Images

This is a school tablet which displays mathematical texts. From modern Tell Harmal (ancient Shaduppum), near Baghdad, Iraq. Old-Babylonian period, 2nd millennium BCE. The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq.

Map of Odoacer's Italy in 480 CE.

A stretch of the Via Appia at Sant'Andrea, km 126. Here it is still possible to admire the original flint-stones, thanks to their restoration during the Bourbon age and now protected by the Natural Park Monti Aurunci Authority.

The Via Appia near the Villa dei Quintili at mile V (Rome).

A stretch of the Via Appia passing through the ancient city of Minturnae (Minturno, Italy).

A stretch of the Via Appia in the Forum Aemilianum of Tarracina (Terracina, Italy).

A stretch of the Via Egnatia in Philippi (Greece). The Via Egnatia crossed the Roman provinces of Illyricum, Macedonia, and Thrace, running through territory that is now part of modern Albania, the Republic of Macedonia, Greece, and European...

Modern 3D representation of what an ancient sea battle between Romans and pirates may have looked like.

Artist's impression of Teuta, Queen of the Illyrian Ardiaei tribe, leads a pirate expedition against rome. According to Illyrian laws, piracy was a legitimate trade, which led to war against the Roman Republic, who did not approve. This...

The Crannog centre on Loch Tay near Kenmore recreates an ancient Crannog, which was a wooden structure built out on a man-made island in a lake and connected to the shore by a narrow, and easily defensible, causeway.