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send me 3 or 4 photos via email and i post them here. About postrank; Remember we have also a reputation system, So someone with a high post rank but low reputation means nothing, therefor we can handle pretty well the ranks, and might give in future some goodies for certain titles in combination with a good reputation.

Tirones: This level you reach with your first post. Milites: With your 10th post you become this title. Discens: You need 20 post to get this title Immunes: You need 40 post to get this title How long it takes to get to the next rank, well you just have to post to find out! Visit our Legions Page for an explanations on what those ranks mean.

The thread about the roman calendar and the mentioning of astonomy made me wonder how good the romans actually were on this subject, did they just took over from the greek, or did they explore/discover anything noteworthy themselves? Where the romans actually interested in astronomy or was ist just about knowing when the next winter/summer would come. Recent finds show that already the early celts and before had a pretty good concept of stars, the sun and the moon. What about the romans? Most of the time we just here about their conquests, so i would be intrsted about their astronomical capacity. cheers viggen

Deep beneath the cobbled streets of the Scottish capital lies a dank and forgotten realm where prostitutes once rubbed shoulders with body snatchers and the light of day never penetrated. The thousands of subterranean citizens moved out long ago leaving the Edinburgh Vaults underneath the city's South Bridge alone with its multitude of ghosts until it was rediscovered in the 1980s and found new life as a tourist attraction. "There are no written records of who lived in these vaults, although there is ample anecdotal evidence that thousands of people lived and died here, some probably never even seeing the outside world," said tour guide Jim Lennie. full article at Reuters

how big are those images now? btw, congrats on beeing the first Immunes!

Were Calenders on Public Places displayed, like Temples? I mean how did the average person know what day it was? Where there small calenders for the home?

WHEN Paul Atkins began digging a hole in his garden to place a fence post little did he realise the historical secrets he was about to reveal. The hard surface that met the end of his spade was not a large stone but the remains of an entrance to a Roman villa built in the 2nd Century. The find caught the attention of the producers of Channel 4's popular archaeological series Time Team, who spent three days filming there last April. The programme, which looks at the Castle Hill estate in Ipswich - including the Atkins' garden in Tranmere Grove - is screened on Sunday. During excavations, the TV archaeologists uncovered a wall half a metre deep that is thought to have been part of the porch to the villa in the Atkins' garden. full article at East Anglian Daily

As soon as the fortified gate went up 900 years ago, travellers began wedging human teeth and other items in cracks for good luck. Some left handwritten notes, scrawled in an illegible, mystical script, for a saint long since dead. The offerings were found during a five-year restoration of Cairo's oldest gate, Bab Zuweila, in the lively and historic neighbourhood known as Islamic Cairo. full article at IOL

A man unearthed a priceless hoard of 20,000 Roman coins as he dug a new fishpond in his back garden. Experts say the money may date from the 4th Century and could be the biggest find of its kind in Britain. The coins were crammed into a ceramic pot which broke up as it was dug out of the ground at Thornbury, Gloucestershire. full article at the BBC

TheCourier has more about the runic inscription found in Dalgety Bay. with Image!

Opening day of the ancient Greek games was a spectacle to behold, a celebration of the vigor and supercharged competitiveness that infused the creative spirit of one of antiquity's most transforming civilizations. People by the thousands from every corner of the land swarmed the sacred grounds, where altars and columned temples stood in homage to their gods. They came from cities that were often bitter rivals but shared a religion, a language and an enthusiasm for organized athletics. There was no doubt in their minds that the games were as much a part of Greek culture as Homer, Plato or Euripides, and on a summer day at Olympia, perhaps more so. full article at Worldtrek

very nice photos and very good quality indeed, if you ever happen to come across some roman historical sites in Belgium or surroundings and make some photos we are happy to publish them on UNRV (of course giving full credit to you).

When Saladin retook the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem for Islam in 1187,Pope Innocent III declared a new crusade to recapture it. But the crusaders ran into financial difficulties and took advantage of Greek imperial infighting to raise money. The scheme was a disaster, laying Constantinople to waste, gutting its churches and sending many of its citizens into slavery in Europe. The crusaders never went on to Jerusalem, but calcified the mistrust between eastern and western Christendom. full article at AthenNews

The Colosseum will come full circle if one septuagenarian Roman gets his way. Architect Carlo Aymonino wants to rebuild the outer wall of the world's most famous amphitheatre, once rocked by earthquakes and quarried to build other glories in the Eternal City. "It wouldn't be an Italian Disneyland. In fact it would be the exact opposite -- a careful scientifically correct reconstruction," the 78-year-old told Reuters in an interview. full article at Reuters

Yeah some pictures would be nice!

A walker has discovered a mysterious stone inscribed with 1200-year-old Viking graffiti which could provide the first tangible evidence that the fearsome Norse raiders gave up raping and pillaging to live alongside native Scots. Experts believe the palm-sized slate unearthed in a rabbit burrow and carved with runes, an alphabetic script used by the peoples of Northern Europe from the first century AD, could be the work of a Viking raider or a first generation Danish settler. full article at The Herald

HE STOLE into the abbey in the dead of night, intent on stealing a personal memento of Scotland

Archaeologists in western Norway found the remains of a harbor complex built by the Vikings 1,000 years ago - the first of its kind discovered in the country. The ancient harbor complex at Faanestangen, near the west coast city of Trondheim and some 250 miles north of Oslo, was discovered when a local landowner started work on a small boat dock on the same spot selected by his ancestors a millennium earlier. ``This is very special,'' district archaeologist Lars Forseth said Friday. ``Archaeologically, it is a sensation.'' full article at the Guardian

As security improves to allow excavation, evidence may emerge that advanced societies existed in the area much earlier than previously thought, said Dr John Russell, professor of archaeology at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. "A decade of research in Iraq could rewrite the books of archaeology, no question," Russell, who is currently serving as a senior adviser to Iraq's ministry of culture, told Reuters on Thursday at the opening of new conservation and restoration laboratory at Iraq's National Museum in Baghdad. full article at Yahoo

An interesting news story that fits the theme http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=58...19P146&set_id=1

An "exceptional" hoard of buried treasure has been found in Wrexham just two years after another major find of Bronze Age treasure there. The 14 pieces of priceless gold and bronze jewellery and pottery, dating back more than 3,000 years, were found by three metal detector enthusiasts in the last few weeks. Archaeologists are excited about the latest discovery in the area which is also home to the 4,000 year-old gold Mold cape, thought to have belonged to a nobleman and found in 1833. full article at the BBC

A Roman tale of love and romance that took place in Kent in about 200 AD has been unearthed during an excavation. Archaeologists working at the site in Canterbury uncovered the secret of the romance in a grave just as they were about to pack up their equipment. The grave contained a woman's skull as well as the only complete marble plaque ever found in the area. The team said the plaque would have been put beside the woman by her husband as a gesture of eternal love. full article at the BBC

ah thanks for sharing Lynch, anyone else seen it? hasnt opened in austria, so any other comment would hep me in deciding to go or not. cheers viggen

Austrian researchers reported on Tuesday that the gladiators of Ancient Rome were probably fat vegetarians. The Austrian Archaeological Institute is heading excavation work at the gladiator cemetary in the ancient city of Ephesus, which is located on the west coast of today's Turkey. Analysis of trace elements in bones have led to the findings. "First spot probes probably confirm the handed-down story that they nourished themselves as vegetarians", said Karl Grossschmidt of Vienna Medical University institute of histology and embryology. He added that the gladiator cemetary at Ephesus is considered unique in the world, containing the bones of about 70 individuals. But some of the graves had been robbed, and the skeletons were no longer complete. Much of the research so far has focused on studying the bones for evidence of the kinds of injuries suffered by gladiators in the arena. Now, the Medical University and Vienna University institute of analytical chemistry are studying the bones for evidence of what the gladiators ate. "The composition of trace elements in the bones allows conclusions about what kind of nourishment the people mostly took during their lives," said Grossschmidt. The proportions of fish, meat, grain, fruit and berries could be determined. First results indicated that the gladiators' main foods were beans, legumes (vegetables), and certain types of fruit. This filling mixture would confirm the historical accounts that the fighters were obese. To a certain extent, a good layer of fat also gave protection against buffets and blows. However, it is no longer possible to estimate the weight of a person from bones of so long ago, researchers say. The Austrian research has already attracted international interest, with a major London newspaper report about the fat gladiators. Further contributions are planned by British, German and Japanese TV stations. - Sapa-dpa Edited by Tisha Steyn from news24.com

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