Unique archaeological discovery in Adjara [ Republic of Georgia, Roman Empire ]

The Georgian Times on the Web ^ | Monday, June 21, 2010 | Rustavi2 (?)

[SunkenCiv]

Archaeologists have made unique discovery in Adjara. The scientists have found the sepulchres, which date back to the epoch of ancient Rome. The archaeologists found the dishes made of glass and clay, coins made of bronze and silver in the village of Makho. The discovery is unique because this is the eldest sepulchre, where the glass dish was found. Arguably, the dishes date back to the third century AD.

According to the preliminary examination, the scientists conclude that it was an imported product, because no glass dish was made in Georgia in that epoch. The discovery confirms the presumptions about close ties with the Roman Empire in that period.

The archaeologists also presume that the left bank of the river Chorokhi, where the ancient sepulchres were discovered, was the residence of Roman authorities, who stayed in the Gonio Afsaroni castle then. This is the second unique discovery in the village Makho during the past few months. Earlier, the scientists found ancient clay containers for wine there.

[hinckley buzzard]

F*n Rome, man. Too bad they never figured out how to handle the problem of succession. If they hadn't had to have a power struggle and internecine war every time an emperor died, they might have lasted a thousand years.

[SunkenCiv]

They figured it out — it was every man for himself. No problem. ;’)

And the Roman Empire *did* last from at least as far back as 335 BC (occupation/colonization of Ostia, and Ostia probably wasn’t Rome’s first conquest) and the generally accepted Fall of Rome was 476 AD, 811 years; the city of Rome goes back some centuries before 335 BC, and the eastern division of the empire (which under Justinian reconquered Italy and a good bit of northern Africa, plus parts of the Balkans not under Byzantine control) didn’t come finally to an end until 1453 — giving us a 1700 year span of Roman rule. From the late “republic” period during which the city-state of Rome marched on all of Italy, grabbed Spain, entered the Balkans, conquered the Alexandrian successor states in Greece-Macedonia and Egypt, that’s still over 1500 years. :’) Rome had it goin’ on.

[SunkenCiv]

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[eleni121]

The Empire lasted far longer than 1000 years - most of which was called The Byzantine Christian Empire - Greek speaking eastern part of the Roman Empire.

The capital fell to the Islamic Turk hordes in 1453 AD. The last great martyr and Emperor Constantine Paleologus XI- called the Marble Emperor - stayed with his men and died (?) thus ending the second phase of the Empire.

[colorado tanker]

The area may have been an Imperial backwater, but as backwaters go, one could do a lot worse. Like, say, Britain. :-))