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Now a group of New Yorkers is trying to restore the trireme, including corrections for some flaws in the original design, and row it in the city's harbor. They hope the effort will culminate in a voyage around the Statue of Liberty on July 4 next year. The project, including an exhibit and conference, would cost just under $3 million, the group estimates, of which they have raised $575,000. They say they have permission to borrow the ship, as long as it is returned in perfect shape and at no cost to the Greek government. "The world has to see this boat. That's why we have to bring it to New York," says Markos Marinakis, chairman of Trireme in New York City Inc. "I'm a proud Greek. I could not stay out of it.... ...read the full article at Wall Street Journal

How do you do a jig-saw puzzle of 27,000 pieces? In three dimensions? That's the task a handful of archaeologists in Germany have just completed. It took them nine years, with all the pieces laid out in a room the size of a football field. They claim to have enjoyed it. The pieces were the shards of 3,000-year-old sculptures, smashed to smithereens as a result of the British bombing of Berlin in November 1943. The result - 60 fantastical figures of people, scorpions, lions and birds - now stands in a series of rooms in the city's Pergamon Museum via http://www.bbc.co.uk...europe-12308854 and http://www.moneycont...cts_516967.html link to the Tel Halaf Project http://www.tell-hala.../index_eng.html

Would-be looters broke into Cairo's famed Egyptian Museum, ripping the heads off two mummies and damaging about 10 small artifacts before being caught and detained by army soldiers, Egypt's antiquities chief said Saturday.... ...via NPR ...i am watching the last two days Aljazeera English, (which by the way just outguns all the other news stations around the world when it comes to non US non EU news, amazing channel) and i am not having a good feeling about the museum, just a few days before the outbreak of the riots, the egyptions demanded officially Nofretete back from the germans... sigh Is this not a case against "all treasures should be back to the homeland were its origins", is it not a much safer approach to preserve cultural valuable pieces spread around the world, to protect them from things what we just see? ...to ask about Iraq, oh boy they plundered, looted and destroyed allot... cheers viggen

...i have no idea who Mr. Bones is, but there is a nice link to UNRV.com at the end so it had to mention it here... History 101 with Mister Bones: Episode 3: Rome

hehe, oh Volkswagen uses that for a long time to unpimp the Auto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuC6jeKjTdg cheers viggen

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Codex Sinaiticus, a manuscript of the Christian Bible written in the middle of the fourth century, contains the earliest complete copy of the Christian New Testament. The hand-written text is in Greek. The New Testament appears in the original vernacular language (koine) and the Old Testament in the version, known as the Septuagint, that was adopted by early Greek-speaking Christians. In the Codex, the text of both the Septuagint and the New Testament has been heavily annotated by a series of early correctors. ...and for whoever can read greek, this should be of great interest... http://www.codex-sin...manuscript.aspx ...and if you have some spare cash you can buy it now at Amazon

I saw yesterday The Kings Speech, a true master piece, i was extremely impressed with story and actors...

...over the years people got more and more search savvy, while 5 years ago, majority would search two maximum three word search phrases, nowadays its more like people treating search engines as if they are talking to an oracle..., asking full sentences is not very uncommon anymore...

..some of those pictures are surreal, and in some way it makes the crumbling of Ancient Rome from a buzzing million people city to a small gone by town in just a short period of time visually understandable... http://www.spiegel.d...,739986,00.html and the gallery http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-63754.html cheers viggen

...interesting, but why are you worried?

...this is a real interesting discussion from three years ago, so i bump this for all the folks that arrived later to this forum... cheers viggen

..ok marcus silanus, i think we waited now long enough and deserve a hint! ;-) cheers viggen

The first supernova that history records is thought to have occurred in 185 CE, when a star 8,200 light-years away exploded. Chinese astronomers make explicit note of the sudden appearance of a star and its subsequent disappearance several months later, and the Romans may also have made more cryptic references to it. ...anyone has some reference what those cryptic references are? via io9.com

'Spartacus' goes back to the beginning with 'Gods of the Arena' If all had gone according to plan, fans of last year's cult hit "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" would be tuning in Friday to see slave-turned-gladiator-turned-rebel leader Spartacus lead his bloody revolt against the Roman Empire. Instead, Starz and series' executive producer Steven S. DeKnight are transporting viewers back in time with "Spartacus: Gods of the Arena" (9 p.m. Jan. 21, Starz) to about five years before Spartacus began his gladiator training. Read more: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/show-patrol/2011/01/spartacus-goes-back-to-the-beginning-with-gods-of-the-arena.html#ixzz1BfDCvxuU

...the search phrases with which people arrive via google to our site remain pretty stable and are predictably the same, however one or two are the odd out, every week at least one funny, interesting or obscure search phrase sticks out like a sore thumb.... last week was (150 times searched) ethiopia roman empire red sea closed which directs the people to this forum thread ...probably a school project of sorts...

In wine there is truth, in vino veritas, as the ancient Romans put it. And the truth is that people first cultivated grapes for vino about 8,000 years ago, finds a genetics study. "Archaeological evidence suggests that grape domestication took place in the South Caucasus between the Caspian and Black Seas and that cultivated vinifera then spread south to the western side of the Fertile Crescent, the Jordan Valley, and Egypt by 5,000 y ago. Our analyses of relatedness between vinifera and sylvestris populations are consistent with archaeological data and support a geographical origin of grape domestication in the Near East. Grape growing and winemaking then expanded westward toward Europe, but the degree to which local wild sylvestris from Western Europe contributed genetically to Western European vinifera cultivars remains a contentious issue. Our results ... all support a model in which modern Western European cultivars experienced introgression from local wild sylvestris.".. ...read the full article at USA Today

The lost tomb of Caligula has been found, according to Italian police, after the arrest of a man trying to smuggle abroad a statue of the notorious Roman emperor recovered from the site. After reportedly sleeping with his sisters, killing for pleasure and seeking to appoint his horse a consul during his rule from AD37 to 41, Caligula was described by contemporaries as insane. With many of Caligula's monuments destroyed after he was killed by his Praetorian guard at 28, archaeologists are eager to excavate for his remains.... read full article at The Guardian however, Mary Beard says NO cheers viggen

new behind the scene clip http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810109583/video/23837876 cheers viggen

...due to the massive amount of spam attacks we had to put from today on all new forum members (slaves) on moderator status... ...the good news is that from today 3 approved posts will be sufficient (down from 10) to become a Plebeian and free to post unmoderated, we had to take this drastic measure to keep our forum spam free... cheers viggen

The Navies of Rome by Michael Pitassi Book Review by Melvadius In his introduction Pitassi notes that despite extensive literature on many aspects of Rome's conquests and her empire the role of her seafarers and navy are usually considered only in a passing way or as a 'comparatively trivial part of the whole'. Despite the obvious importance of her land forces over a twelve hundred year period Rome initially developed and then maintained and operated one of the largest navies the world has ever seen.... ...read the full review of The Navies of Rome by Michael Pitassi

...i cant even describe how delighted i am to have discovered this.(thanks to Lindsay Powell) (i am from Noricum and there is hardly anything in the english world).... A Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School University of Missouri-Columbia In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the DegreeDoctor of Philosophy by SHANNON ROGERS FLYNT - Dr. Marcus Rautman, Dissertation Supervisor May 2005 Abstract: This dissertation examines the civilian settlements that developed next to the auxiliary forts on the Danube frontier of the Roman province of Noricum. Chapter one of this study provides a brief consideration of the history of Roman frontier studies, a field in which the vici generally have been overlooked. Chapter two gives a short history of the Norican limes in particular. Chapter three includes descriptions of the fourteen Norican auxiliary forts and their vici, relying on archaeological material as the main basis for information about the sites. Chapter four provides an analysis of the character and development of the vici during the Roman occupation of Noricum (1st through the 5th centuries CE), including their location, layout, physical structures and the role that they played on the frontier. Chapter five considers the later history of the vici and the possibility of their survival into the early Middle Ages... ...via https://mospace.umsy....pdf?sequence=3

...here the link to the review of Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires by Walter Scheidel