[Unam Sanctam]

ping

[speedy]

If they ever find the remains of that giant turtle swimming in an endless sea, I really will have to re-think a lot of historical assumptions. Interesting article, thanks for posting. SPQR.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I was digging in my back yard and found a rock! No telling what that rock could tell me.

[starfish923]

It is always interesting to hear of these things.
I guess that's just another reason why Rome is called the "eternal city." It IS eternally INTERESTING.

Ping.

[Rocketman]

Legend has it that Rome was founded in 753 B.C. by Romulus and Remus, the twin sons of Mars, the god of war, who were suckled as infants by a she-wolf in the woods

I thought they found the dead wolf and two graved from two roamn Gods

[wolfpat]

When I read the first two lines, I got a mental picture of a wolf's den with finger-paintings on the refrigerator.

[Notasoccermom]

Forwarded this to my children's Latin Teacher. Too bad my own Latin teacher is waiting to be excavated. ;-(

[grobdriver]

In Rome's founding myth, the daughter of a king deposed by his brother was forced to become a vestal virgin to prevent her from having children. But Rhea Silvia became pregnant with sons of the god Mars.

IOW, the King's daughter got knocked up out behind the barn, and had to come up with a good cover story.
It was a God! The God Mars did it to me!
Honest!

What? What shepard boy?

[M-cubed]

she-wolf????......Shoot shovel and Shut up!!!

[eastsider]

Andrea Carandini, a professor of archaeology at Rome's Sapienza University who has been conducting excavations at the Forum for more than 20 years, said he made the discovery over the past month at the spot where the Temple of Romulus stands today.... Where previously archaeologists had only found huts dating to the 8th century B.C., Carandini and his team unearthed traces of regal splendor: A 3,700-square-foot palace, 1,130 square feet of which were covered and the rest courtyard. There was a monumental entrance, and elaborate furnishings and ceramics.

You've been holding out on us ...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Unam Sanctam!

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

[Dustbunny]

Thank you. I love ancient history.

[ruoflaw]

interesting post!

[Modernman]

When the infants were discovered, the princess was imprisoned and the babies were set adrift in a basket on the Tiber River — which today winds its way through Rome.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this similar to the story of Moses and the story of Osiris?