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Archaeologists working at Portchester Castle believe they have discovered evidence that it was once a Roman trading port. Topographic and geophysical surveys of the ancient site have revealed a number of previously uncharted structures dating from Roman, Saxon and medieval times. A team of archaeologists from the University of Southampton spent two weeks surveying the castle

A life-size image of St George standing on a slain a dragon was uncovered at St Cadoc's church in Llangattock Lingoed, near Abergavenny. Discovered during recent renovations at the centuries old church, experts have described the painting as a "special find". The painting is thought to have been covered up during the Reformation. full article (including image) at the BBC

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Hello Valens, You might find the Macedonian Wars interesting, were a vigorous struggle was maintained with the Achaean League and with Macedon until the Romans, after the conclusion of their war with Philip V sent an army into Laconia under T. Quinctius Flamininus. Sparta was forced in 192 BC by Philopoenien to enroll itself as a member of the Achaean League under a phil-Achaean aristocracy.Again and again the relations between the Spartans and the Achaean League formed the occasion of discussions in the Roman senate or of the despatch of Roman embassies to Greece, but no decisive intervention took place until a fresh dispute about the position of Sparta in the league led to a decision by the Romans that Sparta, Corinth, Argos, Arcadian Orchomenus and Heraclea on Oeta should be severed from it. This resulted in an open breach between the league and Rome, and eventually, in 146 BC, after the sack of Corinth, in the dissolution of the league and the annexation of Greece to the Roman province of Macedonia. related info: Roman Province of Achaea and Roman Province of Macedonia cheers viggen

Diver Philip Butterworth took some convincing that the lump of metal he found lying on the seabed in Poole Harbour was a rare 3,000 year-old bronze axe. "I thought it was a bit unusual so I picked it up and stuck it in my pocket," said Philip. "I thought it was probably a 16th or 17th century tool that had dropped off the side of a ship, it was in such good condition." Curious to know what he had found, he took it to Poole Museums, where it was identified by interpretations officer Keith Jarvis as an end-winged bronze axe dating to 1,000-800 BC. full article at This is Poole

Archaeologists yesterday revealed they have unearthed a huge Roman villa and may have even identified who owned it. They believe the villa, in the heart of the Dorset countryside, was owned by a rich and important native Roman called Anicetus. He was mentioned by Roman historian Tacitus who said that he possibly donated money to the Roman army. The archaeologists have identified he lived there by using an eighth century transcription of a Roman map which listed all villa estates. full article at Western Daily Press

just a reminder that we did one Feature Book Review already http://www.unrv.com/book-review/story-of-hannibal.php cheers viggen

Lets face it, communism is a political theory that doesn't work in real life.... (proven by 100 years of failure) regards viggen

Italian engineer Felicce Vinci proposes an interesting hypothesis in his book "Homer in the Baltic." According to him, Odysseus was not Greek but Dutch and all events portrayed in the Homeric epic stories in reality took place around Scandinavia instead of the Mediterranean region. It has already been noted by scholars that certain descriptions of landscapes in Homer"s "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" did not quite match those landscapes of the Mediterranean. Plutarch used to assume that the island where Odysseus had been captured by Calypso was in fact situated in North Atlantic. According to Homer, the city of Troy lies by "boundless Ogygia", "five days' sail from Britain". full article at Pravda now thats what i call an interesting theorie...

Fragments of two glass armlets, dating back to the Roman era, have been discovered during an archaeological dig at Knowes Farm near East Linton. The remains of several circular Iron Age houses with stone-flagged floors, apparently belonging to the latest period of occupation, have also been uncovered. via East Lothian Courier

Hello Chattuarii and welcome to UNRV! The Chattuarii are as far as i know first mentioned by Strabo a greek geographer, and were probably the neighbours of the Chatti (hence the meaning of Chattuarii "neighbours of the Chatti), There is as far as i know not much known from roman sources, as the Chattuarii came after the Romans to fame, they are mentioned in Beowulf, and fought battles witht the Franks in the 6th century against nordic raiders..

Regarding Water System One of the best pages i know of that go into details you can find here http://academic.bowdoin.edu/classics/resea...tml/intro.shtml hope that helps cheers viggen

Yeah, i believe the Celts were into body painting, not the germanics, and the color blue had as far as i am aware of no significance in the ancient germanic society.. regards viggen

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Humans made their first tentative steps towards farming 23,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. Stone Age people in Israel collected the seeds of wild grasses some 10,000 years earlier than previously recognised, experts say. full article at the BBC

Thanks Jug for chipping in, Trajan was born on spanish soil, and Hadrian's family lived in Hispania too, but there is some debate if Hadrian was born on spanish soil or rather in Rome, however the actual place of one's birth was unimportant, since it was one's patria which was crucial. @Legionary June 30, 2003 is the official birthdate of this site. cheers viggen

A centuries-old American Indian burial ground has been discovered at a construction site east of San Francisco, offering new clues about the people who inhabited the region long before the Spanish arrived. About 80 sets of human remains and artifacts have already been unearthed, and at least as many are believed to be hidden beneath Lafayette's Hidden Oaks housing development, where two dozen upscale homes are planned. full article at SignonSanDiego

thanks for posting, The exact mechanism that creates the filaments remains to be discovered. So still something to look for...

Several exciting discoveries have been unearthed at Chester

Interesting, do you have a link to that report? cheers viggen

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Those are just one of the indication how busy you are at the board! cheers viggen

The earliest known Christian church in Jordan was discovered, if the preliminary dating of the remains as first to second century A.D. proves correct, the local newspaperJordan Times reported Tuesday. Director of Jordanian Department of Antiquities, Adnan Hadidi, told the newspaper that the church was found during the third season of excavations at Artemis Temple and its vicinity in Jerash,about 50 km south of Amman. The excavations have been carried out by the department in cooperation with the Italian Archaeological Center of Oriental Research in Turin within a bilateral agreement between Italy and Jordan to carry out photogrammatic surveys, the report said. The surveys were made in preparation for reconstruction work to be undertaken this year, it added. Enditem via chinaview

Heritage experts today condemned the destruction of part of a 3,000-year-old Celtic fort in Co Kerry. The 700 metres of earthen works that surrounded the ancient Dun Mor Fort on the Dingle Peninsula were levelled at the weekend by an excavating machine. An entrance and a standing stone with an ogham (Celtic writing) inscription were also removed. Heritage Ireland spokeswoman Isobel Smyth said it was a dreadful act.

Hello Legionary and welcome to UNRV! First thanks for your kind words, You have many questions and i try to answer at least one of it, namely the fall of the roman empire; There has been no shortage of theories on the fall of the roman empire and it has never been clear why Rome became so vulnerable to foreign invaders at this time. Probably contributers were political instability, the collapse of food supplies to Rome, constant influx of "barbarians" and even the infamous lead in the water supplies have all been implicated. Historians have generally agreed that Rome's downfall was due to a combination of many factors. One must also understand that logictics played an important role, (just imagine how long it takes to travel from Rome to Britain by foot, even by horse it is probably a journey one needs a week. To have a good infrastructure, you need administration that funcitons well, and due to lack of leadership, corruption that infrastructure was not up to scratch as it once was... ok i stop now and let others have a word or two.. cheers viggen