Page ref: 00001 Welcome to The book of Roman arms and armour BEGINNER'S GUIDE An FAQ, a quick look at Roman military equipment in the form of a 'virtual book', and an introductory bibliography INTRODUCTION About ARMAMENTARIVM and how to use it ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks to those who helped, contributed, and sponsored CONTENTS The contents page: your gateway to ARMAMENTARIVM INDEX A dedicated search engine which functions in a similar way to a book index GLO ...

R. Thorpe, Context Transformation of a Roman Hot Bath in Beirut WHICH WAY IS UP? CONTEXT FORMATION & TRANSFORMATION: THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF A HOT BATH IN BEIRUT R. Thorpe, Archaeological Collaboration for Research and Excavation (ACRE) INTRODUCTION The following paper narrates the stratigraphic sequence within one room (Room 11) of an Imperial Roman and Byzantine bathing complex (Building 709) partly within the excavation limits of BEY 045, excavated in the Downtown area of central ...

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About Scotland4 pages on Hadrian's Wall Hadrians wall One of the greatest monuments to the power - and limitations - of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall ran for 73 miles across open country. Why was it built? At the time of Julius Caesar's first small invasion of the south coast of Britain in 55 BC, the British Isles, like much of mainland Europe was inhabited by many Celtic tribes loosely united by a similar language and culture but nevertheless each distinct. He returned the next year ...

Agriculture in the Roman empire INTRODUCTION ["The Archeology of the Roman Economy". by K. Greene, pp. 67-94. 1986 by the University of California Press.] Almost everywhere a large part of the population was engaged in agnculture at a relatively low level, while industry depended on a backward technology and was rarely organised in large units. Ancient historians are unanimous in accepting the importance of agriculture in the Roman empire, to the extent of contending that it was ...

The Horace's Villa Contents Page Sponsored by The Steinmetz Family of Los Angeles The Samuel H. Kress Foundation The Creative Kids Education Foundation This Web site presents Horace's Villa near Licenza, Italy and our project jointly undertaken there in the period 1997-2001 under the institutional sponsorship of the American Academy in Rome, UCLA, and the Archaeological Superintendency for Lazio of the Italian Ministry of Culture. The project is made possible by the generou ...

Janiculum Mills Excavations Roman water-mills on the Janiculum Hill, Rome Background At the invitation of the American Academy in Rome, and with the kind permission of the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, a 5-week excavation season was undertaken in June and July 1998 to investigate the Aqua Traiana and a large Roman water-mill complex in the Academy's parking lot, on the Janiculum Hill in Rome. The 1998 season was funded by the American Academy, the Packard Foundation and the Crav ...

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The Philodemus Project Mount Vesuvius as seen from the North side of the Bay of Naples. Herculaneum is at the foot of the mountain, toward the left. In the left middle-ground is the Castel dell'Ovo, constructed in 1154 on the island of Megaris, where the first Greek settlement at Naples, 'Parthenope', was founded; in Philodemus' day Lucullus had his villa on this island. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., it buried two towns. One of these was Pompeii, now amon ...

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Metallurgy in Roman Catalonia Prof. Dr. José Remesal Rodríguez (UB) Porf. Dr. J.M. Prado Pozuelo (UPC) Main investigators: Julia Simón Arias (U.P.C.), Pérez Suñé J.Mª (U.B.), Juana Gómez Sánchez (U.B.) Financing organ: Universitat de Barcelona One of the research programs in the Ancient History Area, of the University of Barcelona, Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology Department, has as an objective the determination of the organization of the production and commerce of iron obj ...

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Cheap Web Hosting | Free Web Hosting | Credit Card Offers | Web Hosting | Free Web Space | Web Hosting | Advertise Search the Web The Romano-British Amphora Trade to 43 A.D: An Overview James McKeown January 1999 Ancient Europe was a place quite different from that which is familiar to modern Europeans. The European hinterland - Gaul (roughly modern France), the British Isles, and the vast stretches of what is now Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, etc.- was peopled ...

The eastern cemetery of Roman London: analysis and publication project Publication of Roman burials, particularly those in large urban cemeteries, has often lagged behind their excavation, and they have therefore been relatively unstudied by comparison with cemeteries of other periods. An opportunity to redress this balance has arisen for Roman London. Between 1983 and 1990 11 excavations and watching briefs took place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, immediately to the east of the mode ...

The University of Michigan sponsored excavations at Karanis from 1926 to 1935 and the objects recovered during these are the largest component of the Kelsey's collection. As shown by the images below, a tremendous range of material had been preserved at the site. Currently, university classes such as Roman Art and Archaeology and Egyptian Art and Archaeolgy make use of this resource during hands-on sessions with a limited number of the more durable objects. We hope to increase students' understa ...