November 13, 2010
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Folks who have been following my antics online for the past couple of decades might recall that once upon a time on the Classics-l list I posted something about divining weather via pig spleens … seems the story is making another round: It’s not the most traditional way of predicting the weather, but one Jamestown…
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Too bad if you didn’t manage to get there for the one or two days the thing was actually open to the public … from the Independent: Scaffolding once again appeared on the Acropolis in Athens Thursday as work resumed after a brief pause on a decades-long restoration project. “New scaffolding has been constructed on…
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From an item in the National last summer: Dr Raymond Murray said the first investigative use of soil analysis by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation was in 1935. But if there is truth in the legend, the FBI was preceded by quite a few centuries by the ancient Romans, who used to look at…
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That so-called ‘Roman Swiss Army Knife’ story was making the rounds again at a couple of sites that I frequent (e.g. Wired, Neatorama) and, of course, it was being Tweeted all over the place as well: 1,800-Year-Old Roman Multitool | Wired Roman Multitool | Neatorama As regular readers of rogueclassicism know, of course, this story…
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Can Computerised Terrain Analysis Find Boudica’s Last Battlefield? We have few details of the native response to the Roman invasion of Britain in AD43, but one episode entered folklore: the rebellion of an East Anglian queen. Steve Kaye thinks he knows how to narrow down the search for the elusive site of Boudica’s last stand.…
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