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- 1,700-year-old map of Roman roads used for online journey planner
- Ruins of Roman gladiator school found in Austria
- Massive gladiator school is found under Austrian town
- King's College Chapel, Cambridge: 'A gravity-defying hall of light' - video
- Ruins reveal how Roman gladiators won their spurs
| 1,700-year-old map of Roman roads used for online journey planner Posted: 06 Sep 2011 06:54 AM PDT A Dutch historian has used a unique 1,700 year old map of Roman roads to create an online journey planner giving the destinations, distances and timings of routes used by ancient travellers in the days of empire. Routes are based on the Tabula Peutingeriana, a one of a kind chart, which shows an imperial Roman road network, or curses public's, that stretches from Britain to the river Ganges that flows through India and Bangladesh. The huge map, last updated in the third or fourth century, shows 2,760 towns with lists of distances and destinations on the Roman roads connecting them, all set out on a scroll of parchment almost 23 feet long. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Ruins of Roman gladiator school found in Austria Posted: 06 Sep 2011 06:51 AM PDT Archaeologists in Austria say they have discovered a large, well preserved school for Roman gladiators. The remains of the school, at a site east of the modern capital, Vienna, were found using radar imagery. The school was part of a Roman city which was an important military and trade outpost 17 centuries ago. Read the rest of this article...  |
| Massive gladiator school is found under Austrian town Posted: 06 Sep 2011 06:49 AM PDT A ROMAN gladiator school where men were trained to fight to the death in the arena has been found by archaeologists on the outskirts of the Austrian capital, Vienna - the first to be discovered outside Italy. Ground-penetrating radar was used to identify the site of the school at a Roman settlement called Carnuntum, a town of 50,000 people 30 miles east of Vienna that flourished about 1,700 years ago. It was a major military and trade outpost linking the far-flung Roman empire's Asian boundaries to its central and northern European lands. The academy was one of 100 created to train the fighters who were pitted against each other - and against wild animals - for the entertainment of emperors, senators and commoners alike. Read the rest of this article...  |
| King's College Chapel, Cambridge: 'A gravity-defying hall of light' - video Posted: 06 Sep 2011 06:40 AM PDT In the first of seven films celebrating the best British buildings, Andrew Dickson visits King's College Chapel in Cambridge, a powerful example of gothic architecture – covered in Tudor propaganda and topped by the world's largest fan-vault ceiling Read the rest of this article...  |
| Ruins reveal how Roman gladiators won their spurs Posted: 06 Sep 2011 06:29 AM PDT Archaeologists using sophisticated radar equipment say they have located a remarkably well-preserved underground Roman gladiator school that will give them "sensational" new insights into the lives of the fighters 1,700 years ago. The site, 24 miles east of Vienna, contains the remains of a heated training hall for combatants. It was discovered beneath the former Roman settlement of Carnuntum, which is already home to one the finest amphitheatres ever found. Archaeologists say it is the first gladiator school ever found outside Italy. Frank Humer, an archaeologist with Vienna's Ludwig-Boltzmann Institute, which found the school while conducting a detailed radar scan of the site, said: "The wooden post that gladiators traditionally used as their mock opponent during training is still visible in the middle of the school's arena." Read the rest of this article...  |
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