Silentium

True, the Romans never really managed to romanize Britain..the first form of coin was probably the Saxon "sceatta"(sp.?), a couple of centuries after the Romans left. Even before the raids of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes most of the Romano-British had already stopped continuity with the roman culture, it's not surprising to see they rapidly came back to a barbarian way of life.

Yes, absolutely, if I do go I'll be glad to contribute photos of the findings =)

At lago di Bracciano??I didn't even know about the village..very interesting!I need to go to the Pigorini, I haven't been there for ages, shame on me

Nick Cave? Interesting, I'll probably see it when it comes out, although I'll have to pay attention to the title..most of the time the translations we get have nothing to do with the original title so when the film comes out you think it's a different one and miss it..lol that happened to me a couple of times

You just created another stereotype here, "The forgetful anti-american European"

I'm a bit late.. True, a terrible day also in terms of human lives loss but surely a day Britain can be proud of =)

Hmm, as far as i know there were no Turkic people in todays Turkey during the time of the Etruscan Period... regards viggen No, the analysis takes into consideration "actual"(modern) Turks (among with North Africans and several other populations that I don't remember, you have to go through the article to find them)

What a lovely place!Just as the rest of Austria LOL by the way, when I was there I bought one of those funny t-shirts "There are NO kangaroos in Austria" XD

Happy Birthday

I noticed! I realized it while looking for a piazza to which several buildings and fountains were added in the last few months and they were not showing up on the image. But Google Earth is still great, I just had a small tour of Sub-Saharian Africa, I wanted to see the villages..and the national geographic specials are always brilliant

I chose Silentium because silence is such a rare thing. I think if people spoke less and thought more (or at least thought before speaking) things would be better. Hence the nickname.

Of course!Thanks for posting the link, I absolutely didn't know universities of Ferrara and Florence were behind the project. That was exactly what I was looking for, I went through the whole article (skipping the technical jargon hehe ) and I found it incredible. I'm aware that we can't take anything for granted and that there's a long way to go, but the fact that now we can say "the links between Etruscans and eastern Mediterranean regions were in part associated with genetic -and not only cultural- exchanges" is a huge step ahead =). It seems that -genetically speaking- an Etruscan had more in common with the Turks than with contemporary Italians, for example (except for the Tuscans, of course). Oh, and your sources (with particular reference to historical and archaeological ones) are reliable if used in support of the previously posted genetic analysis and are more or less the same mentioned in other researches on the subject I had read, probably with the sole addition of Myrsilus of Methymna. It was also nice to see that the article mentioned the different versions of Dionysus and Herodotus. At least now we know they might have been both wrong, although Herodotus was probably closer

Indeed. After all there's always a bit of truth behind every legend =) This is VERY interesting!Do you have any sources to have more in depth information? Like books (hopefully reliable ones) or anything else? It's true, we tend to see things from a merely linguistic perspective and tend to analyse and take into consideration only written texts to prove connections, whereas maybe other sciences would be more helpful.. If this was confirmed a lot of things could be explained. =)

I love Google Earth, it can get addictive..it's so detailed that it's almost scary =)

Sorry but I'm also a video gamer, I don't know why there aren't any other video gamers on this site. Sorry if my post sounded wrong, I'm a gamer myself. Oh, and sorry for the off topic by the way.

Yes, birthplace of Trajan and also Hadrian..I visited it last year, I toured Andalusia and stopped in Santiponce which is the nearby village. Half of Italica (vetus urbs, the older part) is basically "under" Santiponce, the villagers used most of the ancient roman buildings, rebuilt them and settled there. The nova urbs (which was built thanks to Hadrian) is visible, I did visit the amphiteatre and the various patrician buildings, impressive. But I'm not sure letting people wander freely in certain parts of the forum romanum would be a good idea..I think Italica and Roma are evidently two different realities. Besides, the most important places in the forum are open to the public. I'm sure when they're done excavating the vetus urbs things will be different for Italica too.

Gilraen Ancal

Sorry if I'm being too direct but..why do you have Ada Wong in your signature? ...............

Yes..I was wondering that because I recently read an essay by someone in which he wrote a lot of rather improbable theories about Vesta and the Etruscan Pantheon..(in a desperate attempt to demonstrate the common Pelasgian origin of certain Greeks and the Etruscans, due to the fact that the Etruscan alphabet was similar to the archaic Greek one). Besides, as far as I know the Etruscan language was non Indo-European, whereas the [classic] Greek is Indo-European. I'm sure that's revisionism. At first I thought his argumentations were quite convincing, that's why I asked about the simultaneous spread of the cult, but later comparing other sources it came out how wrong that whole text is. Vesta's origins can't be non Indo-European.. I'd like to slap myself for taking that stuff seriously lol. I should stop reading that sort of stuff and surrender to the fact the origins of the Etruscans are unknown.

Very beautiful architecture!Not quite the average Catholic gothic cathedral/rinascimento church you can find in this part of Europe I want to visit Russia someday; actually I have an endless list of places to visit and it seems to grow weekly, the more I travel and the more places I want to see =)

Yes, some people totally miss the point of the whole site..I think people with a good sense of humor will find it brilliant, it's hilarious =)

Exactly, the sad thing is there were no Italians/Romans in the legions in that period, they were all foreigners..mostly mercenaries. The good old “bloodthirsty” Roman/Italian legions were only a memory of the past.

I had a nation at NationStates called Aeternitas which died a long time ago, unfortunately. Due to lack of time I left my citizens in a total anarchy so they started killing each other and eventually gave the government to a neofascist party. LOL. I didn't know the site was still up =) I had a lot of fun with Aeternitas (holy empire of Aeternitas, to be precise ).

Thank you. Time really flies away, cerebrally I'm still 2 or something. =)