“There is Something Very Different Going on Here”: Archaeologists Keep Finding Gigantic Shoes at This 2000-Year-Old Roman Site

The Debrief ^ | July 13, 2025 | Micah Hanks

[one guy in new jersey]

Yes, Genesis 19:1, Lot entertained two angels unawares.

[Buttons12]

And yes-I’m an unapologetic grammar Nazi...

So am I, though perhaps not as sheltered as some. Homeschooled and fluent in French, I hear more "wala" than "voila" from my contemporaries (nearly all of them, college graduates). They can't spell, they split infinitives, and they'll shamelessly use objective case pronouns as subjects. "I'm like" has replaced "I said."
These atrocities are commonplace nowadays. Sometimes when triggered I turn to a facebook page titled, "The Grammar Police." It helps.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Ronald McDonald was Roman!!!

We are/were good!

[Texan5]

Are you of French ancestry? MrT5 was Canadian French-grandparents were from Quebec. He spoke Quebecois French as a 2nd language, as did both his siblings and his parents. I’m Hispanic and am fluent in Norteno/Mexican Spanish as a 2nd language-both my bro and I learned at home from mom in early childhood-my family had left Mexico in the rearview for Texas/NM before 1800-but my mom believed it was still important to speak/read/write Spanish because most ranchers and truckers here do business on both sides of the border.

There do not seem to be as many Americans who speak a 2nd language as there were 30 years ago, when just about every third person you met person spoke either Norteno/Mexican Spanish or Quebecois or Cajun French. Now-as you observed, they murder English-it makes me want to scream. My husband and I broke our cub-who went to private school-of saying “like/I’m like/she’s like”, and “she goes/he goes” instead of “said” by playing a tape of that “Valley Girl” song for her-and correcting her every time she did it-it took weeks, and we were almost shouting sometimes...

[Texan5]

Oops-2nd “person” typo...

[Uncle Miltie]

[Windcatcher]

I recently watched a video that explained why Roman coinage was of such a higher quality than medieval coinage. A lot of it had to do with how the dies for the coins were made. The Romans had a lot more resources at their disposal, in terms of both raw materials and manpower. It really shows in the letterforms, where the Romans had distinct punches for each letter in the alphabet, as opposed to medieval times when less punches were used for making composite shapes.

Now, think about this: if you have a full set of letter punches AND YOU MAKE MANY MORE, what does that enable?

Answer: the printing press.

The Romans were that close, yet they didn’t see it.

[clearcarbon]

" The sole was measured to be 32 cm long, which is comparable to a UK men’s size 12-14 in modern footwear. "

Winter-wear.

[Red Badger]

Biggus Footus?................

[Red Badger]

The Chinese had movable type during the Viking Era.............

[Doulos1]

Nephilim
There were giants in those days.

[minnesota_bound]

The shoes were for people who had elephants step on their feet....