Klingan

And Parthia is out!

Those are excellent suggestions!

He should be around now, I will send him a link to this thread in a PM.

Well, I'd say that there are a lot of problems with the article. 1: The battle of Lysimachia is seldom mentioned in modern literature as one of the more important ones in antiquity, at least as far as I know. Sure it had importance, but it just fades a little compared to the battle of Ipsos (301) or Battle of Corupedium (281). What I'm trying to say here though, is primarily that the importance of the battle of Lysimachia has been somewhat blown up to make the theory more sensational. 2: Justinian is a very late source and should hardly be considered trustworthy in the details - the arguments regarding the sailors and the elephants are therefore very weak in my opinion. Further on:

I am so happy that you guys are doing this and wish that I could help!

You've got it, great work! It's a fascinating place and it is promising some very important finds within the next couple of years - my department is excavating there so I'mm let everyone know in good time Your turn!

That would be great to know. And doesn't he wear shoes? I'm thinking Hermes

Unfortunately not - this place is not connected to a Roman dynasty.

Ok, time for a hint! This place has been strongly associated with a dynasty.

I'm impressed Auris! It's an excellent identification that sounds completely reasonable to me!

Can someone correct the incorrect entries to that page please? The site should be base on historical facts not fiction!!! Can the Forum administrator forward my reply to relevant people please? Our Admin is unfortunately away at the moment, but I will bring it up with him and I assure you that I do not accept anything that can be proven wrong.

I bet Sherlock Holmes is happy that he did not try to investigate run away roman sites cause he would be up for some though competition with you around. You're right again!

So far so good!

Morgantina was a city in east-central Sicily, built on the Serra Orlando ridge - the modern identification is almost certain. Archaeological remains first appear around the 10th century BC, but Greek pottery and terracottas show up only from around 560 BC. The city, however, soon came under the influence of other cities and it remains under in the Syracusan orbit for most of the 5th c. BC and until the city decided to support Carthage rather than Rome in the second punic war. This was, as we know today, a little bit of a mistake and Morgantina was besieged and taken by M. Claudius Marcellus after which the city was handed over to some of Romes Spanish mercenaries. By the end of the republic the city had lapsed into decay and we hear almost nothing more about it (I cannot help but comparing the fate of Margantine to that of Metaponto which also sided with Carthage). It was most likely completely abandoned by the first century AD. The city is most famous for it's impressive house remains with splendid mosaics. ...but it's not the city we're looking for today and my photo was not taken in Greece!

Nobody wants to know where to find this beautiful view?

Finally!

Here we go again! I hope this one will be able to confuse Maladict!

Haha, I actually like seeing how good you are at this! But sure, I can post a new picture tonight unless you get around to it?

Damn it Maladict, ruining the fun already? I was just getting started. Well played! What gave it away? Metapontum was a Greek Achean colony founded at the mouth of the river Basento. It prospered for a long time, competing with Siris and Tarentum, until it started declining in the 4th c. BC as both Dionysios I and the Lucanians captured it in the 390's BC. Two decades later it was dominated by Tarentum. Another capture, this time by the Spartan Cleonymus of Sparta in 302/1 probably did it no good and supporting Phyrrus against Rome turned out to be a mistake as the Romans took the city in 272 - but it did gain the status of a socii at the same time. Metapontum was however one of rather few cities in Italy that decided to support Hannibal and it simply dispersal from the records after the Roman victory in the second Punic war (anyone want to play guess what happened?), although a Roman municipium continued to exist on the site. It is important to modern archaeologists as a lot of rural survey work has been done in the area, tracing the land division of a Greek colony.

I would certainly consider it to have been coastal.

5 english miles? I have a very basic understanding of how far that is but I am, even so, pretty sure it's the case, yes. And it is on the mainland, correct.

Me too actually, I mean, I know there are crocodile farms (I have visited one once) but 15.000... that is a lot. Isn't the population of most dangerous species in Africa far lower than that? Maybe they are (sort of) lucky that some people find their skin so good looking.

Nope, but it is getting hotter.

"Nicopolis ad Istrum [in Dacia](Greek: ????????? ? ???? ??????) was a Roman and Early Byzantine town founded by Emperor Trajan around 101