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Cool Jug, thanks allot,
Funny that the Romans didnt describe this in more detail. Maybe it didn't fit into the glory of Caesar, and would have affected his status?
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ROME (Reuters) - A manuscript containing possibly unknown verses penned by the ancient Greek playwright Menander more than 2,000 years ago have come to light at the Vatican Library, the Vatican's newspaper has said. While half of the 400 verses, copied on to a parchment in the ninth century, appear to be come from Menander's only salvaged play "The Grouch", or "Dyskolos", researchers believe 200 verses could be completely new finds.
"The deciphering and deep analysis of the new fragments...will allow us to read again, after two millennia, a text that was believed to be lost," L'Osservatore Romano daily said on Friday. The verses were discovered by Francesco D'Aiuto, the Vatican Library's specialist in Greek manuscripts. Menander, a prolific writer of Greek comedies who was born in 342 BC, has been called the father of the modern sitcom.
For years his texts were only known due to references from his contemporary admirers. Over the last century, manuscripts with fragments of his plays have come to light, including an almost complete copy of "The Grouch". The protagonists of the new verses found at the Vatican Library are an old woman, a newborn child and a girl, according to initial studies, although the details of the plot have yet to unfold, L'Osservatore said. The manuscript is a copy of Menander's verses written on animal skin and stored in a Syrian monastery before making its way to the Vatican.
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The stone torso, unearthed at Lattes in southern France, is one of just a few detailed figurines considered to have been made by the ancient Celts.
The statue of a male warrior wears a style of armour worn in Spain and Italy and was life-size when it was complete. The "Warrior of Lattes" is described in the scholarly journal Antiquity. It is around 79 centimetres in height and was discovered in the wall of an Iron Age house where it had been used as a building stone.
Some time after it was created, the statue was mutilated to be re-used in a door opening. The head was removed, the left leg and arm hacked off and the crest of the warrior's helmet smoothed away. The statue's pose is also unusual for Iron Age sculptures from southern France. Most are shown cross-legged, but the Lattes sculpture was in a crouched position - a pose reminiscent of some Greek sculptures.
full article with photos at the BBC
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Two of the Internet's leading video game companies, IGN Entertainment and GameSpy Industries, on Thursday said they will merge to create a company offering gaming news, information, downloads, data services and community features.
San Francisco-based IGN and Irvine, Calif.-based GameSpy, both of which are privately held, said the deal is expected to close in the first half of 2004. IGN Chief Executive Mark Jung will be CEO of the combined company, and GameSpy Chairman Mark Surfas will be chief strategy officer. IGN was publicly traded until August, when it went private in a buyout led by Great Hill Partners and the IGN management team. It is best known for both free and subscription content on games and gaming hardware.
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Archaeologists have discovered an arc of buried megaliths that once formed part of the great stone circle at Avebury in Wiltshire.
Most of the standing megaliths visible today at Avebury formed the western half of the circle. The famous map of the site drawn in the 1720s by William Stukeley, the first secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of London, showed that many of the stones in the south-east and north-east quadrants of the circle were missing.
Now, the first geophysics survey of these areas of Avebury, carried out by the National Trust, has revealed that at least 15 of the megaliths lie buried in the circle itself. The massive stones show up very clearly as computer images and the National Trust has been able to identify their sizes, where they lie and how they fit in the circle.
full article at the Independent
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Archaeologists have discovered a
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For the normal eye, they are just fragments of pottery. But for the specialist eye of Southampton varsity scholar Roberta Tomber, these pieces of clay are first fragile indicators that may help archaeologists solve the mystery of the ancient Indian port of Muziris.
Roberta claims that the pottery pieces found by K P Shajan, a marine geologist, from Pattanam near Paravoor, are parts of Roman wine amphora, Mesopotamian torpedo jar and Yemenite storage jar. "It is the first time that we have found evidence in Malabar coast. The clay is very different from what was used in India during the same period. A lot of black minerals are present," she says.
If this claim is true, then the pieces are the first evidence of Roman pottery to be found in Kerala. It also strengthens the theory that the port of Muziris was in the belt of Kodungallur-Chettuva.
full article at Keral News
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Whatever side you take on the case for moving the fragmentary 5th century BC Parthenon frieze from London to Athens, recent events show that the arguments are more about politics than archaeology or public access.
In 2001, MP Edward O'Hara proposed that the Elgin Marbles should be returned to Athens for the Olympic games next year, to fill the otherwise empty museum being built by Greece at a reported cost of
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An ancient gold disc which was used as an item of adornment at a burial 4,000 years ago has been discovered in Ceredigion.
Experts say the priceless sun disc is the first one of its kind to be found in Wales and only the third known piece of gold from the Bronze Age uncovered here.
The disc found by chance by an archaeologist digging at Copa Hill at the Cwmystwyth Mines - 10 miles outside Aberystwyth - was the subject of a treasure trove inquest heard by Ceredigion coroner on Tuesday.
full article (with image) at the BBC
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Frustrated archaeologists said Monday that a sprawling area of recently discovered early 3rd century warehouses will soon be topped by a 200-car parking lot in the Trastevere area near the Tiber River.
Archaeologists had to put down their tools after exploring only a small slice of the 500-square-yard expanse of storehouses that once served as busy port when Roman traders and armies sailed the Mediterranean during the Imperial era.
While there's money available to build parking spots in this car-choked metropolis, the coffers for archaeological exploration are practically bare.
full article at Charleston Gazette
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Archaeologists believe that traces of a community dating back to a pre-Roman era, a sort of "Etruscan Venice", may lie beneath the ships. The end of the lagoon civilisation may also offer clues to the fate of modern Venice - the waterways were silted up by violent floods over a long period.
The number of vessels, which were found in remarkable condition, rose to six, then nine, and finally 21, including what experts believe may be a Roman warship. They date from 200BC-AD500.
full article at the Telegraph
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During the Ptolemaic era Tuna EI-Gabal was the necropolis of Ashmounein, where one can still see some intact tombs which closely resemble modern houses and which are adorned with beautiful designs that are a blend of Egyptian and Greek arts.
Tuna EI-Gabal is also the site of an immortal, almost two-thousand year old love story (120 AD), about Isadora, whom the doyen of Arabic literature Taha Hussein wrote about in his masterpiece
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ANCIENT Scots may have enjoyed sophisticated economic, social and cultural links with the builders of one of the world's most mysterious ancient monuments, according to new research.
Experts have revealed a previously unknown link between the elite of ancient Scots society and Stonehenge, dispelling the myth that Scotland's Bronze Age tribes were uncultivated barbarians.
full article at TheHerald
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Italian authorities are so alarmed by a spate of thefts from the ruins of Pompeii that they are planning to remove to safety "all the antiquities not nailed down".
Some of Europe's most important Roman mosaics and other decorations - including ancient storage jars, capitals and columns - are to be replaced with copies to protect them from thieves operating out of the neighbouring crime-ridden city of Naples.
Officials are drawing up a list of the most easily removed items from the open-air site - where security is notoriously lax - and plan to move them to museums and stores after the third serious break-in in six months.
full article at the Telegraph
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An Iron Age torc unearthed in a Norfolk field this summer has been hailed as an exceptional find on a par with the famed Snettisham hoard.
Norfolk Museums Service expert Dr John Davies said the item dated back to the Iceni tribe, probably a generation before Iceni leader Boudicca lived. He said: "It is indeed a very fine example. It compares with some of the very finest examples that have turned up at Snettisham.
A report by Dr JD Hill of the British Museum revealed that the item, which was made between 200 and 50 BC , survived more than 2000 years intact before suffering recent minor damage from agricultural machinery. Dr Davies said the electrum torc would have belonged to a prestigious figure in Iron Age Norfolk and Boudicca would have worn similar jewellery.
full article at EDP24
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After 10 years of digging, "Little Rome," as the great Roman orator Cicero called it, is coming to light near Naples, in what could be the most important discovery of an ancient Roman town since the excavation of lava-entombed Pompeii and Herculaneum in the 18th century.
The ancient town of Puteoli, once one of the major trading ports of the Mediterranean, has been found under Rione Terra, a stout promontory in Pozzuoli, just 8 miles west of Naples.
Known to Italians as the birthplace of movie star Sophia Loren, Pozzuoli is a pleasant seaside resort surrounded by volcanic hills. But under palaces and hotels lies an ancient city with streets, temples and exceptionally preserved buildings
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Ancient Mediterranean sailors crossed the high seas with techniques of navigation and orentation that we still haven't discovered, contrary to myths that need to be dispelled, such as that the only navigation was local coastal navigation. New evidence has appeared regarding ancient naval presence on the island of Ustica, discovered by underwater excavation last summer carried out by Giuliano Volpe, archaeology professor at the University of Foggia, supported by "Archeologia viva" and the archaeological superintendence of Palermo.
full article at AGI Online
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Archaeologists in Worcester have discovered a Roman well under the site of a proposed footpath.
Archaeologists in Worcester have discovered a Roman well under the site of a proposed footpath.
It was discovered on a construction site in The Butts near to a small section of the surviving medieval city wall. It has now been refilled to allow a pathway to be built over the top of it. Archaeologist Mike Napthan, who made the discovery, said it was the first Roman structure to be found in the city intact.
He said it proved that Romans continued to live in the area into the fourth century. Archaeologists first thought the well was medieval, but artefacts recovered from inside it during excavation prove it was in use in about 380 ad. It is hoped the artefacts found inside the well will be put on display at the city's museum.
from the BBC
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Etruscan art, made of strange demons and monsters, is emerging in a Tuscan village, in what could be one of the most important discoveries of recent times, according to scholars who have seen the paintings.
Lurking on the left wall of a 4th century B.C. tomb, the exceptionally preserved monsters have been unearthed during the ongoing excavation of the Pianacce necropolis in Sarteano, a village 50 miles from Siena, Italy.
"So far we have found some scenes of banquets, snake-like monsters, demons, a hyppocampus and a sarcophagus broken in many fragments, probably by tomb robbers. We are confident to find more art as the digging goes on," archaeologist Alessandra Minetti told Discovery News.
via Discovery
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A coast-to-coast route along Hadrian's Wall has been so popular since it opened that steps are being taken to stop it being damaged. The 84-mile trail opened earlier this year which meant for the first time in 1,600 years visitors could walk the length of the Roman wall.
This summer an average of 800 people a month completed the route from Wallsend, in North Tyneside, to Bowness on Solway, in Cumbria. It means the World Heritage Site is in danger of being eroded and steps are being taken to prevent any further damage over the winter. The Countryside Agency, which manages the route, is now urging people to think about when they visit the path to prevent it being damaged.
full article at the BBC
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After 15 years of pause, archaeological excavations have been resumed in Serbia, an area rich with remains of ancient Roman sites along the Danube and Sava rivers. The most attractive to local public was the first ever underwater expedition in the Danube, the natural border between Serbia and Romania. It confirmed the existence of the Trajan Bridge, which once had a 1070-metre span across the river between what are today the towns of Kladovo and the Romanian port Turnu Severin some 170 km east of Belgrade.
The Roman emperor Trajan is said to have started to build the bridge in the year 103AD as a part of his forays into the kingdom of Dacians, in today's Romania.
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ARCHAEOLOGISTS are engaged in a race to save the remnants of an Iron Age settlement built by one of the most mysterious early peoples of Scotland. The prehistoric site at Carghidown, near the Isle of Whithorn, Galloway, could illuminate the lives of an ancient tribe called the Novantae. However, the promontory fort located 100ft above the sea, which has a number of extremely rare features, faces destruction after years of wave and wind action and could collapse into the sea.
Evidence from the floors of dwellings at the settlement will be used to document the daily lives of the little known tribe, which lived in south-west Scotland. A number of lead beads discovered at Carghidown also indicates the inhabitants enjoyed more sophisticated trading networks than previously believed. Ronan Toolis, project officer for AOC Archaeology, led the excavation. He said: "Carghidown is an enigmatic site. While it was probably occupied in the Iron Age, we don't yet know exactly when it was occupied. "There is no access to the sea and, although it is called a fort, it wasn't a defensive position as a hill overlooks the site. However, if we don't get back soon it is very likely that more archaeology will be lost to the sea." Two roundhouses were discovered within the promontory fort, defined by dry stone walls, one of which contained a series of floor deposits, which is uncommon in archaeological sites as floors have often been ploughed away.
The three rare lead beads were recovered from just outside one of the roundhouses and are believed to have been part of some intricate form of jewellery.Archaeologists have found little evidence for the lives of the Novantae before the Roman Conquest. They were thought to have replaced a small, dark-haired aboriginal race, probably akin to Basques of the Iberian peninsula, who held this south-western corner of Scotland for centuries. The Novantae were farmers and herders, but few of their farms and other settlements have been excavated by archaeologists so far.
Mr Toolis said: "We hope to return next year to excavate the site, in order to shed new light on how and why the Iron Age people of Galloway chose to occupy coastal sites like Carghidown."
ARCHAEOLOGISTS are engaged in a race to save the remnants of an Iron Age settlement built by one of the most mysterious early peoples of Scotland. The prehistoric site at Carghidown, near the Isle of Whithorn, Galloway, could illuminate the lives of an ancient tribe called the Novantae.
However, the promontory fort located 100ft above the sea, which has a number of extremely rare features, faces destruction after years of wave and wind action and could collapse into the sea.
Evidence from the floors of dwellings at the settlement will be used to document the daily lives of the little known tribe, which lived in south-west Scotland.
Source: The Herald
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according to the calender you celebrate your birthday today,
Happy B-Day!!!!! (Maaaaaaaaaany more to come)
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English Heritage announce Landmark Agreement to save Internationally Important Site. Verulamium, Britain
Caesar's legion massacred at Venlo
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ah, good we have the professor,
I didnt't know about the battle before, and i must have misread the article from Jug then, so thanks for clearing this up!