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| Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
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Roman Conquests: Italy by Ross Cowan |
| “Roman Conquests: Italy” is the first book in a new series by history publisher Pen & Sword Books. Ancient Roman military historian Ross Cowan provides a detailed accounting of pre-Republican Roman expansion across the Italian peninsula. More. Labels: book, roman empire, war |
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| Wednesday, October 28, 2009 |
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On This Day in Ancient History - The Milvian Bridge |
| On this day in A.D. 312, the Roman Emperor Constantine was victorious in battle for control of the Western Roman Empire against the Roman Emperor Maxentius. More. Labels: constantine, italy, roman empire, rome, war |
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| Friday, October 23, 2009 |
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Sept 9th, 9 AD : Rome's Greatest Defeat |
| The year was 9AD. Jesus, a young boy, was possibly making his way to Jerusalem with his family. About fifteen-hundred miles away twenty-thousand Roman troops, led by Quinctilius Varus entered a forest called Teutoburg, in what we now know as Germany. That was the last ever heard from Varus and his mighty troops. Twenty-thousand soldiers had mysteriously vanished. More. Labels: roman empire, teutoburg, war |
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| Wednesday, October 21, 2009 |
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Excavations In Iran Unravel Mystery Of 'Red Snake' |
| New discoveries unearthed at an ancient frontier wall in Iran provide compelling evidence that the Persians matched the Romans for military might and engineering prowess. More. Labels: persian, roman empire, war |
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Battle of Teutoborg Forest, AD 9: A Bad Day at the Legion |
| From 9 to 11 September memories of the infamous Battle of Teutoborg Forest in 9 AD were revived, predominantly in Germany, on its 2000th Anniversary. More. Labels: roman empire, teutoburg, war |
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| Friday, October 16, 2009 |
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The Lost Roman Legions |
| Under the leadership of Hermann, the German tribesmen wiped out three Roman Legions, ending Rome's bid to conquer Germany and altering European history permanently. More. Labels: battle, germany, roman empire, teutoburg, war |
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| Monday, October 12, 2009 |
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Piracy in the Early Roman Mediterranean |
| Piracy against the Spanish Empire was not without precedent: it mirrors the piracy in the Roman Mediterranean in the Second Century BCE. More. Labels: boat, roman empire, war |
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| Wednesday, October 07, 2009 |
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Buried Treasure Fills in Ancient Roman Puzzle |
| As civil wars erupted throughout the Roman Republic in the 1st century B.C.E., country dwellers may have fled to cities. Before they left, some people buried their valuables to hide them from looting armies. Now social scientists have studied these ancient stashes, called coin hoards, to answer a long-standing Roman mystery. More. Labels: coin, roman empire, war |
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Large Cache of Coins from Historic Bar-Kokhba Revolt Uncovered |
| The largest cache of rare coins ever found in a scientific excavation from the period of the Bar-Kokhba revolt of the Jews against the Romans has been discovered in a cave by researchers from the Hebrew University and Bar-Ilan University. More. Labels: coin, dig, israel, roman empire, war |
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For Ancient Rome, Buried Treasure Means an Empire in Crisis |
| Historians believe they’re settled a long-running debate over ancient Rome’s population at the turn of the 1st century B.C.E. thanks to stashes of ancient Roman coins. More. Labels: coin, roman empire, war |
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| Tuesday, October 06, 2009 |
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Roman Coin Hoards Show More War Means Fewer Babies |
| Coins buried by anxious Italians in the first century B.C. can be used to track the ups and downs of the Roman population during periods of civil war and violence. More. Labels: coin, roman empire, war |
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| Thursday, September 17, 2009 |
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The Battle of Mons Graupius |
During the first Century C.E. the Roman Empire had expanded to control almost all of Western Europe with only a few territories of interest remaining unoccupied. In the year 78 C.E. the Roman Emperor Vespasian appointed Julius Agricola as Governor in Britain. As governor, Agricola had assigned to him the task of conquering the untamed north and completing the occupation of the remote island. Most of what is known of Agricola’s enterprise in Britain was recorded by his son in law Publius Cornelius Tacitus. Tacitus, for his part, used the narrative of Agricola’s invasion of Caledonia, a region roughly correlating with modern Scotland, to make his own political statement as well as to provide a historical account.
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| Monday, September 14, 2009 |
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Silchester dig hints at a larger Iron Age town |
Renewed excavations at the Roman city of Silchester, near Basingstoke, have shown that the grid-planned Iron Age town discovered last year was much larger than initially thought. Silchester, known as Calleva Atrebatum in Roman times, seems to have been at its largest and most densely populated before its destruction by fire in the later 1st century AD, possibly in the rebellion of Boadicea. FollowingLabels: united kingdom, war |
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| Friday, September 11, 2009 |
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Rome's Defeat in the Battle of Teutoburg Forest |
Two thousand years ago today, one of the most decisive and devastating battles of Roman times was raging at the northern edge of the empire. The Battle of Teutoburg Forest was to have a pivotal effect on Rome's strategy in central and northern Europe and was probably the deciding factor in keeping the empire's boundaries not much further north than the Danube for the following four centuries.
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