BBC2 年
What was life like in the Roman army?
A group of Roman re-enactors. The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The ...
BBC4 年
What was life like in the Roman army?
A group of Roman re-enactors. The Roman army was the largest fighting force in the ancient world. It conquered a huge empire that stretched from Britain all the way to the Middle East. The ...
Wall Street Journal24 天
The Ancient Horsemen Who Created the Modern World
For about half the people alive today, the story of where they came from just became clearer. For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ...
来自MSN1 年
This 2,000-Year-Old Roman Helmet Used to Look Like a ‘Rusty Bucket’. Now It’s ...
The cavalry helmet was not alone. Among the artifacts, archeologists recovered a trove of over 5,000 Iron Age and Roman coins, silver bowls, and hundreds of animal bones linked to ceremonial ...
Smithsonian Magazine12 天
Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too
New research suggests that sculptures were perfumed with sweet-smelling fragrances such as rose and beeswax Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked ...
Vengeful ghost cat, divorce lizard, phantom horse: the animals that haunted Ancient Rome ...
The handful animal ghosts in the ancient world are often depicted not as friendly visitors but as mere tools for humans – and ...
PBS2 年
Watering Ancient Rome
Peter Aicher is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Southern Maine and one of the Roman experts who assisted NOVA in the making of the documentary, "Secrets of Lost Empires ...