Posted on 04/14/2008 3:35:15 PM PDT by blam
Another Roman coin? If I lost money like a Roman I’d be bankrupt. Maybe they just did this to mess with our heads when we dug this stuff up. ;-)
“Oh building a henge are we? Very nice.”
Eddie is a funny guy; I especially like his “Remember this was back in mumble mumble B.C..” act.
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I’ll bet there were vendors at Stonehenge hawking honeyed mead and sweet cakes to the visiting Romans who came out on holiday to see the spectacular stones .
No.
I see what you Mean:
Coins:
* Roman coins have been found in Venezuela and Maine.
* Roman coins were found in Texas at the bottom of an Indian mound at Round Rock. The mound is dated at approximately 800 AD.
* In 1957 by a small boy found a coin in a field near Phenix City, Alabama, from Syracuse, on the island of Sicily, and dating from 490 B.C.
* In the town of Heavener, Oklahoma, another out-of-place coin was found in 1976. Experts identified it as a bronze tetradrachm originally struck in Antioch, Syria in 63 A.D. and bearing the profile of the emperor Nero.
* In 1882, a farmer in Cass County, Illinois picked up bronze coin later identified as a coin of Antiochus IV, one of the kings of Syria who reigned from 175 B.C. to 164 B.C., and who is mentioned in the Bible.
Earlier than Roman.
Many archeologists believe that Stonehenge is a temple to the sun god, as described by the classical historian Diodorus Siculus who cites the fourth century BC GREEK geographer, Hecataeus of Abdera, in a key 1st century classical source.
AND here is the legend:
A classical legend associated with the Greek Oracle of Delphi is related to Stonehenge’s past. It states that the oracle at Delphi functioned for only part of the year because, for three months around the winter solstice, the site’s sun god Apollo) went to the “land of the hyperboreans” (literally “the land of the people beyond the north wind!”), which is generally believed to be Britain.
Significantly, Stonehenge is aligned with the winter as well as the summer solstice.
The Greeks knew about this place long before the Romans ever got there.
“The Greeks knew about this place long before the Romans ever got there.”
And probably the Phoenicians before the Greeks.
It was not unusual for the Romans to worship local Gods and incorporate them into their Pantheon. Pagans were much more ecumenical than Judaeo-Christians. Aquae Sulis
is an example of Romans incorporating a local deity into their Pantheon by identifying her with a Roman goddess.
The Monolith builders antedated the Romans, Greeks, Phoenicians and Celts.
Megalith, not Monolith - brain burp.
Actually the Greeks go way before the Phoenicians to the second millennium BC - for example Mycenae-—some ruins found in Sicily quite recently were constructed by Phoenicians and are of the 8th century BC.
“Yeah, Reg, what’d the Romans ever do for us?
“well, there’s the roads and Stonehenge.”
“that goes without saying”
Guess you’re right. The Myceanaeans were around in the 1300’s ??
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