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In some places you find a copper age (The Chalcolithic period), where "pure" copper is used. The period starts around 6000 BC. Then somebody adds arseníc...
Hello Ian, Before and after Constantine, they continued to use 2-names for themselves in general: "Christianii" and/or "Ecclesiae". These names simply...
Thanks for that link as it explained in detail something I only had a superficial knowledge of. In particular the section where it referred to the dangers of...
I'm not sure. I am not the metalurgist I would like to be. What I do know is when phosphurus is added to the mix, you get a phosphur bronze. Which is malleable...
Taking our tour of Roman provinces further east we get to Egypt. One of the great civilisations of the ancient world yet in the second half of the first...
Welcome to the Imperial Rome group where we discuss just about anything to do with Rome and the cultures that surround her. I hope that you will want to join...
To begin with, we can point out an interesting administrative particularity of Egypt under Roman rule: it was considered as part of the emperor's personal...
In the time of Augustus this extended to include a ban on anyone of senatorial rank being permitted to visit the province. The reason for this apparently was...
Does anyone know much about the early life of Gaius Marius. I know that he was very wealthy, a new man (i.e. the first of his family to be a senator) and of...
I am very aware that relatively few members wish to post and this is of course your choice. However I always wonder if some of the silent majority see a...
The link supplied by Mette has a lot to say about this along similar lines to yourself. Also apart from impurities of the some copper ores and arsenic ores are...
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Indeed: In fact Octavianus has been so clever as to devide the provinces into two catagories: 1)Those which still did need a constant military-defence. 2)Those...
I belong to an Historical Fiction discussion list and one of the members asked this question that I thought someone here might be able to answer: I'm searching...
I'll bet you both are correct. The method of industrial development - in most cases - as framed by James Burke in his Connections Series, was the process of...
Another very clever thing about Imperial provinces was that the various governors were Equestrians not Senators. As such they didn't have the social status to...
Yes it was very clever, but it could be dangerous when there was instability at the top, like during the period of the barrack emperors. Respectfully, Sulla ...
Not being a native-English-speaker Sulla, may I be so free as to ask you what you are meaning with the term "barrack emperors" in your message? Thanks and...
The period of instability that plaged the Roman Empire from the death of Alexander Severus (around 238 if I recall correctly) til the accension of Diocletian. ...
Yes ofcourse I do understand now, Sulla! (Thanks for explaining)... I was only mentioning the very-start of this phenonemon, after Octavianus took-over! ...
Yes I understand....I was just pointing out the potential side effects in such a bureaucratic set up...it only works as long as there is a stable source of...
Copper+Zinc is brass. Lead is added to brass and bronze to increase its ductility. I seem to recall that Romans often used leaded bronze cookingware, which may...
This evening I lost my messages about Egypt for several-times. More-over: I had to JOIN this group as a member again for 2 times, which I did! (This was not...
I had that happen to me the other day, with all my groups. I wonder if yahoo is trying to weed out people that join and then never actually pay any attention...
Yes, some of the earliest "bronze" found in Italy is of this alloy...a number of objects, apparently for ritual use, found in tombs at the site of Buccino were...
Thanks for the letter. I'll be sure to try and post a few things. I guess Ifelt a bit intimidated. Thanks also for your sensitivity in this matter, it's...
Uranium decomposition? I've never heard that before. The thing I do know about copper is its high arsenic content. So somewhere in the process of development,...
