Klingan

I could not agree more!

Nailed all ten.

It's also a problem that non members can't access the albums right now if I remember correctly. Maybe this could be a way to find new members?

Putting the thread at peril, what have you got that is worse? I reckon that the goat is rather detailed.

There's actually lots of that stuff hidden in the museums, normally off limits, and the picture of the goes being abused is especially common. I cannot quite understand why anyone would have that in their garden though

Haha woops, that's how tired I am after 6 days in Naples I somehow thought that they were talking about the first temple (They said original ) from the 9th century BC. My mistake. Maybe you should go get some sleep - Sundays are good for this sort of thing, you know. Great pics the way! Well I am to present the new Giulio Cesare exhibition at Thursday and hand in a 5 pages review of it at Wednesday. I'll sleep after that A thought by the way, would UNRV be interested in having such a review translated into English?

Not as disappointed as shocked. The subject of how Rome really was under antiquity is a popular one and the dirt and colour is slowly moving down into the mind of people - yet, if we could indeed go back in time and see it with out own eyes, I believe that we could never be prepared in any way. We would most likely be nothing but confused unless we had considerable time to explore the past.

Haha woops, that's how tired I am after 6 days in Naples I somehow thought that they were talking about the first temple (They said original ) from the 9th century BC. My mistake.

God damn... (Did I say that in this context?) That model beats everything I've ever seen, including the one of Pompeii in the Naples National Museum. By the way: 19th centruy BC?

Haha I actually didn't mind the weather, it was amazing to see the sewage system in operation! This is the camera I use, a rather simple model, goes for about 100

No thoughts from the site admins? It would be sad to see such a good idea fade away without any discussion at all.

I'm back from Naples and the first 3 days of the trip are uploaded at my blog, the rest will be fixed tomorrow. Enjoy

Very much appreciated!

Not really, the marble blocks and the bronze are still in good condition, they have guided tours of the meridiana (although, as I said before, you have to go through the basement of a house in Via di Campo Marzio). I was thinking about Roman era underground complexes (as the solarium very much used to be at the ground level) where most (or all) of the the probably few complexes are most likely to be heavily damaged or filled with mud and inaccessible. I'm having a very hard time imagining that anything like Casa dei Grifi would survive underground at the fields of Mars.

A shorter period of time? The Romans were present in Britain for 367 years, they officially (not counting Caesar's brief flirtation in 55/54BC) arrived in 43AD under the invasion of Claudius and finally left the island for good in 407 AD when Constantine III was proclaimed emperor by the Roman troops in Britain and crossed the Channel with all of the remaining units of the British garrison, Roman Britain effectively ended. The inhabitants were forced to be responsible for their own defence and government

I guess that should have ruined most other remains from the Roman period. Too bad.

Would have been cool but I'm off to Naples for the week

A reasonable explanation, but it leave another question in it's path, why was the area never very romanized? Fair enough it was under Roman influence for a shorter period of time (I've never really read anything on the Romanization of Britain) than some other areas but it should still be enough?

I am not sure one can call it a "network" but there sure is something in Via di Campo Marzio. Deep underground in the area were the Campus Martius once was (7 metres underground), lies the so called Solarium sive Horologium Augusti. It was a huge solar clock (meridiana) which also consisted of an egyptian obelisc (it was built to commemorate the defeat of the egyptians). We know from Pliny that soon afterwards the meridiana stopped functioning properly (it no longer gave the exact time). At present you can get there passing through someone's basement... I've heard that it is under water nowadays, do you know if this is true? (Maybe this topic should be moved to another section at some point by the way?)

For those reading my blog (and everyone else too ); I will be gone for about one week from now on, as I'm off to Naples tomorrow and there is no reason to believe that the hotel will provide any internet access. I'll be back next Saturday/Sunday with a load of pictures! Klingan

I'm not intirely sure but I would hazard a guess it was probably something to do with when the Anglo Saxons arrived in the 5th Century?? That didn't answer the question; there were plenty of Germanic invaders all over the whole former Western Empire, and in most of it the romance languages are still alive. Just the thin that makes me so curious.

I don't know, but I would serious doubt that you'll find any, possibly (and probably) sewers though. The fields of Mars are lying very low in the city and they were subject of regular flooding which must had damaged any existing structures - underground network even more so. You should however know that you might find building that appear to be underground complexes (You can see this in many early medieval churches) but that is due to the land raise which is roughly 8 meter in the area.

That's the sad thing about the whole decline of the Roman Empire not just in Britain but through out Europe. So much was lost and left to fall into dis-repair or plundered that what we are left with is just a small fraction of the greatness of the Romans. But yet we still remember and study them to this day. It just goes to show how much of an impact they had on us, that once the Romans had had their day the whole of Europe quickly and unceremoniously slipped into the dark ages. Do you know why the Brits lost Latin as their language when it was preserved in so many other parts of the empire?

We have the same word in Swedish, presumably borrowed somewhere along the way though. But how much of it was lost after the retreat and fall of the empire?

Hey ain't they 2 days early?