Thursday, April 05, 2007

Rome History




This little essay is from http://news-history.blogspot.com/


Obviously this is not written in English first, in fact, this essay has a sort of "babelfish" look to it. However, it is worth the effort to struggle through the odd syntax.


It deals with the excavations they are doing on the Palantine Hill. It is really difficult to carry out real excavations there since the nature of an archaeological excavation is to systematically destroy the place, and the Romans are not about to let their precious Palantine Hill vanish in a "dig".
The top picture is of the Palantine Hill as it looks now, and you can see the Circus Maximus to the right.
Click on it to enlarge!
The bottom pic is, well, just for fun! Do androids dream of electric sheep? Do electric sheep need to be plugged in? Like I said, a fun picture. If people want, I will post a bunch more of the sheep up on these pages.





Saturday, December 09, 2006

Roman Emperor's Insignia Unearthed
Archaeologists have discovered what says are the only existing imperial standards that belong to Maxentius emperor the precious objects that were buried to preserve it and to keep them from enemies when its rival Constantina defeated it. The excavation underneath the hill of the Palatine of Rome near the given Colosseum return upon articles including three lances and four javelins that the experts this are pressing for his complete it the pushes generally above give fragment return only and the fact that they are the only known devices of his class.Clementina Panella, the archaeologist who made the discovery, said that the standards probable were hidden by the people of Maxentius in an attempt to preserve the memory of the emperor after Constantina I in the battle of 321 A.D of the bridge of Milvian a little while defeated it crucial for the history of the Roman empire that Constantina saw become the undisputed rule of the west. "Once it has lost, their objects could not continue existing and, at the same time, they could not fall in the hands of the enemy" she said Friday.Some of the objects, that accompanied the emperor during their aspects public, are created to be the base for the standards of the emperor rectangular or the triangular flags, civil employees this.Scepter imperial with a carved flower and a globe, and a number of crystal spheres, believed to be a symbolic Earth representation, also was discovered. The discovery was announced Wednesday by minister Francesco Rutelli of the culture of Italy during a visit to New York. The articles, the wood boxes inner and surrounded in linen and silk, were found buried in a sanctuary the last year and since then they have been recovered and they have been analyzed. The depth of the burial to date does not prohibit to experts to 4to early century A.D. civil employees of the ministry this."These devices belonged clearly to the emperor, specially scepter, that very is elaborated, it is not an article that you would let to some other have,� Panella said. "Reason why we know, there are no similar results" said Angelo Bottini, the superior civil employee of the state for archaeology in Rome. "Similar representations are only in currencies and paintings, but never we saw them for true" he said. Bottini added that the devices will be demonstrated to the public in February.Darius A. Arya, archaeologist and professor in the American institute for the Roman culture, said that the discovery was highly unusual. "Here he is something preciously that represents the greatness of Maxentius, buried by its loyal people to save something who belonged to him" Arya said, that it was not implied in the excavation."All meeting, she represented the energy of this particular emperor and you did not want that the enemy or usurper obtained to get a hold of it". The excavations in the Palatine in recent decades have given to return upon wonders such as the house of the first emperor of Rome, Augustus. The experts said that much he still must be opened, hidden in underground alleys.

2 comments:

Ovonia Red said...

I love, love, love the telephone sheep (the artist's next project should be cell phone lemmings).

DJ

Jennifer said...

Well, it took me several readings to get through this! LOL. Hard to follow, but fascinating. And I also love the sheep...more, please!