Officials in Ostia Antica hope that the decade-long restoration of four dwellings will focus new attention on this once-bustling port west of Rome. read more | digg story Tweet
Here are the image from the article about the restored frescoes in Ostia Antica, Italy. Amazingly preserved. read more | digg story Tweet
Tis the season for this particular season. The finds in the article below are interesting — especially since the finds date to as late as the 1950s. Macabre evidence of age-old spells surfaces in an archaeologist’s front yard. Witchcraft, the rituals of a number of pagan belief systems, was thought to offer control of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Even though this find is later than my own period of interest (100 BCE to 400 CE), there are some interesting elements described. University of British Columbia archaeologists have dug up a mystery worthy of Indiana Jones, one that includes a tomb, skeletons and burial rites with both Christian and pagan elements. read more | […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If the rome had the internet….Hysterical list of what might have happened. read more | digg story Tweet
The History Blog has a good brief peice on the history of Greek and Roman hairstyles. Some good illustrations, too. It never ceases to amaze me that some things in the ancient world are well documented, and others are not. It’s possible to define possible date ranges for Greek and Roman statues based upon depicted […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I read an article in the Boston web site about an additional 209 acres being added to a expand a battlefield park: Saving a Civil War legacy in Shenandoah Valley – The Boston Globe Posted using ShareThis I grew up near Manassas, Virginia, and spent a lot of time on the Manassas Battlefield. The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My friend Nantonos owns a Seleukid coin depicting a mare and foal.
As technology evolves at an increasingly rapid rate, the study of ancient sites is aided by some of its developments. One such tool that has leaped into the hands of Egyptlogists and Archaeologists in recent years is the satellite. A great boon to any study of a site is the ability to view an area […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An international team of archaeologists has uncovered the earliest known evidence of horses being domesticated by humans. The discovery suggests that horses were both ridden and milked. read more | digg story Tweet
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