Roman domination of London effectively ended in 410, when the legions were withdrawn to tackle some pressing domestic matters (Rome was being sacked). We know very little about London over the next two hundred years. The city inside the Roman walls was at some point abandoned. Germanic tribes,...
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The European nation’s energy revolution has made it a leader in replacing nukes and fossil fuels with wind and solar technology.
Roman legions could deploy and harness resources wherever needed. The city of Rome was effectively the center and genesis of their universe, so the Empire built its roads from that place, outward. If you were somewhere wandering lost in the land, you could be guaranteed a way back “home....
but it existed long before the legions arrived as a centre of Celtic power. The Celts called the place Camuloduno, so the origins of the modern name are a little mysterious. It may simply refer to the Romancolonia, or outpost, which the fortified town (-chester) grew up around. Another...
One of the primary accusations made against him is of jealousy for his nephew Germanicus who as commander of the Roman legions at the Rhine was gaining considerable popularity. Germanicus had succeeded in recovering some of the military insignia previously lost by general Varus. ...
In 67 AD, during the Jewish revolt against Rome, Roman legions under Titus Flavius Vespasianus (Vespasian) conquered the Galilean city of Jotapata, the center of resistance for the Jewish armies in Galilee. Taken alive was Joseph ben Matthias, the commander of the Jewish forces in Galilee, a...
Edward Berger did a phenomenal job bringing the 1930 epic All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) to legions of audiences and a slew of Oscar nominations. All bets are that he does it again with Conclave. The screenplay is written by Peter Straughan, primarily a British playwright. The action...
They are descendents to the people who fled the Roman legions in Palestine 2000 years ago. “The closest genetic neighbours to most Jewish groups were the Palestinians, Israeli Bedouins, and Druze in addition to the Southern Europeans, including Cypriots,” wrote Harry Ostrer, professor of ...
The “Gnostics” were then banished from among the followers of Paul (the Christians); and, some 1000 years later, tens of thousands of Albigensians were exterminated by the Roman church for teaching a Doctrine of ‘Rebirth’ similar to what Jesus taught. So, back to my first statement:...