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Good to know these are available to scholars and being moved about in this way.

 

Quote from: DBS on April 16, 2025, 01:22:38 PMInteresting, thank you, though I am contractually obliged to observe that cultural artefacts are not proof of ethnicity... 🙂

Quite - the graves may have been vandalised.

The unique thing about domestic cats is that they've evolved over time to look comfortable.  Once they moved out of barns, their main role in life was to lounge around snoozing in a warm place, and the strange thing is that the more they do that, the more their humans appreciate them.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/17/how-drought-left-britain-too-hot-handle-for-romans/

Another article on same said topic

Quote from: Jon Freitag on April 17, 2025, 05:53:17 PMIs there NOTHING for which Climate Change is not the culprit?

One could make the argument that even DJ Trump is a consequence of climate change 

More seriously, climatic perturbations are not good for civilizations built on assumptions about prior patterns of climate and agricultural production.  By the late Roman period in Britain huge amounts were having to be invested in corn dryers on agricultural estates as the weather turned colder and wetter.  The best pulling together of evidence for the impact of climate on history that I know is Geoffrey Parker's "Global Crisis : War, Climate Change & Catastrophe in the 17th Century" but that is out of our period. 

However, it seems a bit daft to blame a conspiracy on climate change.  The climate might have had effects that increased peoples' propensity to conspire but the basic problem was the age old question "what have the Romans ever done for us?" 

https://www.timeout.com/hong-kong/news/part-of-emperor-qin-shihuangs-terracotta-army-has-come-to-hong-kong-041625

Hopefully of interest...

Well, I blame the weather personally....

Is there NOTHING for which Climate Change is not the culprit?