You might enjoy Mary Beard on the proposed disappearance of Britannia from a coin.   more »

However, by the close of the second century AD and early part of the third century, the Empire’s monetary policies were playing havoc with the Empire’s agriculture production. These monetary problems were nothing compared to what transpired when weather became a factor after 235 AD and the end of Severan dynasty.   more »

...is already being seen by many as the definitive account of the fate of Judaism in the Roman Empire.   more »

NAUGHTY goings-on in the Roman Empire are the subject of a pantomime by a popular local amateur group at Claines Church Hall, Cornmeadow Lane from Monday, February 11.   more »

A previously unknown Roman fort has been found at Calstock in Cornwall, one of only a handful of sites giving evidence of Roman presence in the county, and the first found close to a silver mine.   more »

"We don't add stones, only point them," one of them said. "If we didn't repair it, it wouldn't be here, would it? You'd be selling pieces in America on eBay."   more »

Michael Schumacher racing a Roman chariot, Zinedine Zidane in unlikely Egyptian garb kicking a ball -- "Asterix at the Olympic Games", France's biggest-budget movie ever, was designed with a bit of magic Gallic potion to please any audience.   more »

Visiting the world’s most popular archeological site in the height of the summer holidays should have been sheer lunacy. But we went late in the afternoon.   more »

Book published to accompany the revival of the Latin Mass   more »

I will republish the comment integrally, and then refute the historical inaccuracies and misconceptions therein attested; numbers inserted in the text correspond to the points of my commentary.   more »

Mary Beard writes an appreciation of the work of an American professor (we noted her death here.)   more »

I have some sympathy with this correspondent from Dublin, where I enjoyed my first Latin lessons...   more »

Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley, is out on February 7, published by Profile Books. It is Radio 4 Book of the Week starting on Monday.   more »

The ancient Romans may have mastered the art of building impressive aqueducts to deliver water across their empire, but modern day Italian engineers seem to be struggling with water retention, a study shows.   more »

Following last year's Europa Universalis III, Paradox Interactive is due to take a trip back in time for the fourth incarnation of this classic strategy game. Ancient Rome is the new destination for a series which has traditionally been set during the Early Modern period, so will a couple of millennia make all the difference?   more »

Because pupils 'do the Romans' in Primary School, the emphasis is on 6 sites suitable for these ages.   more »

I haven't read the posts carefully, but at first glance they seem to be sound.   more »

The Romans followed the world’s oldest sea trade route from the 3rd Century B.C.E., till the 7th Century C.E., though their trading activities with India began to decline from the end of the 1st Century C.E. They came in search of textiles, gemstones, spices, ivory, sandalwood and the exotica of the East, not least its wealth of fauna. They brought with them coral, wine, silver and gold.   more »

"Our feedback since it was published shows that it has helped the Buried under Bidford project to reach young people which is the only way to safeguard its heritage long term."   more »

The French production, Asterix at the Olympic Games has just hit the theatres. The French language film premiered in Athens, the birthplace of the Olympic games.   more »

Turkey is the birthplace of Homer, the land where were first heard the verses 'Menin aeide, Thea Peleiadeo Achileos oulomenen ' and 'Andra moi ennepe, Mousa polutropon os mala polla'   more »

... she was a gardener and a scholar of ancient gardens. She knew more about the gardens of Pompeii than perhaps any person since the residents themselves were buried under 15 feet of Vesuvian ash nearly two millenniums ago.   more »

Caius Julius Caesar, the epileptic son of an undistinguished patrician family, shook Europe to its core and shaped humanity’s future for at least two millennia.   more »

Deputy town clerk Steve Newman said: "It's at an early stage but the idea is to raise the profile of the town's Roman sites by having a festival.   more »

These glimpses into the life of a Roman soldier in Britain will form the central exhibit in a new British Museum show devoted to the Emperor Hadrian, who ruled from AD117 to 138 and visited Britain in 122.   more »

The 50ft long and 10ft high reconstruction is opposite Corbridge Roman site in Northumberland and near the spot where the ornate stone bridge spanned the river.   more »

I am an English teacher working in Hong Kong and was recommended to contact you by Richard Ashdowne of the Oxford Classics faculty. For the last couple of years I have been introducing a few interested students here to Latin as an extra-curricular activity and I am writing to ask if you would be able to help in publicising work I have been doing to support beginners' use of the Helsinki Nuntii Latini site   more »

Casablance is one of my favourite films, and the song "As Time Goes By" is one of the reasons. I'm not sure I could sing along to these Latin words, but see what you think.   more »

Residents in Llanwrtyd Wells – the self-confessed “wacky capital of Wales” – will don togas and drape themselves in laurels for a Gladiator-style chariot race.   more »

A nice video - good quality- of what happened between the finding of the coffin and the lifting of the lid, including explanation of the difficulties, infra-red photography of the inside,   more »

Sponsored by BP Plc, ``Hadrian: Empire and Conflict'' (July 24 - Oct. 26) will feature some 200 loans from 31 countries and take place in the British Museum's specially refitted circular Reading Room.   more »

Some audio on GCSE Latin texts produced for Camden School for Girls has been generously put on line here:   more »

The copper lamp - depicting the face of a wild, violent and drunken nymph - in the shape of a female head was found by a metal detectorist near Tadcaster.   more »

Nearly 103,000 visitors took in the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s recently closed exhibit “Roman Art from the Louvre,” setting an attendance record for a traveling exhibit at the IMA.   more »

A virtual reality show, where visitors control avatars who wander around the Via Flaminia as it may have once been, has opened in Rome.   more »

Barbarians is a solid documentary mini-series. It’s more educational and fairly balanced than the majority of similar expeditions into the past. You’re guaranteed to learn something new that will solidify in your mind that history, no matter how twisted it might be, can find a way to be truthfully uncovered and displayed to the masses.   more »

The slide show is here.   more »

The 24-Hour Roman Reconstruction Project traces the built evolution of the ancient capitol from 753 B.C. to A.D. 410. Working with salvaged building supplies and an archive of reference material, participants (a.k.a. you!) from a variety of backgrounds will recreate the major monuments and public buildings in historic order.   more »

Around 150 coins have so far been unearthed in the run-up to work on the new Gainsborough Hotel and Thermal Spa.   more »

Just heard that Simon Goldhill is to be talkling on Start the Week (BBC Radio 4) next Monday.   more »

Nancy Erickson teaches Latin at University Preparatory School in Redding, where all students are required to take at least one year of the language. The following is an excerpt from a recent conversation.   more »

Children who attend independent schools are more likely to benefit from Latin lessons than their state-educated counterparts, the findings of a new survey have revealed.   more »

This is just one article in a large site which might prove useful for pupils.   more »

If you don't mind visiting a freemasonry site, you'll find two nice photos of mason's tools here.   more »

An ancient Roman pan, which was made sometime after AD 122 but was only uncovered in 2003, is to go on display at Arbeia Roman Fort on Saturday January 5 2007.   more »

"For the past 200 years the real story of this ancient town, destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79, has been kept from public view."   more »

I was at a very pleasant birthday party last night. The birthday girl is a cellist friend with whom I have given a few concerts, and the party included some live music from her and from a Dutch cellist over for a few days.   more »

Will Griffiths has released the good news, and it has been taken up by:   more »

BBC News carries an item which points out that although Latin is now being taught in twice as many state schools, the lack of teacher training courses is hampering schools who want to offer Latin at exam level.   more »

Work is underway on a new Roman style garden at the museum, inspired by gardens from around the Roman Empire with traditional elements such as pergolas, ornate raised flower beds, box hedging and frescoes.   more »

It has been suggested that someone might like to make the case for Latin in   more »

I received the following question today and do not know the answer:   more »

AN unexpected historical discovery has been made at Scottish Water's site at Glencorse, near Penicuik — a Roman marching camp nearly 2000 years old. The revelation has provided another clue as to how the Romans organised their occupation of the Lothians.   more »

Latin would be the only language that European schoolchildren need learn   more »

A certain Mike Duncan has been putting on line 'a weekly podcast tracing the history of the Roman Empire, beginning with Aeneas's arrival in Italy and ending (someday) with the exile of Romulus Augustulus, last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.'   more »

My recollection of Mithraism is hazy. Is this article accurate, or is it spin aiming to belittle Christianity?   more »

But part of precious hoard of Roman gold jewellery and silver spoons that was uncovered at a Thetford industrial site nearly 30 years ago is set to return to its home town for the first time this year.   more »

Rampaging Romans and Irate Iceni - learn about Roman life during the reign of Boudicca - on Friday May 30, 11am- 2pm.   more »