Between 1946 and 1987 the International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC) published the Fasti Archaeologici. It contained very useful summary notices of excavations throughout the area of the Roman Empire. However, spiraling costs and publication delays combined to render it less and less useful. AIACs board of directors thus decided in 1998 to discontinue the publication and to seek a new way of recording and diffusing new results. The Fasti Online is the result of this effort.
To commemorate the 2,000th anniversary of the loss of legions XVII, XVIII and XIX somewhere in northern Germany, Ancient Warfare magazine has brought out a special edition on the Varian disaster.
It will contain articles on, among others, the Roman and Germanic soldiers, the sources, the search for the battlefield and of course there will be plenty of content about the campaigns in Germania, the battle and its aftermath. All illustrated with photography, original artwork and maps, of course.
A major exhibition on one of the most symbolic battles in history opens in northern Germany.
The exhibition is spread over three sites in Detmold, Kalkriese and Haltern and organizers are expecting more than half a million visitors by fall.
The joint project is called "Imperium Conflict Myth" and the exhibits will take visitors back 2000 years, to when an alliance of Germanic tribes annihilated three elite Roman Legions in the famous so-called Battle of Teutoburg, or Varus Battle.
These three varieties are all flavours which were enjoyed in Britain nearly 2000 years ago and that are now offered by Doddington Dairy in Northumberland (UK).
The flavour range of their ice creams is inspired by a wooden tablet found at Vindolanda on Hadrian’s Wall where a Roman soldier urged his staff to secure: “a hundred apples, if you can find nice ones”.
A 1.9m male skeleton has been unearthed in a Roman graveyard in Cologne. The remains, which date to the third/fourth century, are now going to be analysed.
Today a carved ivory female figurine is presented in Tübingen, Southern Germany. The figurine, found in 2008 in a cave in Schelklingen is allegedly the world's oldest reproduction of a human with an estimated age of at least 35,000 years.
This is a major contribution to the fascinating debate on the changes that occurred in the late Roman period, contrasting the approaches of history and archaeology. Covering the themes of the army, the countryside and the nature of cities, the volume focuses on the lower Danube, but there are comparative studies from Italy to the Euphrates.
The ruins of a village dating back to the fall of the Roman empire have been found at an excavation site in Salzburg.
Workers found the remains of the village which is thought to date back to the 5th to 7th centuries at a 6,000-square-metre site for construction of a home for pensioners at Anif-Niederalm in the Flachgau region.
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