Rome's Palatine Hill shows new treasures

AP via Yahoo! ^ | 1-23-07 | ARIEL DAVID

[AliVeritas]

Thanks for posting.

[Pharmboy]

Pingarium...

[edpc]

I was in Rome last March and I loved it. Now I have an excuce to go back with the new discoveries. Anyone even remotely interested in history should visit Rome.

[Dysart]

Model of Palatine Hill in Ancient Times

[VOA]

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[Cicero]

Romulus and Remus being suckled by the Capitoline Wolf

[Dysart]

Great find.

[Erasmus]

Officials said the resurfaced treasures highlight the importance of a hill so favored by the rich and powerful that its name is at the origin of the words "palace" in English, "palais" in French and "palazzo" in Italian.

And the root-word "Pfalz" in German. A "Pfalzgraf" would be called in English a "Count Palatine," which originally meant a nobleman who had special duties at the palace of the emperor.

The name of the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz recalls the days when a Count Palatine ruled over part of that territory.

[Pharmboy]

Interesting connections. Danke.

[Larry Lucido]

Pfalzgraf

Also a landmark negligence case. My law school in northern Illinois would have a Pfalzgraf party every year around Halloween, to mark that point in the torts class. I'd figured "Pfalzgraf" was some Wisconsin brewery that was sponsoring the party, and was quite disappointed to find out otherwise.

[Moonmad27]

Thanks for posting this! It's been many years since my trip to Italy, but I went all OVER the Palatine hill and loved it. Sorry to read that most tourists skip those amazing places.

[tanuki]

Thank you for posting. Always good to connect with the Mater Republica!

[Heatseeker]

When I was there in the early 70's you could still walk through some of those tunnels - very neat.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Kozak]

We were there in July and it was fantastic. The Palatine especially was impressive.

My 21 year old son was also very impressed by the female archeology students he saw working on the digs, his comment " do you have to be a model to study archeology here?"

[SunkenCiv]

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[twigs]

I was there in May 2005. The Palatine was I think my favorite spot in Italy. I want to go back and spend some significant time there.

[Antoninus]

I was in Rome last March and I loved it. Now I have an excuce to go back with the new discoveries. Anyone even remotely interested in history should visit Rome.

I spent three days there in 2000. Not nearly enough time. I could have spent 3 months there easy.

[edpc]

Yeah, I was there for one week.....5 days since you really lose a couple days travelling. It went too fast. I saw a lot, but the new discoveries sound great. I also missed Pompei. I'll definitely go back.