The Cimbri and the Teutones c.120 BC-101 BC
In 1891, farm workers digging in a peat bog at Gundestrup in the far north of Jutland, Denmark, discovered a...
09/03/2019
Roman Empire
The end of the gladiators
In AD 350 the gladiatorial games were as popular, magnificent and widespread as they had ever been. An unbroken history...
09/02/2016
The African Expedition of Scipio
Nobody probably in the Roman senate doubted either that the war on the part of Carthage against Rome was at...
21/07/2013
Nero, The Emperor
Sumptuously housed on the Palatine Hill—the origin of our word “palace”—is His Highness Claudius Nero, Head of the State, Commander-in-Chief...
20/11/2012
Pictish society
The Romans classified some fifteen tribes in the north and loosely identified the territories they occupied. They also observed that...
09/09/2012
Viminacium – Roman town and military camp
Viminacium, Roman archeological site in Serbia, has been the object of interest of various explorers for centuries. At the end...
21/07/2012
Roman’s “thumbs up” for the death
Neither Roman spectators calling for the death of the gladiator, nor Roman Emperors authorising one, ever gave a thumbs down....
29/05/2012
The Last Druids
In the summer of AD 60, a vast Roman army commanded by the Governor of Britain, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, descended...
27/08/2011
Claudius I – The Wisest Fool in Rome
“What an artist the world is losing in me!” – Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (August 1, 10 B.C.E. –...
26/05/2011