Roman coins play an important role to understand the Roman empire because they convey rich information about key historical events of the time. The ancient Roman coins were widely used to announce the achievements of Roman emperors to the public. They also served to spread messages of changing policies or merits through the empire. By engraving portraits on the coins, the Roman emperors also co...

Phallic iconography is ubiquitous throughout the archaeology of the Roman world and has raised questions about sexuality in ancient Rome. Dominant modern Western discourses privilege heterosexual male frameworks which many not adequately correspond to ancient Roman culture. Thus, the application of Feminist and/or Queer theory may expand academic insight into not only Roman sexuality, but also ...

Roman remains: Extensive ruins such as those of the Roman colony of Thamugadi (Timgad) in modern-day Algeria remind us that civilisations can and do collapse. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/PhR61.) In 100 AD, the Roman emperor Trajan founded a new colony in Northern Africa, which he called colonia Marciana Traiana Thamugadi or Thamugadi for short. Planned to cover a surface of 12 hectares with its s...

Résumé Au cours des deux dernières décennies, on note une forte croissance de la recherche sur l'interprétation en langue chinoise (RIC), comme en témoigne le nombre d'articles publiés. Le présent article adopte une approche scientométrique pour analyser la production, les thèmes et les influences théoriques dans ces articles au fil du temps. Les auteurs, les universités et les régions les plus...

This paper describes an ongoing project to digitally record, reconstruct and repaint a 2000-year-old painted Roman statue from Herculaneum, Italy. The paper considers the archaeological potential for extremely detailed laser scanning and digital recreation of Roman statuary, and visualisation within a physically accurate context. It focuses on the archaeological significance of the emerging tec...