To: SunkenCiv
Why are they using fish entrails to date something that was firmly recorded by the Romans at the time?
3 posted on
09/30/2008 4:34:43 PM PDT by
SampleMan
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To: SampleMan
It’s a rare opportunity, and an interesting approach. I was a bit sarcastic above, but I do think it should have been done — I wonder what they would have done had it NOT turned out though. :’)
4 posted on
09/30/2008 4:38:44 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: SampleMan
They only had Pliny’s account? No second witness?
I like fish sauce but not as a main course.
Mmmmm Nuc Maum ai laen
Look for the kind that has three shrimp/crabs on the label.
I remember flying from Chu Lai to Danang on a Flying Tiger Airlines DC-3 in 1967 and all the folks had their own little bottles of home made sauce, a bit more piquant than the commercial stuff available now.
A rather hairy flight, how they started the engines is another story~!
5 posted on
09/30/2008 4:49:35 PM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: SampleMan
Why are they using fish entrails to date something that was firmly recorded by the Romans at the time?
They hid the answer in the next-to-last paragraph--poor article writing on their part. It seems someone found a coin that might have been struck at a slightly later date. (But it's too corroded to be sure.)
6 posted on
09/30/2008 4:50:06 PM PDT by
Mariebl
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