Medieval History
Iain Hollingshead reviews Rome's Lost Empire, BBC One's one-off documentary in which Dan Snow uses satellite technology to identify the lost cities, amphitheatres and forts of ancient Rome.
Just when you thought television had had its fill of Ancient Rome, along come two more BBC documentaries. On BBC Four, Simon Sebag Montefiore has started a three-part series exploring the central role of religion in the city. While on BBC One yesterday, Dan Snow?s Rome?s Lost Empire harnessed satellite technology to understand more about Roman military might.
Snow?s adventures certainly lived up to their mainstream billing. In tandem with Dr Sarah Parcak, an archaeologist from Alabama State university who?d recently discovered thousands of sites in Egypt using satellite imagery, they set off to repeat her success with Roman remains
Click here to read this review from the Daily Telegraph
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Medieval History
Rome's Lost Empire, BBC One, review
Iain Hollingshead reviews Rome's Lost Empire, BBC One's one-off documentary in which Dan Snow uses satellite technology to identify the lost cities, amphitheatres and forts of ancient Rome.
Just when you thought television had had its fill of Ancient Rome, along come two more BBC documentaries. On BBC Four, Simon Sebag Montefiore has started a three-part series exploring the central role of religion in the city. While on BBC One yesterday, Dan Snow?s Rome?s Lost Empire harnessed satellite technology to understand more about Roman military might.
Snow?s adventures certainly lived up to their mainstream billing. In tandem with Dr Sarah Parcak, an archaeologist from Alabama State university who?d recently discovered thousands of sites in Egypt using satellite imagery, they set off to repeat her success with Roman remains
Click here to read this review from the Daily Telegraph
- Environmental Choices The Romans Made
The Roman Empire was the world's first superpower and controlled millions of square miles at its height ? everything between modern-day Spain up to England and across to Armenia, down through Egypt and over to Morocco. Millions of people from different...
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Critic at large about new books on Rome. This season brings a number of new works on Roman history that focus not on the glories of Roman culture but on its notorious brutalities. What if the true meaning of Rome is not justice but injustice, not civilization...
- Romulus And Remus Symbol Of Rome Could Be Medieval Replica
The symbol of Rome ? a bronze she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of the city ? may be a medieval replica rather than a 2,500 year-old Etruscan creation, it was claimed yesterday. The bronze statue, which encapsulates the mythical...
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