Klingan

Actually this doesn't contain very much new that wasn't said in their previous articles. It's smelling very much like they're trying to advertise for their tv show about her. But here it is for anyone who's interested When mummy experts piece together what an ancient person looked like in real life, one key to body type that's a dead giveaway is the size of the mummy's breasts. Paleopathologists who have been trying to reconstruct the appearance of Hatshepsut

I must say that this do remind me quite much of what I would call Mexican food today.

Changing your shape to suit your situation, you are most like Proteus. More than anything else, you need to be wanted. You have a very strong work ethic, and are very adaptable, but are often unappreciated. You develop very strong personal loyalties, and will often maintain these personal relationships at a great expense to yourself. Convention and conformity are very important to you, and you find deviations from either to be very inappropriate. You tend not to burden those around you with your own problems. Famous people like you: Mother Theresa, Jimmy Carter My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 20% on Extroversion You scored higher than 0% on Intuition You scored higher than 45% on Emotiveness You scored higher than 0% on Perceptiveness Not very far from the truth I guess.

Klingan enters once again to the party after his long absents, now as a proud member of the equisterians class. At least it's looking like that he did try to get himself a decent toga, instead of those dreadful pleb clothes. Carefully stepping in to avoid any atrium's that he once again may fall into he's suprised to find the very angry Thrax looking at some greek fellow. Did I leave my legions for this!? Maybe it's safer i Gaul? Then the greek and thrax starts laughing and it seems all fine. Klingan walks in taking some wine, and yet again looks for the atrium. Good, it's far far away. Dangerous places those, treacherous.

Happy birthday! I hope you'll have a great day!

Haha that's a truly remarkable cave, just in my taste! They could have used more marble thou. Oh and yeah the first post is just the first three pieces of the article to give people a taste of it before reading it all.

This one is driving me nuts.

The bridge at Andujar?

The bridge over the Guadiana at the city that used to be called Emerita Augusta? Or isn't it the right bridge?

Welcome to UNRV! Sounds like a very interesting phase you're going into, I'm stuck in it since forever. I'm very much looking forward to this. If you have not seen the pictures yet (as hinted twice earlier) I recommend taking a look in the Guess the ancient city thread. There is a picture of a town called Timgad founded by Trajanus as a military colony for his nearby troops. It's considered by many as the 3rd best conserved city from the roman period after Pompeii and Herculaneum. It's well worth taking a closer look at.

Merida, Spain?

Mexican cuisine as we know it today goes back at least 1,500 years, according to a new study that looked at 500-1,500 A.D. food preparation ingredients discovered in two Oaxacan caves. Based on the evidence, cavemen then had 122 dried and fresh chiles, along with corn, squash, beans, avocados, agaves, prickly pears, tropical zapote fruit, berries, wild onions and more at their culinary disposal. Like a well-organized pantry, the chiles had pride of place just to the right of the entrance for one of the caves. Read more here.

Hmm I hope someone else have more luck then me finding that bridge.

Sounds great Flavia Is there any possibility to see a picture of the clock when it's done?

Ehm, yeah it's a very beautiful bridge, but there's really no reason for those quote/blank posts. Trying to find it.

Yeah MPC's clock is probably pretty much what there is to find. Unless you have looking for something really magnificent as the Tower of Winds at the Athenian agora. Especially for a courtroom scene I could hardly imagine something like that. However the vessel like thing would probable be what they used for that in my opinion.

There are certain occupations that probably would have use for it too yes. I should have said that most people wouldn't have any use for this kinda watch, not nobody. My bad.

Here we go: "The Greek 'legal' clepsydra 1500 years later we find the Greeks using a 'fixed period' outflow clepsydra in the manner of a stopclock, to limit the period of time an advocate might argue his client's case: the greater the crime, the longer the period. In the Jewry Wall Museum you can see a reproduction of the 'dichous', clepsydra (Fig.7). With about a 20 minute running time it was employed for fairly minor offences. These devices gave rise to the expression "Your time has run out"." Something like this, but with a system to fill it when it's empty and make a mark for what hour it is. A slave would do that quite well, and I imagine that nobody but a rich man would need to keep very much track of time in this manner. The information and picture comes from this site.

From what I know, the normal version should be looking much more like the numerous fountains in pompeii. I know that they have found an outflow clepsydra in Athens Agora too, it took approximately 6 min to be emptied. They believe that it was used for how long every man had to speak. That one was basically a bowl with a whole. Working on a picture. Is it for private use, or a larger public watch?

I was writing a short essay on water clocks last semester. I found some decent information in the book "Art, artefacts and chronology in classical archaeology" by Biers, W.R. and possibly a picture. I'll see if I can come by uni and get a picture. Anyway is it an inflow or outflow clepsydra we're talking about?

Nothing historical right now, Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov - Really great book if you enjoy semi-crazy sci-fi philosophy. Highly recommended. iRobot is very good too (Not even comparable with the movie, it's many short stories.)

Obese, plagued with decayed teeth and perhaps a skin disease, Queen Hatshepsut might have spent her last days in pain, according to a preliminary examination of the 3,000-year-old mummy thought to be that of Egypt's greatest female pharaoh. Bald in front but with long hair in back, the mummy shows an overweight woman just over 5 feet tall, who died at about 50. Read more here.

Yup that's correct!

The value of an ancient coin given in any modern currency would be inaccurate, since our life standard is so much higher. The only information I've got on roman prices is from the early 4th century, Diocletianus price edict. (Max prices allowed, by the penalty of death) Work: Farm laborer, with meals, daily: 25 denarii Painter, walls, with daily meals: 75 denarii Barber, per man: 2 denarii Prices for: Shoes, Patrician: 150 denarii Shoes, senatorial: 100 denarii Shoes, woman's : 60 denarii Pork, 1 pound: 12 denarii Goose, fattened, one pound: 200 denarii. Now this is quite late and the inflation was really bad so it's not really equivalent to your coin. Around the time 50 bc the senetorial fortun was a minimum of 800.000 sesterces (4 sesterce = 1 denarii) and a rank-and-file soldier was paid 900 sesterces per year. At the time of Pliny the Younger a soldier earned 1200 sesterces per year.

This one should be quite easy.