There is mounting evidence that after the Romans left Britain, the region's economy didn't suffer as badly as once thought.| Gizmodo
Three copies of new book on the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire up for grabs| All About History
When I sat down to write VESUVIUS, my debut YA historical fantasy set in the final days of Pompeii, I did so to put queer people back in the narrative.| Teen Librarian Toolbox
Epicurus was born to Athenian parents (341 BCE) on the island of Samos in the southeastern Aegean Sea. At age eighteen (323 BCE) he served two years of conscription in Athens and then moved with his family to Colophon (321 BCE) less than 20 miles north of his birthplace. At age thirty (311 BCE), he […]| Twentiers
Rome wasn’t built in a day, which is another way of saying that big, complex things take time. Unless they’re the game Quorom, where you play Roman senators jockeying for […] The post Gaming for Glory In Rome appeared first on Dragon's Lair Comics & Fantasy.| Dragon's Lair Comics & Fantasy
I just emailed this to the authors of High-resolution genomic ancestry reveals mobility in early medieval Europe, a new preprint at bioRxiv [LINK]. I appreciate that Polish population history is not the main focus of your preprint, and also that you're constrained by the lack of relevant and suitably high quality ancient genomes from East-Central and Eastern Europe. However, I must say that your| Eurogenes Blog
It's always amusing to see some random Jovan or Dimitar arguing online that Slavic speakers have been in the Balkans since at least the Neolithic. Obviously, Slavic peoples only turned up in the Balkans during the early Middle Ages. It's just that their linguistic and genetic impact on the region was so profound that it may seem like they've been there forever. A new paper at Cell by Olalde et| Eurogenes Blog
From Live Science:| Women of History