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Rome: Map of Trade Routes Rome Project for 6th Grade Social Studies Welcome This site is a collection of “Rome resources” for the The Dalton School community. Anyone interested in Classical Rome will find this site to be a valuable research tool. As the site is very large, the resources are divided into several categories: (Click on the appropriate button below or on links at right to view desired resource list .) search portal: scholarly, academic research,papers,studies,online journals,ejournals,libraries Custom Search Narrow your Google search to US colleges & universites by adding site:edu to your query term. For Canadian results, try adding site:ca intitle:university instead. Need to find journal articles or scholarly or academic research papers? Need a grammar or usage tune-up for that report, essay, or research paper?
Empire, Oil, and Disaster - blog about my new book The Roman Gladiator: The Rock Star of the Roman Empire A gladiator was a professional fighter who fought other gladiators and even animals in amphitheaters around the Roman Republic and Roman Empire. Gladiators fought for over 600 years of Rome’s history, evolving from modest ceremonial combats into grand entertainment spectaculars, filled with violence and gore. These battles, often fought to a bloody death, were adored by the Roman citizens, as were the gladiators themselves. The word gladiator comes from the Latin gladiatores, or “swordsmen”, taken from the Latin word gladius, which was a short sword used by the legionaries. Gladiators were usually slaves or war prisoners who were bought by a lanista (a manager and trainer of gladiators) in order to be trained as proper gladiators. There were several types of gladiators, who were trained to be proficient in the use of different weaponry, and wore different types of armor (not Roman military armor, but a lower grade, to prevent confusion among citizens between the two classes of men).
Flashcards: The world's largest library of printable flash cards Sword History History of Japanese Swords Oldest swords on record in Japan are the two that were sent as a present to queen Himeko from China during Wei-dynasty in 240 a.d. In 280 a.d. many more iron swords were imported from China to Japan. Sword History It is believed that the art of forging a steel sword came soon after from China and Korea, but the details are unknown. The era of the straight sword lasted until the 8th century. Japanese History and Sword Evolution. Heian Era (794-1184) As emperor Kammu came to power, the capital was moved from Nara to Kyoto. In this era was also created the method of forging a sword with hard outer surface and soft core. This was the era of tachi. During the Heian era two clans, the Minamotos and the Tairas, who rose in power and importance. Kamakura Era (1184-1333) After defeating the Taira clan at Dannoura, Minamoto no Yorimoto – now the de facto ruler – moved his shogunate to Kamakura. Nanpokucho Era (1334-1393) Japanese Sword History Muromachi Era (1394-1595)
International Country Calling Codes and World Time Zones The shock of the old: what the sculpture of Pan reveals about sex and the Romans | Culture | The Observer Nothing is more likely to inspire us to see for ourselves than a warning about the effects of looking. Take the media interest this month when it was revealed that the British Museum's exhibition, Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum, is to include a "parental guidance" notice. The reason? But the news story also exaggerates this censorship. The German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, who visited the palace four times between 1758 and 1767, thought better of being "the first to apply" for a viewing licence, and called the Englishmen who claimed to have seen the piece liars. For anyone still too shy to seek permission or bribe the guard, there were published engravings and photographs. What would the inhabitants of ancient Herculaneum and Pompeii have thought about the fact that, of some 250 objects representing them in the exhibition, which opens on Thursday and runs until 29 September, Pan and the goat should be the trailblazer?
FISH BASED DIETS CAUSE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATING PROBLEMS | Ancientfoods April 3, 2013 by Ancientfoods Above: Burning fish stew and pic 2 the residue Topic: Pottery shards obtain ancient food Some years ago in northern Germany, archaeologist Sönke Hartz carried out excavations at a prehistoric camp-site belonging to the Ertebølle culture, close by the river Trave. During these excavations he discovered an ancient pottery sherd which held remnants of burnt food. “It was an archaeological sensation! Reservoir effect In order to obtain a radiocarbon date, the amount of remaining Carbon-14 atoms in a sample are measured. Hard water contains less Carbon-14 than the atmosphere, because dissolved carbonates are Carbon-14 free. This is known as the “reservoir effect” because the fish’s carbon actually comes from another “reservoir” than the carbon in terrestrial animals from the surrounding area. Variety and size of error surprising “I had not anticipated an error of up to 2000 years,” he said. An added surprise This is real food for thought. Original article: pasthorizons
Down the Drain: Lost Items Reveal Roman Bath Activities Ever go swimming with rings on your fingers or hoops in your ears only to find your jewelry had vanished after your dip? If so, you've got something in common with ancient Romans. A new study of objects lost down the drains in the bathhouses from the Roman Empire reveals that people got up to all sorts of things in these gathering places. They bathed, of course, but they also adorned themselves with trinkets, snacked on finger foods and even did needlework. "For the Romans, the baths weren't just a place to get clean, but this larger social center where a variety of activities were taking place," said study researcher Alissa Whitmore, a doctoral candidate in archaeology at the University of Iowa Down the drain In the Roman Empire era, baths proliferated all over Europe for both military and civilian use. Ancient texts give some clues as to the variety of activities that took place in bathhouses, Whitmore said, but the texts are maddeningly vague on some details. Busy baths Lost jewelry
Archaeologists' findings may prove Rome a century older than thought | World news Rome may be older than its official birthday of 21 April 753BC when founded by Romulus and Remus. Photograph: WestEnd61/Rex It is already known as the eternal city, and if new archaeological findings prove correct Rome may turn out to be even more ancient than believed until now. Next week, the city will celebrate its official, 2,767th birthday. According to a tradition going back to classic times, the brothers Romulus and Remus founded the city on 21 April in the year 753BC. But on Sunday it was reported that evidence of infrastructure building had been found, dating from more than 100 years earlier. The wall, made from blocks of volcanic tuff, appeared to have been built to channel water from an aquifer under the Capitoline hill that flows into the river Spino, a tributary of the Tiber. "The examination of the ceramic material was crucial, allowing us today to fix the wall chronologically between the 9th century and the beginning of the 8th century," said Fortini.