Viggen

...if it is a medieval work, how did pollen from judaea end up there? the carbondating is sketchy at best because it has been burned in medieval times, till today as far as i know there is no known technique how to make a linnen like this, not saying its the real deal, just saying it is not that easy to dismiss... cheers viggen

These incredible pictures show a 700-year-old mummy, which was discovered by chance - by road workers - in excellent condition in eastern China.The corpse of the high-ranking woman believed to be from the Ming Dynasty - the ruling power in China between 1368 and 1644 - was stumbled across by a team who were looking to expand a street.And the mummy, which was found in the city of Taizhou, in the Jiangsu Province, along with two other wooden tombs, offers a fascinating insight into life as it was back then.Discovered two metres below the road surface, the woman's features - from her head to her shoes - have retained their original condition, and have hardly deteriorated. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1362957/700-year-old-mummy-road-workers-east-China-excellent-condition.html#ixzz1FvpYO61C

...nice find in the sports section!

yeah, everyone is neutral, we haven`t switched that feature on yet... cheers and thanks for asking! viggen

I expected nothing from Centurion and was pleasantly suprised, I expected so much from The Eagle and well, I feel asleep after an hour... cheers viggen

The Acropolis Museum in Athens You would perhaps expect the Parthenon, towering over the city from the top of its cliff, to be the first thing you notice when you get up from the Athenian metro station called Acropolis. But it probably isn't. I am willing to bet almost anything that your eyes will fall on the (New) Acropolis Museum instead. The background to why the new museum was built is complicated and cannot be discussed in detail here, but it is safe to say that the old museum had been insufficient for a long time. It is also quite obvious that the Greek authorities wanted to prove to the UK that they could provide a safe environment for the Elgin marbles, thus rendering that argument against repatriation invalid.... ...read the full review of the Acropolis Museum in Athens

...so it seems to work now again,however old characters that are written wrongly are not automatically reversed, that could be fun... sigh

...often UK and USA have different publisher and sometimes even different titles, dont ask my why they have different page numbers, maybe the font is larger with one... and to give you a third title, just to make things even more complicated the amazon kindle version is titled The Fall Of The West: The Long, Slow Death of the Roman Superpower, however there are several published authors here (including the reviewer) that might give you a better answer... cheers viggen

Here an interesting audio, an english (male) and a brasilian (female) speaking Virgils Eclogues You can see that depending on your background (portuguese or english) Latin and its pronounciation sounds different... http://ia600102.us.archive.org/22/items/ecloga_0810_librivox/eclogae_01_1_vergil_64kb.mp3 via http://librivox.org/...vergilius-maro/

If you have seen The Kings Speech than you crack up, if not you still will, it is so funny... Sir Mike Tyson!

hehe, yeah its a test post for this issue we have since the upgrade and to fix that issue it is easier to have all the special characters in one place, thats why i created this post... ...and no you are not a failure cheers viggen

Test - if you reply to this you failed....

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I consulted with an expert on early germanics this is what he had to say... Given the date, I think it would be safer to go with a low franconian dialect. If you look at this map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Languages_Benelux.PNG you can see that Limburgish is not geographically too distant from Luxembourgisch which is a higher german but, at that time, I guess most people down there would have still been speaking romance. Later, they are all influenced by old french but 450 AD is early enough to presume that the Salii spoke a low german language. The Walloons of course are now french speaking, so the story is set somewhere close to the linguistic border. But certainly it would be safer to think in terms of old dutch rather than old high german for this area.

Hello Mrs Mayor and thank you for answering our questions! In the novel Mithridates is Dead (Spanish: Mitr?dates ha muerto),Ignasi Rib? suggests that the September 11 attacks on the United States closely paralleled the massacre of Roman citizens in 88 B.C. and prompted similar consequences, namely the imperialist overstretch of the American and Roman republics respectively. After researching and writing The Poison King, is there in your opinion any merit in his suggestion?

We are happy to announce that Adrienne Mayor a research scholar at Stanford University and bestselling author has agreed to answer questions from our forum members. Every forum member can ask one question only (to make you think hard), no follow up replies to keep the thread clean and to make it easier to go through the questions. Around the end of the month (depending how many questions we have) Adrienne Mayor will answer some of those which are best suited to her area of expertise. From all of the questions asked we will select a winner and present one copy of The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times Adrienne Mayor is an independent folklorist/historian of science who investigates natural knowledge contained in pre-scientific myths and oral traditions. Her research looks at ancient "folk science" precursors, alternatives, and parallels to modern scientific methods. Mayor's two books on pre-Darwinian fossil traditions in classical antiquity and in Native America have opened up a new field within geomythology, and her book on the origins of biological weapons uncovered the ancient roots of biochemical warfare. The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy is Mayor's latest book, and won top honors (Gold Medal) for Biography, Independent Publishers' Book Award 2010. We conducted an Interview with Adrienne Mayor in 2010.

Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy The author remarked about this book 'everyone knows of Antony and Cleopatra, but they see the story as they think it should have been'. We know that story. It's the one from the theatre of Shakespeare, or Elizabeth Taylor's career-defining role in film. It's where the dashing and impetuous Antony is seduced by the decadent beauty of Cleopatra and ends up throwing the world away for love. 'The triple pillar of the world transform'd into a strumpet's fool' as Shakespeare himself puts it (with more than a little help from Plutarch). In the end the star-crossed lovers die tragically but heroically, leaving their cold, scheming nemesis with his victory... ...read the full review of Antony and Cleopatra by Adrian Goldsworthy

...those are really interesting tokens, a real fascinating topic... cheers viggen

another issue would be where along the Rhine do they come from, which side of the Rhine, and what community therein?

Yeah at 450 there was no united German language, the "Althochdeutsch" the oldest german started to form around 600 AD what they would have spoken depending where they are from, is old frankish , or maybe gothic, now gothic is very interesting as we have with the Wulfila Bilble the only extensive document in an ancient Eastern Germanic language, http://www.wulfila.be/gothic/browse/ maybe (depending on your storyline) make your characters speak gothic, you could even use authentic words cheers viggen

I was refering to the Gracchi coin after (randomly) browsing this site with coins of Gracchi http://andrewmccabe.....html#C137to107 and about roman republic and no potraits there is a long list here from Sulla, Pompeius to Brutus and their portrait... http://www.romancoin...C-Republic.HTML cheers viggen

Mary Beard on public speaking... The world's first recorded cure for stammering was the "pebble method": go down to the seashore, fill your mouth with pebbles, and force your words to overcome the impediment. This was the self-help cure that, in the 4th century BC, cured the stuttering orator Demosthenes, and launched his career as the greatest public speaker of the ancient Greek world. And it was still being used 2,400 years later, in the 20th century AD ? marbles substituted for the original pebbles. Henry Higgins forced them into the mouth of Eliza Doolittle in Shaw's Pygmalion, only to see her swallow one of them. In The King's Speech, marbles are one of those quack remedies that have failed to cure the stammering Bertie.... ...read the full article at the Guardian...