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had a peek, said hello to Lost Warrior seems to work nicely... cheers viggen

talking of Olympics, it was a fine day for austria today, 3 silver and one gold

We are happy to announce that our fifth Book Give Away has been reviewed! Forum Member Virgil61, who received a free copy of The Fall of the Roman Empire, just submitted to us his article. Thanks Virgil61 for this excellent review, it seems you enjoyed to read the book! The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather

Villa of Roman emperor raises new questions for researchers on dig in Italy. In The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon portrays the pagan emperor Maxentius as a licentious youth and "a tyrant as contemptible as he was odious." Historians have long assumed that the reviled Roman emperor lived part-time at an 80-acre suburban villa complex until he was killed by his rival Constantine at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in A.D. 312. But a University of Colorado-led archaeology team has uncovered evidence that the villa's main hall was never occupied. full article at RockyMountainNews

Archaeologists who have been digging for more than a year at the villa of Roman Emperor Hadrian in Tivoli have unearthed a monumental staircase, a statue of an athlete and what appears to be a headless sphinx. The findings were presented Tuesday by government officials who described the discoveries as extremely important for understanding the layout of the ruins. The staircase is believed to be the original entrance to the villa, which was built for Hadrian in the 2nd century A.D. full article at ABC News

hmm, what is tafe?

Similar to distributed super computers such as the SETI @ Home project, the BBC along with a bunch of Universities and the MET office call on users to help predict weather patterns. I dowloaded it and it looks pretty interesting... Take part in the biggest climate experiment ever undertaken

A team of scientists hopes to crack one of the layers of mystery surrounding 15th-century French heroine Joan of Arc: Could a rib and other fragments recovered after she was burned at the stake be hers? Eighteen experts plan a battery of tests to determine whether the few remains reportedly recovered from the pyre where the 19-year-old was burned alive for heresy

Experts believe they have discovered the remains of the largest-ever Roman building found in Leicester. The dwelling, thought to be a second century town house is 230ft long - equivalent to 15 terraced houses. Archeologists believe it could have been a hotel for Roman officials visiting the city. Alternatively, it could have been a large home for a wealthy family. full article at ThisisLeicestershire

For centuries, he has remained in the shadow of his famous wife, the warrior Queen of East Anglia's Iceni tribe.But while Boudica outshines him in history, new research shows that Prasutagus was not quite the down-trodden husband previously suggested. For it was he, and not his wife, who graced the coinage of the period. Until now, Prasutagus has only existed in historical conjecture and myth as King of the Iceni, the tribe occupying East Anglia, which was ruled with Boudica under Roman authority. full article at News Edp24

It's not unusual in this country to come across weapons caches dating back to the Second World War. But, finding a pile of javelin tips, parts of shields and a sword dating back to the 2nd century A.D., doesn't happen every day. According to museum officials in the north Bohemian town of Chomutov it was a find that almost "never happened": a trove of twenty-two Teutonic items, weapons or parts of shields, dating back 1,800 years, that one finder almost failed to report. full article at Radio Praha

Escitement over a Roman gravestone discovered in the centre of Lancaster has been dampened by the news that, although the artefact is barely out of the ground, Britain is likely to lose it to an overseas buyer. Archaeologists said yesterday that the gravestone, which depicts with great clarity a mounted trooper holding a sword and the head of a man he has just killed, was a unique find. full article at the Times Online

Two ancient fortified settlements were discovered in Nea Karvali, Kavala, northern Greece, during a cleanup by the 18th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities on the outskirts of the municipality. According to the ephorate

"The twin lobes of the stylized version correspond roughly to the paired auricles and ventricles (chambers) of the anatomical heart," Pranzarone said, but added that the organ "is never bright red in color" and its "shape does not have the invagination at the top nor the sharp point at the base." Pranzarone indicated that the ancient Greeks and Romans could have originated the link between human female anatomy and the heart shape. The Greeks, he said, associated beauty with the curves of the human female behind. full article at the Discovery Channel

(checking calendar, umm no not 1.April, hmm) imo, everyone that made it to Equestrian or above is already an ambassador p.s. but i dont mind looking at pretty contestants in swimwear

to start off... why did rome take so long to defeate some of the enimies and why did it take them even longer to defeate hannibal? ...or one can ask "Why did hardly any enemy defeat the romans and why did Hannibal not conquer Rome..." regards viggen

hehe LW, youre welcome, glad pertinax spotted it sure flavius, whatever comes to your mind about horses at roman times... cheers viggen

took a while, but there you go http://www.unrv.com/ it is now online and live... thanks very much cheers viggen p.s. we could use a little article about horses in the roman empire for our cavalry section, anyone up for that task?

Thanks a million! all added and live now http://www.unrv.com/glossary/glossary.php well, right now we dont have anything in particular, but after the server move i will make sure to ask again cheers viggen

If you refer to the nose... Frederick Lewis Norden sketched the Sphinx in 1737 and published detailed drawings in 1755 showing the Sphinx with no nose. Muhammad al-Husayni Taqi al-Din al-Maqrizi (died CE 1442), writes in a book called "al-Mawa`iz wa al-i`tibar fi dhikr al-khitat wa al-athar" that the face, specifically the nose and ears, were demolished in 1378 by a Sufi named Sa'im al-dahr. Now the french troops (with Napoleon) entered Egypt in 1798. So dont blame the french... It was rebuilt in 537 AD, it stayed in "greeks" hands till 1453 when the Ottoman Turks took over... that would be 900 odd years in "greek" hands versus about 550 years in "turk" hands.... just to clarify... regards viggen

thanks for sharing Iceman, and great to have all in caps and a dozen of smiley i really appreciate that, as a little thank you, i put you on moderated status, which means every time you post, well a mod has to approve to what you have to say... cheers viggen Imperator

ohhh, i can feel it, soon we are at the new host :)cheersviggen

lol, when i read the titel of this entry i though i will get an indepth analysis about the germanic tribe called Goths hehe cheers viggen

To give Sony credit, they made a site online where they invited some 45 christian scholars to give their view on the story and who will dispute the book's theological and historical claims. So hats of to Sony for that http://www.thedavincichallenge.com/ cheers viggen

Just saw the trailer http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_picture...code/large.html now this will be a movie i am defenitely going to watch, i read the book and i cant wait to see it, now regardless what one thinks about the theory presented in the book, it is first a damm good story to read and it brought details of christianity to my attention my old catholic priest never told me like the Thomas Gospel etc... So who read the book The Da Vinci Code, and who will watch the movie? cheers viggen