Sources: Artifacts from Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome: Virtually Around the Corner

And virtual reality has also come to tours of Rome. ‘3D Rewind Rome’ opened in November. It combines animation and virtual game technology to reproduce scenes of life in the ancient city in AD 310 during the reign of Maxentius. It uses some 60,000 different characters. The programme includes a virtual 3D model of the city designed by archaeologists, historians and computing technologists. The v...

Facts and Artifacts of Ancient DNA

Tomas Lindahl technical lessons, since initial attempts to recover Imperial Cancer Research Fund mtDNA from that great archaeological find resulted in Clare Hall Laboratories three distinct human sequences, two of which had to South Mimms be ascribed to contamination with modern human DNA. Hertfordshire EN6 3LD (A reliable sequence was subsequently produced by United Kingdom independent confirm...

Inner Workings: Climate change frees ancient artifacts.

Hygienic conditions in ancient Rome and modern London.

EDWIN CHADWICK, acting on first principles only, outlined a programme for the improvement in the health of the public in the mid-nineteenth century-he claimed that: 'the primary and most important measures, and at the same time the most practical, and within the recognised province of public administration, are drainage, the removal of all refuse from habitations, streets and roads and the impr...

Coin hoards speak of population declines in Ancient Rome.

In times of violence, people tend to hide their valuables, which are later recovered unless the owners had been killed or driven away. Thus, the temporal distribution of unrecovered coin hoards is an excellent proxy for the intensity of internal warfare. We use this relationship to resolve a long-standing controversy in Roman history. Depending on who was counted in the early Imperial censuses ...