Reading the Writing on Pompeii’s Walls

Smithstonian ^ | 7/27/2010 | Kristin Ohlson

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LOL!

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:’) When I saw it in the theater, back at that time, one of the people in the group had grown up learning Latin in Catholic school, and I thought he was going to wet himself during that scene.

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It is Monty Python at their best, fer shure.

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Most of the Pompeii keyword (two removed), chrono sort:

• Herculean task for modern scholars -- More on the Discovered Roman Literature being unearthed.
• Archaeoligists: Iraqi Dam Threatens City
• Viking 'Town' Is Ireland's Equivalent Of Pompeii
• Pompeii Find Shows Secrets Of The Samnites
• Latin Course Stage 6 (Pompeii Slave Girl)
• Alaska Volcano West of Anchorage Stirs After 12-Year Slumber
• Move Over, Pompeii
• Etruscan Engineering and Agricultural Achievements: The Ancient City of Spina
• Early volcano victims discovered
• The Pacific's Pompeii
• Pompeii Pottery May Rewrite History
• Pompeii's Burial Not Its First Disaster
• Archaeologists offer tastes of Pompeii
• Archaeologists Unveil Pompeii Treasure
• Villa Buried By Pompeii Eruption Is Unearthed
• Think Pompeii Got Hit Hard? Worse Eruptions Lurk
• Brooklyn College Anthropologist Identifies New Prehistoric Monkey
• Italians Dig Deep to Reveal Forgotten Roman City
• Fossil "Pompeii" of Prehistoric Animals Named U.S. Landmark
• First Pompeii Uncovered (3rd Century BC)
• Ground Rises Near Ancient Italian Volcano
• Ancient tannery in Pompeii to undergo restoration this year
• In search of Western civilisation's lost classics (Herculaneum)
• Beyond Pompeii: Places swallowed by Vesuvius
• Fish Sauce Used to Date Pompeii Eruption [ garum / liquamen]
• Prehistoric Disaster: An Alpine Pompeii from the Stone Age
• Pontiff Puts World in Mary's Hands [Catholic Caucus]
• Pompeii Family's Final Hours Reconstructed
• ISIS Examines Origins Of Pompeii-Style Artifacts
• Digital images reveal the secrets of Roman painting
• UK to 'unroll' papyrus scrolls buried by Vesuvius [Kentucky prof has non-invasive scanning technique
• Digging deeper: Archaeologists race to show Pompeii daily life
• UQ archaeology digs into the life behind Pompeii [latrines]
• Ancient city of Pompeii added to Google Street View
• Lethal Thermal Impact at Periphery of Pyroclastic Surges: Evidences at Pompeii

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This topic was posted 8/1/2010, thanks again markomalley. Re-ping because of the new bees topic. New bees! Get it? ;^)

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