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Incredibly ‘rare’ Roman mosaic depicting the Trojan War is found in Syria
NY Post ^ | October 13, 2022 | Adriana Diaz

Posted on 10/13/2022 1:17:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: MikeSteelBe
He would go back in time to fight in the Trojan war. Klingons like combat.

Fight On!

21 posted on 10/14/2022 5:29:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

:^)


22 posted on 10/14/2022 9:11:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: MikeSteelBe; dfwgator; SunkenCiv; Pilsner

The Trojans lost........................

But later became THE ROMAN EMPIRE!....................


23 posted on 10/14/2022 9:17:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
The Trojans lost........................

That's why they hired Lincoln Riley. ;)

24 posted on 10/14/2022 9:19:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

😜🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️.................................


25 posted on 10/14/2022 9:25:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
:^) That was a politically convenient claim, a supporting myth, written up in a poem funded by the regime. The Rome-bashing whackos who push various anachronistic myths didn't invent the practice. (^:

26 posted on 10/14/2022 10:22:52 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: SunkenCiv

So it was ‘Fake News’?....................


27 posted on 10/14/2022 10:34:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

No, fake history. :^)


28 posted on 10/14/2022 10:35:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: Red Badger

As in today’s Hollywood, ancient epic poets weren’t writing documentaries.


29 posted on 10/14/2022 10:36:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The winner writes the history...................


30 posted on 10/14/2022 10:37:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’m sure they embellished.................................a lot................😉


31 posted on 10/14/2022 10:41:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

The historian writes the winners. :^)


32 posted on 10/14/2022 8:08:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: Red Badger

If only the Trojans had relied on their mightiest warrior, Prophylaxis...


33 posted on 10/14/2022 8:10:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: Red Badger

The characters are largely inventions (not necessarily the names, just everything they do), and the ten year duration was probably bogus, but Troy fell, and the rivers ran backwards.


34 posted on 10/14/2022 8:39:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: Red Badger; BenLurkin

Not sure, maybe this got posted at the time.

In Search of Troy
By Joshua Hammer
Photographs by Rena Effendi
March 2022
It wasn’t just a legend. Archaeologists are getting to the bottom of the city celebrated by Homer nearly 3,000 years ago
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-search-of-troy-180979553/


35 posted on 10/15/2022 8:08:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The winners hire the historian!....................😉


36 posted on 10/17/2022 5:27:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yeah, they got screwed...............


37 posted on 10/17/2022 5:28:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: BenLurkin
Incredibly ‘rare’ Roman mosaic depicting the Trojan War is found in Syria

And they also found a certificate of authenticity.

38 posted on 10/17/2022 5:31:35 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: SunkenCiv

Troy is in Alabama.
I was a student......................


39 posted on 10/17/2022 5:37:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

And many other locations across the USA

25 cities:

-Troy, Alabama

-Troy, Idaho

-Troy, Illinois

-Troy Grove, Illinois

-Troy, Indiana

-Troy Mills, Iowa

-Troy, Kansas

-Troy, Maine

-Troy, Michigan

-New Troy, Michigan

-Troy, Missouri

-Troy, Montana

-Troy, New Hampshire

-Troy, New York

-Troy, North Carolina

-Troy, Ohio

-Troy, Pennsylvania

-Troy, South Carolina

-Troy, Tennessee

-Troy, Texas

-Troy, Vermont

-North Troy, Vermont

-Troy, Virginia

-Troy, West Virginia

-East Troy, Wisconsin


40 posted on 10/17/2022 5:49:18 AM PDT by deport
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