Sentences with phrase «roman iron age»

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Mitchell: So the Romans were very well known for the sanitation that they developed and spread across the Roman Empire, so before the time of the Romans we don't see toilets and things like that in Iron Age and Bronze Age Europe.

So we looked at endoparasites; these are parasitic worms and single - cell parasites that cause dysentery, for example, and looked at all the archaeological evidence for these right across the Roman Empire compared with the evidence in the Bronze and Iron Age, but before the Roman Empire.

Among them were the massive foundations of the first Iron Age sanctuary, numerous monumental architectural fragments of the Roman main temple, but also the extensive ruins of an important Byzantine monastery which was built by followers of the Christian faith after the fall of the ancient sanctuary.

According to Prof. Winter, «The stele provides information on how ancient oriental traditions survived the epochs from the Iron Age to the age of the Romans.&raqAge to the age of the Romans.&raqage of the Romans.»

In the field season 2014, the 60 - strong excavation team uncovered finds from all periods of the 2,000 - year history of the cult site, such as the thick enclosing wall of the first Iron Age sanctuary or the foundations of the main Roman temple of the god Jupiter Dolichenus, who became one of the most important deities of the Roman Empire in the 2nd century A.D.. His sanctuary is situated close to the town of Gaziantep on the 1,200 metres (3,900 feet) high mountain of Dülük Baba Tepesi.

These crop marks reveal tracks leading to ditched enclosures, some with circular houses, from an Iron Age Roman settlement.

The battles near Alken Enge were waged during that part of the Iron Age when major changes were taking place in Northern Europe because the Roman Empire was expanding northwards, putting pressure on the Germanic tribes.

The study found fish tapeworm eggs to be surprisingly widespread in the Roman Period compared to Bronze and Iron Age Europe.

However, new archaeological research has revealed that — for all their apparently hygienic innovations — intestinal parasites such as whipworm, roundworm and Entamoeba histolytica dysentery did not decrease as expected in Roman times compared with the preceding Iron Age, they gradually increased.

Discover Greek history from the Palaeolithic age, through the Bronze and Iron Ages and the Classical, Roman and Byzantine years to the 1821 revolution.

There is a group of primitive hand tools variously from the stone, bronze and iron ages; medieval floor tiles and an anglo - saxon skull, a 19th century boat nail and fragments of timber from a Roman barn.

During the cooler Iron Age the glacier began to grow, but rapidly retreated during the warm spike of the Roman Warm Period.