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Underwater Survey Reveals New Discoveries in Sunken Town of Baia
Heritage Daily ^ | April 9, 2023 | Markus Milligan

Posted on 04/24/2023 1:52:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Baiae is an archaeological park consisting of a partially sunken town from the Roman period, located on the shore of the Gulf of Naples in the present-day comune of Bacoli in Italy.

Baiae developed into a popular Roman resort which was visited frequently by many notable Roman figures, such as Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus..., Julius Caesar, Gaius Marius, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, Hadrian, and Septimius Severus.

The town would never attain a municipal status, but instead gained a reputation for a hedonistic lifestyle. This is supported by an account by Sextus Propertius, a poet of the Augustan age during the 1st century BC, who wrote that Baiae was a "vortex of luxury" and a "harbour of vice".

Due to the position of the town on the Cumaean Peninsula in the Phlegraean Fields, an active and volatile volcanic region (which the Romans believed was the home of the Roman god of fire, Vulcan), local volcanic bradyseismic activity raised and lowered the geology on the peninsula that resulted in the lower parts of the town being submerged.

Underwater archaeologists from the Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park and Naumacos, have been conducting a survey of the Terme del Lacus area, revealing a block of structures covering 60 metres in length. The team also found stone colonnades, marble columns, and a portasanta marble column, which was imported during antiquity from the island of Chios in Greece.

A large piece of marble opus sectile flooring has also been identified, still rendered with portasanta and white marble in a chromatic alternating pattern...

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: bacoli; baiae; campiflegrei; chios; cumaeanpeninsula; gaiusmarius; godsgravesglyphs; greece; gulfofnaples; hadrian; italy; juliuscaesar; phlegraeanfields; pompeii; pompeythegreat; romanempire; septimiusseverus; sextuspropertius; termedellacus; vesuvius
'sub'title: Underwater Archaeologists Have Been Conducting Ongoing Research at the Sunken Roman Town of Baia, Revealing New Discoveries in the Terme Del Lacus Area.
Image Credit : NAUMACOS
Image Credit : NAUMACOS

1 posted on 04/24/2023 1:52:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Well, luxury and vice, sounds perfect.

2 posted on 04/24/2023 1:53:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democrato delenda est. [thanks Fai Mao])
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To: SunkenCiv

GoreBull worming from Ancient Rome


3 posted on 04/24/2023 1:56:41 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: SunkenCiv

Glowbull warming strikes again!


4 posted on 04/24/2023 2:03:51 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: SunkenCiv
This:

A large piece of marble opus sectile flooring has also been identified, still rendered with portasanta and white marble in a chromatic alternating pattern. This currently appears as the most indicative dating element, being the typology and implementation referable to the Late Antiquity age.

does not make sense to me, as I just saw lots of opus sectile pavement from the 1st Century when I was in Italy. If true, it must be a certain pattern or type of stone. What they show in the photos matches the patterns I just saw.

And at best, any Late Antique patterns would represent the terminus ad quem while there may be many buildings from earlier.

5 posted on 04/24/2023 2:10:15 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: SunkenCiv

This is sooo bogus!

Everyone knows cities don’t sink! The ocean levels have been steady state since time started! Except for now, where it’s going up! Sea is gonna swamp us all!

So sayeth the Climate Scientologists.


6 posted on 04/24/2023 2:15:19 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: pierrem15

It’s a translation problem, I’d guess.


7 posted on 04/24/2023 2:26:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democrato delenda est. [thanks Fai Mao])
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To: SunkenCiv

Going on vacation to a resort town has been around for a while!

There’s another Roman one I’ve visited near my family’s ancestral home town called Alba Fucens. Was on a huge lake, until the lake drained out following an earthquake in the early 20th century. Totally open and unguarded, but yutes in Italy don’t trash /grafitti the place. Wouldn’t last a week in the US.


8 posted on 04/24/2023 2:51:49 PM PDT by TonyinLA (I don't have sufficient information to formulate an reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: TonyinLA

Neat!

https://search.brave.com/search?q=Alba+Fucens


9 posted on 04/24/2023 2:57:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democrato delenda est. [thanks Fai Mao])
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To: Grimmy

I suspect you’re being sarcastic. Yes, lots of cities have sunk. Port Royal in the Bahamas comes to mind. (see link below.) There were several cities in the Mediterranean. These were due to earthquakes, not “global warming.” The continents float on a bed of moving material that makes up one of the many layers of material that forms the Earth. The structure of these layers is very complex, but can remain stable for thousands of years, then in a few catastrophic moments, move dozens to hundreds of feet in whatever direction they are pushed. Port Royal was built on sand. Once the vibration starts the “base” becomes essentially a liquid. (No, there is not such thing as “global warming.” It’s a hoax to help destroy Western civilization...along with trans and other hysteria.)

https://www.beachcombingmagazine.com/blogs/news/sunken-pirate-city-the-port-royal-earthquake-of-1692#:~:text=Port%20Royal%20may%20indeed%20have%20been%20the%20wickedest,the%20earth%20swallowed%20up%20people%20and%20their%20homes.


10 posted on 04/24/2023 3:01:50 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: SunkenCiv

I think you’re right. The English is definitely odd.


11 posted on 04/24/2023 4:00:07 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Gen.Blather

You... you!

Now I’m so angry, I have to run to the store and get a six-pack of trany fluid so I can calm down.


12 posted on 04/24/2023 5:32:42 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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