In Dr. Gerald Fagan's lecture series, "Great Battles of the Ancient World", he mentioned that at the battle of Asculum where the Romans squared off against the...
I received the latest catalogue of "Great Courses" from the Teaching Company last night and saw that they have added a new course entitled "Classical...
Oh, Oh! It looks like I need to try to find time to visit Atlanta, Georgia soon! "The <http://www.theweekly.com/news/2006/August/02/Imperial_Rome.html> Weekly...
How exciting! Using a new X-Ray technique, scientists have discovered some ancient Archimedes texts hidden beneath some paintings and later manuscripts: BBC...
Today's trivia: The word "umbrella"; comes from the Latin word for shade. Originally, umbrellas were used for sun protection. In earlier civilizations they were...
I love the 1911. But... Does any one know anything to back this up? ... -- ... Tony Dah m Si vis pacem, para bellum - Vegetius Islam religio pacis, nex...
Hello, Everyone, First, Mary, thank you for the link to the Teaching Company and the archaeology course. I have ordered it and am eagerly awaiting the DVDs. ...
Ancient dagger found in Bulgaria By Nick Thorpe BBC News The alloy used suggests sophisticated metal-working skills Archaeologists have discovered a precious...
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Thanks Kim for the interesting information. Do you or anyone else have knowledge of temperature needed to produce "an alloy of gold and platinum"? Sounds as...
Inger, I have no idea how hot the mixture would have to be to be workable. All I know is that even now at the US Mint when a Platinum coin is struck the die...
Dear everybody, As some of you know I work at a small museum in Denmark called the David Collection www.davidmus.dk. Besides a fine collection of especially...
Hello Everyone, Our newest list of titles have been posted for sale under the Recent Acquisitions link at out website, www.ancientworldbooks.com . All titles...
Battle of Pharsalus On August 9 in 8 B.C., Caesar defeated Pompey at Pharsalus, Greece. (This is, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the date according ...
Dogs Disgraced and Geese Honored A Gallic tribe, the Senones, led by Brennus, attacked the Romans under Quintus Sulpicius, on July 16, 390 B.C., at the Allia...
Can anyone tell me what has happened to David Meadows' blog (if that's what its called), Explorator? I haven't seen it since July 16th, so I checked Yahoo and...
Dear Mary, This is what David Meadows write on rougeclassicism: "As mentioned a couple of times by now, we're off to Sicily, and so to keep y'all visiting...
I want to share with the group an excellent book I stumbled across. " A Walk in ANcient Rome" by John T. Cullen The subtitle gives a good idea of the book "A...
just so you all know, the town we're staying in just got an internet cafe type thing in the last week or so ... in this mail account, i've got close to 3000...
David, all, I want to thank all of you, especially David Meadows, for their replies to my query as to what happened to Explorator. You probably posted...
FYI Mary, the one with the cats ... Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:55 AM Archeological collection threatened Embattled Tablets ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine,...
Of course the other solution to avoiding these cases is to not sponsor terrorism. -- ... Tony Dah m Si vis pacem, para bellum - Vegetius Islam religio pacis,...
I think the point is that cultural history does not belong to any one person or government but is a legacy a civilization has left to all humankind who follow....
Am Mittwoch, 23. August 2006 15:53 schrieb P. Dominus Antonius:
> Of course the other solution to avoiding these cases is to not sponsor
> terrorism.
True...
