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To: SunkenCiv

Rare find.

I seem to recall that the Romans as a rule Cremated their dead.


4 posted on 12/01/2006 12:12:26 AM PST by Pontiac (All are worthy of freedom, none are incapable.)
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To: Pontiac

Sometimes, sometimes not. Some of the emperors had large tombs built (Hadrian's tomb survives to this day) but their remains were cremations. A bunch of the fatalities of Vesuvius in 79 AD were burials, but that was extemporaneous...


6 posted on 12/01/2006 12:18:40 AM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, November 16, 2006 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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