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Comment by Chris on December 26, 2017 at 12:01pm

The Domus as in Domicile looks nice. A lavarium doesn't count as Indoor plumbing as a lavatory does today.

Comment by Stephen on December 24, 2017 at 1:30pm

The Roman Domus
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The Roman Domus was much more than a place of dwelling for a Roman familia. It also served as a place of business and a religious center for worship. The size of a Domus could range from a very small house to a luxurious mansion. In some cases, one domus took up an entire city-block, while more commonly, there were up to 8 domus per insula (city-block). All Domus were free-standing structures. Some were constructed like modern-day townhouses with common walls between them, while others were detached.
Because safety was a primary concern in ancient Rome, Domus did not face the streets. Similarly, there were rarely outside-facing windows for this reason, but most Domus did have two front rooms open to the street. Some families ran their own stores from these rooms, while others leased them out to others.

Read more= https://www.ancient.eu/article/77/the-roman-domus/?utm_content=buff...

Comment by Stephen on December 15, 2017 at 8:05am

Archaeologists unearth record of ancient Assyria’s demise

A team of archaeologists excavating at the site of Ziyaret Tepe in southeastern Turkey have discovered a rare and unique cuneiform tablet — one that tells a story of frustration and desperation expressed by an ancient Assyrian official, providing a glimpse of conditions in the Assyrian Empire just before its collapse in the 7th century, B.C.

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2018/article/archaeolog...

Comment by Stephen on November 30, 2017 at 9:31pm

First evidence for Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain discovered

UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER—The first evidence for Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain has been discovered by archaeologists from the University of Leicester. The findings will be explored as part of the BBC Four's Digging For Britain on Wednesday 29 November.

Based on new evidence, the team suggests that the first landing of Julius Caesar's fleet in Britain took place in 54BC at Pegwell Bay on the Isle of Thanet, the northeast point of Kent.

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fall-2017/article/first-eviden...

Comment by Stephen on November 15, 2017 at 1:09pm

Byzantine military inventors perfected Greek Fire, a combustible liquid like napalm that could be hurled at enemy ships (or lobbed against land armies as hand grenades).Madrid Skylitzes (12th century) / Wikicommons

The Hidden Science and Tech of the Byzantine Empire

Posted By Anthony Kaldellis on Nov 15, 2017 

Nautilus |

Byzantine civilization, the eastern Roman empire whose capital was at Constantinople, is mostly known today for its spirituality and eccentricities, including the spectacular church of Hagia Sophia (a feat of Roman engineering), glittering mosaics, sombre but colorful icons, ambitious bishops, bizarre holy men, intriguing eunuchs, and the massive amounts of gold that its emperors had at their disposal before western Crusaders and then the Turks destroyed the empire in 1453 A.D. This romantic image has long catered to western audiences and markets alongside the pejorative (and unfair) usage of “Byzantine,” for unnecessarily complicated systems that work through intrigue, evasion of responsibility, obfuscation, and backstabbing.

Philoponos rarely receives credit for this breakthrough, made over one thousand years before Galileo.

Read more-  read:http://nautil.us/blog/the-hidden-science-and-tech-of-the-byzantine-...

Comment by Chris on November 13, 2017 at 9:21pm

LONDON, ENGLAND—The remains of a Roman temple dedicated to the bull-slaying god Mithras,

Does the museum of archaeology have a reproduction of the Brazen Bull torture and execution device?

Comment by Stephen on November 12, 2017 at 7:30am

Roman Mithras Temple Reconstructed in London

(Courtesy Museum of London Archaeology)

LONDON, ENGLAND—The remains of a Roman temple dedicated to the bull-slaying god Mithras, which dates to the third century A.D., are set to be reopened to the public in Bloomberg's new European headquarters, according to a report in The Guardian. Mithraism was a cult religion devoted to Mithras practiced across the Roman Empire from about the first to the fourth centuries A.D. and was especially popular among soldiers. While their beliefs and rituals remain largely a mystery, followers of Mithraism had a complex system of initiation and met in underground temples called mithraea, many of which survive. The London Temple of Mithras was first discovered in 1954 and, for a time, was partially (and poorly) reconstructed for visitors on a nearby car park roof. Now in its original location, the mithraeum will be displayed alongside artifacts uncovered at the site. To read more about Roman Britain, go to “The Wall at the End of the Empire.”

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6090-171110-london-mithras-temple

Comment by Chris on November 3, 2017 at 3:46am

That shouldn't be suprising considering Egypts Valley of the Kings.

Catacombes of Paris and ancient Rome are interesting.

Comment by Stephen on November 2, 2017 at 7:39pm

Archaeologists discover mysterious void deep within Great Pyramid of Giza

Muon-detecting sensors have revealed a huge cavity hidden within the pyramid – the first major structural find since the 19th century

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/02/archaeolgists-disco...

Comment by Chris on October 29, 2017 at 12:14pm

Interesting maps of North America and Mexico showing tribal nations prior to contact with Europeans.

The Map Of Native American Tribes You've Never Seen Before.

Finding an address on a map can be taken for granted in the age of GPS and smartphones. But centuries of forced relocation, disease and genocide have made it difficult to find where many Native American tribes once lived.

Aaron Carapella, a self-taught mapmaker in Warner, Okla., has pinpointed the locations and original names of hundreds of American Indian nations before their first contact with Europeans.

As a teenager, Carapella says he could never get his hands on a continental U.S. map like this, depicting more than 600 tribes — many now forgotten and lost to history. Now, the 34-year-old designs and sells maps as large as 3 by 4 feet with the names of tribes hovering over land they once occupied. 

"I think a lot of people get blown away by, 'Wow, there were a lot of tribes, and they covered the whole country!' You know, this is Indian land," says Carapella, who calls himself a "mixed-blood Cherokee" and lives in a ranch house within the jurisdiction of the Cherokee Nation.

For more than a decade, he consulted history books and library archives, called up tribal members and visited reservations as part of research for his map project, which began as pencil-marked poster boards on his bedroom wall. So far, he has designed maps of the continental U.S., Canada and Mexico. A map of Alaska is currently in the works.

What makes Carapella's maps distinctive is their display of both the original and commonly known names of Native American tribes, according to Doug Herman, senior geographer at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

 

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