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Category Archives: 01st Century

Across the Blogosphere: The world’s first revolving restaurant?

Friday, October 2, 2009

For this week’s trip across the blogosphere I found an interesting post over at the History Blog there is an interesting article on something that’s been uncovered in Rome recently.  It seems that Nero had constructed what could be a 50 foot diameter circular floor for a dining hall that could have possibly revolved.
 
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Mass Grave at site for 2012 Olympics

Friday, August 21, 2009

While digging to put in a new road for the 2012 Olympics in the UK evidence of a mass grave dating back to Roman occupation were found.  Forty-five severed skulls were found, possibly of native soldiers executed by the Romans.
It will probably be some time before any more details about these remains can be determined [...]

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When in Rome…

Thursday, December 4, 2008

There is that old cliché that “the more things change the more they stay the same”. In many ways that is true, probably because of that other cliché; “those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it.”
Cornelius Tacitus was a 1st century historian. A number of his works survive to this day. In [...]

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