Goths Vs.Greeks: Epic battle revealed in newfound text

Fox News ^ | March 2016 | Owen Jarus

[wildbill]

Fragments of an ancient Greek text telling of an invasion of Greece by the Goths during the third century A.D. have been discovered in the Austrian National Library. The text includes a battle fought at the pass of Thermopylae.

Researchers used spectral imaging to enhance the fragments, making it possible to read them. The analysis suggests the fragments were copied in the 11th century A.D. and are from a text that was written in the third-century A.D. by an Athens writer named Dexippus.

[wildbill]

So many new bits of information from the ancient world are being revealed by new technology and the expansion of archeology into areas prviously unknown or unplumbed.

What a great time to be a history aficionado.

[Vaquero]

[Vaquero]

wrong Goths?

[Sacajaweau]

It's what I do on the side....At age 72, I remember the old days when all my research meant days of viewing old documents after a long trip by auto.

Today it's a matter of knowing where to go for the best info.

[Red Badger]

I thought the title read:

GOTHS vs GEEKS!........................

[Billthedrill]

All the corpses were dressed in black with multiple facial piercings. I love archaeology.

[SandRat]

Early Germanic they were

[SES1066]

One of the oddities of history is the tribal migrations from Central Asia into Europe that lasted for more than a millennia. From the 5th Century BC barbarians of Ancient Greece (Scythia) to the Vandals, Goths and Huns that ended the Western Roman Empire to the Mongols (1200s AD) that conquered Eastern Europe and Islamic Persia, it seems that the usual movement went from east to west.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

They have a fondness for marching...

[rjsimmon]

wrong Goths?

These Goths:

[SandRat]

Early Germans?

[Vaquero]

Ah the fake tattoo sleeves. Remember it well.

[rjsimmon]

Ah the fake tattoo sleeves. Remember it well.

Those were FAKE???

[Eternal_Bear]

The Turks also originally from Central Asia reached Vienna by the early 16th century. Don’t forget the Magyars who are still in Hungary or the Alans. One of my favorite characters is the Bulgar Khan Krum who drank from a gold inlaid skull of a Byzantine Emperor.

[wildbill]

Don’t stop at the shores of Europe. Think of the East-
West migration pattern from Europe to the Americas and then across those continents to the Pacific shores.

I wrote a long epic poem once that proposed a theory that there is a inherent tribal instinct to follow the sun.

Of course the Polynesians are the exception that either founders the theory or proves the rule.

[Oatka]

They have a fondness for marching...

In the movie "Oh What A Lovely War", there's a scene in the beginning where (from a dodgy memory) the French Ambassador questions the German ambassador as to why he is amassing troops on the border.

The German replies, "We like to keep busy."

BTW, a GREAT ironic movie about WWI in song and dance.

[snippet: Gen. Haig talking to God. "Please send us a great victory - before the Americans arrive."]

[Kommodor]

Sounds like a new Revenge of the Nerds movie...

[GOPJ]

Get up early in the morning with the sun at your back and hours of forward movement before staring into the sun?

[VanShuyten]

Where’s PC Principal and the rest of his frat bros at the PC Deltas?

[the OlLine Rebel]

I’m not real fond of Greeks, but I despise those goths even more. Dirty morose fools, just more depressed version of hippies.