Posted on 04/28/2011 12:41:05 PM PDT by decimon
The body of a girl thought to have been murdered by Roman soldiers has been discovered in north Kent.
Archaeologists working on the site of a Roman settlement near the A2 uncovered the girl who died almost 2,000 years ago.
"She was killed by a Roman sword stabbing her in the back of the head," said Dr Paul Wilkinson, director of the excavation.
"By the position of the entry wound she would have been kneeling at the time."
The Roman conquest of Britain began in AD43, and the construction of Watling Street started soon afterwards linking Canterbury to St Albans.
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Many people have a romantic view of the Roman invasion, Dr Wilkinson said.
"Now, for the first time, we have an indication of how the Roman armies treated people, and that large numbers of the local populations were killed.
"It shows how all invading armies act the same throughout history. One can only imagine what trauma this poor girl had to suffer before she was killed," he said.
She will be re-buried at the site.
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Bahasa Indonesian is ok, while Japanese is crazier.
Pax Romana...the gift that kept on giving.
Given her age one can only imagine the indignities she suffered prior to execution.
I hope they treat her remains with proper respect.
She was someone’s daughter.
Still people in Australia learn those ‘crazy’ & complicated languages.
Kevin Rudd (former Australian PM) is fluent in Mandarin.
Back in 80’s & 90’s I personally knew of several friends & acquaintances who eagerly studied Bahasa Indonesian, Japanese. At the time, Japanese & Indonesian were more popular compared to Mandarin.
Unsurprisingly, in Australia, we definitetly have more South East Asians (or those w/ that heritage) than *say* Africans or people from the ME. It goes back to the late 80’s, continuing in the the 90’s. Their numbers, along w/ those from India, *appear* to have increased in the last 10 yrs or so, especially in major cities such as Sydney, Brisbane & Melbourne.
then they are braver and smarter folks than me!
I never ventured much beyond indo-European languages except when I knew a bit of Arabic and learnt some Kannada.
My sister-in-law is a Japanese linguist and when I hear about the complexities of Japanese I swoon ;-p
Mandarin is crazy to my mind as a person who knows alphabetic languages, I can't fathom or understand a pictographic language
I can't fathom or understand a pictographic language
Pictographs, as you know, aren't unique to Chinese or Japanese. "The first Declaration of Human Rights Cylinder" by Cyrus the Great was also written in Cuneiform script (a system/type of pictographs).
Well, yes, Khorush did — but I’m talking modern languages here
Suicide by Roman Centurion....
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