Greco-Roman Archaeology

Post by **Minimalist** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:16 pm

http://www.imedinews.ge/en/news_read/43030

ROME, May 31 (UPI) — An Italian archaeologist says he believes that the presidential palace in Rome is sitting on top of a temple to the Roman god Quirinus.

Andrea Carandini, a professor at Rome University, used radar scans to look for structures in the grounds of the Palazzo del Quirinale, the Italian news agency Ansa reported. The palace is on the Quirinal Hill, named after Quirinus.

kbs2244 · Post by **kbs2244** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:44 pm

Come on!
We all know a good place is a good place!
Current gods be dammed!
The lines intersect! This is the place.

Post by **Minimalist** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:22 pm

Don't screw with Quirinus.

Rokcet Scientist · Post by **Rokcet Scientist** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:49 pm

Minimalist wrote:
Don't screw with Quirinus.

Wasn't that more of a kind of an on-again, off-again deity? A sort of a hiccup god?

Hey, how about restarting a quirinal sect! That could be fun! It's vacant afaik...

We all know a good place is a good place!
Current gods be dammed!
The lines intersect! This is the place.

Since we learnt that Schliemann's Troy was just one of 7 cities, built one on top of the other, that concept is a given.

Post by **Minimalist** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:13 pm

Rome Reborn.

A computer generated representation of the city in 320 AD.

http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/

Post by **Minimalist** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:23 pm

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_ ... 698C189240

Athens - Greek archaeologists have uncovered four intact tombs about 30 centuries old and Roman baths from a later period in the south-west of the country, the local media reported on Monday.

The four tombs date from the Mycenaean period (1450 BC to 1050 BC) and are reported to contain many objects such as toys, ceramics and figurines.

Post by **Minimalist** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:59 am

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld ... -headlines

ROME -- Italian police have recovered an ancient Greek temple dug up in southern Italy by a construction crew who had dumped or looted the prized artifacts and begun to pour cement over the ruins, authorities said Tuesday.

Digit · Post by **Digit** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:43 am

Unbelievable!

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:00 pm

Hey, it wasn't Roman, it was greek.

Post by **Minimalist** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:36 pm

Forum Monk wrote:Hey, it wasn't Roman, it was greek.

Yes....but in Italy.

Confusing, huh?

Post by **Minimalist** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:59 pm

Il Turco in Italia

Sorry, borrowed the name of a Rossini opera for this one.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 061307.php

Nice, France: The long-running controversy about the origins of the Etruscan people appears to be very close to being settled once and for all, a geneticist will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today. Professor Alberto Piazza, from the University of Turin, Italy, will say that there is overwhelming evidence that the Etruscans, whose brilliant civilisation flourished 3000 years ago in what is now Tuscany, were settlers from old Anatolia (now in southern Turkey).

Etruscan culture was very advanced and quite different from other known Italian cultures that flourished at the same time, and highly influential in the development of Roman civilisation. Its origins have been debated by archaeologists, historians and linguists since time immemorial. Three main theories have emerged: that the Etruscans came from Anatolia, Southern Turkey, as propounded by the Greek historian Herotodus; that they were indigenous to the region and developed from the Iron Age Villanovan society, as suggested by another Greek historian, Dionysius of Halicarnassus; or that they originated from Northern Europe.

Now modern genetic techniques have given scientists the tools to answer this puzzle. Professor Piazza and his colleagues set out to study genetic samples from three present-day Italian populations living in Murlo, Volterra, and Casentino in Tuscany, central Italy. “We already knew that people living in this area were genetically different from those in the surrounding regions”, he says. “Murlo and Volterra are among the most archaeologically important Etruscan sites in a region of Tuscany also known for having Etruscan-derived place names and local dialects. The Casentino valley sample was taken from an area bordering the area where Etruscan influence has been preserved.”

Pippin · Post by **Pippin** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:20 am

Hi

There is proberly no building in Rome that dont have historical buildngs under them. When they tried to mage a subway in Rome they had to stop the construction, becourse the archeological work was to expensive.

Pippin

Post by **Minimalist** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:30 am

True. They run into that in Greece, Israel and Egypt, too. At least for the most part they give archaeologists a shot at it before they wreck things.

Forum Monk · Post by **Forum Monk** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:43 pm

It wouldn't surprise me if countless treasures have been damaged or lost due to construction firms or property owners quietly going about their business knowing full well if they call the local antiquities office, all work could stop for an extended period of time. Especially in some places where you can hardly turn over a plot of ground without finding something really old.

I recall as a kid, finding a nicely shaped double fluted point in a neighbors potato garden right after he had turned it for planting. Being a kid, I had no idea what it was except a really cool Indian arrow head and a lucky find. Today that land is someones front yard and there may be other worthwhile finds about a half meter under their feet. We'll probably never know.

Post by **Minimalist** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:10 pm

http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issu ... tabiae.php

It was Malibu, New York and Washington, D.C. all rolled into one. Before A.D. 79, when the erupting Mount Vesuvius engulfed it along with Pompeii and Herculaneum, the small port town of Stabiae in southern Italy was the summer resort of choice for some of the Roman Empire's most powerful men. Julius Caesar, the emperors Augustus and Tiberius and the statesman-philosopher Cicero all had homes there.

Nice pad.