Things Have Changed

Last year Smithsonian Magazine carried an article on the recent excavations at the Ptolemaic port of Berenike on the Red Sea, the Egyptian ...

pic.twitter.com/zpRVV0SUjb — Daily Roman Updates (@UpdatingOnRome) June 11, 2024 When Alexander the Great reached Tyre in January 332 BC h...

There's a social media meme going round in which guys are asked about how often they think about Rome.  As can be seen from THC's hi...

Long before living memory our ancestral way of life produced outstanding men, and those excellent men preserved the old way of life and the ...

The most eastern Roman inscription ever found: In the late first century AD, the centurion Lucius Julius Maximus of the Twelfth 'Thunder...

Three previously unknown Roman forts have been identified in the bleakness and isolation of the Arabian Desert.  First located via Google Ea...

Fascinating article in Antigone, a relatively new Classics journal on Greek and Roman times, about the rediscovery of ancient texts on Greek...

I have no fault to find with those who have proposed a reconsideration of the question of the Mytilenaeans, nor do I commend those who obje...

It is remarkable how so many long-buried Roman mosiac tiled floors have been discovered in recent years in the Near East, Anatolia, North Af...

Robert A. Kaster, The Appian Way: Ghost Road, Queen of Roads (2012; rpt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014), pp. 101-103: Marcus T...

 Came across this remarkable 1850 photo of Rome. It looks like it is taken from inside the Colosseum, probably on its second level, and it p...

In 1978, Mrs THC and I visited the Greek island of Samos.  We arrived on a boat out of Piraeus after spending a lovely afternoon and evening...

 The Circus Maximus and the Imperial Palace, 200 AD and today. Circus Maximus, with seating for about 200,000 spectators is located in the v...

 Graffiti is nothing new, nor is rooting for the home team. A fav. photo of all time. Priceless. Roman-period Greek inscription from the Ji...

 From Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization (2006), an intriguing book I read several years ago.  I was reminded ...

Emperor Hadrian (117-138) is well known for ordering the construction of the 70 mile stone fortification across the north of England, now kn...

2500 years ago in August or September took place two battles between Greeks and Persians that determined the course of Western Civilization ...

I recently was surprised to learn a Roman lighthouse built in the late 1st century AD is still operating at the entrance of La Coruna harb...

With many thanks to Raymond Chandler and a tip o' the hat to Dashiell Hammett. This is the time of year when folks like to complain ab...

The Res Gestae Divi Augustus (Deeds of the Divine Augustus) is how Rome's first emperor wished to be remembered, and it was not as an...