September 25, 2012

Follow the Anglesey Road

From the Daily Post: ARCHEOLOGISTS will follow a buried Roman road in the hope they will find an ancient fort. The Gwynedd Archaeology Trust completed a major dig at the Tai Cochion site near the village of Brynsiencyn, Anglesey, 18 months ago. They discovered the site was an important Roman village with the remains of…

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September 25, 2012

JOB: Latin Lit @ UIUC

seen on the Classicists list The Department of the Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor with a specialization of Latin prose literature. Successful candidates must conduct independent research, perform academic duties associated with our BA, MA, and PhD programs, and teach effectively at both the…

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September 25, 2012

Podcast: The Roman Conquest of Spain

Another one from Ancient Warfare Magazine: The Roman conquest of Spain 218 BC – 24 BC

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September 25, 2012

In Explorator 15.23

Forgot to post this the other day: ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ A major Roman mosaic find from Antiochia ad Cragum: http://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/artsatunl/1473/8558 http://www.livescience.com/23250-enormous-roman-mosaic-found-farmer-field.html http://phys.org/news/2012-09-crews-uncover-massive-roman-mosaic.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E8FgKVR7ow (video) http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/09/18/enormous-roman-mosaic-found-under-farm\ er-field/ http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/uon-cum091312.php http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49064354/ns/technology_and_science-science/ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120918083903.htm http://news.discovery.com/history/roman-mosaic-field-120918.html http://phys.org/news/2012-09-crews-uncover-massive-roman-mosaic.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/19/roman_empire_mosaic_turkey/ … while a Hellenistic mosaic find from southern Italy didn’t get quite as much coverage: http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2012/09/20/Hellenistic-mosaic-fo\ und-southern-Italy_7504984.html Reiterating…

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September 25, 2012

‘Dieing’ to Know the Ivory

From the BBC: A scientific study on an ivory Roman gaming die found in Gloucestershire has ended a 40-year mystery. The small cube was found in Frocester near Stroud in the late 1960s but until now the type of ivory was unknown. Dr Sonia O’Connor from the University of Bradford has carried out tests at…

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