[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	The original Pantheon stood on the same site and burned down in the great fire of Rome during Nero's reign. It was rebuilt by, hmm, one of the Flavians (I think) who also gave us the Colosseum. The exterior appears flatter because of the Romans' method of self-centering. Brunelleschi studied the Pantheon (among other Roman structures) in his pursuit of the design for the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence Italy. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[icwhatudo]

Not to hijack the thread, but I love how AD and BC have made a comeback. (Over the CE and BCE that were being forced upon us like the metric system) On a recent trip to the Smithsonian, I noticed some new exhibits are also back to AD and BC when giving dates.

[Richard Kimball]

Almost all ancient cultures spent a significant amount of time studying the sun, moon and stars. I had never thought about it, but I would be surprised if it wasn't at least partially used for some kind of study of astronomy.

[screaming eagle2]

Well,DUH!

[webschooner]

well you know ... if those clever Roman chaps had just had cell fones to tell them the correct time, they wouldn’t have had to go to all that trouble designing a building where the sun falls certain places at certain times ...

[wildbill]

Using Occam’s Razor to cut to the chase:

Don’t you think if the Pantheon had been designed to be used as a sundial that at least one Roman writer from antiquity would have mentioned it?

“I was walking through the Forum and popped in to the Pantheon to see if I was late for dinner.”