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- Tue May 10, 2022 12:44 pm
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Phoenecian Site Found in Inland Spain
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3614
Re: Phoenecian Site Found in Inland Spain
Fascinating.
- Tue May 10, 2022 12:43 pm
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Dutch Find 18th Century British Cemetery
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3419
Re: Dutch Find 18th Century British Cemetery
No surprise. It's now been found that Napoleon's army was rotten with typhus etc before he got to Moscow.
- Wed Apr 27, 2022 4:33 am
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Archaeologists To Open Coffin Found At Notre Dame
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5126
Re: Archaeologists To Open Coffin Found At Notre Dame
Notre Dame was a bastion of orthodoxy, as was Paris. Hence the phrase Paris is well worth a mass.
- Wed Apr 27, 2022 4:29 am
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Bronze Age Statue Found in Gaza
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3524
Re: Bronze Age Statue Found in Gaza
Wow she had a big brief!
- Sun Apr 24, 2022 1:56 pm
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Archaeologists To Open Coffin Found At Notre Dame
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5126
Re: Archaeologists To Open Coffin Found At Notre Dame
Or a wealthy builder
- Wed Feb 09, 2022 3:38 am
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Now These Look Like Helmets
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3348
Re: Now These Look Like Helmets
They're blue, must be ancient UN soldiers
- Wed Feb 09, 2022 3:37 am
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Swiss Gladiatorial Arena Unearthed
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3166
Re: Swiss Gladiatorial Arena Unearthed
Nah it's in Switzerland. The gladiators would have refused to fight.
- Mon Jan 10, 2022 8:03 am
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: It's Good To Be The King - But Not Perfect
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3611
Re: It's Good To Be The King - But Not Perfect
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...
- Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:38 am
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Evidence of Crucifixion in Britain
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2947
Re: Evidence of Crucifixion in Britain
It has been claimed that hundreds possibly thousands of crosses were erected in East Anglia after Boudicca's rebellion.
- Fri Nov 26, 2021 5:16 am
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Pompeii Continues To Reveal Its Treasures
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12836
Re: Pompeii Continues To Reveal Its Treasures
Where can one get some of these slaves?
- Wed Nov 24, 2021 5:34 am
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Pompeii Continues To Reveal Its Treasures
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12836
Re: Pompeii Continues To Reveal Its Treasures
Didn't do em any harm.
- Tue Nov 23, 2021 12:31 pm
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Pompeii Continues To Reveal Its Treasures
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12836
Re: Pompeii Continues To Reveal Its Treasures
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
- Tue Nov 23, 2021 11:47 am
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Pompeii Continues To Reveal Its Treasures
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12836
Re: Pompeii Continues To Reveal Its Treasures
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
- Thu Nov 18, 2021 5:51 am
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Pompeii Continues To Reveal Its Treasures
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12836
Re: Pompeii Continues To Reveal Its Treasures
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...
- Thu Nov 18, 2021 5:46 am
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Old Kingdom Temple Unearthed in Egypt
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3116
Re: Old Kingdom Temple Unearthed in Egypt
Lost, undiscovered, etc - usually except to the local people who may have known for thousands of years.