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4 days ago · By Greco-Roman times, popular food plants of today, including grapes, apples, figs, and olives, were being listed as named varieties in early manuscripts. Botanical authority William Stearn has observed that " cultivated plants are mankind's most vital and precious heritage from remote antiquity ".
5 days ago · A group of amateur archaeologists found a mysterious 12-sided dodecahedron in England near an ancient Roman villa. No one knows their purpose.
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5 days ago · Given that there were approximately 9500 churches in England by 1200, they were extremely numerous — and, unsurprisingly, some were better than others. John Schorn, a 14th-century Buckinghamshire rector who supposedly cast the devil into a boot, was widely venerated as an unofficial saint.
4 days ago · Roman numerals on stern of the ship Cutty Sark showing draught in feet. The numbers range from 13 to 22, from bottom to top. Part of a series on Numeral systems Place-value notation Hindu–Arabic numerals Western Arabic Eastern Arabic Bengali Devanagari Gujarati Gurmukhi Odia Sinhala Tamil Malayalam Telugu Kannada Dzongkha Tibetan Balinese Burmese Javanese Khmer Lao Mongolian Sundanese Thai ...
5 days ago · At roughly the same time, the Han Chinese and the Romans both invented the wheeled odometer device for measuring distances traveled, the Roman model first described by the Roman civil engineer and architect Vitruvius (c. 80 BC – c. 15 BC).
2 days ago · Literary Review covers the most important and interesting books published each month, from history and biography to fiction and travel. The magazine was founded in 1979 and is based in central London.
5 days ago · In their earliest forms, British Shorthairs were imported by Romans in the 1st-century AD when they settled along the British coast. They were kept in Roman camps, possibly to clear pests and...
