Ancient Rome

Barbarians VS Rome Ship Set

Roman Seas: Barbarians VS Rome Ship Set Roman Seas: The Barbarian vs Rome Ship Set contains a set of high quality, professionally rendered PDF ancient Roman and Barbarian ship models by renown RPG and mapping artist, Eric Hotz. The Barbarian vs Rome Navy Set models are based on the ships from 68BC - 400AD. Just print out the files onto paper/card-...

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Greek Triremes VS Roman Triremes

Warships have ignited the imagination of countless ages and innumerable authors. Few actually know the history of the warship, though. Purpose built warships originated in ancient Greece and Rome, two great Mediterranean powers. They both had invariably different navies, though. The construction of their warships were of different materials and had...

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Roman Fleet

The Roman Navy was always considered an inferior arm and was strictly under army control. But already during the First Punic War, Rome proved itself capable of launching a fleet capable of checking an established naval power such as Carthage. Romans were no sailors though. They had no knowledge of ship building. Their ships were in fact built copyi...

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Best Preserved Warship of Ancient Times

Roman Warship found near Pisa's tower is "best preserved ship of ancient times" By Peter Popham in Rome. A long-vanished harbour 500 metres from the leaning Tower of Pisa has yielded its most precious treasure to date: an intact ancient Roman warship, 12 metres (40ft) long, "the best-preserved ship of antiquity ever found" according to the project...

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Rome Reborn

Rome Reborn is an international project launched in 1996 at UCLA and since 2004 based at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), a research unit of the University of Virginia. The goal of the project is to create a real-time digital model illustrating the entire urban development of ancient Rome from the first settlement in ...

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Roman Trade Page

Trade was vital to Ancient Rome. The Empire cost a huge sum of money to maintain and trade brought in much of that money. The population of the city of Rome was one million and such a vast population required many things that could only be got from distant lands ,So people had to turn to trade to get these items. The Roman Empire was criss-crossed ...

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Roman Quinquereme

A picture of a Roman Quinquereme. This ship is very similar to the Greek Trireme. See the link below for a good explanation of the differences....

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Ancient Roman Navy

The Roman Navy was always considered an inferior arm and was strictly under army control. But the, Romans proved itself capable of launching a fleet capable of checking an established naval power such as Carthage. Romans were no sailors though. They had no knowledge of ship building. Their ships were in fact built copying the example of captured Ca...

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The Pompeii Forum Project

The Pompeii Forum Project is a collaborative research venture that is archaeologicaly based, heavily dependent upon advanced technology, and so conceived as to address broad issues in urban history and urban design. Evidence gathered to date challenges commonly held and widely published notions about the evolution of the forum, especially during th...

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