It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I am very interested in the ancient world. So what could be cooler than to be featured in a very specialised book about the ancient world? Well, when I say featured, I mean that one of my photographs was included in an academic book. I went…
Category: Ancient Rome
Academic Update
I’m a big fan of education and I truly believe in the value of lifelong learning. Not just learning for professional development but also learning for personal development and intellectual curiosity. Many people seem to think that the ultimate aim of any learning has to be a higher salary. While monetary rewards are important for…
Evoke
The dictionary defines the verb evoke as “to call forth or up” I like the word “evoke”. Something about that word by itself is very evocative of bringing back something good. A picture evokes a pleasant holiday by the beach. A smell brings forth a long lost memory. A fragment of music calls up our…
Epistles from Roman times
Thinking about some of the ancient letters and documents from Roman times found at Vindolanda including link to latest research.
Professional validation of an amateur hobby
My experience in summer school earlier this year.
Conspicuous Commensuality
I was reading a book on Ancient Mesapotamia yesterday when for the first time in my life I came across the term ‘Conspicuous Commesuality’ in the context of exquisite pottery remains from the Chalcolithic age being found during excavations. Almost as if expecting some bafflement, the author explains that it is a “precursor to ‘conspicuous…
A storm is coming
If you are like me, the words ‘a storm is coming’ would have immediately transported you to Howard Shore’s brilliant opening track for the Return of the King (the third installment of the Lord of the Rings). Anybody who went ‘Game of Thrones’ can please get their coats and leave. However, my title today had…
2772 years ago
Legend has it that Rome was founded on 21 April 753 BCE. It is a legend. Nobody knows for sure when someone put a hut up on the Palatine Hill but we need a date to mark the anniversary of the Eternal city and 21st April it is. The four images below which I captured…
The Roman Theatre of Merida
The Roman theatre of Merida was built during the reign of Augustus. There is an inscription in the theatre which reads M. Agrippa L.F. cos III. trib. pot. III Roughly meaning that Marcus Agrippa, Son of Lucius, three times consul, in the third year of his tribunician powers (built this). With this information, historians have…
Sukanya Ramanujan 