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Over 300 skeletons and medieval church found at Gloucester City Campus site

Archaeological excavations at the site of the City Campus for the University of Gloucestershire revealed a remarkable time in Gloucester’s history, uncovering Roman, medieval, and post-medieval remains and artifacts...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/04/ove

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Over 300 skeletons and medieval church found at Gloucester City Campus site Archaeological excavations at the site of the City Campus for the University of Gloucestershire revealed a remarkable time in Gloucester’s history, uncovering Roman, medieval, and post-medieval remains and artifacts. The dig, managed by Cotswold Archaeology, was conducted at the location of the former Debenhams department store in King’s Square, where there had been no previous archaeological investigations...
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Drought triggered rebellion and barbarian invasion in Roman Britain, study finds

A newly published study by researchers from the University of Cambridge reveals that a catastrophic three-year drought led to a massive rebellion known as the “Barbarian Conspiracy” in Roman Britain around 367 CE...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/04/dro

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Drought triggered rebellion and barbarian invasion in Roman Britain, study finds A newly published study by researchers from the University of Cambridge reveals that a catastrophic three-year drought led to a massive rebellion known as the “Barbarian Conspiracy” in Roman Britain around 367 CE...
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📖 **How Republics Die: Creeping Authoritarianism in Ancient Rome and Beyond**

"_This book gathers together Roman historians with political scientists and scholars of other periods of authoritarian takeover to explore how open and democratic political systems have historically fallen prey to autocrats._"

🔗 doi.org/10.1515/9783111705446.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Ancient #History #Histodons #PoliticalScience #Authoritarianism #Romans #Empire #RomanEmpire #Imperialism #Academia #Academics @politicalscience @histodons

De Gruyter BrillHow Republics DieAuthoritarianism is everywhere on the advance; democracies seem fragile and threatened. We console ourselves that where rule by the people has long established itself, it has never collapsed from internal causes. Except it did, once: in Rome. This book gathers together Roman historians with political scientists and scholars of other periods of authoritarian takeover to explore how open and democratic political systems have historically fallen prey to autocrats. The Late Roman Republic is the main focus, with a mix of large-scale thematic and analytical chapters paired with more detailed case studies, from some of the leading scholars in the field. Other chapters widen the scope, analysing comparable cases from ancient Athens to Napoleon to Hitler’s Germany and Franco’s Spain. The book as a whole draws on contemporary political science scholarship on democratic decay and competitive authoritarianism. It shows that these concepts are not only applicable to modern states, but that we can properly use them to study past democratic collapses as well. This provides the tools for a more historically-informed understanding of how republics die, as part of a renewed conversation between historians and political scientists.
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A sixth-century little ice age may have contributed to the collapse of the Roman Empire

The fall of the Western Roman Empire has baffled historians for centuries, and explanations have ranged from corruption and political collapse to military defeat and economic collapse...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/04/lit

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A sixth-century little ice age may have contributed to the collapse of the Roman Empire The fall of the Western Roman Empire has baffled historians for centuries, and explanations have ranged from corruption and political collapse to military defeat and economic collapse. Now, new evidence suggests a surprise factor: a brief but intense climate crisis known as the Late Antique Little Ice Age may have helped deliver a deathblow to an already faltering empire...
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Gladiator mauled by lion 1,800 years ago in Roman Britain, study finds

Archaeologists have revealed strong evidence that bloody events once occurred in Roman Britain, far from Rome’s great amphitheaters. A recently examined skeleton from York, England, thought to be from the third century CE, displays unmistakable signs of a fatal encounter with a large predatory cat, perhaps a lion...

More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/04/gla

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Gladiator mauled by lion 1,800 years ago in Roman Britain, study finds Archaeologists have revealed strong evidence that bloody events once occurred in Roman Britain, far from Rome’s great amphitheaters. A recently examined skeleton from York, England, thought to be from the third century CE, displays unmistakable signs of a fatal encounter with a large predatory cat, perhaps a lion. The discovery represents what researchers describe as the first physical evidence of human-animal combat from the Roman era anywhere in Europe... More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/04/gladiator-mauled-by-lion-in-roman-britain/
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DoomsdaysCW

Yes, let's have a BIG MILITARY PARADE! I'm sure all the military personnel just LOVE TRUMP...NOT! Let's show Trump what a real "parade" looks like on June 14th!

Trump's VA strands thousands of veterans by ending a key mortgage program

May 1, 2025

npr.org/2025/05/01/nx-s1-53824

Army plans for a potential parade on Trump’s birthday call for 6,600 soldiers, AP learns

May 1, 2025

apnews.com/article/army-parade

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First Roman bridgehead fort discovered in Austria solves ‘Deserted Castle’ mystery

Archaeologists have found the first confirmed Roman bridgehead fort ever discovered in Austria, positioned in the Danube floodplains near the site named “Ödes Schloss” close to Stopfenreuth in Lower Austria...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/04/fir

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First Roman bridgehead fort discovered in Austria solves ‘Deserted Castle’ mystery Archaeologists have found the first confirmed Roman bridgehead fort ever discovered in Austria, positioned in the Danube floodplains near the site named “Ödes Schloss” close to Stopfenreuth in Lower Austria. The discovery, led by researchers at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the Carnuntum Archaeological Park, reveals interesting new insights into the Roman Empire’s northern defense line and its control over trade routes such as the Amber Road.
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Researchers analyze 4,000 Roman bricks to uncover the building secrets of the ancient metropolis of Trier

A new interdisciplinary research project will investigate the organization of ancient building material production in the Roman city of Trier, an important city in the northern provinces of the empire...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/04/res

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Researchers analyze 4,000 Roman bricks to uncover the building secrets of the ancient metropolis of Trier A new interdisciplinary research project will investigate the organization of ancient building material production in the Roman city of Trier, an important city in the northern provinces of the empire...
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DoomsdaysCW

We all know what happened to the #RomanEmpire when they started to f*ck over veterans...!

Who Will Pay for The Damage That #DOGE Has Done to Our #Veterans?

Reports are starting to show that DOGE has cost the federal government far more than it has saved. Will anyone ever be held accountable?

by Michael Embrich, April 21, 2025

"Lives ruined. #GIBill #mortgages heading into default, mass firings of #veterans across the government, and 80,000 job cuts coming to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, all in the name of supposed cost savings sought by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. But a new U.S. Treasury Department report shows that the Trump administration has spent $155 billion more than Joe Biden at the same point in his presidency.

"DOGE claims to have saved the government $150 billion, which most experts doubt. Even if you accept their own dubious accounting, the grand total of savings to the federal government under Donald Trump amounts to negative $5 billion.

"As the MAGA faithful make their plans for the $5,000 DOGE refund checks that will never come, the reality is that Trump and Musk have ruined the lives of countless veterans and will destroy the lives of countless more — all for the sake of throwing red meat to their Truth Social and X internet flunkies.

"When all is said and done — when the veteran suicide rate spikes, and when American taxpayers are burdened with billions in defaulted VA loans from fired veteran and disabled veteran federal employees — will anyone from the Trump administration or Musk be held accountable? I’m not counting on it. But if no one is held accountable for this absolute crime committed on the backs of our nation’s veterans, why would any American ever raise their hand to serve their government again, knowing they could be treated so poorly and so callously?

"As Musk gets trolled in his video game chat rooms for being the epic loser that he is, Musk can always just rage quit, shut the game off, and go spend his vast fortune alone. But for the many veterans he has destroyed and the other federal employees who support veterans, whom he mocked by quoting the movie Office Space, it won’t be so easy. They will need to start over. They will need to find new jobs. They will lose it all, further hurting the American economy that Musk’s boss is currently destroying.

"Democrat or Republican, you should go to jail if you break campaign finance laws. Make the Supreme Court jump through hoops. If they bring down another Citizens United ruling, Congress can just draft new legislation with different wording. Show them all that we will not stand for billionaires hijacking democracy.

"Elected leaders, if you really care about America and you really care about veterans, now is the time to risk it all, even your office, for democracy. If you can’t see that, then we don’t deserve democracy, and no one will ever be held accountable for the heinous crimes they have committed against our most esteemed citizens, our veterans."

Original article:
rollingstone.com/politics/poli

Archived version:
archive.ph/6tQTx

A protester shouts during a "Veterans March" at the National Mall on March 14, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Rolling Stone · Who Will Pay for the Damage That DOGE Has Done to Our Veterans?By Michael Embrich
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🇬🇧 **Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals**

“_Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons took advantage of famine and societal breakdown caused by an extreme period of drought to inflict crushing blows on weakened Roman defences in 367 CE. While Rome eventually restored order, some historians argue that the province never fully recovered._”

🔗 cam.ac.uk/research/news/extrem.

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University of CambridgeExtreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study revealsThree consecutive years of drought contributed to the ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’, a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led study
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Rare Roman gold coin found in Scottish Borders to be displayed

A rare 2,000-year-old Roman gold coin is now on display at the Trimontium Museum in Melrose. The aureus, dating from 114-117 CE, was unearthed at Newstead in the Scottish Borders and is now on loan from National Museums Scotland. The exhibition “Trajan’s Aureus” opens on 3 April and runs until the end of the year...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/04/rar

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Rare Roman gold coin found in Scottish Borders to be displayed A rare 2,000-year-old Roman gold coin is now on display at the Trimontium Museum in Melrose. The aureus, dating from 114-117 CE, was unearthed at Newstead in the Scottish Borders and is now on loan from National Museums Scotland. The exhibition “Trajan’s Aureus” opens on 3 April and runs until the end of the year. The obverse of the coin features a portrait of Emperor Trajan, while the reverse shows the Parthian king surrendering to a Roman ruler. This “propaganda image” shows Trajan’s campaigns in the Parthian Empire, a powerful Iranian dynasty that ruled vast territories across the Middle East and Central Asia. The Parthians were traditional rivals of the Roman Empire, with whom they had fought many wars, such as the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BCE, where they devastatingly defeated Crassus’ Roman army...
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GRK 2571 - Empires

Check out the newly published conference report “The Empire and I: Individuals in Empires and Postimperial Spaces”! The conference was organised by @GRK2571 at @unifreiburg (28–30 Nov 2024).

Written by Lara Forster & Kaja Plate, it explores personal perspectives on imperial frameworks.

🔗Read it here: t1p.de/conf-rep-24

@dfg_public @histodons @histodon #empires #histodon #histodons #conference #postimperial #academicpublishing #imperialbiographies #socialmobility #romanempire #ottomanhistory #habsburgempire #colonialhistory #genderedspaces #globalhistory #institutions #earlymodernhistory

H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften"The Empire and I"As renewed imperial ambitions endanger our modern democratic systems, imperial research takes stronger interest in individuals and their actions inside imperial structures. While history has traditionally focused on the actions of “Great Men”, imperial studies now also focus on the entirety of imperial agents and subjects.
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Roman-era battlefield mass grave unearthed beneath Vienna soccer field

Archaeologists unearthed a mass grave of at least 129 people in Vienna, which may have been the result of a catastrophic battle in the late first century CE. The discovery, made during the renovation of a soccer field in the Simmering district last autumn, is one of the most significant finds from Roman warfare in Central Europe...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/04/rom

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Roman-era battlefield mass grave unearthed beneath Vienna soccer field Archaeologists unearthed a mass grave of at least 129 people in Vienna, which may have been the result of a catastrophic battle in the late first century CE. The discovery, made during the renovation of a soccer field in the Simmering district last autumn, is one of the most significant finds from Roman warfare in Central Europe...
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Mass Migration & the Echoes of Late Rome
consortiumnews.com/2025/04/10/
In its greed for power, domination, resources and wealth, the West, says John Wight, is headed for the same fate as Rome all those centuries ago. By John Wight Special to Consortium News The ancient world can teach us much,…
#Politics #AncientWorld #Commentary #Europe #Immigration #IncomeInequality #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #Barbarians #BorderControl #JohnWight #PresidentDonaldTrump #Refugees #RomanEmpire

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