Decoding the Roman Dead

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 31 July 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

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 on 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 from our Sibling podcast The Ancients chatted to Dr Carolina Lima and Dr 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	Hi everyone, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit.
0:03.8	We have a sibling podcast over here, history hit called The Entrance.
0:07.2	Just about ancient history, not just the Mediterranean basin, they do pollination history, African,
0:12.3	Central American history as well, but broadly speaking it's ancient.
0:16.2	So it's going back a couple thousand years looking at some of the most remarkable civilizations,
0:21.8	peoples, buildings, warfare, cultures and religions in our early history.
0:27.3	It's presented by Tristan Hughes, a Tristorian, we call them in the office.
0:31.7	And it's got a massive following.
0:33.0	I mean, there's a lot of proper, proper ancient heads out there.
0:35.9	I've got to say, this podcast is not for the faint hearted.
0:38.7	You've got to be into ancient history to listen to this.
0:40.9	And that's why it's proving so popular, don't mess about, don't patronize.
0:45.0	This episode went bonkers on their feet, so I thought I'd bring it over and give it
0:47.7	airing on my feet.
0:50.0	Tristan chatted to Dr. Carolina Limmer and Glenn Davis, their two curators of the Culture
0:55.4	District Museum and they're decoding the Roman dead.
0:59.1	I'm heading to Culture to see to meet these guys, putting some filming for history at
1:02.1	TV as well.
1:03.1	But they are learning things by looking at the cremations of Roman dead in Culture
1:07.7	to HQ of Rome's occupation, Britain.
1:11.2	And it is absolutely fascinating.
1:12.9	This one went bonkers on Tristan's feet.
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