Germany

  • Back in September, we were pondering some new evidence that Caesar’s troops may have been in Germany (Evidence of Caesar’s Troops … In Germany?) and it never did seem to make it to the English press. Now, however, a blog put out by the publishers of Ancient Warfare Magazine put out a nice summary (with…

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  • This one seems to be just filtering out to the English press … the most coherent so far is News.com’s coverage: THE remains of a Roman military camp in Germany have been linked to Julius Caesar, making it the oldest Roman site in the country. The ruins, near the present-day town of Hermeskeil in western…

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  • This just in … the Local seems to be the first off the mark with reports of the news conference mentioned in our previous post on this: Hessian Science Minister Eva Kühne-Hörmann on Thursday presented fragments of a 2,000-year-old bronze equestrian statue of Roman Emperor Augustus found recently in a stream near Giessen. “The find…

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  • Statue of Augustus

    I’m pretty sure we’ll hear more about this in the coming days, but just in case we don’t … from the Local: Archaeologists in have discovered fragments of a 2,000-year-old bronze Roman equestrian statue of Emperor Augustus in a stream near Giessen, the Hessian state science ministry has announced. “There has never been a find…

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