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Vindolanda Tablets with Roman cursive writing beside a frontier fort context in Britain

Vindolanda Tablets: Everyday Letters From Roman Britain

May 02-By Caiden Pannell

Vindolanda tablets preserve Roman frontier letters, from birthday invitations to army reports, showing daily life and evidence limits at an outpost.

Sextus Julius Frontinus

Sextus Julius Frontinus: Rome’s General of Aqueducts

Sep 18, 2025-By Caiden Pannell

Sextus Julius Frontinus served as Roman general, augur, and curator aquarum. De aquaeductu and Strategemata reveal a career of war, water, and order.

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