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    An ancient wooden carving of the bisexual Viking god Odin suggests the prehistoric timber circle monument Seahenge and another, even older, structure might have included totem pole-like carvings, according to archaeologists who have excavated the over 4,000-year-old British wood monuments. via Discovery
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    Thanks pompeius, it is online now http://www.unrv.com/book-review/cicero.php
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    Resource Gap

    Viggen replied to Valens's topic in Res Publica

    Maybe the climate was different back then, but wasn't there outside of Carthage (and away from the coast) only desert, just like it is now? Was it maybe that Carthage simply had not a big enough population to recruit more, even if they wanted/could? cheers viggen
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    After a decade of excavations at the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, two Israeli archaeologists are ready to challenge the traditional view that the Essenes were members of a pious, ascetic sect who spent their days transcribing the famed biblical texts. The scrolls, they believe, were written mainly by priests of Jerusalem's Second Hebrew Temple and brought to the cliffside caves of Qumran to be concealed from invading Roman legions. full article at The Washington Times
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    An iron Age settlement discovered on the site of the new Richard Lander School at Threemilestone has yielded a number of finds including pottery wine vessels and 10 roundhouses. Pottery recovered from the postholes and roundhouse ditches includes elaborately decorated wares and fragments of amphora, used for transporting wine and imported from Italy, most likely during the 1st or 2nd centuries BC. The amphora was imported before the Roman invasion of Britain (43 AD) and is extremely rare in Cornwall. full article at This is Cornwall
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    Israeli archeologists have uncovered a 5,000-year-old Canaanite city and a 2,000-year-old Jewish village from the Second Temple period alongside each other in the Modi'in area. The rural Jewish town uncovered at the site existed from about 100 BCE to 135 CE, until the Bar Kochba revolt, said archeologist Dr. David Amit. full article at the Jerusalem Post
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    A team of archaeologists from Denmark, Greenland and Canada announced on Wednesday they had made the first ever discovery of ancient Inuit, or Eskimo, burial sites in the far north of Greenland. The three burial grounds were found in Ingefield Land, around 100 kilometres north of Qaanaaq in the northwest of the island and probably dated from the 13th century, team member Hans Lange, the curator of Greenland's national museum, told KNR radio. full article at IOL
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    Just to clear things up here, Jugurtha got eventually his maps!
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    What If?

    Viggen replied to Primus Pilus's topic in Res Publica

    Interesting question; I assume the British Isle would have never been under Roman Rule, there would have been no Varus Disaster either then.. maybe the Roman Empire would have focussed more on the eastern expansion...
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    Exellent pompeius, no The Beginnings of Rome has not been done yet, and your Cicero review will be online tomorrow!
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    Rome Total War is now also available for the US on Amazon!
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    The biggest Viking gold ring ever found in the British Isles has been discovered among the belongings of a York man following his death. Mystery surrounds the origins of the 324.6 gram arm ring, which has excited experts, one of whom called the find "fantastic". full article including image at This is York
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    Yorkshire Water employees came across ancient remains, thought to be from Roman times, whilst digging up the site in Pocklington last week. Archaeologists are carefully excavating the area and have so far removed human bones and other artefacts which they think could be shreds of pottery, tiles or brooches. On that occasion, four skeletons were found and were confirmed to be of Roman origin dating back as far as 400AD. full article at Pocklington Today
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    The early prehistory and archaeology of the Middle Pleistocene, or Ice Age, is being revealed in remarkable detail in studies in southern Jordan. The work, begun in the late 1990s, has documented the presence of Homo erectus, our ancient ancestor, at a series of archaeological sites at Ayoun Qedim in the al-Jafr Basin. full article at the The Daily Star
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    An archaeologist has unearthed a colourful 3rd Century mosaic in Verulamium Park, St Albans, during building works on the ancient hypocaust and mosaic site. The field archaeology unit at St Albans Museums was digging a trench for a new electricity cable when Jack Couch made the new find of a chequered mosaic. Probably not seen for nearly 2,000 years, the mosaic is made up of red or brown tessera in a grid of grey Purbeck marble. It may be from the corridor of a town house built close to the hypocaust. full article at St. Albans Observer
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    I am catholic, and i don't feel offended in any shape or form, each to his own... My favourite spiritual leader of this day and age (i am not buddhist) is the dalai lama and i like in particular this quote... I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
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    Sacred relics lie scattered beneath the deserts of the Middle East. In Iraq, our religious history is being obliterated; in Israel, it's a question of faith. Beneath the sands and silt of Iraq, for millennium after millennium, truths have waited to be pieced together about these legendary places that loom so large in the faith and culture of Jews, Christians and Muslims. full article at MSNBC
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    A new robot, currently being designed by a Singaporean university, will hopefully explore the bowels of the Great Pyramid next year, a noted Egyptologist said on Wednesday. "The manufacturing of the robot will start in October, with the university footing the bill. The exploration will likely start next year," Zahi Hawass, chairman of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, told reporters. full article at People's Daily
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    Exellent job, can we use your review for our featured section? http://www.unrv.com/book-review/review.php cheers viggen
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    Try this one, bit unusual but probably the funniest way to learn latin Latin for Dummies
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    Here are all the books we listed in the third week of August; As the Romans Did by Jo-Ann Shelton Egypt in Late Antiquity by Roger S. Bagnall Centurion: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Peter W. Mitsopoulos The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples by Herwig Wolfram, Thomas Dunlap The Assassination Of Julius Caesar by Michael Parenti The Goths (The Peoples of Europe) by Peter Heather Restorer of the World: The Roman Emperor Aurelian by John F. White feel free to comment or discuss any of those books listed above, has anyone read one of those already? cheers viggen
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    A Viking body, believed to be that of a woman who was buried 1 100 years ago, has been discovered at an undisclosed site north of Dublin, Ireland's National Museum said on Friday. The find has been described as "exciting" and "significant" by the museum. Archaeological excavation of the remains also led to the discovery of a bronze oval brooch, an unusually long bone comb and other copper alloy ornaments. full article at IOL
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    Archeologists exploring the bottom of the sea off the island of Capri have found the wrecks of three ancient ships that once plied the Mediterranean between Rome and northern African colonies. Culture Minister Giuliano Urbani took a mini-submarine tour Thursday to see the latest additions to Italy's rich archaeological heritage. full article at the Calgary Sun
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    A Bulgarian archaeologist has unearthed an ancient gold mask and a ring featuring an
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    The remains of a prehistoric town believed to date back 15,000 years and belong to an ancient Berber civilization have been discovered in Western Sahara, Moroccan state media said on Thursday. A team of Moroccan scientists stumbled across the sand-covered ruins of the town Arghilas deep in the desert of the Morocco-administered territory. full article at Reuters
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