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Who Are You? Proving your identity in antiquity? Documentary [YouTube]
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| June 18, 2021
| Invicta
Posted on 06/23/2021 11:23:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: Larry Lucido
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06/24/2021 6:52:48 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Openurmind
As a mostly irrelevant sidebar, the House of the Vettii in Pompeii was over a century old when it was buried by Vesuvius, but at that time was owned by a couple of freedmen. The banking system in the Roman Empire consisted of private lenders (even military campaigns sometimes/often got called off due to financing trouble) and a few houses down the street, the home of one of those private bankers was found to contain fragments of the lending records. The Vettii owed him money. :^D
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06/24/2021 6:58:15 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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06/24/2021 7:06:05 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Finds like that are priceless to history showing ancient commerce and culture. Like finding merchant shipping manifests on cuneiform clay tablets in Mesopotamia, or in a trading city along the silk road. Pretty cool stuff.
Thank you!
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06/24/2021 7:57:29 AM PDT
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Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: Openurmind
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06/25/2021 6:12:04 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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