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At the same time he realized that the future French nation was heavily influenced by the Roman victory and centuries of rule over Gaul. In 1838 an inscription IN ALISIIA was discovered near Alise-Sainte-Reine in the department Côte-d'Or near Dijon. Napoleon III ordered an archaeological excavation by Eugène Stoffel around Mont-Auxois. These ...
The archaeological evidence for Mithraism in Roman Gaul is scarce, and in the northwest region of the country, [B 10] [B 40] it is virtually absent. In May 2010 [B 34] or May 2011, a sanctuary was identified in Angers. [1] The Jort reliefs are a "rare witness to the penetration of the Mithraic cult," [C 6] even into a small vicus.
The Roman establishment of Anderitum as a planned town probably occurred during the reign of Augustus, around 15 BC, which was a common practice for many civitas capitals at that time. This coincided with the emperor's third visit to Gaul. [14] Archaeological findings such as road segments and numerous dupondii coins from Nîmes support this ...
Gaul was invaded after 120 BC by the Cimbri and the Teutons, who were in turn defeated by the Romans by 103 BC. Julius Caesar finally subdued the largest part of Gaul in his campaigns of 58 to 51 BC. Roman control of Gaul lasted for five centuries, until the last Roman rump state, the Domain of Soissons, fell to the Franks in AD 486.
The Roman geographical area of Armorica. The Seine and the Loire are marked in red. In ancient times, Armorica or Aremorica (Gaulish: Aremorica; Breton: Arvorig [arˈvoːrik]; French: Armorique) was a region of Gaul between the Seine and the Loire that includes the Brittany Peninsula, and much of historical Normandy.
Archaeologists mapped 57 Roman-era sites in Spain with advanced tech, revealing a hidden ancient empire and its interconnected trade routes. Work continues on the ground.
The altar of the Sanctuary of the Three Gauls, on a dupondius issued under Augustus (Musée d'archéologie nationale de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, inv. 2396 N). The Sanctuary of the Three Gauls (Tres Galliae) (French: Sanctuaire fédéral des Trois Gaules) was the focal structure within an administrative and religious complex established by Rome in the very late 1st century BC at Lugdunum (the ...
Cenabum was the most important towns of the Carnutes, its port was the commercial outlet for the grain they produced in the Beauce, north-west of the town.The town had strong fortifications, dry moats, earth palisades and also controlled a bridge over the Loire, one of considerable economic and strategic importance, attested to have been built before the Roman conquest.