Posted on 11/07/2024 9:39:25 AM PST by Red Badger
PinGGG!....................
Last words caption: “I told you we should have went to Hawaii for vacation instead!”
I heard it was a red light city. Like Pattaya, Thailand.
It was a city of the uber rich. Think ‘Malibu’ or ‘Palm Beach’.
Those that were left were most likely slaves from the frontiers, their owners having fled or were not even there in the first place.................
It might read like Epstein’s client list.
“I told you we should have went to Alexandria for vacation instead!”...................
Resort towns are full of tourists and imported workers.
Well, you see in Roman times they had these people that were brought in from far away to perform manual labor, and were called “slaves...”
I question the accuracy of DNA analysis, especially when used to trace distant ancestry or ethnicity.
“to perform manual labor, and were called “slaves...”
NO WAY... ONLY the US had slaves, EVER!
And the slaves were ALL and only Black people..
And ALL of the Slave Owners were white!!
I was there last month. It is an incredible place. It is also a very difficult place to walk around. The roads/sidewalks are all large stones. Plus, there are ruts in those stones from the wagon wheels.
Our guide told us he had broken his ankle twice and wrist once in his almost twenty years of being a guide at Pompeii. He had a brace on his ankle last month from a previous fan.
I believe the people that lived there were called Etruscans.
Ha!
The slaves/servants of the wealthy Romans actually lived very good lives. Probably much better than the average person living in a shack and working in the fields. Especially if you were a house servant. Which there might have been a dozen or more in a big house.
Slaves of the Romans working in Pompeii were more like indentured servants. These are not the same people building the aquiduct from the mountains down to Rome.
They also were not the same type of slave rowing a galley on the Med. Row well and live Juda Ben Hur.
This always bugs me.
Previous fall, not fan
two adults and two children found in the house were all unrelated males
That's what assumptions do. There are a million different reasons for this group. The men may have tried to save children who were running in the streets or the men were pervs or the children were neighbors and ran to the house on their own or the men didn't know each other but happened to run inside or they were friends from work and were meeting for a round of golf or watch the Cowboys' game. But then the articles says how shocking it was to find out the two girls was a girl and a boy so that's confusing. Two girls, to two boys and then a girl and a boy.
If you were wealthy enough, male or female, you wore gold jewelry so what's the big deal about a man wearing a bracelet? Men wore gold bracelets, period.
Sisters turned out to maybe be a brother protecting his sister.
analyzing the DNA of a further 168 individuals at Pompeii, the results of which “will offer us a much more precise and complete population panorama,”
Nope, far from complete population. At least they are continuing to test. Pompeii is interesting.
Lava in one hand or the ocean in the other hand. Decisions, decisions.
They came for the whoo-houses. Pompei was chock-full of them.
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