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R.S. Gompertz first novel, No Roads Lead to Rome, is now available as an e-book... ...for a limited time (offer ends Monday July 05) he is offering it for free to our members!!! If you are interested, visit Smashbooks (free registration at their site) click "add to car"t and then enter the code HY82D (not case sensitive) at checkout for your free download. The download is then available in formats like, HTML, PDF, MOBI (for Kindle) and many more... A quixotic saga steeped in humor and history, "No Roads Lead to Rome" chronicles the clumsy schemes of the new governor and his shadowy advisor, a superstitious centurion's struggle to save his faith in the faded ideals of the Republic, and a Jewish rebel's reluctant vow to change the course of history. All are pitted against the Gods, the Emperor Hadrian, and the decline and fall of damn near everything. Mysteriously promoted, a senator

How often did you go to a museum or to an archaeological site taking pictures and wished you done a better job in taking those photos/videos. Thanks to producer Peter Melaragno who was so kind to provide us some help you might just take your next pictures with a bit more confidence! A good result with a camera (whether with a still or a video camera) requires that you make an effort to find a camera that has as much manual control as possible, and that you understand how to use it. POINT-AND-SHOOT has it place

We are happy to announce that Duckworth Publishers Bloomsbury Academic is giving away one copy of - Spectacle in the Roman World by Hazel Dodge to one lucky member. This book offers an introduction to the main forms of spectacle in the Roman world (human and animal combat, chariot racing, aquatic displays), their nature, context and social importance. It will explore the vast array of sources, from literary to archaeological material, that informs the subject. It will examine the spectacles with special emphasis on their physical setting, and will also consider the variation in the provision of venues and their context across the Empire. A final section will review the modern reception of Roman spectacles, especially those involving gladiators. Hazel Dodge is Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology, Trinity College Dublin. She is author (with Peter Connolly) of The Ancient City (1998) and editor (with J.C.N. Coulston) of Ancient Rome: The Archaeology of the Eternal City (2000). All you have to do is to reply to this mail, confirming that you are interested. The winner will be chosen randomly from all replies, deadline is the 20th of August 2010 13th of February 2011 All you have to do to enter the draw is to post here cheers viggen

I shot an email to the University in Mannheim (who done the research on those mummies), maybe they tell us the secret .... btw. if you live in California you can actually see some of the german mummies http://www.mummiesoftheworld.com/press-releases.html The three-year tour – poised for record-breaking attendance – will visit museums and science centers in six other prominent cities in the United States. The journey commences this July 1 in Los Angeles for the exhibition's world-debut. cheers viggen

When they died, Germany noble families of the 18th century did what the Egyptians had done before them: They had themselves mummified. As an increasing number of such well-preserved corpses are found, scientists are trying to find out why. Baron von Holz had a difficult lot. During the Thirty Years' War, von Holz fought in the Swedish army as a mercenary, but he was not granted a hero's death on the battlefield. He was cut down, rather less heroically, at the age of 35 by either the flu or blood poisoning. And it was only in death, that his situation really improved. His family dressed his mortal remains in precious calf-leather boots with nailed soles. The warrior was then laid out in a kind of luxury crypt under the castle of Sommersdorf near Ansbach, in modern-day Bavaria. In those vaults von Holz's corpse was privileged with an honor previously reserved primarily for Egyptian pharaohs: His body did not decompose... ...read the full article at Der Spiegel

According to a Jan. 1, 2010 BBC news article, by BBC News science reporter, Paul Rincon, "DNA analyzed from early European," scientists have studied and extracted DNA from the remains of a 30,000 year old European cave man who hunted wild mammoths in the region of Kostenki, Russia about five to ten thousand years before the last ice age began, at a time when Russia was warmer than it is today. Also, in another study, scientists found that about 4 percent (from 2% to 5%) of Europeans, East Asians, Papua-New Guineans, but not any Africans, have inherited Neanderthal genes, at least traces of them. The prehistoric man is known as the Markina Gora skeleton... ...read the full article at AllVoices.com

hehe, well Honduras is out... boy what a game between germany and england, the first 45 minutes was one of the most entertaining half i have ever seen... and sorry england but "Vorsprung durch Technik" and a blind referee, you can`t beat that (ask the germans "hello wembley 66") cheers viggen

I am not sure this is known by many, but here in carinthia (and also in gaul, and in the balcan) the celts worshipped in pre-roman times a mother goddess called Noreia, (Noreia's name can be derived from the reconstructed proto-Celtic lexical elements: *n

i fixed the link (was broken), fascinating find Melvadius, makes me little proud of my fellow austrians, here the official site (although hasn`t beed updated in a while) http://www.auaris.at/html/index_en.html cheers viggen

Here is an interesting document about monetary supply in Noricum... (including pictures of Norici coins) The coinage of the Norici, which was established about 130 BC is, as mentioned above, a silver one following

finally a place that doesnt have baby and brothel in the headline... Discovery of babies' skeletons exposes the dark side of life in Roman Britain, According to records kept by Alfred Cocks, the early 20th-century excavator of the site, there were originally 97 skeletons. However modern archaeologists have so far only located the stored remains of 40. The English Heritage examination has revealed that those 40 were probably all newborn babies.

Archaeologists have discovered evidence to support the theory that St Peter was imprisoned in an underground dungeon by the Emperor Nero before being crucified. The Mamertine Prison, a dingy complex of cells which now lies beneath a Renaissance church, has long been venerated as the place where the apostle was shackled before he was killed on the spot on which the Vatican now stands. It been a place of Christian worship since medieval times, but after months of excavations, Italian archaeologists have found frescoes and other evidence which indicate that it was associated with St Peter as early as the 7th century... ...read the full article at the Telegraph

i am busy reading a book in german about romans and celts in Noricum, because i have never seen a book about that topic in english, to me it seems as if for the english speaking world the romans in the alps never existed

Book Review by Ursus Damn those Zombies! Who among us, I ask, have not suffered at the hands of those miserable undead! Well, our Roman forebears knew how to deal with this scum: with fortitude and steel! You see, when I had first heard of De Bello Lemures, I scoffed. I rarely read fiction - why bother with tales of fancy when living history is so much more interesting? But fiction it ain't, my friends. While mistakenly dismissed as a cheeky, postmodern adventure tale, De Bello Lemures is instead a letter to the emperor Commodus by a ranking military general who observed the first historical rise of the zombie threat... ...read the full review of De Bello Lemures by Thomas Brookside

Thomas Brookside is giving .PDF format preview of the first four chapter of his upcoming book, The Last Days of Jericho, just click the link and let us know what you think.... cheers viggen

almost, centurion marco, but what about the Romans, they got beaten by the marcomanni

Separation between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens might have occurred 500,000 years earlier The separation of Neardenthal and Homo sapiens might have occurred at least one million years ago, more than 500.000 years earlier than previously believed after DNA-based analyses. A doctoral thesis conducted at the National Center for Research on Human Evolution (Centro Nacional de Investigaci

A large ancient building located under the St. Nedelya Cathedral in downtown Sofia might turn out to be a palace of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, according to Bulgarian archaeologists. The building might also turn out to be the ancient thermae, or public baths of the ancient Roman city of Serdica, today

as far as i know there is no copy and paste ability on the Mac, there is a notes and highlight feature on the PC, not sure if the MAC has that...

Once you downloaded the kindle App for the device of your choice, there are hundreds of free books to download, here some that you maybe always wanted to read but never got around to do... Dracula [Kindle Edition] FREE The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [Kindle Edition] FREE Treasure Island [Kindle Edition] FREE cheers viggen

Wow, what a finish, USA in extra time the winning goal to become winner of their group, ahead of england....

Book Review by Ursus In our intellectual lives we are Greeks, in our spiritual lives Hebrews. Or so the claim is made when speaking of the Western tradition owed to the Ancients. Carl J. Richard agrees with these assessments, but adds that it was the Roman Empire which filtered and facilitated both the Greek and Hebrew legacies to the nations of the West. Along the way Rome managed to add its own native embellishments to the tapestry of history. Richard provides a decent enough overview of The Eternal City's contributions to posterity.... ...read the full review of Why We're All Romans by Carl J. Richard

facinating, even more at the Telegraph Archeologists also found an early image of Christ, a painting of a naked Daniel with lions at his feet and a sketch of Jesus raising Lazarus, wrapped in mummy-like white bandages, from the dead.

The oldest known icons of Jesus Christ