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Anyone visiting southern Italy can now literally follow in the footsteps of some of our earliest ancestors.

 

Footprints made between 325,000 and 385,000 years ago on the slopes of an extinct volcano near Roccamonfina, north of Naples, have been restored and opened to the public.

 

Long known by the local population as "ciampate del diavolo," or "devil's trails," the prints were identified in 2003 when two amateur archaeologists discovered the tracks, which spread for about a square mile. The archaeologists reported the find to Paolo Mietto of the University of Padua, and his colleagues.

 

Recently, Mietto has discovered the trail goes on.

 

"We have just found another set of human and animal tracks. It looks like this was a rather popular area," Mietto told Discovery News.

 

Read more here.

Well I gotta ask a question to all members of this forum. Do you find those Discovery news useful? I've posted quite a deal of them over the last months and I don't want to post them if everyone feel that they're just in the way here - Some feedback on that would be great. Thanks, Klingan.

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Anyone visiting southern Italy can now literally follow in the footsteps of some of our earliest ancestors.

 

Footprints made between 325,000 and 385,000 years ago on the slopes of an extinct volcano near Roccamonfina, north of Naples, have been restored and opened to the public.

 

Long known by the local population as "ciampate del diavolo," or "devil's trails," the prints were identified in 2003 when two amateur archaeologists discovered the tracks, which spread for about a square mile. The archaeologists reported the find to Paolo Mietto of the University of Padua, and his colleagues.

 

Recently, Mietto has discovered the trail goes on.

 

"We have just found another set of human and animal tracks. It looks like this was a rather popular area," Mietto told Discovery News.

 

Read more here.

Well I gotta ask a question to all members of this forum. Do you find those Discovery news useful? I've posted quite a deal of them over the last months and I don't want to post them if everyone feel that they're just in the way here - Some feedback on that would be great. Thanks, Klingan.

 

 

They are not in the way here. Read the first few chapters of " A History of the Roman World - 753 to 146 BC, 4th edition, by H.H. Scullard". Tells quite a story.

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All well then. :shocking:

 

Would you please care to just write very short summarize of those chapters? I have neither the time to find the book nor to read it until after January. :whistling:

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