I love when that happens . . . Building site dig unearths Roman pottery fragments Basingstoke Gazette [UK], 29th January 2011 ROMAN pottery and Anglo-Saxon...
Ship Wreck Reveals Ancient Secrets of Medicine It has been more than 2,000 years since a Roman merchant ship foundered off the west coast of the Italian...
Does anyone know of an ancient description of a quinquereme? Pictures would be nice but also a verbal description. I have trireme data....
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Carl Sandler Berkowitz
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Feb 7, 2011 6:59 am
This is an endless debate. And it will probably continue to be a battle until something new and conclusive turns up. Does tri (three) and quinque (five)...
Perhaps the most famous of the Hellenistic-era warships, because of its extensive use by the Carthaginians and Romans, the quinquereme (Latin: quinqueremis;...
Hello, last time I posted there was a member who requested I be not allowed to post due to what he determined as nonsense just to hear myself talk. And he was...
I recomend " The Barbarians Speak , How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe " by Peter S Weller . Also " History of the Goths " by Wolfram , but its a...
... Became to civilized, for the age .. not enough gold,to few left to conquer to diverse in tribal and racial social order. A wonder Rome lasted as long as it...
Thanks for the reference. I had not thought to look there. Interesting. The major "fact" is that they fit in the old trireme sheds in Athens. That would...
For my own satisfaction, I looked up some data. A trireme had 170 oars and a total crew of 200 with 170 rowers and 14 soldiers If one uses Polybios number of a...
More on: Stratford-upon-Avon African skeleton was Roman soldier BBC, 25 January 2011 A 1,700-year-old skeleton shows that people of African descent have lived...
You might want to check out Adrian Goldsworthy's book, The Fall of Carthage. It contains some good information on "fives" or quinqueremes. According to ...
"Quo Vadis" was on TCM today. Peter Ustinov is good as Nero but my favorite is Jay Robinson as Caligula in both "The Robe" and "Demetrius the Gladiator"....
Third-century Roman sculptures discovered PhysOrg.com [USA], February 9, 2011 Archaeologists have unearthed a set of six marble sculptures in Rome that likely...
Will Dholavira ruins rewrite history of ancient theatre? The Times of India, Feb 1, 2011 The 5,000-year-old Harappan ruins of Dholavira in Kutch have the ...
I love when that happens . . . Roman Child's Footprints Found Sky News [UK], February 15, 2011 Two thousand-year-old footprints left by a Roman child playing...
Altar of the Twelve Gods sees the light Kathimerini [Greece], February 17, 2011 Renovation work on the aged Piraeus-Kifissia electric railway (ISAP) on the...
A stone from Roman emperor Diocletian's tomb found Croatian Times, 21.02.11 Archaeologists in Croatia believe they have found a stone from the tomb of the late...
Roman Fish Salting Factory in Denia The Euro Weekly News [Spain], 24 February 2011 FOLLOWING on from the recent discovery of archaeological remains in the ...
Special: Roman sites not looted in Libya The Times [South Africa], Feb 27, 2011 Libyans appear determined to safeguard their rich cultural heritage during the...
