Belmont Hill Classics

04/18/2023

Video game fans will be able to construct their own ancient Greek city in the upcoming strategy sandbox game Builders of Greece.

03/02/2023

Archaeologists have found ancient Roman "barbed wire," famously used and written about by Julius Caesar, for the first time near a German silver mine.

04/17/2022

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/digging-up-viking-history-britain-180979790/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR3KTflQRGZHOiP6ecYyX_RtEoG1vq9h3gFX6cu-dSLvx2gzHzzYyFSIC2U

A massive 1,100-year-old graveyard leads to a surprising new view of the Nordic legacy in Britain

03/09/2022

https://www.wsj.com/articles/horatius-at-the-bridge-in-ukraine-story-military-bravery-lesson-teacher-romans-virtus-11646594120?st=5sum8uuzf37ghke&reflink=desktopwebshare_facebook&fbclid=IwAR00ICtWF_eW9-Gql1SdOceKONUdXOn03wxm95gP_2rRCXtWshxOzvsZd30

A 25-year-old soldier’s sacrifice helps me realize at last why we read Livy’s story in Latin class.

03/03/2022

https://www.belmonthill.org/about/news-events/story/~board/news/post/outstanding-achievements-from-national-classics-translation-exam

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01/11/2022

https://www.yahoo.com/news/badger-hunting-food-instead-unearths-113000633.html

The coins were likely dug up by a badger searching for food during the vast snowstorm​ which paralyzed Spain last year.

05/10/2021

https://www.thecollector.com/atalanta-mythological-greek-heroine/?fbclid=IwAR19rh9eo-Y_MsPvcAi_r7Gsnk-629dTJH8AZW32mwzVAQGvRDAK1ILuFNA

Atalanta in Greek Mythology was a legendary heroine who defied the expectations of her time and pursued life under her own terms.

05/10/2021

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2

This isn't another story about that dress, rather it's about the way that humans see the world.

03/30/2021

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive

Glacier cores reveal Icelandic volcano that plunged Europe into darkness

03/27/2021

The duration of the pyroclastic currents that hit Pompeii during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD lasted about fifteen minutes: the volcanic ashes, inhaled by the inhabitants, were fatal, causing asphyxiation.

03/09/2021

In our now annual tradition, we are re-posting this list with more names and updated links. Most of the evidence for these authors has been collected only in Wikipedia. I have added new translation…

02/21/2021

Seawater is the secret behind the strength of the Pantheon and Colosseum