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Scientists Are Analyzing 4,000 Bricks To Unravel Secrets of an Ancient Roman Metropolis [Trier]
SciTechDaily ^ | April 9, 2025 | Goethe University Frankfurt

Posted on 04/16/2025 8:21:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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21 posted on 04/17/2025 8:19:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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The rest of a couple of Roman keywords, sorted:

22 posted on 04/17/2025 8:22:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Augustus gave up on the idea of making the Elbe River the boundary. Later in the first century the Romans expanded to the east of the Rhine in what is now Bavaria, crating the “Agri Decumates” which gave them a shorter frontier to defend. The local Germans in that area were the Alamanni (or Alemanni). The modern French word for Germany comes from the Alemanni.


23 posted on 04/17/2025 11:19:37 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: telescope115

lol- glad it brought soem cheer


24 posted on 04/17/2025 11:23:45 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Bob434

Thank you!
For the link and the brain calisthenics 🙃

Tatt


25 posted on 04/17/2025 11:34:20 AM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: Verginius Rufus
Thanks. The Romans cleared forest in Jutland (the trees grew back over the next few centuries for use for shipbuilding) and were at least for a time in control of what is now Copenhagen. In recent years northern and eastern battle sites have been discovered and excavated, at least one large one dating from the Crisis of the 3rd C, a Roman victory, during the short reign of Maximinus Thrax, who somehow doesn't strike me as a great administrator. The written record is bound to be fragmentary, but the archaeology is there.

26 posted on 04/17/2025 11:35:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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27 posted on 04/17/2025 11:40:15 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: SunkenCiv

I’ve been to Jutland, a long time ago, and don’t remember if the trees looked like old growth or ones that grew back after the Romans deforested the peninsula.


28 posted on 04/17/2025 12:16:20 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
There's little sign of occupation until the Middle Ages, and of course the Vikings, they loved them some ships. Sveyn Forkbeard spent the better part of twenty years building barracks and ships, and training an army, starting well before the supposed triggering event, which was the killing of his sister in 1002.

29 posted on 04/17/2025 12:35:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: thesearethetimes...

Lol you’re welcome . I have a brain full of scattered zemi-interesting facts and stories, glad to share em.


30 posted on 04/17/2025 12:35:46 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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So all the Jutes left Jutland and went to Britain with the Angles and Saxons?


31 posted on 04/17/2025 2:17:21 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Yup. The name stayed behind. Saxony stayed behind as well. The River Lipping is in both the place they left and in Britain. Beowulf is set in “the old country”. :^)


32 posted on 04/17/2025 5:03:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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was it set in the time/place of the court of Hrolf Kraki? I seem to remember this was where the archtype for beowulf was.


33 posted on 04/19/2025 1:21:26 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hr%C3%B3lfr_Kraki#Beowulf


34 posted on 04/19/2025 2:14:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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