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Huge shoe found at Roman fort near Hadrian’s Wall	11	16 Jan 2026 4:55 p.m. PST
A Defensive Offense: Infantry Tactics of the Early...	1	10 Jan 2026 1:59 p.m. PST
Gladiator knife handle found near Hadrian’s Wall	7	15 Dec 2025 11:39 p.m. PST
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Guessing game. Who plays who in The Odyssey movie?	11	15 Nov 2025 9:05 a.m. PST
Celtic necropolis has no skeletons but exceptional swords	3	14 Nov 2025 10:12 p.m. PST
Roman iron knife with bronze inlay found in Germany	3	07 Nov 2025 4:50 p.m. PST
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Caesar's Camp - Scenario 2 - CoC AAR	4	18 Jul 2025 12:26 p.m. PST
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See the Face of a Bronze Age Woman Who Lived	22	06 Jul 2025 11:28 p.m. PST
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Christian G. Cameron	5	17 Jun 2025 3:37 a.m. PST
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Unresolved Questions about Ancient Rome	12	07 Apr 2025 10:29 p.m. PST
Ramses II’s Long-Lost Sarcophagus Has Finally	5	15 Mar 2025 8:48 a.m. PST
Study Reveals That Scythian Warriors Likely Carried	8	09 Mar 2025 4:08 p.m. PST
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Scientists Sequence Genome, Reconstruct Face of	3	31 Dec 2024 4:28 p.m. PST
Bronze Age battlefield in Germany	12	29 Dec 2024 9:57 p.m. PST
Three Ages of Rome review	6	18 Dec 2024 4:05 p.m. PST
Why no 3d movies?	25	17 Dec 2024 10:56 a.m. PST
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See the Faces of Four Scots Across Thousands of Years	3	09 Oct 2024 3:58 p.m. PST
The Surrender of Alexandria - The Battle for Africa	1	07 Oct 2024 4:52 p.m. PST
3,000 year old sword found in Egypt	7	19 Sep 2024 7:36 a.m. PST
The Dark Age Church Period of Barbarian Invasions	3	16 Sep 2024 4:04 p.m. PST
The Persian policies of Alexander the Great ...	2	12 Sep 2024 10:12 p.m. PST
Four Roman swords in scabbards found in Dead Sea cave	13	12 Sep 2024 3:58 p.m. PST
What if Alexander the Great Had Lived? An Alternative	14	10 Sep 2024 3:54 p.m. PST
Trailer for Gladiator II	12	01 Sep 2024 4:22 a.m. PST
The Battle of Zama where in Tunisia is it?	38	24 Jul 2024 3:17 a.m. PST
Pompeii bakery/mill shows drudgery of enslaved ...	7	22 Jul 2024 9:16 p.m. PST
maybe a reason to get Peakock	4	12 Jul 2024 10:55 p.m. PST
How One Forensic Artist Brings the Dead to Life	1	12 Jul 2024 9:22 p.m. PST
Slingshot 352 is at the printers!	3	27 Jun 2024 10:39 a.m. PST
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BBC Radio 4 Real Dictators	2	02 May 2024 2:13 a.m. PST
Roman ship discovered off Croatian coast	6	16 Apr 2024 11:07 p.m. PST
The Ancient City Which Was Destroyed By A Nuclear	16	15 Apr 2024 2:35 a.m. PST
I regret buying this book	25	12 Apr 2024 7:59 a.m. PST
Intact Etruscan tomb with last meal found in Vulci	5	09 Apr 2024 5:06 p.m. PST
A Local Revolt in Babylonia during the Reign of Darius	2	05 Apr 2024 10:51 p.m. PST
Greek Hoplite discussion group	9	31 Mar 2024 9:51 a.m. PST
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Oldest human ever found in Egypt brought to life in	5	05 Mar 2024 10:45 p.m. PST
Review: How the World Made the West by Josephine Quinn	5	05 Mar 2024 1:39 p.m. PST
Electoral graffiti found inside Pompeii house	3	27 Feb 2024 3:19 p.m. PST
Slingshot 350, is with the printers …	2	20 Feb 2024 5:09 a.m. PST
Gate Fulford and Stamford Bridge	2	17 Jan 2024 11:46 a.m. PST
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Gold bust of Marcus Aurelius at Getty	3	15 Dec 2023 3:29 p.m. PST
Circus Maximus flyover and Rome post-sack	3	24 Nov 2023 3:23 p.m. PST
With the shield or upon it	1	23 Nov 2023 8:54 p.m. PST
Slingshot 348, is with the printers …	1	09 Nov 2023 11:16 a.m. PST
Hannibal Ross Leckie - quick review	1	09 Nov 2023 7:14 a.m. PST
1st c. surgeon buried with his tools found in Hungary	5	08 Nov 2023 3:18 p.m. PST
Ancient uniform plates - books in french	8	04 Nov 2023 7:49 a.m. PST
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Bronze Age Jewelry Find	5	18 Oct 2023 11:40 p.m. PST
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First armies - Bronze Age warfare	4	16 Oct 2023 4:06 a.m. PST
Wooden defensive spikes from Roman fort found in Germany	2	16 Oct 2023 3:57 a.m. PST
Villa Borg, Germany	3	10 Oct 2023 10:06 a.m. PST
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If you know Classical Greek ...	6	10 Aug 2023 2:18 p.m. PST
Nero's Theater found	8	09 Aug 2023 9:00 a.m. PST
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Ancient Roman camps from secret military mission	5	30 Jul 2023 3:22 p.m. PST
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Legio XXI Rapax and the colour of roman tunics	6	17 Jul 2023 4:28 p.m. PST
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Private Voices	5	14 Jul 2023 5:37 p.m. PST
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The Trojan War as Military History	12	26 May 2023 4:50 p.m. PST
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Portraying Cleopatra...	21	22 May 2023 1:54 p.m. PST