References
Videos for further exploration
Ancient Rome in 20 minutes
Ancient Rome reproduced in 3D simulators
What would it be like to live in Ancient Rome?
The Information Warriors of Ancient Rome
How did Rome control its empire?
Education in Ancient Rome
Proving Identity in Ancient Rome
Links for further learning
Tom Standage, Writing on the Wall: Social Media – The First 2,000 Years
Tom Standage reveals that social media is anything but a new phenomenon.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/scribes-of-rome/81D365344760EB73F4DC56E7AF3C0E63
Benjamin Hartmann, The Scribes of Rome. A Cultural and Social History of the Scribae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindolanda_tablets
The Vindolanda tablets record official military matters as well as personal messages to and from members of the garrison of Vindolanda, their families, and their slaves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Caecilius_Iucundus
Lucius Caecilius Iucundus (born c. 14 A.D., fl. 79 A.D.) was a banker who lived in the Roman town of Pompeii around 14 A.D.–79 A.D.
https://www.signetcircle.com.au/blogs/the-short-story-of-signet-rings/tagged/roman-signet-rings
Long before writing was common it was necessary to mark royal proclamations and legal documents with a monogram, the signet ring pressed into a warm wax puddle to identify the owner in place of a signature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher
Caesar’s code or Caesar shift, is one of the simplest and most widely known encryption techniques. It is a type of substitution cipher in which each letter in the plaintext is replaced by a letter some fixed number of positions down the alphabet.
Empire and Communications examines the impact of media such as stone, clay, papyrus, and the alphabet on the empires of Egypt and Babylonia. It also looks at the oral tradition in ancient Greece; the written tradition and the Roman Empire; the influence of parchment and paper in medieval Europe and the effects of paper and the printing press in modern times.
The Roman census
The Roman Law
Acta Diurna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Peutingeriana
Tabula Peutingeriana
Cursus Publicus
The birth and death of privacy 3000 years of history in 50 images
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/roman-toilets-may-actually-have-been-bad-public-health
Privacy in Rome
Emperor Valerian kept captive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empire
The End of Roman Empire in the West