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Britannia 
- Well-organised gazetteer and bibliography of the Roman army in Britain, by Peter Green. Maps, photographs of selected sites. Typology, organisation of the Roman army, terminology.
- http://www.castra.org.uk/Britannia.html
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Lacus Curtius - Bill Thayer's extensive collection of materials on ancient Rome. Includes a gazetteer of sites in the Roman Empire with annotated photographs of Roman monuments, classical texts and 19th-century archaeological and topographical works.
- http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/
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Roman Chariotway Outflanked Modern Road - From the Gardian, archaeologists have unearthed a Roman "motorway" wider than the A road which runs along the same route today. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,805049,00.html    Bones Discovery Lifts Lid on Roman Secrets - From the Leicestersher Mercury, secrets of Roman Leicester have been uncovered at the Newarke, where 31 bodies have been unearthed from an ancient cemetery. - http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=42626&command=displayContent&sourceNode=42317&contentPK=3117928 Ancient Roman Cosmetic Cream Unearthed - From New Scientist, stunningly well-preserved cosmetics canister, containing a white cream, has been unearthed at the site of an ancient Roman temple in London. - http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3994 Roman Mosaic Treasure Unearthed - From the Telegraph, dazzling Roman mosaics have been discovered by archaeologists on the site of an ancient villa in Sicily. - http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/10/wvilla10.xml Roman Towns Project - Southampton University investigates the context of the Roman towns sites of southern Spain, taking the known sites of Seville Province, Andalucia, as a case study. - http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/Research/Seville/ Roman Open Air Museum Hechingen-Stein - A reconstructed Roman Villa Rustica from the 1st to the 3rd century A.D. Description of the site, walking tour and panoramic views. - http://www.villa-rustica.de/ Praetoria Agrippinae Roman Information Site - Describes the excavation of the castellum at Valkenburg (Praetoria Agrippinae) in Holland, with many detailed pictures, distribution maps, and searchable databases. - http://www.xs4all.nl/~pragris MAV - Virtual Archaeological Museum - Will offer a tour of an exhibition dedicated to the ancient cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii. Includes details of the exhibits. [Italian and English] - http://www.capware.it/libro.htm Lucus Augusti: The Sacred City of Augustus - The city played an important role as a religious centre as the sacred city of Augustus in the Callaecia. - http://www.arqweb.com/lucusaugusti/ingles.html Lepcis Magna - The Roman Empire in Africa - Dr Hafed Walda reports on the latest excavations of this amazingly preserved Roman city on the North African coast, a UNESCO World Heritage site. - http://www.alnpete.co.uk/lepcis/ Karanis: An Egyptian Town in Roman Times - The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology describes the discoveries of the excavation by the University of Michigan 1924-1935 of this village inhabited from the 3rd century BC to the 5th century AD. - http://www.umich.edu/~kelseydb/Exhibits/Karanis83/KaranisExcavation/KaranisExcavation.html A Gazetteer of the Roman World - This section of Bill Thayer's huge Lacus Curtius site provides many photographs of cities and monuments of the ancient Roman world, some with detailed commentary. - http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/ The Egnatia Way - Devoted to the ancient roman road through the Balkans via Egnatia and to the ancient landscape of Albania, Macedonia and Greece. (English, Italian, Macedonian and German) - http://www.viaegnatia.com Ancient Vienne - The French Ministry of Culture provides a virtual visit to the Roman city: model, plans, photographs and description. Also a guide, bibliography and visitor information. - http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/vienne/en/ Ancient Spice Route Between Egypt and India - Popular Science reports that archaeologists have unearthed at Berenike on the Red Sea the most extensive remains to date from sea trade between India and Egypt during the Roman Empire. - http://www.popular-science.net/history/india_egypt_trade_route.html See You at the Spa! - A re-analysis of Roman Bath's iconography led Martin Henig to envision the spa as a place used both by Romans and aspiring native Celts. Article in Archaeology. - http://www.archaeology.org//online/news/bath.html The Roman Roads - The oldest road map in existence - Peutinger's Tabula, a 12th-century copy of a Roman road map. Each section is accompanied by related links. - http://www.romansites.com Roman Glassmakers - Re-creations of Hellenistic and Roman 'cast' mosaic glass vessels by Mark Taylor and David Hill, with discussions on ancient glassmaking techniques - http://www.romanglassmakers.co.uk Roman News and Archeology - A blog presenting roman acheology news. - http://www.fr-novaroma.com/Archeology/ The Roman Roads in the Mediterranean Region - History, geography and tourist information. Includes photographs of archaeological sites. - http://www.viadomitia.org/ Stoned in the Eastern Desert - Romans would go to any lengths to keep the empire's subversive elements out of the way, even cutting 30-meter granite columns on a mountain, reports Jenny Jobbins in Al-Ahram Weekly. - http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/610/trav2.htm Roman Ceramics - An index of Banassac Samian ware by Allard Mees, with bibliographies and links on Samian, Roman brick, amphoras, Corinth ceramics, Megarian bowls and terracottas. - http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~rzentral/anadecom/newhome.htm Roman Medical Instruments - An online display of ancient Roman surgical instruments excavated from the House of the Surgeon at Pompeii. - http://www.med.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/antiqua/instru.html Potsherd - Online atlas of Roman pottery in Britain and western Europe, listing the wares by class or source, from Paul Tyers, author of Roman Pottery in Britain. - http://www.potsherd.uklinux.net/ |
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