Decoding the Roman Dead

The Ancients

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🗓️ 25 July 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Often known as ‘Britain’s first town’, Colchester is a city rich in ancient history and on 24 July 2021, a new exhibition will open at the Colchester Museum revealing more about some of its earliest Roman occupants. Called ‘Decoding the Roman Dead’, the exhibition focuses around cremations found in the area around Colchester dating to almost 2,000 years ago. Thanks to new scientific methods, the team have been able to analyse these burnt remains and find out some astonishing details about who these people were. From gender to pathology to where in the Roman Empire these people came from. To talk all about the new exhibition, and to shine a light on the wealth of information archaeologists can learn from ancient cremations, Tristan chatted to Dr Carolina Lima and Glynn Davis. Carolina and Glynn are two of the curators of the exhibition.

To find out more, visit their website: https://colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/dtrd/

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0:00.0	It's the ancient's on history hit, I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's
0:07.4	podcast well this weekend we see the opening of a brand new exhibition at the
0:14.0	Colchester Museum it is called decoding the dead all about some incredible
0:20.1	archaeological work that has gone on looking at the remains of some ancient
0:24.8	Roman cremations discovered in the area around Colchester in this podcast I
0:31.4	chatted to two of the curators of this new exhibition Carolina Lima and
0:36.6	Glinn Davis it was wonderful to chat to both of them in person about this new
0:42.0	exhibition and I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I did recording it so
0:46.6	that further do here's Carolina and here's Glenn
0:55.8	Glenn Carolina thank you so much both for coming on the podcast you're
1:00.6	welcome it's great to be here thanks for having us now no problem at all because
1:04.9	you and your team decoding the dead this incredible project at the Colchester
1:08.9	Museum normally in ancient history ancient Mediterranean history we have to
1:12.5	focus on the big names the big figures who've got all this literature
1:16.3	surviving about and some archaeology surviving about emperors Alexander the
1:20.0	great etc but you guys you're doing the awesome job you are looking at
1:25.1	archaeology that is telling us more about these everyday people from this
1:30.1	early stage in Colchester's Roman history well yeah I think this is what this
1:35.3	is what archaeology can do best I think it can get down to that individual I
1:39.5	mean we often talk about the Romans don't we this homogenous group but who
1:44.1	were the Romans and I think by looking into collection such as ours at Colchester
1:49.1	we've got a fantastic Roman collection and indeed elements of it that have
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