Abstract Géza Alföldy (1935–2011) is considered as one of the most important epigraphists and historians Roman civilization late 20th century, known also “Mommsen our ages”. His contribution indispensable not only for discipline epigraphy social history, but study religion. intellectual roots in Hungary influence Hungarian scholarly tradition 1950’s marked his interest religion a long period. I...

The 20th century has witnessed a vertiginous development of logic: a discipline that traditionally belonged to the domain of philosophy, but whose recent development is due to the use of mathematics as its meta-language. Considered as one of the greatest of Greek gifts to humanity, logic is now essential as the foundational model for Computer Science. Some scholars assimilate Mathematics and Lo...

: Soli-Pompeiopolis, once a glorious harbor city of Roman Empire, have not been settled after its destruction due to an earthquake in 525 AD until the modern times Mersin. During time their visits 19th century European travelers presented observations on ancient notes. Most archaeological remains mentioned travelers’ notes are present currently site. The main question arises as what has happene...

Tuberculosis (TB) was once a major killer in Europe, but it is unclear how the strains and patterns of infection at 'peak TB' relate to what we see today. Here we describe 14 genome sequences of M. tuberculosis, representing 12 distinct genotypes, obtained from human remains from eighteenth-century Hungary using metagenomics. All our historic genotypes belong to M. tuberculosis Lineage 4. Bayes...

Both leprosy and tuberculosis were prevalent in Europe during the first millennium but thereafter leprosy declined. It is not known why this occurred, but one suggestion is that cross-immunity protected tuberculosis patients from leprosy. To investigate any relationship between the two diseases, selected archaeological samples, dating from the Roman period to the thirteenth century, were examin...

Autochtonic elements in the culture of eastern part roman province Dalmatia considers next elements: decorative motives on grave monuments, as are motive rope and spiralae, jewllery older prechistoric tradition, chains with ivy lieaves iterpretatio romana some unknown native god Dyonisos, appereance monuments geometric human figure elements, loosing proportion bad releief fields, horror vacui i...

With the apparent return of the historical epic movie – Braveheart, Gladiator, The Passion of Christ, Troy, King Arthur and several films of Alexander and Boudicca (Boadicea for those over 40), attention is again focused on the authenticity of the genre. Was it really like that? Is the costume and architecture true to life? And, most commonly asked by those who enjoyed Gladiator, was the grippi...

The Northamptonshire sites and monuments record currently contains 1573 records related to the Roman period, which constitutes 22.5% of the total. A large proportion of the undated cropmark sites are, however, also likely to be Roman and/or Iron Age in date and should be added to this total. In Northamptonshire this period is characterized by intensively occupied and large scale rural landscape...

According to legend and the historian Geoffrey of Monmouth (Historia Regum Brittaniae, 1136), the hot springs at Bath were discovered in the 9th century BC by Bladud, a Celtic prince who was so disfigured by leprosy that he became a wandering swineherd so that his people would not have to look upon his disfigurement. When he chanced upon the springs and noticed that the sores on his pigs were h...