Dr Caroline West writes about the earliest sex toys invented, and what they can tell us about how history remembers women.
Martin McAree has, by his own admission, enough artillery weapons, medical equipment, and helmets to supply a battlefield in ancient Rome. His home in Blackrock, Cork, might easily be mistaken for ...
In 1992, a 2000-year-old wooden ‘object’ was unearthed in the Roman Fort of Vindolanda ... But this is nowhere near the earliest recorded discovery. Toys found from around 500 BC were typically carved ...
Rounding up the miniature troops is no small feat for collector Shane Kent whose army of toy soldiers ... given the 200 model Roman soldiers, 120 barbarians, and 55-strong ancient Macedonian ...
The two toy swords are like those available in the Vindolanda gift shop Two Roman swords and a pair of ... a Vindolanda spokesman said it was the "ancient equivalent of a modern soldier abandoning ...
Roman children also played with toys and there have been some incredible ... Most children in the ancient world would grow up and do what their parents did. And by handing a child, especially ...