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Traveller's Guide to the Roman Empire
Everything you need to make your way through the vast Roman empire and avoid
its pirates, plagues, fires, conspiracies and, above all, wars.
The Celts
Who were the Celts – a people with a distinctive language and culture
whom the Romans gradually pushed to the western fringe of Europe, or something
more complicated and mysterious?
- Ancient Surgery
Surgery is not a modern phenomenon but has its roots in the ancient world. Developments in India, Egypt, Greece and Rome many centuries ago meant that operations that are common now were also performed then. - Carthage:
A lost empire
Follow the chronology of Carthage and the Punic Wars, find out about life in Carthage and discover why it failed, how it has been remembered and what remains. - Chariot
Race
Great game in which you manoeuvre your Roman chariot round the arena. - Herod the Great
Herod, king of the Jews, is said to have ordered the murder of thousands of babies – the ‘slaughter of the innocents’ – just to kill the infant Jesus. But there is much more to him than this infamous role. - In Boudica's Footsteps
Follow the life of the British queen who rebelled against the Romans. - My Culture Right or Left
Archaeologist Francis Pryor claims that the British did to its colonies what the Romans did to Britain. - Pompeii
and Herculaneum
A timetable of the AD 79 eruption, a chronology of the excavations and much more. - The
Real Spartacus
In the 1st century BC, a slave threatened the power of Rome as his tiny band of gladiators grew into a great revolutionary army. - Roman History: The top 10 sites
Our selection of the very best on the internet about Roman history and culture. - Rome: AD 1
An examination of how Rome became an empire, plus biographies of Vespasian and Cleopatra, a look at life in Pompeii, and a discussion of how paganism yielded to Christianity. - Secret
History: Lost legions of Varus
An account of the extraordinary destruction of three Roman legions in AD 9 by German tribes leads to a discussion of guerrilla tactics throughout history. - The Silk Route
From traders in salt and lapis lazuli 6,000 years ago to the adventurer Marco Polo in the 13th century, merchants and others journeyed to and from China and the Middle East on ancient highways collectively known as the ‘Silk Route’. - Time
Team’s Big Roman Dig
Find out what the team found during a week of excavations, plus lots of good info on life in Roman Britain. - The
Worst Jobs in History: Roman/Anglo-Saxon jobs
When the Romans invaded, they created some truly terrible job vacancies. Later, Anglo-Saxon England offered a new range of equally miserable ways to make a living.
