By Owain Williams Some very interesting archaeological news! Excavations on the headland of Drumanagh, roughly fifteen miles north of Dublin, has uncovered the 2000-year-old remains of a fig. This may not seem like a major discovery, but it is an important piece of the puzzle that is Hiberno-Roman relations. According

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30.01.2025

The Voyage Home - Review

By Owain Williams In recent years, there has been a seemingly-unending barrage of fiction book retelling different Greek myths from different perspectives. I have even covered one on the blog previously. None, however, have come close to matching the honest – and often brutal – evocation of the variety of human experie

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02.02.2025

Ancient History Podcast - Soldiers, Wages, and the Hellenistic Economies

In this episode of the podcast, we talk to Charlotte van Regenmortel about the changes to the systems of recruitment in the late Classical and early Hellenistic periods, the importance of wage labourers in early Hellenistic armies, and how the military labour market impacted the wider Hellenistic economies. You can al

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17.02.2025

New Study Demonstrates Increased Lead Pollution in the Roman Empire

By Owain Williams The human impact upon the natural world is increasingly apparent. It rare that a day goes by and I do not see news about human-induced climate change or its effects on the world we live in, whether wildfires, extreme storms, or flooding. Now, a study recently published in Nature has demonstrated how h

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