Posted on 03/05/2008 1:20:03 PM PST by blam
GGG Ping.
cool!
Do you know what my Roman ancestors drank? They drank wine. Do you know where they got it? The grew their own grapes in Cornwall. But you can’t grow them there anymore because it’s too cold. What would you blame that on?
One of the problems with owning property in Europe, is that you can’t dig a latrine without paying a team of archiologists to observe.
And if they find a little glass perfume bottle, you are scr$wed.
Cool! Thanks for sharing.
You can grow grapes in England. We have vineyards, even red grapes.
It’s the vinyards in Greenland during the Medieval Warm Period which really make your point.
How very cool!!
I’m surprised that no one has yet christened the archaeological site “The Corn Hole”.
Global warming, of course.
Dman those ancient Romans with their internal combustion engines!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
LMAO!
When it came to revitalize did they cart in enough fill to cover everything up and then start over? Very strange to my way of understanding how that could happen.
My only guess would be a total absence of anyone doing anything in an entire city for eons and nature doing the rest.
It would be interesting to see what the content of the fill material is. That’s really a fascinating observation on your part.
Thanks, Blam.
I read somewhere that earthworms turn over the soil and gradually cause foundations, etc. to sink over the centuries.
I think I read that in a book on Roman ruins. So maybe that’s it.
Earth worms! And all along I thought it must somehow have been the fault of one of George Bush’s ancestors.
There's a very good program on the History Channel titled: Cities Of The Underworld . Some of these shows are fascinating.
There are cases where volcanic eruptions have buried entire cities but this has been nearly instantaneous. I still can’t figure out other cases except for blowing sands in the desert or jungle overgrowth in the tropics - either of which take centuries and would presuppose human abandonment altogether. Oops - I forgot that I did see one clip on tv about what appeared to be a beautiful city street in the Congo which was being totally overgrown with vegetation. Seems the Congolese didn’t give a rats ass about keeping anything working including the traffic lights after the Belgians left.
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