Bancroft Roman Villa – A surprise!

Me standing in the bathhouse

When you think of Milton Keynes in the UK, you might be forgiven for visualising concrete cows or muttering “new town” to yourself. But the Romans got there well before. Of course they did. 🙂

Bancroft Roman Villa was originally a fairly simple winged-corridor house, but eventually became […]

Amazons: Myth, Fear, and the Long Memory of Warrior Women

Armed Amazon, her shield decorates a Gorgon head; Tondo of Attic red-figure kylix, c. 500 BCE, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Berlin (Public domain)

The Amazons stride through ancient myth with spears, bows, and a reputation that unsettled the ancient world. These warrior women, said to live beyond the edges of the known Greek world near […]

60,000 miles more Roman roads!

Roaman road near Ambrussum, southern Gaul

Scientific journal Nature has just published a high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire by an international group of academics that suggests a much more extensive Road network than we could have imagined.

The new map – an online database called Itiner-e – has been compiled […]