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Secrets of the Roman Empire's ancient and 'luxurious' harbour of Corinth
Daily Mail ^
| 15 December 2017
| Harry Pettit
Posted on 12/15/2017 7:55:41 AM PST by mairdie
The secrets of the Roman Empire's ancient and 'luxurious' harbour of Corinth have been revealed in a series of new underwater excavations.
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of 'large-scale engineering' at the port of Lechaion, which was mostly destroyed in the 6th or early 7th century AD by a massive earthquake.
Wooden foundations preserved so well they look new have been found at the site, as well as a host of Roman artefacts including fishing lines and hooks, wooden pulleys and ceramics imported from Tunisia and Turkey.
These discoveries are helping researchers understand the infrastructure and layout of an ancient port that flourished with maritime trade for thousands of years.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; archeology; byzantineempire; carian; carians; concrete; corinth; godsgravesglyphs; greece; herodthegreat; lechaion; romanempire; tunisia; turkey
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posted on
12/15/2017 7:55:41 AM PST
by
mairdie
To: mairdie
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posted on
12/15/2017 7:59:36 AM PST
by
mairdie
To: mairdie
Is that a poker chip? Ancient casino?
To: RitchieAprile
I would so love to have that on a shelf. Can you imagine a plastic bucket full of them?
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posted on
12/15/2017 9:19:02 AM PST
by
mairdie
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; pax_et_bonum; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks mairdie. Roman concrete was at least the equal of anything being made today. Tunisia and Turkey didn't exist then, but the urinalist who penned this just had to include some muzzie nations in the list, it's editorial policy in the UK and Europe.
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posted on
12/16/2017 9:47:06 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: mairdie
Hey, nice detective work!
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posted on
12/16/2017 9:51:25 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: mairdie
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posted on
12/16/2017 9:54:04 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: SunkenCiv
Thanks for the earlier article. It made a nice bookend with this later one.
I never studied concrete, but there were some wonderful letters back and forth between Henry Livingston and his grandson, IL Chief Justice Sidney Breese, on a
method of building bricks locally.
Henry also wrote about
visiting his cousin John Jay's home as it was being built and commented on the importance of not building in wood because of fire hazard. Jay and his wife stayed with Henry for a week just after Henry's young son died of burns. While Jay was ambassador to Spain, he looked into letting his own son stay with Henry and his wife instead of with Jay's father.
I do a lot more with NY history than with archeology.
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12/17/2017 1:42:41 AM PST
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mairdie
To: SunkenCiv
Really like the photos in that one! Good perspective for the underwater building.
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posted on
12/17/2017 1:44:12 AM PST
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mairdie
To: SunkenCiv
>>Hey, nice detective work!
I search with very few words from a title to get the widest net. Speaking of nets, you throw a very broad one from the wonderful articles you've found over the years. Entertaining and educational.
I should pull some of these
archeological links from my links page in, in the future.
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posted on
12/17/2017 1:50:56 AM PST
by
mairdie
To: mairdie
I’d like that, but be sure to search, because a lot of people post these topics, I just ping ‘em. :^)
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posted on
12/17/2017 7:48:50 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: SunkenCiv
Understood. And a good reminder.
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posted on
12/17/2017 7:55:13 AM PST
by
mairdie
To: mairdie
It’s mostly for me — despite what I thought was a pretty thorough search, I posted a catastophism topic that had not only been posted a couple years ago — twice — but that I’d already seen (both of them) and posted in. Ah well. Gotta go, my candy striper is here with the pudding and a photocopy of today’s jumble. ;^)
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posted on
12/17/2017 11:17:16 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: SunkenCiv
Sadly, hardly any readers would have known what they were talking about if they said Africa and Anatolia. Just the current state of history education.
To: colorado tanker
Hey, geography is all about while heterosexual male sexist territorial imperialism!!! And we needed a spot in the schedule for self-esteem classes.
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posted on
12/19/2017 9:05:53 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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