Posted on 07/27/2014 1:40:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
...an ancient naval ram used by the army of Mithradates VI of the Bosporan Kingdom to quell a popular uprising against him in Phanagoria in 63 B.C.
One-meter long ram and presumably made of bronze, it has an engraving of Mithradates VI, the king of Pontus from 119 to 63 B.C. who was the most powerful king in Anatolia during the 1st century B.C...
The ram was found in the submerged part of Phanagoria, the largest Greek colony on the Taman peninsula, not far from the 15-meter-long ship that was previously unearthed in 2012... and proves that the ship was a bireme, an ancient oared warship with two decks of oars that Mithradates used to quell unrest. The ship was later burned by the protesters in 63 B.C.
The Roman historian Appian and the Greek historian Plutarch mentioned a citywide uprising at Phanagoria in 63 B.C. that culminated with the incineration of a huge public building and murder of Mithradates’s children and a wife, Hypsikratia. However, there was no material proof of these events until 2006.
In 2006, scientists... found a marble gravestone inscribed with an epitaph to "Hypsikrates, wife of Mithradates VI." ...
Among the recent discoveries made at Phanagoria are remains of a palace of Mithradates VI dated the 1st century B.C., an ancient tomb with a stepped ceiling, the oldest temple unearthed on the Russian territory dating back to the 5th century B.C. and a number of submerged objects, e.g., the ancient city’s streets covered with sand, Phanagoria’s port structures, and ship debris.
The excavations cover several areas, including the 2,500-square-metre acropolis at the centre of the ancient city, the eastern necropolis, an ancient cemetery that served as a burial place from the very founding of the city, and a submerged part of the city.
(Excerpt) Read more at popular-archaeology.com ...
I’d rather not know. lol
Get the silent 1925 version! Just as exciting, art deco costumes, great naval battle and chariot race as good as the 1959 version.
It’s also shorter with less gab.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016641/
P.S. I just wanted to say Thanks.
I enjoy these ancient history threads very much.
That is a very curious structure. It tweaks my imagination but I can’t come up with a single explanation.
...or after launch, ftm.
The DVD of Ben Hur that I have around here may have that, or maybe it’s on the BluRay. For a movie I don’t ever watch, I sure have a lot of interest in it, eh? ;’)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZaHtnKbswQ
http://fan.tcm.com/_Ramn-Novarro-Ben-Hur-chariot-race-/video/847401/66470.html?createPassive=true
The 1907:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf2DN1KEyks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCYnLs0f-Dw
Making of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChPXI1gJ-yo
Thanks for the pics and for the kind remarks!
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