Antiquities Exhibits

Ancient Rome: The Empire That Shaped The World, January 10 to April 5, 2020 at the History Museum of Mobile, Alabama. The most incredible and useful machines and technology from ancient Roman designs have been brought to life for the first time in two thousand years! The exhibition covers the Roman Empire’s most impressive and innovative machines and constructions, including the catapult, early clocks and the secrets behind the incredible Colosseum. Read more about it: https://www.fox10tv.com/ancient-rome-the-empire-that-shaped-the-world-at-the/article_478ee1c6-3169-11ea-9fa0-ff3b6a00e05b.html

Ancient Rome: Epic Innovators and Engineers through April 26, 2020 at the Western Australia Museum in Perth. Beginning with the victory by Julius Caesar and his army over the Gauls in 52 BCE, this exhibit recreates the technological world of ancient Rome through meticulously reconstructed models and machinery used during the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Recreations include an onager, a catapult ca pable of hurling boulders weighing over 100 pounds more than 1600 feet as well as engineering instruments used to construct roads and aqueducts. Image: Recreation of a Roman onager capable of hurling 100 pound boulders more than 1600 feet. Image courtesy of the exhibition organizers.