The coins of the Empire far away...
- In Russia, near the city of Tula, 140 Roman bronze coins have been found, 1,000 kilometres from the border of the Roman Empire.
In other places they have found much larger, high-quality sets. But the coins have been found 1,000 km from the Empire’s border and are also manufactured in Antioch, almost 3,000 km from Tula. That's what surprised researchers.
The experts at the Culikovo Pole Museum do not believe that the Romans have a commercial interest in these areas and have the hypothesis that it was the salary of a barbaric mercenary hired by the Romans to preserve their borders.
This winter the archaeologists of the INRAP (National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research) have found a special necropolis in the historic centre of Auxerre (French State), a Roman cemetery for newborn babies or stillbirths. - Oh, good! The necropolis used between... [+]
Rome, a.C. 443. Censors were elected for the first time. Two centuries later it would be the most important magistrature of the Republic. Every five years, they chose two censors among consular senators.
It was a position of great responsibility: they were primarily responsible... [+]
It has been considered that the wine drank by the ancient Romans was a poorly made wine, without body and with an unpleasant taste. But the work that researchers at the universities of Ghent and Warsaw have published in Antiquity has provoked the withdrawal of this belief.
The... [+]
To analyse the political situation in today ' s world we often do not use the history of the Roman era. I guess it will be because it seems too old and too far away. Moreover, among such different things, we find it difficult to empathize with the history there... [+]
