My coauthor and I have been researching the Gallo-Roman horse-goddess Epona for the past few years. We were both interested in researching her history and were frustrated by the lack of information available in English. There is plenty of material in French and German, but very little in English. We’re starting to change this. Yesterday […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On vacation from May 14-25, so not very many posts. Working on research. Tweet
My co-author visited from May 14-25. During that time, we worked on the artifact catalog and on reorganizing and rewriting several pages on the Web site. (Thank you to everyone who provided feed-back. It was very helpful!) The updates are now live. Comments and suggestions are welcome. EPONA.net, A Scholarly Resource Tweet
Don’t know the language? Don’t let that stop you from finding the information you need.
Exciting Geeky news: EPONA.net ranked sixth on a Google search today! Woohoo! Tweet
Back in October, I went to a Roman re-enactment at the Parthenon in Nashville. In addition to the re-enactment, Champion One Productions was filming a trailer for their upcoming film, “The Charioteer.” Quite a few people attended. Some unedited, unlabeled pictures are available. (Some of the images are pretty large.) Several legions were there, including […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is very strange. Epona.net went from being ranked fourth on Google (keyword search for “epona”) to not even appearing in the listings! Apparently, the algorythms used to calculate page rank have been modified again and lots of people have lost their rankings. Now some pages with more misinformation then concrete information about Epona have […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Interesting that so many of the chariot burials found in the UK have been in Yorkshire (19 total, all of them, except for one found near Edinburgh , according to this article). No pictures in the article, unfortunately. 2400 year old grave. Chariot find is a victory for Scots by Martin Wainwright, Thursday March 10, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Excellent Web site with the daily archaeological briefings. Definitely worthwhile reading if you are into archaeology of any era or culture. Archaeological News Tweet
This article indicates that the chariot burial took place about 300 BCE, while the huge feast remais are from about 200 CE, during the time of Roman occupation. The dig originally took place in December 2003 during roadwork on the A1 outside of East Yorkshire. Secret from the Tomb of the unknown warrior Tweet
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