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As far as I could tell from the article the statues had both Etruscan and Roman inscriptions, and shows that the elites of both nations prayed together even though they warred.

They ended up buried in the soft mud at the bottom, which shielded them from the corrosion you might otherwise expect.

Could you elaborate, please, what this changes or why is such a big find? For those of us who don't know much about this kind of stuff.

How is it possible that these bronze statues spent so long in a hot spring, and yet they don’t have sediments of minerals on them, not even tarnish?

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My wife just moved to the US and she’s looking for a good book on US History. Her English is good, but she’d like to read something a little less dry and shorter than a college textbook. I would greatly appreciate any recommendations! Thanks!

This is huge, we are talking about a pit inside a temple where for 3-4 centuries Etruscan and roman people used to put votive artifacts, sometimes around 100ac the pit was closed and basically everything in it was preserved in a time capsule.

I just imagined Castro getting angry they were messing with his fishing pond :D

It's the difference between a 1920s produce truck and a modern diesel delivery truck. Bigger, more capable, many incremental improvements in all systems, optimized for wartime, but no major obvious changes.

Some of those incremental improvements would be things like double-planking, copper bottoms (arguably not incremental), larger gun decks, bigger guns, framing to reduce hogging, better powder handling, etc. But a ship of the line was recognizably just a later member of the galleon type.

They went a lot of places but my point is they enslaved pillaged and raped but when talking about the vikings it never gets brought up only what they achieved. Britain gets slated all the time about slavery but nothing gets said about what they did to make up for the mistakes they made, It’s a double standard and it always will be.

According to Vashistha Siddhanta which was 'supposedly' composed around 1200-1100 BCE, they definitely could predict the motion of sun and moon. Here is a 1980 paper on the topic.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41133571

Well, did the civilization that produced the text possess a elaborate and accurate grasp on and interest in astronomy, as far back as 2922 years ago?

And to date the war, one must operate under the assumption that it was an historical event, and shouldn't rather be understood as a part of vedic mythology

Here is the eclipse the author is talking about. I extracted the information from the NASA site he mentioned in the article.

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/5MCSEmap/-0999--0900/-900-11-05.gif

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/SE-0999--0900.html

What seems pseudoscientific about it? The article was based on using astronomical events described in the text to determine the timing of events. Astronomical dating is an accepted technique in history, isn't it? (I know it's popular in Near Eastern history and in Mesoamerican history, but perhaps it isn't as accepted in Indian history?)

Are there flaws in the author's interpretation of the astronomical events, or the calculations he used?

The main issue I can think of is that maybe the astronomical information used to date the war (a solar eclipse that occurred in or slightly after the month of Kartika, which ended before sunset, and did not start too early in the day; and that there would have been a full moon very shortly before the war started) does not correspond to reality. For example, maybe the solar eclipse was just "made up" to make the story appear more impressive?

I'm not sure how a historian would determine whether the astronomical phenomena described in the text are real or not.

The discovery of more than 2000-year-old bronze statues in the Tuscany region represents a key finding that could change our understanding of the transition from Etruscan civilization to the Roman Empire. Discovered in a hot spring, the statues are preserved thanks to the mud. In addition to the statues, more than 5,000 silver and gold coins were discovered.

Describe a time period in history that you wish you could visit. Why did you chose that era?

Or Russia. IIRC the general gist was that Danes and Norwegians went to Britain, while 'Swedes' (Svea, Goths, etc.) went eastwards to Russia and into the Black Sea.

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There had also already been an Arab revolt against British rule in the Levant and Zionist settlement in the 1930s, so there wasn't much apetite to add more "fuel to the fire" by having even more Jewish settlers come to the region

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%931939_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine

> Did you never consider the idea that the German government might ask one or two of its citizens to... Oh, I don't know, lie for espionage purposes?

Tbh the Nazis were so abysmally incompetent at espionage that they genuinely might not have thought of that trick harhar.

Actually I did mean the obvious stuff. I am not good at eyeballing changes in a ship's lines, and the Wikipedia is rather vague on the evolution. Thank you for your consideration.