Archive for the 'Rome' Category
Roman ships by the (half) dozen
I am not really into boat and ship archaeology; I have based the following on the blog by Peter Alaca (http://groups.google.com/group/sci.archaeology/browse_thread/thread/29c4a2423d95c5ed), with corrections and additions based on newspaper coverage.
During archaeological research at De Meern (part of the large-scale suburban development Leidsche Rijn, west of Utrecht), a wreck has been found of a hitherto unknown type of Roman ship. The excavated remnants show strong [...]
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O tempora, o mores
I quote from a BBC News item (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7473303.stm): ‘Jack Straw has said laws in England and Wales to let witnesses give evidence anonymously will be rushed through Parliament as this was “an emergency”. The law lords’ ruling last week that defendants needed to know who was testifying against them has already led to one £6m [...]
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Rome’s poor
Not every poor inhabitant in Rome spent his time at the games munching his free sandwich. The burial site of Ponte Galeria, excavated during the past year, has provided paleopathologists with a lot of evidence showing the back-breaking toil of those buried there, probably working in Ostia’s harbour. The Associated Press news item: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hKvgUclxefB2iLkkRP6K-nzmlSKQD916P4HG0.
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Caesar surfaces, or did he?
There are now hundreds of references on the web to the discovery of a supposed bust of Julius Caesar, announced two days ago. Most of these are variants on the text distributed by the Associated Press. In fact, the bust was found between September and October 2007 in the River Rhone by divers of the [...]
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Gianni Alemanno, only just elected mayor of Rome, immediately made headlines by announcing his attention to remove the Ara Pacis Museum, a modernist structure by Richard Meier, only openend in 2006, after an outlay of millions and 10 years of work (for several months for several years I have been working my way around hoardings [...]
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Hadrian at the British Museum
In case you missed previous announcements (I did; this uncoming exhib was pointed out to me only today by Paulien Retèl when we happened to discuss Hadrian): there is what looks like a marvellous exhibition entirely dedicated to the emperor Hadrian (117-138) in preparation at the British Museum. It is titled Hadrian: Empire and Conflict, will open on [...]
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