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This may refer to a genuine Roman military expedition to Ireland. [11] Roman and Romano-British artefacts datable to the late 1st or early 2nd centuries have been found, primarily in Leinster and notably in a fortified site on the promontory of Drumanagh, fifteen miles north of Dublin, and burials on the nearby island of Lambay, both close to ...
Ireland (Ancient Greek: Ἰουερνία, romanized: Iouernía [1]: 142 [3] or Latin: Hibernia) was known to the Romans and may have been partially colonised by them. [2] Tacitus mentioned the island in his writings as "a small country in comparison with Britain, but larger than the islands of the Mediterranean. In soil and climate, and in the ...
The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD.. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.
Leo Wiener's Africa and the Discovery of America suggests similarities between the Mandinka people of West Africa and native Mesoamerican religious symbols such as the winged serpent and the sun disk, or Quetzalcoatl, and words that have Mandé roots and share similar meanings across both cultures, such as "kore", "gadwal", and "qubila" (in ...
In 60 AD, it is said that the Romans invaded Anglesey in Wales causing concerns across the Irish Sea, but there is a small controversy [26] on if they even set foot into Ireland. The closest Rome got to conquering Ireland was in 80 AD, when, according to Turtle Bunbury from the Irish Times, [27] "Túathal Techtmar, the son of a deposed high ...
The prehistory of Ireland included a protohistorical period, when the literate cultures of Greece and Rome began to take notice of it, and a further proto-literate period of ogham epigraphy, before the early historical period began in the 5th century.
The fall of Rome in 476 is a historical turning point that was invented nearly 50 years later as a pretext for a devastating war. In September of 476 AD, the barbarian commander Odoacer forced the ...
The ornamentation of portals in Ireland have distinctive elements of Celtic design as at the gabled portal of Clonfert Cathedral. [12] Side porches are common and are often the usual mode of entrance, the western portal only being opened for major festivals. [11] Blind arcading is used as a major decorative feature, often around internal walls ...