Klingan

It would logically seem the answer is no. But it can help get to mythology

A little bit of one of the Monkey Island games. Not my kind of humor. May the gods bless anyone willing to stop a 4th Pirates movie. One was good. Two was decent. Three where with doubt accepted. Four? You really don't want to go there. Reminded me of "The Silent Earth"

Thanks you for the translation Silentium! Beautiful pictures too!

Flyboys is a good movie, I enjoyed it too back when I saw it. Alvin and the Chipmunks... Not my style, I watched it 2 days ago as my girlfriend wanted to see it. I have also seen Beowulf and Alien vs Predator 2 lately, and I truly want my time back. Beowulf: For those who have played the old Microsoft game ago of mythology, this movie suffer the same flaw, 3D. AS AoM should have been made two years later to have a decent reason to go full 3D, so should Beowulf. However this might be the start the industry need to make real life realistic all 3D movies. Someone have to be the first. Beside the 3D I can't say that it was anything special. It would have made a decent tv movie filmed normally. Alien vs Predator 2... There is not much to say. The aliens have now disintegrated into a sub predator species and they fight like men. I am finding myself having trouble with seeing who's hunting who, even when the original figures are nothing like each other. Well that's rather much it. Hunting, blood, blood, death and some more blood.

Interesting post Faustus. I cannot add very much to this, your architectural and masoning skills are obviously far greater then mine. However do you have a picture of the bigger picture? It would probably give us clues to this walls fate, at least the very right and left side. Do you have a picture in larger resolution available?

I just saw the game, damn great one. I've had a hard time finding the games but wow... It felt like the Giants day from the beginning thou, even if it was really really hard to sit still in the end. I gotta follow the next season better!

I wonder if they took into consideration that the upper classes probably had no terrible problem getting decent burials even during the epidemic. People of noble birth are not commonly thrown into mass graves.

A very good point. When I held a lecture on roman history for a class of 16 years old kids I used an example to show then for how long Rome existed. First I showed them a picture of Gustav Vasa, the first real Swedish king, from, 1524 and told them that the Roman Emperors rules for as long as it has passed since Vasa lived. Then I showed them a picture of a long ship and a Viking and told them that if we go back from now to that point in time (8th century AD), we would still not pass more time then how old Rome was when it fell. They were all quite amazed.

Very ambitious.

Wow I've gotta read the full article when I get time.

That will all depend om IF we are on the verge of change. It's easy to see a pattern after the events. If we're not on the verge, the event will most likely fall into the mists of time. That is a fair point, of course. However, in, say, 375 it certainly would not have done any harm to have listened to the profits of doom, just as it wouldn't do any real harm today. The benefits, then as now, would far outweigh the minor disruptions needed to address these concerns. Very much true. As there may or may not be reason to fear global warming, there is no argument against trying to protect our environment.

That will all depend om IF we are on the verge of change. It's easy to see a pattern after the events. If we're not on the verge, the event will most likely fall into the mists of time.

Happy birthday!

I think you might find a reference by Seneca to being "parboiled" in a bath, in Letter 86 of Seneca's letters to Lucilius. But I can't locate an online translation. And perhaps Seneca might have been exaggerating, as he took a dim view of the luxury of baths, being a stoic as he was. -- Nephele Sources should always be handled with caution, I will take a look at it! Thanks! Is that the one they had to make waterproof with silicon in the end?

Good one there Nephele! What I meant by hot/cold it that I've hear that there would be hints in text about people burning them self on the walls or water and that complained about how cold the caldarium water was.

I've heard that there exist quotes in ancient sources on baths and how hot/cold they were from time to time. Does anyone know where I might find this? Thanks, Klingan.

To my knowledge, yes.

Thanks a lot!

I'm into Ancient history at the university of Lund. My Bachelor's exam is almost finished. Next fall I'll hopefully spend time in Greece on a course and then in Rome next spring. After that I'm up for my Master.

Actually it more of in search of what I could do better. I try to improve myself as I go and a good way to do that is to ask what could be better The Neo Assyrian Empire is the Assyrian Empire that took power in the Mesopotamian area in the 10th-9th century somewhere. They had power for a few hundred years until they were defeated by peoples from the easy. I don't remember it all in detail, the history of Mesopotamia is a total mess! Kosmo; Very true about Nauctatis (I believe we're thinking about the same city, can't be anythign else). What I meant about the phoenician cities was that Greeks in early phases of the colonization had own trading posts in some of the phoenician cities. (According to one of my sources, (Martin 2000 I believe) I can't really say anything more about it since I just don't know. I'd like to take a closer look at it when I've got time thought.

I can play with numbers too... Proving that 4 correct names are related in a correct manner tells us that on a population X large the chance for this would be Y with a known relation between how common the names are. I want to compare this to how many tombs we have from the timespan, lets say 100 years +/- (and that would be tight, another 100 years would probably have to be added at least). Now add that we do not even know if Jesus was burried. I arguee that the chanse for us finding finding this one tomb (if it exist) out of how many hundred of thousands is what? Improbable wouldn't be the word. Therefore I will not accept a Jesus tomb untill their's more evidence then just name relations. And there's no use giving me points on the difference of statistical and probability, I know it. I just normally don't think in the terms and I'm quite sure you understand me anyway.

Not to forget the very serious depopulation after the destruction of the aqueducts in 537 AD.

Thanks and yet again thanks for the comments! Some feedback is always great! An example of a trading point/ foreign trading district exist in Phoenician cities and there is one in Egypt as well that I cannot remember the name of. In Italy and Sicily it however went on to city founding very quickly. I should have mad that clearer. Very much possible, but I believe that the increased trade led to colonies that then led to increased trade with time. Note taken. The events most defiantly coincide. The question is again then, why? It's probably true that some people were able to grab more land. It's more of a generalization that were mostly followed and focused on the Hippodamic theory. true, but they were in no way aristocrats in the same way when the city was founded as back home. However all the founders of a successful colony, no matter of background, would most likely in time become a new aristocracy. At some places, at some it wouldn't. It was however far more peaceful then the later European colonization. Peaceful examples are Cuma and Cyrene. (Of those I remember without opening my books) Again thanks for your comments, all very welcome! It would be great if someone would like to comment the language of the text too.

Sure. But how improbable compared to there being a family of "Jesus, son of Joseph"/"Mary"/"Mary Magdalene"? It's like finding a tomb of John/Paul/George/Ringo, and saying it's just a coincidence that they have the names of the Beatles. It's possibly a coincidence but not statistically likely. What's the statistical chance of finding the one tomb of Jesus? I would like to see those numbers compared to the name-numbers. I serious doubt the chance is much larger.

The forming of an alliance and an army was what in the end doomed them as the Assyrians then felt threatened to a certain degree.