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Fascinating.

No surprise. It's now been found that Napoleon's army was rotten with typhus etc before he got to Moscow.

Notre Dame was a bastion of orthodoxy, as was Paris. Hence the phrase Paris is well worth a mass.

Wow she had a big brief!

Or a wealthy builder

They're blue, must be ancient UN soldiers

Nah it's in Switzerland. The gladiators would have refused to fight.

In the 1930s a Dr was sent to Haworth, former home of the Brontes to find out why the rate of mortality was so high. He couldn't find anything obvious till he called on one woman to find her daughter vomiting up a pint of stomach worms and blood. When asked why she hadn't thought to mention this the...

It has been claimed that hundreds possibly thousands of crosses were erected in East Anglia after Boudicca's rebellion.

Where can one get some of these slaves?

Didn't do em any harm.

Scepticism is worthy but it can go to far. Not sure they had Au Pairs in ancient Pompeii. Presumably someone was looking after the transport, though of course it remains an assumption

Scepticism is worthy but it can go to far. Not sure they had Au Pairs in ancient Pompeii. Presumably someone was looking after the transport, though of course it remains an assumption

Mary Beard, cynicism personified, also questioned the automatic assumption these were "slave" quarters, though she says maybe these peoiple were thought of as part of the chariot and horses get up. At Vindolanda the cavalry quarters were tiny. Especially when one was told that as far as co...

Lost, undiscovered, etc - usually except to the local people who may have known for thousands of years.