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Salvete! Heu, modo itera omnia quae mihi nunc nuper narravisti, sed nunc Anglice? [cum grano salis]

Archaeologists will have a greater understanding of the lives of the people who built great ritual monuments such as Stonehenge following excavations at one of Scotland's largest rural settlements. A dig at a new housing development in Dreghorn, Ayrshire, has revealed major medieval remains and Neolithic features including the site of a ceremonial pole, houses and a pottery kiln. full article at the Herald

The Roman town of Venta Icenorum lies slumbering beneath the Norfolk countryside. Once it was the most important Roman town in East Anglia. Today it is hidden beneath the grass of the Tas Valley. Now the county faces a conundrum

Thanks Gaius for the list, there are some interesting books there. cheers viggen

Hello Ladydonna and welcome to UNRV.com I don't know much about the Herods myself, so i searched a bit for you and found some pages, I am not sure about their quality, but here they are anyway. http://www.imt.net/~gedison/herod.html http://www.cresourcei.org/herodrule.html http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07289c.htm http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sh...trait/jews.html and here are some Books About the Fox; The Pharisees had warned Jesus that if He remained in Herod

High in the Altai mountains of southern Siberia, where Shamans still practise their ancient rites and most people are descended from Asiatic nomads, there is a whiff of revolt in the air. Local officials, urged on by the increasingly militant electorate, are collecting signatures, writing petitions and demanding audiences with regional political leaders. Their demands are simple and have nothing to do with the inept rule, poverty, corruption and ecological disasters dogging the region. They want a 2,500-year-old mummy, found by Russian archaeologists 11 years ago and being studied in the Siberian capital of Novosibirsk, to be reinterred without delay. full article at the Telegraph

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THE discovery of the body of a warrior - thought to have died in battle more than 2,000 years ago - could help archaeologists to pinpoint the site of an ancient Druid holy site, experts said yesterday. The young warrior, aged about 30, with his spear, a sword, his belt and scabbard, stunned archaeologists who found his stone coffin. full article at the Scotsman.com

I don't think anyone disputes that the vikings were there around 1000 AD, the article refers to that stone and that the vikings went inland. However i also didn't understand the "beat Columbus to America by 100-plus years" part. cheers viggen

Scholars who believe the Kensington Runestone is a 19th-century prank -- and not concrete evidence that Norsemen beat Columbus to America by 100-plus years -- say they have found the smoking gun to prove it. The latest in the century-old controversy centered in Minnesota came in documents written in 1885 by an 18-year-old Swedish tailor named Edward Larsson. He sometimes wrote in runes -- an ancient Scandinavian language that differs from the English alphabet. But Larsson's runes were not the usual runes used over the centuries. full article at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The epic romance between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and the Roman general Marc Antony was immortalized on a Roman vase that is now housed at the British Museum, according to an expert in classical art. Susan Walker, former deputy keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities at the British Museum who is now the head of a similar department at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, believes the Portland Vase shows Cleopatra seducing Antony, while cupid and Anton, the son of Greek mythological hero Hercules, look on. Marc Antony's family claimed they had descended from Anton. via Discovery

Here are all the books we listed in the second week of April; First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough Imperial Governor: The Great Novel of Boudicca's Revolt by George Shipway Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture by Harriet I. Flower Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome by Stephen Dando Collins The World of Rome : An Introduction to Roman Culture by Peter V. Jones, Keith C. Sidwell I, Claudius by Robert Graves Roman Remains of Southern France: A Guide Book by James Bromwich feel free to comment or discuss any of those books listed above, has anoyne read one of those already? cheers viggen

Hello Gaius and welcome to UNRV.com! Don't worry about pestering us with roman history question, those are exactly the ones we are looking for to have here! Great to have you on board, and thanks for your kind words about our site. cheers viggen

Two halves of an ancient sculpture have been reunited for the first time in 2,500 years after an international search by a British academic. The stone image of a lion's head once formed the upper portion of a waterspout from the guttering, or sima, of the temple of San Biagio, in southern Italy. full article at The Telegraph

Researchers investigating Italian cemeteries have found further evidence to confirm that syphilis and rheumatoid arthritis plagued the Americas long before the arrival of Columbus. Involving various sites throughout Italy, the study examined 688 skeletons dating from the Bronze Age to the Black Plague epidemic of 1485-1486. The remains were investigated for the presence of bony alterations characteristic of rheumatoid arthritis, gout, spondyloarthropathy and syphilis-causing organisms, called treponemes. via Discovery

An interesting story about Dr. Robort Cohon and his journey to find out the truth about a 7 inches tall barbarian statue. full article at Kansas.com The statue can be seen here

The authenticity of the recently discovered 11th century King Samuil landmark was proven. Eminent Bulgarian scientists executed several tests that proved that the landmark was genuine. It was revealed that the signature that read "Samuil autocrat of Bulgaria" was not engraved at once. More tests will be made to disclose the exact date of the archaeological find. The victorious warrior Samuil who then became Bulgarian king was born in today's Macedonia. That gave reason for contentions that the Samuil state was Macedonian. Some experts say that the new find will disprove all these claims. via novinite

The ancient split between the English and Scots is older than previously thought, an Oxford don said today. Traditionally the difference between the English and Scots, Welsh, Irish and Cornish was attributed to the foreign influence of invading forces such as the Anglo-Saxons, Celts and Vikings settling in different areas of Britain hundreds of years ago. But Professor Stephen Oppenheimer of Oxford University, believes the difference originates much further back in history. In a book tracing humankind from its origins in Africa 80,000 years ago, Prof Oppenheimer develops a theory of the original inhabitants of Britain. full article at the Scotsman.com

Some info about it, http://www.unrv.com/government/caesar-augustus.php cheers viggen

Here are all the books we listed in the first week of April; The Skystone by Jack Whyte The Severans: The Changed Roman Empire by Michael Grant The Government of the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook by Barbara Levick The Complete Roman Army by Adrian Goldsworthy feel free to comment or discuss any of those books listed above, has anoyne read one of those already? cheers viggen

ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Germany have described a Roman weapons dump discovered near the city of G

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Here are all the Legion Ranks http://www.unrv.com/military/legion.php cheers viggen

Hello Roman Legion and welcome on board! Could you please tell us which units you already know? cheers viggen

Something came up, and i only could go yesterday. I must say it just shows that you have to see it for yourself to judge properly film critic mean almost nothing. I neither passed out or found it an orgie of violence nor did i find any suggestion of anti semitic portrayal, to be honest i "enjoyed" (not sure if this is the correct word) watching it, it was a special movie and the speaking of aramaic and latin gave it a much more authentic touch. The torture was at times really heavy and nothing for the faint hearted. The only critizism i have is that Pilatus was not portrayed correctly, i believe he would have never made such a fuss about trying to defend him, but that's just my opinion. Overall, it is not your regular movie, but worth while watching, time went by very quick and it makes you think....