Scientists document ancient baby-killing - Technology & science - Science - DiscoveryNews.com. Infanticide, the killing of unwanted babies, was common throughout the Roman Empire and other parts of the ancient world, according to a new study. The study, which has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Archaeological Science, explains that "until recently, (infanticide) was a practice that was widely tolerated in human societies around the world. Prior to modern methods of contraception, it was one of the few ways of limiting family size that was both safe for the mother and effective. " Based on archaeological finds, the practice appears to have been particularly widespread in the Roman Empire.
"I think it was tolerated in the Roman world rather than something that was completely acceptable, but it's hard to be sure," lead author Simon Mays told Discovery News. Mays, a senior scientific officer for the Ancient Monuments Laboratory of English Heritage, and colleague Jill Eyers focused their attention on Yewden Roman villa, otherwise known as "Hambelden. " Ancient Digger Archaeology: Monday Ground Up: Why was the Roman Empire so long-lived? In a five hundred year span, the Roman Empire managed to rise and fall in tandem, yet with the advent of highly credentialed political leaders and a vision to see the straighter path, the empire grew larger, and the people with it. Never had the western world been more organized and more united. In 100 A.D. you could travel on paved roads from Egypt to France using one currency and only a passport and by 200 A.D. there were over 50,000 miles of roads constructed by the Romans [6].
The vast Roman Empire mustered up the largest army the world had ever seen and its political exploits lay the platform for our founding fathers. In my opinion, Rome’s geographic location and the success of its military encouraged a concentration of politics in the capital, and many experts agree. Augustus was the Roman Empires’ first emperor and was the grandnephew of Julius Caesar and adopted son. Roman roads were sometimes one foot thick and layered, constructed to fit the needs of the Roman army [7]. The Bible and Interpretation - A Critique of Simcha Jacobovici’s Secrets of Christianity: Nails of the Cross. Simcha makes two bold claims to say the least: the first is that the lost nails of Jesus’ crucifixion have been recovered, and the second is an implicit assertion that the IAA covered it up.
Unfortunately for Simcha, his theory has a problem, and its name is Legion, for they are many. Any one of these problems renders Simcha’s theory impossible, and their aggregate renders the theory preposterous. See Also: Pseudo-Science and Sensationalist Archaeology: On the Misuse of Archaeology for Evangelistic Purposes By Robert R. Cargill, Ph.D. Center for Digital Humanities UCLA Qumran Visualization Project UCLA May 2011 Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Late Tuesday night around 11:00 PM during Easter week 2011, the History Channel aired a television documentary featuring a host making a particularly sensational claim about Jesus. First, it is not certain that the tomb discovered by the Israelis in 1990 (and “rediscovered” by Mr. This point is lethal to Mr. Conclusion. Bulgaria to Host 22nd World Byzantine Studies Congress.
Google + A close-up of the Mosaic of the Basilica of San Vitale at Ravenna. The Romano-Byzantine emperor Justinian (r. 527-565) is seen at the center (note halo surrounding his crowned head). Photo from kavehfarrokh.com Bulgaria's capital Sofia will welcome more than 1 000 scholars from around the world for the 22nd International Byzantine Studies Congress in August 2011. The congress also known as "Byzantium without Borders" will be hosted by the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski between August 22 and August 27, 2011. It is organized by the Association of Byzantine and Medieval Scholars in Bulgaria, the Elena and Ivan Duicev Foundation, the History Department of Sofia University, and the SU Center for Slavic and Byzantine Studies "Prof.
The world Byzantine studies congresses take place once every five years, and there is much competition to host them. Bulgaria hosted the 4th world congress on Byzantium in 1934 under the patronage of Bulgarian Tsar Boris III. Marcus Aurelius Quotes on Pain. The following translations of passages related to the topic of pain were provided by Giles Laurén, author of The Stoic's Bible. They are based on the Loeb Classical Edition of the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
Marcus Aurelius describes pain as neither good nor evil, but something that hurts, and hurts without discrimination, yet will end eventually -- even if only in death. Meanwhile you should try to avoid it, which may seem obvious, but since much that we do results in pain, is worth reminders, and if saddled with it, try not to dwell upon it, but instead, be good. Anger makes a better motive...: Theophrastus believed that offences committed through desire are more blameable than those committed through anger. The offence which is committed with pleasure is more blameable then that committed with pain. M.A. 2000-year old Saints’ Bones discovered in Italy - The Ancient Standard. 2000-year old Saints’ Bones discovered in Italy There are many stories and legends surrounding the deaths of early Christian saints. Early saints often came from a variety of ethnic and religious backgrounds. In some cases, their decision to become Christian led to their torture and execution. In other cases, their choice to convert others or (in the case of Saint Valentine) other actions during their lifetime caused them to meet unpleasant ends.
The early saints were killed in a variety of unpleasant ways. According to legend, two early saints named Chrysanthus and Daria were buried alive. Women were given to the priesthood before they entered puberty and were required to remain celibate and serve the priesthood for thirty years. According to legend, Chrysanthus had remained a virgin after his conversion to Christianity despite his father’s attempts to tempt him with prostitutes and other secular pleasures. Chrysanthys didn’t end his converting ways after his success with Daria. Palmyra - Roman Empire Trading Center in the Syrian Desert.
Palmyra was an important trading link between the Roman empire and the ancient civilizations of India and Pakistan, and all points in between. The site is located in what is now the Syrian desert on long-established caravan routes between Damascus and the Euphrates rivers. Fully 200 kilometers from the Euphrates, Palmyra was first occupied during paleolithic times. Beginning in the first century BC, Palmyra was a stopping point for caravans on the shortest route of the Silk Road between Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean. Trade at Palmyra included cloth, oils, salt, spices, perfume, ivory, silk, and glass from far flung places in its trade network. Read more about the Silk Road Romans at Palmyra During the first three centuries AD, Palmyra became an important center under the Romans, who used its location to help them maintain their empire in the region.
Read more about Queen Zenobia, Sue Sefscik at Women's History Hadrian from N.S. Pre-Pottery Neolithic at Palmyra Archaeology at Palmyra. Constantin bets on blockbusters - Entertainment News, International News. Dead Sea Scrolls Made Locally, Tests Show. Proton beams have shed new light on the origin of the longest of the Dead Sea scrolls, suggesting its parchment was manufactured locally. According to a study carried out at the labs of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Catania, Sicily, the 28-foot-long Temple Scroll was made in Qumran, in what is now Israel, in the same area on the Dead Sea coast where the faded parchments were found hidden in caves half a century ago.
The scrolls, a collection of about 900 highly fragmented documents, are considered one of the greatest archeological discoveries of the 20th century. They include the earliest written texts of the Bible and are nearly 2,300 years old. In addition to the biblical texts, the scrolls are filled with apocryphal material and sectarian writings, dating back to between 100-200 B.C. to 70 A.D. "We selected the fragments from the Temple Scroll because they were the cleanest, and would make our analysis easier," INFN physicist Giuseppe Pappalardo said. Oppian, Cynegetica « New at LacusCurtius & Livius. A pair of opisthuretic Dogs going at it It’s been a long while since I’ve put up anything new on the Graeco-Roman section of my site, at least anything of any size or consequence. But American history notwithstanding, I’m still committed to providing crumbs of Antiquity to the numberless eager masses starving to feed on them.
Today’s morsel is Oppian’s Cynegetica, in both Greek original and English translation: nominally a manual on hunting, much of it is in fact a textbook on zoology, frequently cribbing from the incredible, towering genius of Aristotle, but also standing on its own as a good snapshot of what the Mediterranean world knew about animals in the early 3c AD, and so written — it’s poetry, or at least it’s in verse — as to make it a natural ancestor of all those wonderful medieval bestiaries. It’s an interesting book, and worth the trouble of putting up. Still, when I get done, taking it all together, LacusCurtius will have a solid nucleus on ancient zoology.
Like this: A la Madeleine, les jeunes limiers de la nécropole perdue. Une spatule de dentiste à la main, Mathieu, jeune archéologue, gratte la terre. Sur une autre tombe, Laure pousse à l'aide d'un pinceau une pellicule de sédiments, entre deux os. Claire prend en photo la sépulture qu'elle vient de mettre au jour… Depuis février, au carrefour de la Madeleine, à Pezens, au bord de la départementale 6 113, de fins limiers de l'histoire découvrent une nécropole cachée sous une parcelle agricole.
Seules les pluies, début mars, ont perturbé ce travail de fourmi. Le terrain de 1 000 m2 était inondé : l'équipe a dû se consacrer sur un second champ, plus sec, de l'autre côté de la route. L'équipe a jusqu'à fin mai pour mettre au jour les 120 tombes recensées, datées entre le 4e et le 7e siècle, et ainsi mieux comprendre l'histoire du site. Pour cette investigation, une poignée d'employés de la société Acter, sous la direction de Jean-Paul Cazes, s'active.
«Par passion" Sylvain, 23 ans, est tombé dans la marmite il y a dix ans. Les os lavés. Compte rendu de : Nîmes romaine et l’eau. 1L’ouvrage, dans lequel l’auteur a effectué une remarquable synthèse des connaissances sur les travaux d’hydraulique publique et privée, oriente la réflexion sur deux axes complémentaires : d’un côté, l’alimentation en eau, et son corollaire, l’évacuation des eaux usées publiques et privées et, de l’autre, la gestion des flux hydriques en milieu méditerranéen. 2Nîmes romaine est, comme le souligne Philippe Leveau dans la préface de cet ouvrage, la ville de Gaule qui « offre la meilleure possibilité d’observer les installations urbaines de l’eau », voire « l’hydraulique dans sa totalité ». 3Tout d’abord, le sujet principal de l’ouvrage : l’alimentation en eau. 1 FABRE G., FICHES J.
-L., PAILLET J. -L. 4Malgré la régularité de son débit, cette source s’est donc vite révélée insuffisante pour assurer, à elle seule, l’alimentation en eau d’un ville en forte croissance. 5Ensuite, le risque pluvial et l’évacuation des eaux. Eponine et Julius - IN-MEDIAS-RES. Dimanche 8 mai 7 08 /05 /Mai 20:46 Éponine est une jeune femme gauloise de la tribu des Lingons, dans la région de Langres. Elle a vécu au 1er siècle après JC. La Gaule était devenu romaine . Julius Sabinus, son mari , un prétendu descendant de Jules César, s'était révolté contre les Romains qui accablaient la Gaule d'impôts. La religion celte était interdire, les druides des hors-la-loi, Il engagea quelques batailles victorieuse contre les Romains mais fut défait face aux Séquanes, alliés des Romains, Julius dut se cacher dans une grotte souterraine, peut-être aux sources de la Marne, Eponine le suivit dans sa retraite : ils vécurent neuf ans cachés.Elle y a mis au monde des jumeaux.
En 78, Eponine se rendit à Rome pour implorer la grâce de son mari auprès de Vespasien, qui la lui a refusée, La jeune femme demanda alors à l'empereur le privilège de mourir avec son époux, ce qui lui fut accordé, On dit que les jumeaux furent séparés: l'un fut envoyé en Egypte où il mourut, l'autre en Grèce. Vita Romana au Parc archéologique de Bliesbruck - Parc archéologique européen de Bliesbruck-Reinheim, Bliesbruck, 57 - Fête, animation. LES MONNAIES DE PROBUS - Histoire et Monnayage d'un empereur romain (276 - 282 ap. J.C.) Description: Lyon, Novembre- Décembre 276 ap. J. -C., 2ème émission, 2ème phase, 1ère officine. Avers : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
(L'empereur César Marc Aurèle Probus Auguste). Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite vu de 3/4 en avant avec pan de paludamentum sur l'épaule gauche. (Buste Bastien : B). Revers : SECVRITAS ORBIS // I. Poids : 3,44 g - Diamètre : 21 mm - Axe : 6h00 - Références : RIC n°49 - Bastien : n°165 (26 ex). Commentaires : Cette deuxième émission, plus abondante que la première se divise en deux phases successives. La première phase de cette seconde émission correspond à une frappe massive de monnaies sans marque d'officine (Aurei et Auréliani) destinées à un donativum dans la capitale des Gaules en l'absence de l'empereur.
Les monnaies de la deuxième phase témoignent de la créativité de l'atelier, produisant des types de revers innovants. Détail du revers. Vosges Quel était le paysage galllo-romain ? Les Français et l’archéologie : un sondage d’Ipsos sur l’image de l’archéologie - institut de recherches archeologiques. L'Aigle de la Neuvième légion : efficace à défaut d'être intemporel.