Livy was writing centuries later, so historians know not to take it at face value, something like this confirms it.

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There's also still a lot of unexploded bombs around. It's not that unusual to find bombs during excavation works in Germany, here in Düsseldorf you get a small scale evacuation every few month because someone dug up a bomb and it has to be defused.

Can't wait to see how much we change as a society after learning more about climate change from centuries old whaling logs. Life is about to be totally different. Just watch.

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Yes they did, very explicitly. Early Christian writings about the sins and evils of the world are full of condemnations of war, violence, gladiatorial games, and the like.

Here's an example from St. Cyprian of Carthage (first half of the 3rd century):

>For a brief space conceive yourself to be transported to one of the loftiest peaks of some inaccessible mountain, thence gaze on the appearances of things lying below you, and with eyes turned in various directions look upon the eddies of the billowy world, while you yourself are removed from earthly contacts — you will at once begin to feel compassion for the world, and with self-recollection and increasing gratitude to God, you will rejoice with all the greater joy that you have escaped it. Consider the roads blocked up by robbers, the seas beset with pirates, wars scattered all over the earth with the bloody horror of camps. The whole world is wet with mutual blood; and murder, which in the case of an individual is admitted to be a crime, is called a virtue when it is committed wholesale. Impunity is claimed for the wicked deeds, not on the plea that they are guiltless, but because the cruelty is perpetrated on a grand scale.

>And now, if you turn your eyes and your regards to the cities themselves, you will behold a concourse more fraught with sadness than any solitude. The gladiatorial games are prepared, that blood may gladden the lust of cruel eyes. The body is fed up with stronger food, and the vigorous mass of limbs is enriched with brawn and muscle, that the wretch fattened for punishment may die a harder death. Man is slaughtered that man may be gratified, and the skill that is best able to kill is an exercise and an art. Crime is not only committed, but it is taught. What can be said more inhuman — what more repulsive? Training is undergone to acquire the power to murder, and the achievement of murder is its glory.

To our modern ears, "killing people for sport is evil and disgusting" sounds like common sense, and something so unremarkable that we probably pay no attention to it when reading it on a page. But ancient Romans did not think so. This was a pretty shocking thing for a Roman to write.

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Man open vault on TV.

Was empty.

Big funny.

https://youtu.be/xaF0LSwzFog

>but the point is that polytheists didn't think that murdering barbarians was morally problematic

Neither did Christians.

Amazing discovery. But not a fan of articles that talk about "maybe".

And for such a fascinating discovery, the article should have way more pictures. It talks about all this cool stuff and it only has a couple tiny photos.

This is interesting. I’m curious as to what information they’ve found and what it means for weather patterns as a whole over the past Two Centuries.

What?

That's not what this post or thread is talking about. See what OP submitted, it's a press article not a quotation. The use of "malfunction" isn't part of Bill Nelson's speech.

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I always got the feeling that he was intelligent, but just not really good at the politics. I kinda got the feeling he was doing what he was told. Of course I could be entirely wrong.

Where is the most dangerous place in Egypt? Standing between Zahi Hawass and a camera.

To be fair, I don't think Kathleen Martinez has said anything about the tunnel leading to Cleopatras tomb (in one report she said it was used to carry water to the city). All the "some believe it may lead to Cleopatra" headlines seem to be media hype.

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