Selected Articles
The Punic Warship: An Amazing Find by Hafise Hattusilis
Bod Mod in the Ancient World by Seshat Baket

Featured Groups
Balbas Scriptor is proud to announce two new groups:

Coinage Through the Ages discusses coins from Greco-Roman times to the present.
Macintoshium discusses everything Macintosh except for the apples with the same name.
Take a look at both groups for no other reason than I told you.

Featured member
Decius Aemilius is one of two new Roman scribes. He was drawn to AncientSites when he discovered SPQR. A month later, he discoved that there was a whole site attached to the game and has been with us ever since. In real life, he has a B.A. in history with a minor in Classical Antiquity. If you want information about Ancient Rome, talk to this lovely man and all your questions will be answered. He'll be around for a while. As he puts it, "No one ever leaves AS/AW."

Ladies and gentlemen, the time we've been waiting for us upon us. The hoods are now accepting residences and people have already started to move in.

Yes, there is now a use for all that sestarii that was just sitting around. Prices start at 500 and go all the way to a magificant home for 7500. Citizens and under are allowed only the basic house. At press time the difference in the various forms of houses were unavailable, so please ask a dei if you have questions.

Several neighborhoods lack mayors, so if you have an interest, please talk to one of the scribes. As for me, feel free to visit my little home in the Mons Palatinus for wine and cakes.

It is my great pleasure to announce that Rome has acquired two new scribes: Decius Aemilius and Livia Servilius. Livia is the creator of Vilia Livia, a quite well known source of Roman information and a very pretty site. I wish both of them good luck and a very happy scribehood.

Narbo Roca stopped by the HBO Rome board to drop off a miserable update: Only two seasons!?! Rumour has it that HBO is limiting this stellar tv show to just two seasons. Let's hope for once Hollywood rumours prove untrue! Just don't tell Titus Pullo, who's already planning an HBO Rome dedicated 'hood.

On a related note, the thread My favorite scenes from HBO's Rome is your place to argue over how you liked Cleopatra's opium smoking, Cicero's smouldering looks or Livia's latest hairdo. Have your own opinion on this? Why not share it in the thread.

Etruscan enthusiasts will be interested to hear about the lastest dig on a remote hilltop in Cetamura, where a "monumental" building has been uncovered dating to the final days of the great Etruscan civilization complete with a rubbish pit full of sacrificial animals. Read the full story..

Speaking of Etruscans, ever wonder if the place-name Tuscany is derived from the Etruscans? Well it may be, but the current population apparantly isn't! Read the full story..