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Archaeologists Find Tomb Under Roman Forum
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| Jan 20th, 2006
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Posted on 01/20/2006 2:48:28 PM PST by The_Republican
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Exciting Find!
To: The_Republican
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posted on
01/20/2006 2:50:29 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: The_Republican
It's also consistent with a persistent habit of paving over graveyards to build new public structures. After all, good, buildable space "downtown" anywhere has always been in short supply, and the dead, after all, really don't care.
Glad to see Rome's founders were so terribly human.
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posted on
01/20/2006 2:50:40 PM PST
by
muawiyah
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To: ruoflaw
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posted on
01/20/2006 2:52:30 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
To: The_Republican
Legend has it that Rome was founded in 753 B.C. by Romulus and Remus, the twin sons of the god of war, Mars.The idea of using the year of Christ's birth as the epoch year of the Julian Calendar was first proposed by the Monk Dionysius Exiguus in 525 AD. At the time, a variety of epoch years were in common use, with the year when Diocletian ascended to the office of Emperor of Rome being the most widely used. Although the Imperial and post-Imperial Romans counted time from various reference points that changed frequently, there was one "epoch date" that was canonically (albeit infrequently) used to unify all their various time counts: the date of the founding of the city of Rome (an era that was called "Ab Urbe Condita," Latin for "From the Founding of the City.") Dionysius explicity specified the year that would be the year 1 of the Anno Domini Era as the year 754 A.U.C. ("Ab Urbe Condita.")
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posted on
01/20/2006 2:53:15 PM PST
by
sourcery
(Either the Constitution trumps stare decisis, or else the Constitution is a dead letter.)
To: sourcery
Thanks for dropping the knowledge!!!
To: billorites
She's not getting anywhere near my artifact!
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posted on
01/20/2006 2:56:07 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(01/11/06: Ted Kennedy becomes the designated driver and moral spokesperson for the Democrat party.)
To: The_Republican
This is cool. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
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posted on
01/20/2006 2:58:41 PM PST
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DoughtyOne
(01/11/06: Ted Kennedy becomes the designated driver and moral spokesperson for the Democrat party.)
To: The_Republican; blam; SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/20/2006 2:58:51 PM PST
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Fiddlstix
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To: The_Republican
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posted on
01/20/2006 3:02:33 PM PST
by
satchmodog9
(Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
To: The_Republican
Romulus?
To: billorites
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posted on
01/20/2006 3:11:56 PM PST
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msnimje
(Senate Democrats ----------- Sound and Furry Signifying INSIGNIFICANCE)
To: The_Republican
Do you have any idea where in the Forum this was located? My wife and I were just in Rome about 10 months ago. We spent half a day exploring the Forum. It extends over quite a vast area. Do they think there are burial sites throughout?
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posted on
01/20/2006 3:14:13 PM PST
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stevem
To: The_Republican
So then who were these ancient pre-Roman people? Etruscans, colonizing Greeks, Gauls?
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posted on
01/20/2006 3:16:02 PM PST
by
starbase
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To: starbase; stevem
Great questions. Maybe someone would enlighten us all.
To: stinkerpot65
Remus??
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posted on
01/20/2006 3:17:49 PM PST
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The Chid
To: The_Republican
1,000 B.C., meaning the people who constructed the necropolis pre-dated the ancient Romans by hundreds of years. Etruscans, perhaps? Should be easy to identify, as Rome and the surrounding area is full of their artifacts, especially delightful at the Etruscan Museum. Anything other than Etruscan would be interesting indeed.
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posted on
01/20/2006 3:23:25 PM PST
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Veto!
(Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
To: The Chid
To: The Chid
Nah. Remus hangs out with Br'er Rabbit.
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posted on
01/20/2006 3:39:29 PM PST
by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: starbase
I think there were lots of tribes on the It. penninsula before Rome.
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posted on
01/20/2006 3:48:05 PM PST
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virgil
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