Rome’s Rise to Power as Deduced by Analysis of Silver Coinage
Paper a at the International Goldschmidt conference (Paris).
Assistant Professor Thomas Birch is lead co-author on a paper being presented at the International Goldschmidt Conference in Paris - the biggest geoscience/geology conference worldwide (over 4000 delegates).
Paper by Westner, K.J., Birch, T., Höfer, H., Seitz, H.-M., Kemmers, F. & Klein, S.
Abstract: https://goldschmidt.info/2017/abstracts/abstractView?id=2017004438
Links:
https://www.livescience.com/60141-ancient-coins-trace-rome-rising-power.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172vj2b3vh20gv
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/coin-reveals-when-rome-became-empire
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/14/roman-coins-analysis-tells-hannibal-defeat-rome-rise
http://www.mining.com/ancient-coins-show-empire-shifted-carthage-rome/