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The find, dated to the 4th to 6th century CE, contains over 100 silver objects, including Roman and Pictish vessels, bracelets and brooches, and Roman coins. “This exciting new find is part of a broader phenomenon of hacksilver hoards which stretch across Europe from the 4th to 6th centuries, when the Western Roman Empire was in decline,” said Dr Gordon Noble of the University of Aberdeen, who led the fieldwork as part of the Northern Picts project. ...full story at Sci News

According to the University of Bradford, scientific evidence of frankincense, as well as other mystery resins, has been found on skeletons and caskets for the first time at Roman burial rites in Britain. Only wealthy Romans settled into areas of Britain such as York and London more than 1,500 years ago, and this is the first time it has been possible to prove that they used the expensive resin in funeral services. Researchers at the University of Bradford found the expensive resin on four fourth century Roman caskets, as well as on the bones of the deceased who lay inside. What originally looked like dust, and of little interest, turned out to be something much more... ...read the full article at the New Historian

Book Review by Caldrail Imagine yourself two thousand years in the future, looking back to the twenty-first century as a student. Given how little information survives that length of time, and how difficult it is to preserve the digital information we rely on nowadays, what would a student of the future think of us? Now that we live in what might easily become a "2nd Dark Age" in two millenia, what conclusions would we derive from scraps of archeology and history? A porno DVD? One of those explicit scrawlings on the wall of a factory urinal? A grim warning in a newspaper about STDs? Anyone would think we were all obsessed with sex... ...continue to the full review of Rome the Perverts Delight by Joe Medhurst

Hello Babylon Baby, depends where you live, some of those channels do show documentaries on their website (BBC for sure), probably is that they are always geo location based, so someone from outside the UK does not have access (legal, there are ways around though)

I wish they would put so much effort and creativity to get me to my capital city, never mind to the moon... (looks like in a few years it will be faster to get to the moon than to the next town) ...or how is your local public transport situation?

...oh you bastard...

...if it is any good, would you care to write a review for UNRV?

...you are already famous, you are a Lord, and every publishing house i ever contacted for you adressed you with that title, right?

...hey, i met my dream woman on the internet, unfortunately not a dating site so i have no experience in that and appreciate your insight. I met her at a "boring" website about Roman History, if i wanted i could not recreate that lead up to the point were we finally met on this website, sometimes Cupid shoots his arrows to strange places ...

thanks, pretty interesting list

File Name: City of God by Augustine of Hippo File Submitter: Viggen File Submitted: 02 Dec 2014 File Category: Free Classic Works in PDF De Civitate Dei (full title: De Civitate Dei contra Paganos, translated in English as The City of God Against the Pagans) or The City of God is a book of Christian philosophy written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century AD. The book was in response to allegations that Christianity brought about the decline of Rome and is considered one of Augustine's most important works, standing alongside The Confessions, The Enchiridion, On Christian Doctrine, and On the Trinity. As a work of one of the most influential Church Fathers, The City of God is a cornerstone of Western thought, expounding on many profound questions of theology, such as the suffering of the righteous, the existence of evil, the conflict between free will and divine omniscience, and the doctrine of original sin. The sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410 left Romans in a deep state of shock, and many Romans saw it as punishment for abandoning traditional Roman religion for Catholic Christianity. In response to these accusations, and in order to console Christians, Augustine wrote The City of God, arguing for the truth of Christianity over competing religions and philosophies and that Christianity is not only not responsible for the Sack of Rome, but also was responsible for the success of Rome. He attempted to console Christians, writing that, even if the earthly rule of the Empire was imperiled, it was the City of God that would ultimately triumph. Augustine's eyes were fixed on Heaven, a theme of many Christian works of Late Antiquity, and despite Christianity's designation as the official religion of the Empire, Augustine declared its message to be spiritual rather than political. Christianity, he argued, should be concerned with the mystical, heavenly city, the New Jerusalem—rather than with earthly politics. The book presents human history as being a conflict between what Augustine calls the City of Man and the City of God, a conflict that is destined to end in victory for the latter. The City of God is marked by people who forgot earthly pleasure to dedicate themselves to the eternal truths of God, now revealed fully in the Christian faith. The City of Man, on the other hand, consists of people who have immersed themselves in the cares and pleasures of the present, passing world. Click here to download this file

@guy that was not bad indeed!

French and Italian archaeologists digging out a pottery workshop in Pompeii have brought to light 10 raw clay vases, revealing a frozen-in-time picture of the exact moment panicked potters realized they were facing an impending catastrophe. The vases were found sealed under a layer of ash and pumice from Mount Vesuvius' devastating eruption of 79 A.D. and it appears they were just ready to be fired... ...via Mashable

Hidden under the vegetation and crops of the Eria Valley, in León (Spain), there is a gold mining network created by the Romans two thousand years ago, as well as complex hydraulic works, such as river diversions, to divert water to the mines of the precious metal. Researchers made the discovery from the air with an airborne laser teledetection system... ...via Science Daily

Tea, thats so british..., in Austria the Poltergeist would take coffee...

File Name: THE WORKS OF LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA File Submitter: Viggen File Submitted: 22 Nov 2014 File Category: Free Classic Works in PDF There are 70 surviving works attributed to Lucian He wrote in a variety of styles which included comic dialogues, rhetorical essays and prose fiction. Lucian was also one of the earliest novelists in Western civilization. In A True Story, a fictional narrative work written in prose, he parodies some of the fantastic tales told by Homer in the Odyssey and also the not so fantastic tales from the historian Thucydides. He anticipated "modern" fictional themes like voyages to the moon and Venus, extraterrestrial life and wars between planets, nearly two millennia before Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. His novel is widely regarded as an early, if not the earliest science fiction work. Lucian also wrote a satire called The Passing of Peregrinus, in which the lead character, Peregrinus Proteus, takes advantage of the generosity of Christians. This is one of the earliest surviving pagan perceptions of Christianity. His Philopseudes (Φιλοψευδὴς ἤ Ἀπιστῶν, "Lover of Lies or Cheater") is a frame story which includes the original version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice. In his Symposium (Συμπόσιον), far from Plato's discourse, the diners get drunk, tell smutty tales and behave badly. The Macrobii (Μακρόβιοι, "long-livers"), which is devoted to longevity, has been attributed to Lucian, although it is generally agreed that he was not the author. It gives some mythical examples like that of Nestor who lived three generations or Tiresias, the blind seer of Thebes, who lived six generations. It tells about the Seres (Chinese) "who are said to live 300 years" or the people of Athos, "who are also said to live 130 years". Most of the examples of "real" men lived between 80 and 100 years, but ten cases of alleged centenarians are given. It also gives some advice concerning food intake and moderation in general. Lucian's Kataplous or Downward Journey was deathbed-reading for David Hume and the source of Nietzsche's Übermensch or Overman. There is debate over the authorship of some works transmitted under Lucian's name, such as De Dea Syria ("On the Syrian goddess"), the Amores and the Ass. These are usually not considered genuine works of Lucian and normally cited under the name of Pseudo-Lucian. The Ass (Λούκιος ἢ ῎Oνος) is probably a summarized version of a story by Lucian and contains largely the same basic plot elements as The Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses) of Apuleius, but with inset tales and a different ending. Click here to download this file

...well a member of UNRV posted a while back his thesis on him, (and some more) very fascinating, hope that helps http://www.unrv.com/academia/mommsen-pan-german-unity.php

...interesting developement.... from end of October... Scientists have been trying to decipher the mysterious "Phaistos Disk" ever since the 4,000-year-old clay disk was discovered in 1908 on the Greek island of Crete. But no one seems to have been able to translate the mysterious language inscribed on the disk, which dates back to 1700 B.C. and the height of the Minoan civilization -- until now. Dr. Gareth Owens, who has been studying what he cheekily refers to as the "first Minoan CD-ROM," has figured out not only what the language sounded like but also some of the meaning it conveys, Discovery News reported. "In collaboration with John Coleman, professor of phonetics at Oxford, we spent six years producing the best possible reading," Owens, a linguist researcher with the Technological Educational Institute of Crete, told The Huffington Post in an email. ...how it suppose to sound... ...and opposing views... Last month, Dr Gareth Owens, a researcher at the Technological Educational Institute of Crete, claimed to have cracked the code of the enigmatic Phaistos Disc, a 4,000-year-old artifact containing strange inscriptions found in 1908 in a palace called Phaistos on the island of Crete, but has he really solved the mystery? “Suggested decipherments are many,” writes Yves Duhoux, on the decipherment claims of the Phaistos disc. The majority of decipherment attempts assume that the text is phonetic. That is, each of the symbols have a particular sound, and the sounds string together to form words. However, the ancient idea of reading was often entirely different from ours – the idea being one of reading symbolic forms – and symbols have a whole sense on their own. Symbols combine together to convey more intricate ideas. This pattern is found in the most ancient Egyptian writings, and in the ancient Chinese writing. The sounds of the symbols have evolved through history, in Chinese for instance, while the symbols themselves have retained an analogous sense.

...well maybe some one in the social media knows... i asked around...

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Tim Copeland is no stranger to publishing. He has authored a few dozen pamphlets and books on a variety of archeological subjects within Britain and Wales that range in size from two to 200 pages. He taught archeology at the University of Bristol and Gloucestershire and served as Chairman of the Council of Europe’s Cultural Heritage Committee and Council for British Archeological Education Committee. Britain, Scotland, and Wales provided a rich and abundant treasure trove for Roman archeologists and enthusiasts. These areas were occupied for over 300 years by Romans and their non-Roman Auxiliaries. Scotland had a Roman presence from 71 AD to 213 AD, Britain from 43 AD to 409 AD, and Wales from 48 AD to 383 AD. Scattered throughout the countryside are hundreds of Legionary Marching Camps, Legionary Forts, Vexillation forts (part of a Legion), Auxiliary forts, and fortlets.... ...continue to read the full review of Life in a Roman Legionary Fortress by Tim Copeland

yeah that makes more sense that this is Gladiator related...

Yup, really looking good and the trailer want to make me play, http://www.unrv.com/forum/topic/17894-rome-total-war-attila/