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A camera probe sent into the cave revealed a ceiling covered in shells, mosaics and coloured marble and with a white eagle at the centre.

Exploration of the cave was hampered by fears that it might collapse and damage the foundations of the monuments on the Palatine hill.

1 posted on 11/20/2007 12:47:34 PM PST by BGHater
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To: SunkenCiv

Roman ping.


2 posted on 11/20/2007 12:48:06 PM PST by BGHater (Lead. The MSG for the 21st Century.)
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To: BGHater

Interesting............

3 posted on 11/20/2007 12:49:05 PM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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Archaeologists have deciphered some of the glyphs and found that Romulus killed Remus in a fit of rage when he discovered the Remus had saved a lot of money on his car insurance by switching to GEICO....


4 posted on 11/20/2007 12:51:31 PM PST by Tanniker Smith ("What are we doing tomorrow night?" "Same thing we do every night. Try to take over the world!")
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To: SunkenCiv; blam

Very cool!

Love seeing that things like this haven’t already all been discovered - and makes you wonder what else is hiding out there, just outside our cities and towns? or sometimes buried underneath them?


5 posted on 11/20/2007 12:51:41 PM PST by GovernmentIsTheProblem (The GOP is "Whig"ing out.)
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To: BGHater

In my art history class we just got finished with early Rome. One of my final “scholar” notes was on the Capitoline Wolf.

Gonna have to email this off to my instructor


6 posted on 11/20/2007 12:54:31 PM PST by Domandred (Eagles soar, but unfortunately weasels never get sucked into jet engines)
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To: BGHater
If the other brother had won the city would be named Reme?
7 posted on 11/20/2007 1:01:06 PM PST by OSHA (Liberals will lick the boot on their necks if they think the other boot is on yours and mine.)
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To: BGHater

Those photos are amazing.


9 posted on 11/20/2007 1:10:54 PM PST by what's up
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Funny that there were no wolves but a white eagle.


14 posted on 11/20/2007 1:20:02 PM PST by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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The standard of the so called “lost Jewish tribe” of Dan was of white and red and the crest upon it an eagle. . .Jacob had compared Dan to a serpent.

Ahiezer substituted the eagle, the destroyer of serpents, as he shrank from carrying an adder upon his flag.” [Unger, p. 273]


16 posted on 11/20/2007 1:41:01 PM PST by VRWCTexan (History has a long memory - but still repeats itself)
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To: BGHater

They found the cave of Uncle Remus? Any mention of Brer Rabbit?

17 posted on 11/20/2007 1:54:41 PM PST by Enterprise (Those who "betray us" also "Betray U.S." They're called DEMOCRATS!)
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This could reasonably be the place bearing witness to the myth of Rome - the legendary cave where the she-wolf suckled Romulus and Remus

Translation: since Roman gods probably exist(ed), God the Creator is likely just another myth.

22 posted on 11/20/2007 2:28:53 PM PST by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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Although mythical characters come from mythical places apparently there is at least a little truth to this myth.

Buuuuut ... maybe not!

23 posted on 11/20/2007 3:12:09 PM PST by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: BGHater

Seems clear to me that the cave, at least, isn’t mythical.


24 posted on 11/20/2007 3:17:15 PM PST by wildbill
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More Clues in the Legend (or Is It Fact?) of Romulus[Rome]
The New York Times | 12 June 2007 | JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Posted on 06/13/2007 9:21:26 AM EDT by BGHater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849455/posts

and alas...

Sanctuary of Rome’s ‘Founder’ Revealed
Yahoo! News (AP) | 11/20/2007 | Ariel David
Posted on 11/20/2007 1:08:23 PM EST by Pyro7480
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928421/posts


25 posted on 11/20/2007 6:56:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Sunday, November 18, 2007"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'"'https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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