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Sam Taw
Mar 12, 20236 min read
The Mysterious Man-made Caves Built by Iron Age Cornish Settlers
Fogous, a term derived from the Cornish word for cave, ‘ogo’, are a puzzling feature of the landscape for tourists, historians, and...
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Alistair Tosh
Mar 8, 20233 min read
Ancient Alamo? Blatobulgium Roman Fort
At some point around AD 155 the Roman fort of Blatobulgium was destroyed. The Roman army when abandoning one of its castra would, as a...
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Fiona Forsyth
Feb 23, 20232 min read
Forma Urbis - The Ancient Marble Map of Rome
In the basement of the Museum of Roman Civilisation in Rome is a pile of crates containing 1163 fragments of marble. These make up about...
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