The Ancient Romans: Their lives and their world

The Ancient Romans will introduce children to the people of the Roman empire. This is a highly visual resource book, packed with authentic pictures, that show first-hand how the people of ancient Rome and the wider empire lived and worked.The book will contain a wealth of images of people and the objects they made and used. It offers supporting information, describing and explaining the images and encouraging children to look at the photographs in detail. A special feature is the quotations from ancient Roman sources - ranging from the works of historians, writers and commentators to birthday invitations and letters home from soldiers at the frontier forts - that allow children to read about the Romans in their ownwords.Children will enjoy searching the images for clues and information and at the same time will learn to look carefully at objects and pictures from the past, just as archaeologists do.