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The boats are blunt-ended like the punts still popular on conservative British rivers. Forty-five feet long by four feet wide, they were built of four-inch, hewn-oak planks, laced together with yew-fiber ropes, the seams caulked with moss. They showed that the ancient Britons were seagoing...
For Shaw, eying both his fanatical Christians and his playboy Romans, the bread is buttered on both sides. Yet for all Shaw's playfulness, the Christians are allowed their serious moments, and for all Shaw's amusement, they earn a measure of his respect. But he is mainly...
What other race did so much, so long, with so little, asks Archaeologist Morley proudly? Not the Incas or Aztecs, he says -and probably not the Egyptians, Persians, .Greeks, Romans, Chinese.
As one band tramped down the Salarian Way, along which Romans had once marched to capture the Sabine women and found ancient Rome, the grim thump of drums woke Adolfo Boscaini. Farmer Boscaini kept 200 milk cows, 600 sheep on 220 hectares (about 490 acres). His barns were freshly painted...
For nearly two thousand years, since the Romans first drove them into exile, Jews, wherever they were, dreamed wistfully of a return to Palestine, waited for the Messiah who was to lead them back. But by one of history's ironies it was not the religious fervor of Judaism...