Posted on 02/04/2007 2:34:35 PM PST by blam
First Pompeii uncovered
Samnites founded city in Third Century BC
(ANSA) - Rome, February 1 - The origins of the famed buried city of Pompeii have emerged from years of excavations, an international conference in Rome was told Thursday.
The first Pompeii was not built by the Romans or even by the Greeks who preceded them, but by an ancient people called the Samnites, Pompeii heritage Superintendent Piero Guzzo told a packed audience of archaeologists and scholars.
Wielding photos of inscriptions, votive offerings and even entire buildings, Guzzo said "a new season of studies has begun". "For the first time we have come to understand how Pompeii was born and not just how it died," Guzzo told a three-day conference here on ten years of work by archaeologists from all over the world.
"The most exciting discoveries were the frescoed buildings with precious mosaics, still perfectly intact, dating back to the Samnite foundation of the city in the Third Century BC," Guzzo said.
"The fresco in the so-called House of the Centaur is one of the oldest found at Pompeii or indeed the whole of Italy," said Fabrizio Pesando of Naples' Oriental Institute.
"The true Pompeii is not the Roman one that was buried by Vesuvius in 79AD," Pesando said.
"Its golden age was in the Second Century BC, as shown by these buildings," he said.
"Pompeii has become, once again, a great laboratory for research".
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First Pompeii Uncovered (3rd Century BC)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/04/2007 5:34:35 PM EST · 1 reply · 3+ views
Ansa | 2-1-2007
First Pompeii uncovered Samnites founded city in Third Century BC (ANSA) - Rome, February 1 - The origins of the famed buried city of Pompeii have emerged from years of excavations, an international conference in Rome was told Thursday. The first Pompeii was not built by the Romans or even by the Greeks who preceded them, but by an ancient people called the Samnites, Pompeii heritage Superintendent Piero Guzzo told a packed audience of archaeologists and scholars. Wielding photos of inscriptions, votive offerings and even entire buildings, Guzzo said "a new season of studies has begun". "For the first time we...
Fossil "Pompeii" of Prehistoric Animals Named U.S. Landmark
Posted by texas_mrs
On News/Activism 05/16/2006 4:19:43 PM EDT · 18 replies · 792+ views
National Geographic News | 5/12/2006 | Stefan Lovgren
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Brooklyn College Anthropologist Identifies New Prehistoric Monkey
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 03/30/2006 11:53:23 AM EST · 8 replies · 163+ views
BC Hot News (Brooklyn CUNY) | March 29, 2006
Brooklyn College Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology Alfred L. Rosenberger is part of a team of Argentinean and United States scholars who have identified a new species of monkey that once roamed the forests of South America. The discovery of the monkey species, Killikaike blakei, is the result of painstaking analysis of a small, perfectly preserved monkey skull that was found embedded in volcanic rock by members of an Argentinean ranching family. The results are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. This fossil, which is dated to 16.4 million years ago, is a spectacular addition...
Think Pompeii Got Hit Hard? Worse Eruptions Lurk
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 03/07/2006 2:10:23 PM EST · 51 replies · 1,378+ views
Yahoo - Reuters | 3-6-2006
Think Pompeii got hit hard? Worse eruptions lurk By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent Mon Mar 6, 5:03 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The preserved footprints and abandoned homes of villagers who fled a giant eruption of Mount Vesuvius 3,800 years ago show the volcano could destroy modern-day Naples with little warning, Italian and U.S. researchers reported on Monday. The eruption buried entire villages as far as 15 miles (25 kilometres) from the volcano, cooking people as they tried to escape and dumping several feet (metres) of ash and mud. New excavations show far more extensive damage than that...
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/21/2005 9:30:58 PM EST · 25 replies · 1,121+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 11-22-2005 | Hilary Clarke
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Posted by NYer
On News/Activism 07/18/2005 4:40:00 PM EDT · 55 replies · 1,587+ views
Yahoo News | July 18, 2005
Decorated cups and fine silver platters were once again polished and on display Monday as archaeologists unveiled an ancient Roman dining set that lay hidden for two millennia in the volcanic ash of Pompeii.In 2000, archaeologists found a wicker basket containing the silverware in the ruins of a thermal bath near the remains of the Roman city, said Pietro Giovanni Guzzo, head of Pompeii's archaeological office.The basket was filled with the volcanic ash that buried the city when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. When experts X-rayed it, they saw the objects preserved in the ash, which killed thousands of...
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Posted by wagglebee
On News/Activism 05/26/2005 8:28:24 PM EDT · 23 replies · 781+ views
Duluth News Tribune | 5/25/05 | ARIEL DAVID/AP
ROME - Sauces made from fermented fish entrails. A quiche-like pastry shell filled with bay leaves and ricotta cheese. For dessert, peaches with aromatic cumin and honey. Those tastes may not be for everyone's palate, but the specialties of ancient Pompeii are being revived for a month at the site of the ruins by a research project intended to give new insights into how the Romans lived. Pompeii's busiest restaurant was buried with the rest of the prosperous city when Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. The eruption killed thousands of people, but a 20-foot-deep cocoon of volcanic ash kept...
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/02/2004 7:17:13 PM EST · 14 replies · 811+ views
Science News | 11-27-2004 | Sid Perkins
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 11/08/2004 2:40:27 PM EST · 20 replies · 986+ views
ABC Net | 11-8-2004 | Heather Catchpole
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The Pacific's Pompeii
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/11/2004 5:39:03 PM EDT · 15 replies · 674+ views
New Zealand Herald | 9-11-2004 | Stuard Bedford
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Posted by John Robinson
On News/Activism 09/30/2001 7:46:44 AM EDT · 190 replies · 6,200+ views
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/04/2004 1:59:51 AM EDT · 3 replies · 429+ views
BBC | Monday, May 3, 1999 | editors
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 08/17/2004 12:05:30 PM EDT · 9 replies · 746+ views
The Mysterious Etruscans | Last modified on Tue, 17-Aug-2004 15:36:27 GMT | editors
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 08/10/2004 1:03:10 PM EDT · 8 replies · 486+ views
Archaeology, Volume 55 Number 2 | March/April 2002 | Jarrett A. Lobell
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 02/05/2003 9:34:50 AM EST · 7 replies · 343+ views
ABC News via AP | Feb. 3 2003 | AP Editorial Staff
Feb. 3 ó An Iraqi dam under construction on the Tigris River threatens to submerge the remains of the spiritual capital of the ancient Assyrian empire in an act archaeologists liken to flooding the Vatican.Much of the city of Ashur, which thrived for more than 1,000 years until the Babylonians razed it in 614 B.C., could vanish under a lake to be created by the Makhoul dam, U.S. and European archaeologists said.More than 60 outlying historical sites are also threatened.Ashur, or Assur, was of such importance that it lent its name to the Assyrian civilization itself."Losing it would be...
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Posted by BenLurkin
On General/Chat 07/29/2004 12:48:13 AM EDT · 8 replies · 1,503+ views
Associated Press | Jul 28, 2004 | Associated Press
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 07/18/2004 10:24:53 PM EDT · 10 replies · 3,608+ views
Cambridge | 2004 | University of Cambridge
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Pompeii Find Shows Secrets Of The Samnites
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 07/04/2004 8:44:51 PM EDT · 29 replies · 1,687+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 7-5-2004 | Bruce Johnston
Pompeii find shows secrets of the Samnites By Bruce Johnston in Rome (Filed: 05/07/2004) The discovery in Pompeii of a pre-Roman temple is being hailed as evidence that the city was sophisticated and thriving 300 years before Vesuvius erupted. The temple is said to be of Mephitis, a female deity worshipped by the Samnites, a mysterious ancient people who preceded the Romans in Pompeii. The temple complex includes a sanctuary where it is thought girls from good families worked briefly in "sacred prostitution" as a rite of passage to full womanhood. The Samnites were previously thought of as mountain warriors,...
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/13/2004 5:30:31 PM EDT · 22 replies · 543+ views
Waterford News And Star | 6-11-2004 | Marion O' Mara
Friday, June 11, 2004 By Marion O'MaraViking ëtown' is Ireland's equivalent of Pompeii IT'S likely to be some weeks yet before Minister for the Environment Martin Cullen announces recommendations for dealing with and possibly preserving what historians are now describing as Ireland's first town. The discovery of the Viking settlement, at Woodstown, five miles from the city, which is believed to date back to the mid-9th century, was made as preparatory work got underway on the city's 300m by-pass. The site, located close to the River Suir, is 1.5 km long by 0.5 km wide and so far up to...
Herculean task for modern scholars - More on the Discovered Roman Literature being unearthed.
Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 04/05/2002 6:43:19 PM EST · 40 replies · 787+ views
The UK Times | April 05, 2002 | By Robert Fowler
Herculean task for modern scholars By Robert Fowler ALMOST all the texts we have of the ancient classics derive from generations of scribal copies, separated by many centuries from the originals. Most works of classical literature ó some 90 per cent ó were not even lucky enough to be copied and survive into modern times. Very occasionally, the archaeologist's spade turns up fragments of books written in antiquity itself, allowing us direct access to lost works and what the ancients said. Some celebrated sites, such as Oxyrhynchus in Egypt, have yielded up splendid finds. Yet strangely, the most spectacular of...
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