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Puzzling Roman-Era Remains Found in Switzerland
binodon24live (blog I guess) ^ | May 18, 2022 | Ancient Archaeology Posted On

Posted on 02/12/2023 7:34:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv

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An extraordinary find: A Roman cooking pot filled with lamps and coins.
Credit: Aargau canton archeology department
Credit: Aargau canton archeology department

1 posted on 02/12/2023 7:34:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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https://search.brave.com/search?q=Windisch+Switzerland+roman+find

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindonissa


2 posted on 02/12/2023 7:35:09 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

3 posted on 02/12/2023 7:35:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
"a gladiator, a lion, a peacock and an erotic scene."


4 posted on 02/12/2023 7:39:02 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Roman legions no doubt had funeral rites for fallen comrades. Suspect they involved a lamp and a bronze coin for the dead soldier’s safe passage to the Elysian fields.


5 posted on 02/12/2023 7:39:46 AM PST by allendale
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To: BenLurkin

“A gladiator, a lion, and a peacock walk into an erotic scene...” — Hennius Youngmanius


6 posted on 02/12/2023 7:40:20 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

7 posted on 02/12/2023 7:42:43 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: SunkenCiv

I told my wife that when I die I want to be buried in the woods in a refrigerator with a slinky, an oven mitt and two left shoes.

Let ‘em figure that out.


8 posted on 02/12/2023 7:43:57 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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“Translation of the inscription on the outside of this puzzling burial indicates the man was an Admiral...”


9 posted on 02/12/2023 7:45:02 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: allendale

Could also be a previously unknown board game, a sort of reverse D&D — instead of a bunch of college-aged couch potatoes imagining themselves involved in archaic warfare, a bunch of men involved in archaic warfare were imagining themselves doing something else.


10 posted on 02/12/2023 7:47:52 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Obviously a leftist as well.


11 posted on 02/12/2023 7:48:34 AM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: hoosierham

;^)


12 posted on 02/12/2023 7:50:39 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Likely a lamp salesman... The coin was probably the standard change given to people buying the lamps.


13 posted on 02/12/2023 7:54:06 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: SunkenCiv

An admiral in Switzerland…..

Must not have had GPS back then.


14 posted on 02/12/2023 8:03:54 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: blueunicorn6

Nope, no GPS, just SPQR.


15 posted on 02/12/2023 8:08:45 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
The Romans many punctured many Swiss enemies with their spears and swords.

The Romans invented Swiss cheese.

16 posted on 02/12/2023 8:11:28 AM PST by bunkerhill7 (nyc is not there. )
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To: SunkenCiv

Beer pong


17 posted on 02/12/2023 8:18:42 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: SunkenCiv

SPQR?

Some
People
Quickly
Radish

A tried and true method of navigation.

“Which way is the radish pointing?”


18 posted on 02/12/2023 8:26:07 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: Palio di Siena

“Beer pong”

Yeah, it was probably a frat party held at one of the college fraternities there and never cleaned up. Used to be called toga.

wy69


19 posted on 02/12/2023 8:42:08 AM PST by whitney69
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To: SunkenCiv

8<)


20 posted on 02/12/2023 9:39:05 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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