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An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire by David Mattingly

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[SunkenCiv]

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.

Professor David Mattingly.

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[Radix]

I just recently found a book in my basement.

 

Silly little thing. Written by ...this fellow

 

Hendrik Willem van Loon

 

I've read a bit of it already. Talking about the Sumerians and such. Cuneiform and all that.

 

Is this fellow more better than say Zecariah Sitchin?

 

I'm just wondering what you might have to say about it.

 

 

[SunkenCiv]

Head of Roman Statue Unearthed Near Baalbek
Beirut, 07 Jul 06, 11:02

The head of a statue dating back to the Roman period was discovered in an ancient well in the town of Eaat near Baalbek on Tuesday. An Nahar newspaper, in an article Friday about the discovery, quoted an official at the antiquities department as saying that the head is 35 cm long and weighs over 18 kg.

Archeologists told the newspaper they are still trying to determine if it belongs to Alexander the Great or to Heliopolis, the Sun God. Other possibilities are also being examined.

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Alexander the Great, or Helios?

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Unique ancient statue of Artemis unearthed
ANA-MPA
7/09/2006

A unique ancient statue of the goddess Artemis, considered one of the most exquisite artifacts found in the Thessaly province of central Greece, was unearthed on Thursday by archaeologists at the site of an ancient theater near the modern city of Larissa, where restoration works are underway, it was announced on Friday.

The 80cm-tall statue -- only the torso was found -- depicts Artemis, in Greek mythology (Diana in Roman mythology) the virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon, and the twin sister of Apollo. The artifact is tentatively dated back to the mid 1st Century BC.

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The head-less statue depicting Artemis. ANA-MPA / V. Paschali

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[SunkenCiv]

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The Spartans with Bettany Hughes

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[BenLurkin]

Reg: They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.
Loretta: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.
Reg: Yeah.
Loretta: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.
Reg: Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?!
Xerxes: The aqueduct?
Reg: What?
Xerxes: The aqueduct.
Reg: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.
Commando 3: And the sanitation.
Loretta: Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like?
Reg: Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done.
Matthias: And the roads.
Reg: Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads--
Commando: Irrigation.
Xerxes: Medicine.
Commandos: Huh? Heh? Huh...
Commando 2: Education.
Commandos: Ohh...
Reg: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
Commando 1: And the wine.
Commandos: Oh, yes. Yeah...
Francis: Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left. Huh.
Commando: Public baths.
Loretta: And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.
Francis: Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it. They're the only ones who could in a place like this.
Commandos: Hehh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.
Reg: But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Xerxes: Brought peace?
Reg: Oh, peace? Shut up!

[The G Man]

Bumpus maximus!