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[Heritage Key blogs] Roman Army Camp and Metal-working Furnace Discoveries in Austria ...: The archaeologists leading the excavation believe the discovery brings new evidence about the presence of the .Other objects found during excavations include coins, brooches, military equipment and ceramics.

[Hermann Muenster] Victory Celebration week kicks off with lecture and luncheon ...: Many of Hermann’s civic and business leaders attended the luncheon, where Enter explained how the battle of Teutoburg Forest was won and how the defeat of the Romans changed the course of historical events. Enter also brought replica gear from the time period to display.

[In Defence of Marxism] The class struggle in the Roman Republic, part three: The Roman historians have left us the story that the terrified Romans emptied their temples of gold to pay the Gauls to leave the City. The gold was brought to the place appointed by the Gauls, and when the weights proved not to be equal to the amount that the Romans had with them, the Gaulish leader Brennus threw his sword onto the other scale, uttering the chilling words: "Væ victis"””"Woe to the conquered." This story may or not be founded on fact, but it left a strong imprint on the national psychology of the Romans forever, and in particular coloured their attitude to the people of Gaul, who later learned the true horror behind the words that Roman legend attributes to Brennus.

[Breaking News] 2000-yr-old bronze statue of roman emperor Augustus discovered in ...: WASHINGTON - Archaeologists have unearthed a hoard of ancient Roman treasures, including a marble head of the Roman emperor Titus, during an excavation outside the southern Italian city of Naples. The long-term digging effort in Rione Terra, a cliff in the port town of Pozzuoli, has yielded remains of 12 ancient statues, columns and fragments bearing inscriptions from what appear to be monuments from the Republican and Imperial periods of ancient Roman history.

[AHRS] Germany Recalls Myth That Created the Nation « AHRS: Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the battlefield in a forest near the village of Kalkriese in May to open an exhibition on Germanic tribes there, and some 400 actors dressed as Romans or Germanic tribesmen gently re-enacted scenes from the battle there in June, with rubber-tipped spears. Most actors wanted to be Romans, and there was such a shortage of Germanic warriors that some hirsute hobby Vikings had to be recruited to make up the numbers.

[Energy Bulletin -] "Peak Civilization": The Fall of the Roman Empire | Energy Bulletin: There would be much more to say on this matter, but I think it is enough to say that the Romans did not really understand what was happening to their Empire, except in terms of military setbacks that they always saw as temporary. They always seemed to think that these setbacks could be redressed by increasing the size of the army and building more fortifications.

[CoinTalk] Rome's Lost Legions - Arminius and the Battle of the Teutoburger ...: 2000 years ago this year, in the depths of the dark and forbidding woods of northern Germany, a Roman army commanded by Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman Governor of the province of Germania Superior was defeated in such a crushing battle against unified Germanic tribes, that the legions he commanded are sometimes referred to as the lost legions. Significant also are the circumstances under which this happened: The Roman conquest of Gallia by Julius Caesar was over, and Emperor Octavian Augustus his designated succesor then turned his attention to Germania.

[Breaking News] Archaeologists uncover ancient bath used by Temple pilgrims in ...: Israeli archaeologists find ancient fortificationJERUSALEM ”” Archaeologists digging in Jerusalem have uncovered a 3,700-year-old wall that is the oldest example of massive fortifications ever found in the city, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Wednesday. The 26-foot-high wall is believed to have been part of a protected passage built by ancient Canaanites from a hilltop fortress to a nearby spring that was the city's only water source and vulnerable to marauders.

[Historical Events - HistoryOrb.com] Historical Events on 5th June: 70 - Titus & his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem 754 - Friezen murders bishop Boniface & over 50 companions 1257 - Kraków, Poland receive city rights. 1288 - Battle of Woeringen: Reinald I vs Jan I 1305 - Bordeaux's archbishop Bertrand .

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Sounds Familiar: A historian whose name I can’t remember wrote that towards the end of the Roman Empire, carts would deliver goods from around the world to the city, while the only export Rome had to offer the world was gold coins and animal waste. It kind of reminds me of the fact that money and waste cardboard are our biggest exports to China.

[NEWS AND COMMENTARY] Merlin Miller: The Liberator | NEWS AND COMMENTARY: But most important was Arminius’s courageous leadership ability, his keen understanding of Roman tactics and his unique familiarity with the terrain and weather - all enemies to the disciplined, yet unsuspecting Roman soldiers with their traditional formations and predictable maneuvers. The gods also favored a Germanic onslaught by bringing down a torrent of cold rain, which further demoralized the weary and confused Romans.

[Breaking News] Roman officials were involved in expenses scandals 2000 years ago: VIENNA - Archaeologists have unearthed three Roman military camp sites archaeologists in Burgenland, Austria, which they say will rewrite the history of the Romans in the country. According to Weiner Zeitung, Stefan Groh, the leader of the Austrian Archeological Institute (OAI) team that discovered the sites, said that the three camp sites near Strebersdorf in Burgenland's Lutzmannsburg municipality were along the old amber road, the main Roman trading road in the region.

[Villainous Company] Villainous Company: What Does Obama Offer America, Minus The Hype?: I want to go back like 30 minutes before I made some choices for my army of kataphracts and Roman legions, because I have a theory, that if I changed a couple of deployment plans and tactical plans, I can win this battle and also have enough forces to defend this bridge to one of my cities.

[SWJ Blog] Afghan Village Militia: A People-Centric Strategy to Win (SWJ Blog): "The farmers of all provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, short swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of weapons. If unnecessary implements of war are kept, the collection of annual rent will be more difficult, and without provocation uprisings can be fomented." -- Toyotomi Hideyoshi, August, 1585.

[Slow Food] The Roman legion's American coffee-break:... | Gather: this implies that they are eaten with the mid-morning cappuccino rather than the morning espresso (have you ever tried to dunk anything in a real Roman espresso, as opposed to the pitifully weak Starbucks version?)

[The Oil Drum: Europe - Analysis and Discussion of the European Energy Gap and Peak Oil] The Oil Drum: Europe | "Peak Civilization": The Fall of the Roman ...: I'm coming from an different angle: I just don't see that implosion was a necessary outcome for the Roman empire, more importantly half of it did not implode at all. Limits to growth postulates decline without external forces (eg Martians or whom ever from space to stay in the picture), whereas Rome got under external threat and could not change its internal workings to adapt to the changes, like the governors and fugitives from lost provinces didn't lose their entitlements thus overburdening the state without adding value (this I think is the interesting part for us today - as no one can lose an entitlement but resources decline).

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