Sublime

Digging up early Rome

Right in the middle of this gradual and incremental conquest of Britain, in 60 to 61 AD, the most serious uprising against Roman hegemony took off, within what had been the most Rome-friendly part of Britain: the south-east. When the Iceni client king Prasutagus died, his kingdom was annexed by Rome – just as if it had been conquered – and his daug

Violence, then, will not do as the primary explanation for the profound changes visible in Romano-British towns in the late fourth century and beyond. Those changes include the introduction of burial within walled areas, a practice specifically forbidden in Roman law; the construction of large, apparently public buildings that encroached on existin

By the end of the second century CE more than 50 per cent of the senators were from the provinces.

Despite all those unknowns, archaeologists instantly realised that the recognisable RECEI – in the dative case, meaning ‘to or for the king’ – supports what Roman writers themselves had claimed: that for two and a half centuries, up to the end of the sixth century BCE, the city of Rome had been under the control of ‘kings’. Livy, among others, tell

Qirghiz ultimately crushed the Uyghur Empire and forced the emigration of many of its subjects…

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An agrarian surplus sustained urban elites and their elaborate high culture. In the towns, an artisan class of legendary skill had sprung up to cater for these elites’ material demands.