Gladiators mosaic If you're a teacher, parent, or day camp counselor thinking of spending a week or so on ancient Rome, here's some ideas for Roman activities other people have [...]
Roman helmet, from the kids at Laurelhurst School, Portland, Oregon Although the Romans did many other things besides fight battles, certainly one of their greatest achievements was the world's first [...]
A wax tablet from ancient Rome What were wax tablets used for? People in ancient Greece, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval Europe often used wax tablets to write [...]
Gladiators mosaic First read the account of a day at the games on the page about Roman gladiators. Then, how about putting together a play showing the events of the [...]
Or you can get this lovely set of wooden blocks to build a Colosseum with A lot of people seem to want to build models of the Roman Colosseum for [...]
Roman aqueduct at Nimes, France Aqueducts were the most famous way the Romans used arches, but they really used arches in all their buildings. With an arch, you could build [...]
You can get a kit for making a mosaic from Amazon Why not try making a Roman mosaic? You can make a simple mosaic just with black and white pebbles, [...]
Or just order this kit from Amazon, which comes with everything all ready! Why not try making something out of cement yourself? Here is the recipe for cement: You'll need [...]
What is marble? A Cycladic figurine from Ancient Greece in marble, once realistically painted. What is marble made out of? Marble is metamorphic limestone . That is, marble is a metamorphic rock [...]
A Samnite man cutting the bronze pins off a newly poured lost wax statue. This is the only ancient image of lost wax casting; it's from Pompeii, about 400 BC. [...]
