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To: SunkenCiv

Probably the Pelusiac branch of the Nile.


5 posted on 02/16/2019 5:11:16 AM PST by Buttons12
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To: Buttons12

I tried, I really did, to check that out, and found this much more interesting tidbit:

[snip] Among the objects excavated from a number of Silla royal burials were foreign-made luxury goods, notably more than thirty Roman-style glass vessels. Found in tombs dating to the fifth and sixth centuries, they attest to the continuing importance of Mediterranean glass in international trade at that time. [/snip]

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/koreas-golden-kingdom/about-the-exhibition/imported-goods

(this isn’t Silla the Roman fort in the Sinai, it’s Silla the kingdom in what is now Korea)


6 posted on 02/16/2019 11:11:39 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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