Roman Medical and surgical instruments

It is interesting that apart from the materials from which they were made the Roman doctor /surgeons instrument kit resembles … More

Roman springs and Coins

At the recent Roman health and medicine symposium I attended there was an excellent talk by Prof Eberhard Sauer (Edinburgh … More

I attended an interesting meeting at the weekend on health and medicine in the Roman Empire. One of the presentations … More

Probably the most fascinating thing about the Villa is the finding of a cult room in a cellar. The original … More

One of the most interesting features of this villa is the central dining room and its mosaics. These date from … More

Visited Lullingstone Roman villa which is situated in Eynsford in Kent. photo by Scott (http://www.flickr.com/photos/protactinium/) One of the unique features … More

All these examples are from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford

When I was in Oxford recently I attended a series of lecture on Inscriptions from Aphrodisias. This was a city … More

The Ashmolean Museum in the centre of Oxford has the distinction of being the worlds first University Museum dating back … More

Many of the Mosaics from the 4th Century CE villa at Halicarnassus featured hunting scenes of wild animals These scenes … More