ROMAN FORT ENVIRONS GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY AT TRAWSCOED ROMAN FORT AND ERGLODD FORTLET
The 2006 surveys were carried out using a Bartington Grad601 dual gradiometer which consists of two gradiometers working in tandem. These instruments detect variations in the earth’s magnetic field caused by the presence of iron in the soil.
A glimpse of teenage life in ancient Rome
Welcome to the world of Lucius Popidius Secundus, a 17-year old living in Rome in 73 AD. His life is a typical one of arranged marriages, coming-of-age festivals, and communal baths. Take a look at this exquisitely detailed lesson on life of a typical Roman teenager two thousand years ago.
An Iron Age Temple Dedicated to Lug?: The henge at Lismullin, County Meath
This paper suggests that this Iron Age enclosure may have been connected to worship of the Celtic God Lug.
Forerunners of the Hattusili-Ramesses treaty
The Hattusili-Ramesses treaty is known from two main sources. These are texts in Egyptian hieroglyphs preserved on the walls of the temple of Amun at Karnak and of the Ramesseum, and of some fragmentary cuneiform tablets in Akkadian, discovered at the Hittite capital of Hattusa, the modern site of Boghazk
High society and lower ranks in Ramesside Egypt at home and abroad
This brief study simply explores mainly nooks and crevices, even curiosities, in the richly varied canvas of life in Egypt and its Near Eastern links in the 13th century BC, besides historical sidelights of wider significance.
Roman Thoughts, Ideas, and Practices of Pregnancy
Given the pressure placed on Roman men and women to continue their blood lines, their cultural beliefs and practices surrounding the production of offspring are particularly interesting for classical historians.
Memoria Romana: Research on historical and cultural memory in ancient Rome
Memories are not stable, but change over time. This is true not only of autobiographical memories for events from our past, but also for the collective memories of cultures. Bringing together various approaches, including from the social sciences and neurosciences, Prof Dr Karl Galinsky and his colleagues shed light on the variability of memories that characterised ancient Rome.
Little women: gender and hierarchic proportion in Old Kingdom mastaba chapels
In an initial attempt to investigate what variations in comparative scale meant to the ancient Egyptians who created and viewed Egyptian art, I have considered the limited case of the wife represented with her husband in reliefs and paintings in his tomb chapel.
The Administration of Egypt in the Old Kingdom The Highest Titles and their Holders
The purpose of this book is to study a group of the highest civil administrative titles of the Old Kingdom from the standpoint of the memphite region.
Family Values in Ancient Rome
The Roman father was a powerful type, because he possessed almost unlimited powers within the family, according to later Roman law. He had the power of life and death over his children, meaning that at birth he could choose to raise them or kill them, and later he could punish them by execution.