Course: Rome: A Virtual Tour of the Ancient City

The population of Rome has been estimated at around a million people. Feeding a city of that size, in an era before mechanised transport or refrigeration, was an enormous undertaking. …

I join Professor Annalisa Marzano and Professor Peter Kruschwitz back in Reading’s Ure Museum, to discuss the remains of a tomb of a Roman baker called Eurysaces. Annalisa and Peter …

In this, the fifth of our ‘Encountering the Evidence videos’, I meet with Professor Peter Kruschwitz in the Ure Museum at the University of Reading to discuss inscriptions in Ancient …