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#91
Ancient and Medieval History / Re: Bronze age discovery in ga...
Last post by Keraunos - April 26, 2024, 06:29:43 PMVery tolerant wife to let him dig up the garden like that! 
#92
Ancient and Medieval History / Bronze age discovery in garden
Last post by Imperial Dave - April 26, 2024, 05:42:42 PM #93
Ancient and Medieval History / Re: Unusual discovery in Franc...
Last post by Ian61 - April 26, 2024, 05:38:15 PMLooks a big site. There must be more on this somewhere surely.
#94
Ancient and Medieval History / Unusual discovery in France
Last post by Imperial Dave - April 26, 2024, 05:24:46 PMhttps://uk.news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-discovered-unprecedented-ancient-monument-120000311.html
Almost missed this one...
Almost missed this one...
#95
Ancient and Medieval History / Re: Fancy visiting a hole in N...
Last post by Imperial Dave - April 26, 2024, 04:46:08 PMHoom hoom hoom
#96
Ancient and Medieval History / Re: Fancy visiting a hole in N...
Last post by Cantabrigian - April 26, 2024, 04:36:41 PMQuote from: Keraunos on April 25, 2024, 02:31:37 PM"In a hole in the ground there lived a cheddar man"?But only for second breakfast...
#97
Ancient and Medieval History / Re: Maya Kingdoms
Last post by Imperial Dave - April 26, 2024, 04:29:40 PMAll I said was that bit of halibut was good enough for Jehovah...
#98
Ancient and Medieval History / Re: Maya Kingdoms
Last post by Erpingham - April 26, 2024, 03:24:07 PMQuote from: Jon Freitag on April 26, 2024, 03:06:18 PMNow that is a grudge
There is an image of Charles II as a Merry Monarch and a beacon of the Enlightenment. But his treatment of the regicides shows a darker side of his character.
#99
Ancient and Medieval History / Re: Maya Kingdoms
Last post by Jon Freitag - April 26, 2024, 03:06:18 PMNow that is a grudge. I suppose I should have prefaced my comment with "civilized" society...
#100
Ancient and Medieval History / Re: Maya Kingdoms
Last post by Erpingham - April 26, 2024, 02:58:23 PMQuote from: Jon Freitag on April 26, 2024, 02:36:32 PMQuote from: Jim Webster on April 26, 2024, 12:43:33 PMI was left wondering if 'smoking gun' was a pun suggesting it had been a coupDoes a society pull their already dead and interred Ancients from their tombs and toss them into a bonfire in a coup?
Possibly. Oliver Cromwell was dug up and his body "executed" after the Restoration of Charles II. John Wycliffe was burned as a heretic and his ashes thrown in a river 44 years after he died.