To: blam
People in 238 BC marking a stele with that date certainly shows remarkable foresight.
Joking aside and just out of curiosity, it would have been interesting for them to say exactly how these people calculated and wrote the date. But I guess that's beyond what the writer could manage.
9 posted on
04/20/2004 12:27:05 PM PDT by
katana
To: katana
In the ancient world, dates were usually expressed as the ordinal year of the current king's reign, i.e., "in the seventh year of Ptolemy's reign...". Archaeologists use these dates like tree-rings to work out a chronology system.
18 posted on
04/20/2004 12:39:08 PM PDT by
Renfield
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