovered the spectacular scale and decoration of the bridge, which would have carried the main Roman road from London to Scotland. full article at the BBC

Still wondering why it is from Italy expected to be the major power in the world, they are a small country (about the size of Montana) with 55 million people, they are in the G8 (8 most important Economic powers) so not sure what is expected from them... cheers viggen

Google provided us now with a customized version for searching within the UNRV pages, i believe this new search feature is pretty usefull and hope it will increase the usability of UNRV.com The site search can be found on the main page cheers viggen

The Silk Trade Challenge A Webquest for 2nd and 3rd grade from the School of Visual Arts (SOVA) at the University of North Texas.

A team of Scottish experts have used the latest computer technology to protect a priceless 2300-year-old Greek statue. Hermes of Praxiteles, the sole surviving work of one of classical Greece's finest sculptors, was threatened by earthquakes as it stood in the country's most important archaeological museum in Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympic games. full article at The Herald

Here are all the books we listed in the third week of July; The Judgement of Caesar by Steven Saylor The River God's Vengeance by John Maddox Roberts Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield The Lost World of Pompeii by Colin Amery, Brian, Jr. Curran Metamorphoses by Ovid, Charles Martin (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction) Vespasian (Roman Imperial Biographies) by Barbara Levick feel free to comment or discuss any of those books listed above, has anyone read one of those already? cheers viggen

nice post Ursus just the link to the List of Deities of yours is not working, however we have one too right here at unrv. http://www.unrv.com/culture/mythology.php on top are the links to Major Gods, Minor Gods, Adopted Gods and Imperial Cult cheers viggen

The battle over Kennewick Man, one of the most complete skeletons ever found in North America, appears to be over. Four Northwest tribes seeking to bury the 9,300-year-old bones have announced they will not take their fight to the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) after losing in lower federal courts to scientists who want to study the remains, The Oregonian reported in its Friday editions. full article at MSNBC

The most extraordinary smile has been beaming down at Romans from hoardings all over the city this week. It belongs to a statue of the Apollo of Veio, the vanished Etruscan city a few miles north of central Rome. Yesterday, after the first painstaking restoration since the statue's discovery 80 years ago, it went on display in Rome's National Etruscan Museum in Villa Giulia. The terracotta statue was assembled from 30 fragments found in 1916 in a cave at the site of the vanished city. In 1944 more pieces came to light, enabling archaeologists to add the statue's right arm. full article at Independent.co.uk

i got mine this week and it was shipped much later then yours Jug, any postal strikes in Belgium? Don't worry though, we get you those maps... cheers viggen

I was recently visiting the Magdalensberg (Noreia) http://www.unrv.com/roman-events/magdalensberg.php which is far away from Rome however it has everything rome had, just smaller, so i believe life was even in smaller places way ahead of its time, to add to that the life of the celts there was far from being barbaric or "dark age like" but had their own "civilisation" built over hundreds of years and just adapting to the roman life style.. Lots of the busts there show that while the man were dressed, spoke and behaved like romans (public life) the women dressed, spoke and behaved celtic (private life). When you speak of fly over, you must remember that at the time you needed lots of "pitstops", so even remote places would have some sort of standard... However i think other then merchants and armies, people didnt really move that much? cheers viggen

Interesting question... in the way the romans created new armies out of nowhere time after time, Rome must have had lots of money too at the time... cheers viggen

Hi Zeke, Have a look here http://www.novaroma.org/main.html I believe, they do actively follow the ancient roman way of life cheers viggen

Early humans made love, not war, according to new DNA analysis presented at a genetics conference that gives a new twist on the out-of-Africa hypothesis of human origins. U.S. researcher Professor Alan Templeton of Washington University, St Louis, debunks the prevailing version of the out-of-Africa hypothesis, which says early humans migrated from Africa and wiped out Eurasian populations. Instead, they bred, he told the Genetics Society of Australia's annual conference in Melbourne this week. full article at ABC

sorry for late reply, (was away on business).. thanks for the indepth answer... and the last question is simply if those limestones were brought there by man, when was that? cheers viggen

English Heritage has said the site at Groundwell Ridge is

Hello kunjethy and welcome at UNRV.com! Thanks for the additional infos, hope you will keep us up to date... cheers viggen

Here are all the books we listed in the second week of July; Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem Emperor: The Gates of Rome by Conn Iggulden The October Horse by Colleen McCullough The Eagle's Conquest by Simon Scarrow The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits by Mike Ashley feel free to comment or discuss any of those books listed above, has anyone read one of those already? cheers viggen

Here are all the books we listed in the first week of July; Legion by William Altimari Render Unto Caesar by Gillian Bradshaw Hadrian's Wall : A Novel by William Dietrich feel free to comment or discuss any of those books listed above, has anyone read one of those already? cheers viggen

Here are all the books we listed in the fourth week of June; Bacchae by Euripides, Paul Woodruff Cannae by Gregory Daly The Republic and the Laws by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Jonathan Powell, Niall Rudd Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World by Katherine M. D. Dunbabin Roman Aqueducts and Water Supply by A. Trevor Hodge Sophocles: The Complete Plays by Sophocles, Paul Roche The Battle That Stopped Rome by Peter S. Wells Under the Eagle by Simon Scarrow feel free to comment or discuss any of those books listed above, has anyone read one of those already? cheers viggen

Hello Ursus and welcom on board Mars is my choice, afterall the month i am born is named after him!

I go for Athens...

In a technological and historical world first, this weekend the British Museum has unveiled or, more accurately, unwrapped the interior of a mummy that had remained sealed since it was made by masters of the ancient Egyptian craft of mummification. The startling operation was carried out without disturbing the intricate wrappings and amulets that were originally placed around his dead body. Using scanning technology developed by neurological researchers in a London hospital, the British Museum has recreated the kind of public 'unrolling' of a mummy that used to draw crowds in the 19th century. In those days irreversible damage was often caused to the remains inside and many mummies were discarded and lost forever. full article at the Observer

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