Carlisle's Roman History subject of new website- September 28, 2006 News & Star: "CARLISLES Roman history is the subject of an interactive website launched at Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery yesterday.The website for primary school teachers and pupils, is an informative resource for teachers as well as having child-friendly activities which deliver information on the Romans in the area.An interactive map details what the Romans were doing and where, in relation to modern Carlisle, and there is a reconstruction of a skull found at an excavation site at the.http://uoregon.edu/~mharrsch/2006/09/carlisles-roman-history-subject-of-new.html Teaching Company's new course on Classical Archaeology fascinating- September 8, 2006 I'm presently listening to the Teaching Company's new course on Classical Greek and Roman archaeology and am enjoying it immensely. I had no idea that Sir William Hamilton, husband of the Emma Hamilton who was the paramour of Admiral Horatio Nelson, was the man that really began the serious study of Greek vases. I also found it interesting that the lecturer, Dr. John Hale of the University of Louisville, observed that the original Bourbon-sponsored excavation at Herculaneum under the...http://uoregon.edu/~mharrsch/2006/09/teaching-companys-new-course-on.html |