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Published August 24, 2009 anthropology , Archeology , Art , Beauty , Design , Engineering , Europe , History , Interesting , Ireland , Western Civilization , Western Paradigm Leave a CommentThe Strangest Things Pulled Out of Peat Bogs
Published August 24, 2009 anthropology , Celts , Culture , Europe , History , Interesting , Ireland , Symbols , Unusual , Weapons , Western Civilization Leave a Comment
From the wired.com article:
A few thousand years ago, someone living in what is now Ireland made some butter, stuck it into an oak barrel, wandered out into a bog about 25 miles west of Dublin, and buried it.
Somehow, that someone lost track of it, which two lucky archaeologists discovered when they dug up the stashed loot earlier this year in the Gilltown bog, between the Irish towns of Timahoe and Staplestown.
But that wasn’t the first keg of butter that’s been preserved by the strange chemistry of the bog. Or the 10th. More than 270 kegs of bog butter have been retrieved from the wetlands, along with dozens of ancient bodies, swords, and ornaments. Here, we run down some of the strangest things that scientists and citizens have pulled from the peat.
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Vespasian’s Villa Found
Published August 11, 2009 Ancient Rome , anthropology , Archeology , Beauty , Culture , Design , Emblems , Europe , History , Interesting , Italy , Military History , Symbols , Western Civilization , Western Paradigm 1 Comment
From the discovery.com article:
The summer villa of Roman Emperor Vespasian has been found in the Sabine hill country northeast of Rome, Italian archaeologists announced today.
Titus Flavius Vespasianus is known for rebuilding the Roman Empire following the tumultuous reign of Emporer Nero. Vespasian changed the face of Rome by launching a major public works program, which included the construction of the Colosseum, the structure that arguably defines the glory of ancient Rome.
Dating back to the first century A.D., the massive villa, adorned with mosaic floors, baths and marbled halls, has emerged following four years of digs near the town of Cittareale, in the province of Rieti.
The villa not only is located near the place of Vespasian’s birth at Falacrinae (Vicus Phalacrinae), but also may be the site where he is said to have died.
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