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  • 2,000-Year-Old Stonemason's Tools Discovered in Romanian Quarry

    05/20/2025 2:11:11 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 31 replies
    Archaeology Magazine ^ | May 12, 2025 | editors / unattributed
    Almost 2,000 years ago, a stonemason working in a limestone quarry near the hill of Mǎgura Cǎlanului in current-day Romania left behind his tools. A local resident happened upon the corroded bits of metal in 2022 and brought them to the attention of the Corvin Castle Museum in Hunedoara, according to a La Brújula Verde report. The artifacts turned out to be a complete stonemasonry toolkit, the first of its kind ever found in pre-Roman Dacia and one of the most complete kits from anywhere in Europe. The set consists of 15 different objects weighing a total of 25 pounds,...
  • WE ALL HAD IT ROUGH IN THE BEGINNING

    03/12/2003 7:59:15 PM PST · by cyborg · 28 replies · 217+ views
    There's an old adage about Italian immigrants that's not far from the truth. It goes something like this: They soon discovered that not only were the streets not paved with gold; but, that they were expected to pave them. I will forever remain in awe and so proud of the courage, determination, sacrifices and just plain old fashioned hard work of our immigrant ancestors. Those courageous, determined heroes who came to a strange world without knowledge of the language and in most cases, with very little money. Not only did they survive, in spite of enormous prejuduce, but they prospered!...