[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Red Badger]

"But we'll have to wait for funding in order to start a dig"

Ahhhh, in searh of the Golden Fleece...........

[Siena Dreaming]

I don't see any reason in the article to think that this was the original city...just because it's 33 hectares?

And VI to III cent BC would be too late for Aeneas' settlement...?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

In the Aeneid, the epic poem recounting Aeneas's voyage from Troy to Italy, Virgil does not say exactly where the city was. But many scholars think it is buried under a town of the same name in Greece.

Interesting.

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[Antoninus]

Magna cum murmurae montis!

[Cicero]

Claude Lorraine, Aeneas's farewell to Dido in Carthage.

[BlessedByLiberty]

"But many scholars think it is buried under a town of the same name in Greece."

Uh-oh - here come the EU family squabbles.

This may not be what they hope it to be, but something interesting may lay beneath. This could be their way to angle for funding.

[Dustbunny]

Will be interesting to hear of what the dig produces.

[Blind Eye Jones]

Ok, I may be very dense but why does that picture look like a rock but the caption says "Virgil's demi-god city 'found'"? Were Castor and Pollux turned into stone, immortalized by the gods... what's up with that huge stone?