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Extraordinary Pompeii discovery: Racehorse remains found among ancient city's ruins
Fox News.com ^ | May 14, 2018 | James Rogers

Posted on 05/14/2018 2:29:58 PM PDT by Kaslin

Archaeologists have unearthed the final resting place of an ancient racehorse among the ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii in Italy.

The horse was discovered in Pompeii’s northern outskirts, beyond the walls of the Roman city. The stable where the horse belonged to a villa in Pompeii’s suburb of Civita Giuliana.

Experts discovered the horse’s remains when they were investigating tunnels used by tomb raiders, according to a Facebook post.

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1 posted on 05/14/2018 2:29:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

They’re going to find “Spot” next.


2 posted on 05/14/2018 2:31:47 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Kaslin

Wait a minute. They movie showed the horse getting away.


3 posted on 05/14/2018 2:33:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Sacajaweau

They already did.


4 posted on 05/14/2018 2:34:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin

bookmark


5 posted on 05/14/2018 2:35:41 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Kaslin

Rebeccus Lobus


6 posted on 05/14/2018 2:37:19 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Biggus Horsis.


7 posted on 05/14/2018 2:38:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin
Terrible disaster management. That horse could have been used to transport evacuees.


8 posted on 05/14/2018 2:38:46 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: BenLurkin

Actually, “Equine Rapidus”


9 posted on 05/14/2018 2:39:00 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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To: BenLurkin

Dominus Ed.


10 posted on 05/14/2018 2:39:41 PM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Kaslin

I lost money on that horse.


11 posted on 05/14/2018 2:41:00 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: Sacajaweau

That was the horse Miracle! Soon they’ll find the tombs of Comicus, Swiftus, Miriam, Empress Nympho, Marcus Vindictus & Josephus!


12 posted on 05/14/2018 2:42:09 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: Kaslin

He's dead Jim...

Nope, no signs of Russian collusion!

But Mueller is looking,... "Say ahhhh..."

13 posted on 05/14/2018 2:43:10 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Kaslin

That nag finally showed.


14 posted on 05/14/2018 2:43:46 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: BenLurkin

I see what you did there.....................


15 posted on 05/14/2018 2:45:30 PM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: SunkenCiv

PinGGG!......................


16 posted on 05/14/2018 2:47:01 PM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: Kaslin

From the article: ‘Pompeii director Massimo Osanna said the animal was a thoroughbred likely used for races, not farm work.’

The horse was a time traveler. The thoroughbred horse breed wasn’t developed until the eighteenth century:

‘It wasn’t until the three stallions that make up the foundation sires of the breed arrived in England around the beginning of the 18th century that the Thoroughbred breed was born.’

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/thoroughbred-horse1.htm


17 posted on 05/14/2018 2:57:07 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Kaslin

What are the odds on his winning the Preakness?


18 posted on 05/14/2018 2:57:28 PM PDT by Donkey Odious ( Adapt, improvise, and overcome - now a motto for us all.)
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To: Donkey Odious

I think that he just missed the deadline for 3 year olds.


19 posted on 05/14/2018 3:07:22 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Petrosius
I got the horse right here.
20 posted on 05/14/2018 3:22:12 PM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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