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Klingan

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  1. I believe you can find some stuff about Cataphracts here., it's from an older thread at this forum where they are (Among other things) discussed.
  2. How much I'd ever love to visit the ruins there, it's no way in hell I'll go anywhere near that country boycott or not.
  3. I don't think people need more clues to be honest. We just need more people to post here if the thread is to survive. I don't know how many guesses, wrong or correct I've had here, so I'm not really in the mood for guessing yet for a while.
  4. Throwing stone balls along a lane might have been a popular game in ancient Egypt, according to evidence unearthed some 56 miles south of Cairo by Italian archaeologists. A mixture of bowling, billiard and bowls, the game was played at Narmoutheos, in the Fayoum region, in a spacious room which appears to be the prototype of a modern-day bowling hall. The room was part of a structure, perhaps a residential building, which dated from the Roman period, specifically between the second and third century A.D. Read more here.
  5. Actually the led pipe theory is quite easy to dismiss, even if indeed does sound very good. First of all it's just the very last way that was through led pipes, secondly they were corroded very very fast by lime from the water. You would most likely find thick lime layer inside them. This happens to still today where you're not using modern water refinery or where you have your own well, when living on a place with lime in the bedrock, as Rome (And most of Europe).
  6. I would guess that you should see the structure as the political and social system as the suicide factor and the one's who executed the blow (aka Caesar and other strong individuals) as the murder part. Then, the question would be: Was it systems structure that was inevitably flawed or was it strong individual that putted it to an end?
  7. Actually the horse thing could be seen as that he wanted to show everyone how little the consuls position really were worth by this time.
  8. When discussing if Caligula was mad, it's quite important to remember that Suetonius isn't really a pro-imperial source. He's negative to just about everything the emperors do. The whole book more or less is built up on how horrible and bad they were. Caligula wasn't really the healthiest lad mentally thou probably.
  9. Here's the complete list of the original families. Credits to MPC for the list, it can be found here.
  10. I must admit I'm confused with this situation, maybe someone can enlighten me. They have been in power for 5 years so far and all changes they've made (more or less) have have been secular in nature. They've moved closer to the EU (Even if the opinion in Turkey is shifting) and they've strengthened womens rights. Why does everyone believe that they're going to go for the religious berserk line now?
  11. Is there any information on when the different original patrician family's finally died?
  12. Ah this is going to be some great reading, very much appreciated! Thanks!
  13. Most of the real patrician families was beginning to die out at the time of Caesar (The struggles of the last two centuries had been going hard on the noble families). Under Augustus I believe there were (Just about the first time they did it) new families that gained patrician rank (New men, I can't spell the Latin term). In the end most of them faded away in time, childless, murdered, killed in wars or executed by the emperors etc.
  14. Quite a bump here, anyway it's not the press who invented that, it's been used by the guys who found it any the museum all the time. Then again of course the news are using it, it's catchy enough.
  15. Dinosaurs shared the Earth for millions of years with the species that were their ancestors, a new study concludes. Dinosaurs arose in the Late Triassic, between 235 million and 200 million years ago, and came to dominate the planet in the Jurassic, 200 million to 120 million years ago. Scientists had thought the dinosaurs rapidly replaced their ancestor species. Indeed, until 2003, when a creature called Silesaurus was discovered in Poland, no dinosaur precursors had been found from the Late Triassic. Read more here.
  16. This subject would probably need another thread, but does anyone have a list of the battles during the first Jewish revolt?
  17. I don't know when he wrote this book, but he was living in the city of Rome herself both before the revolt 66 AD and after. Of course, he had more experience of the Levant and Near East then other areas, but considering he was a friend of Poppaea, Nero's second wife, he obviously in the middle of it all and had a good chance to find facts/rumors/books about just about any other previous war. I would guess that he knew what he was talking about, at least to a certain limit.
  18. This of course is balderdash... The Iberians, Lusitanians and Ligurians seemed to have been very adroit at laying ambushes, in fact it also seems to have been their primary tactic in fighting the Romans. I would argue that is why Hispania took so very long to fully passify. Of course that's not true, argue that ti is would just be stupid. However someone who knew a lot about the Roman war machine did write that some 2000 years ago and therefor I get the feeling that ambushes wasn't as common as they may seem when you see a chart of battles during a millennium.
  19. Twenty years after it was popularized, the "Out of Africa" theory, which posits that modern humans originally came from Africa before spreading out in a global conquest, has received an emphatic boost, scientists said on Wednesday. Rival theories about the rise of Homo sapiens sapiens, as anatomically modern man is called, say humans either came from a single point in Africa or among different populations in different parts around the world, who evolved independently from a forebear, Homo erectus. The "Out of Africa" scenario has been underpinned since 1987 by genetic studies based mainly on the rate of mutations in mitochondrial DNA, a genetic material inherited from the maternal line of ancestry. Read more here.
  20. What i mean by a strategic trap (Might be misleading due my lack of English knowledge.) is that wasn't the Romans aware of the enemy at Trebia? The trap was Hannibal's battle plan rather then an attack on a marching column. I don't remember the battle movements very well but I thought that the Romans engaged the Punic forces on the other side of the river, and then got flanked by concealed cavalry. I would call that a trap. What I would call an ambush is when the enemy conceal itself and you're not aware of their presence in the area and after that, get attacked.
  21. Very nice list there, it could come in very useful! Great work MPC!
  22. I'm on a tight schedule atm, no time for researching this I'm afraid. Someone else will have to pick this one.
  23. Archaeologists called Tuesday for urgent steps to safeguard Petra, the ancient rose-red rock city recently picked as one of the new seven wonders of the world, saying an increase in visitors could damage it unless protective measures were taken. "Choosing Petra as a world wonder has made the public even more aware of the need to conserve this unique heritage that we have," said Khairieh Amr, a senior archaeologist with Jordan's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. But Amr warned that Petra and other archaeological sites in the region could suffer because of a "building boom that is taking place" to expand tourist facilities. Read more here.
  24. The link is broken, could you see if it's possible to fix it? It would be interesting to see what they base their numbers from. I've always used the book "As the Romans Did, second edition, A Sourcebook in Roman Social History" by J Shelton to answer this question, since it's (at least it seems so to me) highly reliable. There it's stated that the average, as well as the median lifespan was 27 years.
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