July 2, 2010
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Here’s an incredibly interesting followup to that purported brothel/infanticide story from t’other day which likely isn’t going to make it beyond the local press: A ROMAN woman living around 150-200 AD has become the earliest named Buckinghamshire resident ever to be recorded, Archaeologists say. Siitomina, who is thought to have lived at the Yewden Villa…
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The BBC seems to be first off the mark with this one, and it will likely be picked up: Archaeologists in Herefordshire have uncovered the remains of what could possibly be a female gladiator. Amongst the evidence of a Roman suburb in Credenhill, they have found the grave of a massive, muscular woman. She was…
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ante diem vi nones quinctilias ca 68 A.D. martyred soldiers of Rome