I’m continuing my research on gladiatorial combats for this brief but important scene featuring Gaius, Marcia, and the rest of the...

In draft Chapter 5 of Games of Rome, Gaius and Publius attend an audience with Emperor Trajan in one of the most grand and relatively...

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trajans-column-sheds-light-womens-role-ancient-roman-army-1484082? JPK #RomanFactoidsandResearch

January 3rd is the traditional date of the Compitalia festival, one of the oldest communal celebrations of ancient Roman religion. The...

JPK http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/assembly-of-romans-finally-comes-to-light.aspx?pageID=238&nID=75980&NewsCatID=375...

DAMN! This is the biggest archaeological news to come of out Rome in a while! A massive agricultural operation dated to the late...

A description (with fab photos) of Trajan’s place of death in Turkey, an ancient city known as Selinus: http://turkisharchaeonews.net/sit...

Oh, how I love maps! This new one is going to come in handy dandy. Want to see where some of the locations in Dominus are in the Roman...

Have to love this one. Now my brain is buzzing about how I might include this in the story. 🙂 http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/10/2...

Yes, I’m rather obsessed with this at the moment, but even the mere suggestion that the Amphipolis tomb might have been the sepulcher of...

NY Times article on the destruction of archaeological sites and monuments in Syria and northern Iraq. Even though this has happened...

New photos from the tomb at Amphipolis. Look at that stonework. Someone pretty damn important (and wealthy) was buried there....

If there is one thing archaeologists like to do more than dig, it is debate, often fiercely. And no one debates with more passion than...

Yes, I finally have one of my own. The walls of the tiny bedroom that once belonged to my sprouts is now mine; the walls are painted, the...

The Roman Empire in the year that Trajan died while on campaign in the east. Click on the image for a larger version....

“This panoply of war trophies was misidentified during the Renaissance as “Trophei di Mario” (Trophies of Marius), referring to Gaius...