Fall in love Roman-style by playing board games
For ancient Romans, many of the gestures now associated with Valentine’s Day would be unfamiliar, if not completely puzzling. Love and desire were not confined to a single day, nor...Read More >
Roman history
Does BBC Civilisations gets its four stories of collapse correct? Experts weigh in
In four episodes, the BBC’s Civilisations series tells the story of the fall of the Romans, Aztecs, Egypt’s Ptolemies and Japan’s Edo Samurais. The show tells these stories through a...Read More >
Tracing rebellion in the chemistry of Roman coins
Kathryn Murphy, Data Scientist on the REMADE project, explains how the changing silver content of ancient coins tells a tumultuous story of political upheaval in the third-century Roman Empire. In...Read More >
Old school: lessons from the ancient classroom
Children have been getting to grips with reed pens, papyrus and wax tablets in an immersive ancient schoolroom experience conceived by Eleanor Dickey, Professor of Classics. Here she tells us…Read More >