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This thread is to post all the wonderous things archeologists are finding as well as the historical areas being reopened. The purpose of it is to allow us all to share what we are finding with other Rome/history enthusiasts. I hope all will enjoy this thread and the many many discussions I'm sure will ensure.  LadyC -- Show her what she's done.
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Re: Historical Discoveries
Oct 7, 2009 4:10 PM
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Hi, Beagle,
You're right. I thought the article did a good job of explaining how problematic such a study is. Due to that fact, we'll probably never know. Interesting, though.
Many historians wouldn't choose to use the Bible as any sort of evidence, however, if one looks at the Book of Luke, Augustus had men return to their place of origin for the census. However, what exactly were Augustus' orders? Were the male family members (Joseph in this case) supposed to go by themselves, or take their family members, as Joseph did in this case. Also, was the targeted location of the census different in Judea due to their local customs as opposed as what it would have been in Italy or Gaul.
Good studies do one thing. They bring up more questions! 
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Re: Historical Discoveries
Oct 6, 2009 8:23 PM
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hyker1 posted:
>"Here's an interesting article on how scholars are using hoards of Roman coins to try to determine populations.
>http://news.yahoo.com ... etc.
This an interesting post.
In my reading, I've come across many estimates of the population at various stages of development. It's always hard to decide whether they're talking about "Rome", the city or the empire and if the estimates include the entire population (with women, children, slaves, resident aliens and so on) or just "true Romans".
I've seen peak estimates go as high as 50 million or more.
The same problem occurs with the ancient Greek city-states (e.g., Athens, Sparta, et al).
Another interesting subject is the North American population of "native American" pre-Columbus. Various estimates differ by orders of magnitude.
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Thanks Copernicus. I viewed Jupiter last night through my low-power telescope. For once, it was cloudless in PA!
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There is a nice confluence of the Moon and Jupiter tonight. Even if you live in an area of big time light pollution you should be able to see this one. Jupiter is just to the lower right of a ±5/8 full moon. I wondered if it was coming because I noticed the moon and Jupiter getting closer the past several days. Not quite as advanced as the Mayas, but you can go ahead and call me Copernicus Duval. (He was Polish after all.)
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> > > http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/08/apollo-statue
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> > .html" target="_blank">Colossal Statue of Apollo Unearthed in
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Nomad,
I thought the same thing! I thought that was certainly women's breasts, and the draping of the clothes made me think female, not male, statuary.
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> Lady C: Thanks a million! This actually assists my
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I thought of you when I saw this.
There are many layers to this, I played with it more yesterday and found that you can zoom in and out of the different topological regions for different time periods and see what monuments were built then, were under construction, and what was already there. Very very interesting stuff. So play around with all the different things, you might be as pleasantly surprised as I was.
LadyC
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> Thought everyone might enjoy this.
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Oh my god, that is excellent.
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Lady C: Thanks a million! This actually assists my research!
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> Colossal Statue of Apollo Unearthed in
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Are they sure this is Apollo? It looks like the torso of a woman to me. The clothing looks like that of a woman, too.
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