Mon, 14 Jan 2008
Empire and underwear
Here's a good article from the Daily Mail on the Vindolanda Tablets, personal letters to and from Roman soldiers stationed on the northern border of ancient Britain.
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Wed, 05 Dec 2007
The Roman Law Library
A huge compendium of original sources and commentary on ancient and medieval Roman law. O for more time.
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Mon, 29 Oct 2007
What's the Latin word for haggis?
A second-century Roman tombstone has been discovered near Carberry in Musselburgh, East Lothian, east of Edinburgh. (Is that the right way to specify a town? Here in the States we'd just give Town Name, State.)
Coverage in The Scotsman here and here; there's a small picture of the tombstone in the BBC report. Here's a website devoted to Romans in Scotland.
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