A year ago, I published a review of Tom Parker’s book, The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan: Final report on the Limes Arabicus Project, 1980-1989. This was published in the journal Near Eastern Archaeological Society Bulletin, volume 52, pp. 58-60.…
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Hadrian’s Wall is perhaps the best known (and arguably the most important) ancient roman monument in Britain. This article is the first installment in a planned series of at least 20 articles that will describe the Wall and its associated…
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Hexham Abbey
On Wednesday, 22 October, there was a Northern Roman Frontier Seminar (NRFS) meeting in Hexham. I became aware of this just a few days before the seminar, and am grateful to the organizers that I was allowed to attend…
On Tuesday, 7 October, the Archaeology Department at the University of Durham took it’s taught postgraduates on a day-long field trip to Hadrian’s Wall and Corbridge. As a new postgraduate, I was on this trip and enjoyed it thoroughly, despite…
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In an interesting new study, French researchers
found that people who live in lands conquered by the Roman army have less protection against HIV than those in countries they never reached.
This is based on some fairly extensive DNA testing across Europe,…
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