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Same story as this :http://www.unrv.com/forum/topic/16149-altar-to-jupiter-unearthed/

To be clear, I never actually used the practice workbook that one can optionally buy with the textbook. I just used the textbook. As far as the textbook, I greatly enjoyed it and I stand by my review. But I have not done anything Latin related in the several years since the review and have forgotten some of the details. I can probably read some simple sentences, but don't ask me to do anything more.

The Getty Museum has added a new partner in its expanding cultural accord with Italy -- the city ofRome. The museum said it has signed a bilateral agreement with Rome's Capitoline Museums to create a framework for the conservation and restoration of artworks as well as future exhibitions and long-term loans. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-getty-museum-cultural-exchange-agreement-with-rome-20120812,0,1843698.story

If you were called Sacratus, Constitutus or Memorianus, and had some bad luck in Roman Kent, archaeologists may have discovered why. A "curse tablet" made of lead and buried in a Roman farmstead has been unearthed in East Farleigh. Inscribed in capital letters are the names of 14 people, which experts believe were intended to have bad spells cast upon them. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19267181

The love of learning?

A complete Roman altar, the first to be uncovered since 1870, has been found on Camp Farm in Maryport. The altar, discovered by Beckfoot volunteer John Murray, has lain buried for uo to 1,600 years. Tony Wilmott, site director of the Maryport excavation, said that it was the most exciting find he had known in 42 years as an archaeologist and 25 years working on Hadrian

An archaeologist in Northumberland has uncovered more of a Roman water system first found by his grandfather. Dr Andrew Birley and a team of volunteers have been excavating land surrounding Vindolanda fort just south of Hadrian's Wall. The project to discover and record the pipework at the fort near Hexham was started 82 years ago. The team has identified the spring-head and piping system used thousands of years ago. During an excavation in 1930, led by Prof Eric Birley, an area of the Vindolanda site became flooded and not suitable for further investigation http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-19164918

update on same subject: http://www.theage.com.au/world/sea-gives-up-a-portrait-of-ancient-rome-20120807-23sdr.html

Over the past decade, there's been a revival in popular histories of ancient Rome; not the academic tomes once reserved for specialists and students, but books and movies designed for the rest of us. Anthony Everitt has written three biographies about some of the major players in ancient Rome: Cicero, Augustus and Hadrian, all full of intrigue and treachery. His latest book is called The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire. It traces Rome's 800-year transformation from a small market town in the hills into a world power moving well beyond the confines of the city. http://www.npr.org/2012/08/05/157668413/a-story-of-ancient-power-in-the-rise-of-rome

In November 2011, when Chris Birks Archaeology excavated a trial trench in Great Ellingham, Norfolk, on the site of a future housing development, little did they know that they were about to uncover one of the biggest Romano-British burial sites in the region. http://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/news/roman-cemetery-discovered-in-great-ellingham.htm

Archaeologists have found something "interesting" and "perplexing" at a Roman dig in Alderney. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-19027764

Early Christian graves have been found in the archaeological dig at Camp Farm, Maryport, next to the foundations for a large building identified in the 2011 excavation season. The site overlooks a nearby Roman fort and settlement. http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/june-2012/article/dig-reveals-early-christian-cemetery

Several metal archeological objects and over 280 silver coins were discovered by archeologists on the track of the future Sibiu

The beer is made from einkorn wheat, a single-grain species that has followed humankind since we first started tilling the soil, but which has been neglected for the last 2,500 years. http://sciencenordic.com/brewing-stone-age-beer

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2012/luxury-food-and-pampered-pooches-in-iron-age-britain

Caesar and Augustus come immediately to mind. Actually, if there is a decent biography of someone - anyone - written in the last 20 years or so, and the proposed new biography adds little to what is already known, I'm not sure what it would bring to the table.

A Roman symbol of fertility found near Selkirk, shaped like an eagle emerging from a flower with a berry in its mouth, highlights the discoveries made in Scotland in this year

What I want to know is if the game is a little more historical. Is Rome a united faction, or is it still split into three ahistorical mafia families?

An international team that includes scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has published a reconstruction of the climate in northern Europe over the last 2,000 years based on the information provided by tree-rings. Professor Dr. Jan Esper's group at the Institute of Geography at JGU used tree-ring density measurements from sub-fossil pine trees originating from Finnish Lapland to produce a reconstruction reaching back to 138 BC. In so doing, the researchers have been able for the first time to precisely demonstrate that the long-term trend over the past two millennia has been towards climatic cooling. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120709092606.htm Yeah, I saw a National Geographic article a few years back that claimed global warming actually saved us from another Ice Age.

This thread about religion is truly miraculous: it has resurrected Cato. Oh, come now, we've had plenty of Caesar=Jesus posts over the years. Admittedly, this could be moved to the Temple Folder. Moderators ....?

A passion project from superfans and amateur chefs Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer

A huge area of land which was swallowed up into the North Sea thousands of years ago has been recreated and put on display by scientists. Doggerland was an area between Northern Scotland, Denmark and the Channel Islands. It was believed to have been home to tens of thousands of people before it disappeared underwater. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-18687504

Someday you can get a free online certificate from Harvard (but not a degree). So how many of you would take the classical history, archaeology and language courses? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18191589 The online courses are promised to be as rigorous as anything else from MIT or Harvard - but successful students will get a "certificate of mastery" and not a degree or any formal university credit. It's being set at arm's length from what's on offer for the paying customers.

That was the god Quetzalcoatl: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/487168/Quetzalcoatl I tend to think whatever historical truth behind the myth doesn't involve the Roman Empire.

Too cool not to post: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18334106