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any more, please, im really intrested with the romans and greeks in arabia felix ,happy" or "fortunate" ] Regarding the expedition of Gallus; He returned to Negrana in nine days after he failed to occupy Marsiaba in Saba. Negrana is Najran, about 650 kilometers south of Mecca. On the 11th day he reached a village called Hepta phreata, then he went to another village named Chaalla, then on to another village named Malotha which, most probiblay, was Malothan located close to the actual city of Jadda, which is about 30 miles from Mecca. But between Malotha or Malothan and Egra (north of where Mecca was later built) there were no villages mentioned by Strabo who accompagned the expedition. Gallus badly needed urgent supplies of water and food, but he could not find villages which could give him rest, and re-supply his troops in the area where Mecca was eventually built. See The Geography of Strabo, Book XVI. 4 . 24 http://religionresearchinstitute.org/index...ans_explore.htm also im sure in herodotus, he mentions some early gods from there, Allat i think.

indus valley, hurrians,. , atlantis in the andes, rice in china http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/kurdish/htdocs/facts/history.html also intresting the earliest agriculture was at high levels well above sea level http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture the sahara desert has dired up not just the last once, acting like a pump effect, pushing people out from africa at different times. just giving some more ideas, thats all.

yes , the east was very very important, , there was one roman general who did reall well, i talking of parthia, in partic, but yes most roman armies didnt fair very well there. on another note, parthia/iran was never conquered by rome , we are seeing the consequences of that today still.

A great waste , thats for sure, christian /muslim mob, both as bad as each other, in concerning knowledge that didnt/does fit there view of things.

Polybius, plutarch, history as moral learning, not as facts like today. as your founding fathers knew very well.

bath?

hadrians wall when i was 5

Dont think rome invented anything, stole an awful lot though, cement from carthage , ie.not that modern cement is the same Had to vote for roman law, which is most of europe and south america, USA's is more derived from english common law and indonesia is shira law now last time i was there lex naturalis