[NormsRevenge]

fyi

[phoenix0468]

When does the History Channel show air!!! LOL.

I love this kind of stuff. Very interesting.

[Number57]

Archaeologists also discovered a small burial ground of newborns dating to the 4th century B.C., just outside the city walls.

Planned Parenthood has been around longer than I'd figured

[blam]

Ping.

[Beowulf9]

I love stuff like this too, thanks for the column. Would love to know if they ever find out who this prominent citizen was, and a Roman at that.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Rumor has it that the patriarch of the family was Julius Abramoff Magnus.

[SunkenCiv]

10-inch pottery statuettes of the ancient Greek love deity Eros

Well, just, d@#$!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks NormsRevenge.

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[Dustbunny]

The large first or second century A.D. structure beside one of the main gates to the walled city of Aptera was looted during Christian times, archaeologist Vanna Niniou-Kindeli said.

I find that statement offensive. Otherwise it sounds like a great find.

[NormsRevenge]

Hellenic Ministry of Culture

Aptera
http://www.culture.gr/2/21/211/21125a/e211ya06.html

Aptera was founded in the Geometric period, although the city is mentioned in the Linear B tablets found at Knossos (A-pa-ta-wa). It reached a peak in the Hellenistic period, with intense commercial and political activity. In the Roman period, the town had a more rural character. It was destroyed by an earthquake in the 7th century A.D. and much later, in the 12th century, the Monastery of Hagios Ioannes Theologos (St. John the Baptist) was founded at the site.

In 1942 the site was excavated by the German conquerors, who investigated the bipartite sanctuary and in 1958, St. Alexiou excavated parts of buildings and graves. In the years 1986-87 and 1992-95, systematic and salvage excavations were carried out by the Ephorate of Antiquities.

[John O]

Seven graves have been found, including a prematurely born infant's. Niniou-Kindeli said traces of ritual offerings were found beside the graves.

"This is an interesting find," she said. "We are not quite sure how to interpret it."

Obviously part of a sacrificial religious ritual. (Because it seems that every little piece of pottery they find is always part of a religious ritual. It sometimes seems that the ancients spent so much time performing religious rituals that they had no time for anything else)

[eleni121]

Greek ping!