About Us

Our Mission

Plato once said: ‘A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers’.

  • The first aim of the site is to create an ‘At a Glance’ understanding of Ancient Roman history by combining all the main facts about the Roman Period into one website and using a combination of Searchbox, Dropdowns and an Interactive Map.
  • The second aim is to present articles with simplicity and brevity. Users who want more detailed information on a specific subject should then refer to more academic encyclopedias and websites.
  • The third aim of the site is to show the location of the nearest Roman Monument or Museum holding Roman artefacts, to the traveller, with directions on how to get there using the interactive map.

Three ways to search the Site

  • Searchbox
    • If you know the searchword, there are over 4,000 webpages in the site which are searchable by typing the first four letters of the page title into the Searchbox.
    • Or to search the text of a page, tick ‘search in content’.
    • However, if you can’t find what you are looking for because you don’t know what searchword to enter, try the dropdowns.
  • Dropdowns
    • Surfing in two clicks. The site has multiple dropdowns located at the top of every page, which cover all subjects and all areas of the Roman Period at a glance.
    • Hover over a dropdown, choose a category, then click through to find the list of items in that category. If it isn’t there, select another category and another list of items and repeat until the search is successful.
  • Interactive Map
    • The fastest way to find the location of any Roman Monument, Battlefield, City or Museum with Roman artefacts, is to use the interactive map.
    • The map has its own Searchbox.
    • There is a Legend set to all categories. If the Legend is ‘unclicked’ and instead just one category selected such as ‘Amphitheatres’, then all the other icons disappear except for ‘Amphitheatres’, and only these icons are displayed on the map.
    • Location Maps on individual pages. Where possible, an article will have a map at the bottom of the page showing the location of the Monument, Battlefield, City or Museum. These will also appear on the Interactive Map.

Sources

  • The source for the information in an article is mentioned either in the article itself or at the bottom of the page.
  • Knowledge about the Romans comes partly from works by Roman Historians who will be quoted where possible. However, a large part of our knowledge also comes from Inscriptions on Roman tombstones, reliefs on monuments and archeological Finds.

Stop Press

  • New Archeology may sound like an Oxymoron, but important and exciting discoveries are being made all the time.
  • The Archeology News page has links to various news sites with the latest archeological discoveries.

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