[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Thanks GeronL and colorado tanker for those lively pings, and thanks bruinbirdman for posting this topic. The Romans were great at cherry-picking good ideas, which means their main talent was in knowing what to pick. The people who built the machinery and architecture were considered pretty low class, and yet they made the Roman Empire possible. The Etruscans are generally considered the source for a lot of the quintessentially Roman stuff such as roadbuilding and aqueducts. The Roman Woodstock was held to celebrate the completion of an earlier hydraulic project, here's an interesting description, oh, try the Wayback Machine on this dead link: Those About To Die by Daniel P. Mannix [Chapter III] To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[Buggman]

I saw another Roman aqueduct from the same era in Caesarea Philippi a couple of years ago. Say what you will about the Romans, they were fantastic architects and craftsmen.

Shalom.

[MetaThought]

btw: link wasn’t working on archive.org, but google cache works!

[colorado tanker]

I find the Etruscans fascinating, perhaps because the Romans so thoroughly destroyed what they might have left behind and we know so little about them.

[SunkenCiv]

(here's the excerpt I should have just shut up and posted)

Those About To Die
Chapter XII
by Daniel P. Mannix

There were also man-sized apes called tityrus with round faces, reddish color and whiskers. Pictures of them appear on vases and they were apparently orangutans, imported from Indonesia. As far as I know, the Romans never exhibited gorillas although these biggest of all apes were known to the Phoenicians, who gave them their present name which means "hairy savage."