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Author Topic: No News like Ancient News – Roman frescoes discovered  (Read 88651 times)

Offline Poiter50

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Re: "Daily" Ancient Nonsense - Pictures of Ancient Rome Life
« Reply #120 on: March 20, 2012, 08:12:12 AM »
Ahh, but where are they when you want to claim on the lifetime guarantee?  lol

another invention of the Romans lol
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Re: "Daily" Ancient Nonsense - Carthage Sea Port
« Reply #121 on: March 21, 2012, 12:22:45 AM »
the most beautiful sea port of ancient times..
« Last Edit: March 21, 2012, 12:25:04 AM by Prof.Witchheimer »

Offline Poiter50

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Re: "Daily" Ancient Nonsense - Carthage Sea Port
« Reply #122 on: March 21, 2012, 01:07:14 AM »
Where is the model of Carthage, Prof?

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Re: "Daily" Ancient Nonsense - Carthage Sea Port
« Reply #123 on: March 21, 2012, 06:10:55 AM »
Somewhere in Tunis. I've found the photo on this blog and there unfortunately no further details.

http://alixandjace.blogspot.de/2010/12/carthage.html

Offline Poiter50

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Re: "Daily" Ancient Nonsense - Carthage Sea Port
« Reply #124 on: March 21, 2012, 07:09:42 AM »
Nice!!

Somewhere in Tunis. I've found the photo on this blog and there unfortunately no further details.

http://alixandjace.blogspot.de/2010/12/carthage.html

Offline joroas

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Re: "Daily" Ancient Nonsense - Carthage Sea Port
« Reply #125 on: March 21, 2012, 07:13:12 AM »
Never seen this before, most impressive.  Thanks for posting.  :o
'So do all who see such times. But that is not for us to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that we are given.'

Offline Poiter50

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Re: "Daily" Ancient Nonsense - Carthage Sea Port
« Reply #126 on: March 21, 2012, 07:17:58 AM »
Their other posts/links are interesting.

A TV article I recently watched showed the Tunisian "Roman" Hollywood that has been built to provide stage settings for movie making. Not sure where it is but very tempted to make a side trip from Spain or France.  8)

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Re: "Daily" Ancient Nonsense - Carthage Sea Port
« Reply #127 on: March 21, 2012, 07:22:51 AM »
I've seen the model a few time but I do like the different artists impressions.

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Re: "Daily" Ancient Nonsense - Carthage Sea Port
« Reply #128 on: March 21, 2012, 06:58:18 PM »
That is a beautiful model of the harbor, thanks for sharing! For anyone interested in re-creating it in 1/1200 Rod Langton has a great line of ancient buildings to go with his ships and he does the Carthaginian ship shed. http://www.rodlangton.com/ancient/ancframe.htm

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Re: "Daily" Ancient Nonsense - Carthage Sea Port
« Reply #129 on: March 21, 2012, 07:07:26 PM »
Please, don't show me any Ancient naval ranges! An old dream, wanted to do something like that being a child and reading about battle of Salamis.

I just have to resist :)


Offline Aaron

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Re: "Daily" Ancient Nonsense - Carthage Sea Port
« Reply #130 on: March 21, 2012, 07:09:20 PM »
I started to dive into it myself, but sold them off before getting in too deep. I keep wanting to build a model harbor though (for no particular reason).

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Re: "Daily" Ancient Nonsense - Carthage Sea Port
« Reply #131 on: March 21, 2012, 07:14:56 PM »
Antikythera Mechanism

What´s it for???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
I knew the truck didn´t want to hit me...it had dodge written on the front

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Re: "Daily" Ancient Nonsense - Carthage Sea Port
« Reply #132 on: March 21, 2012, 07:32:23 PM »
Stunning piece of mechanical art!

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Re: "Daily" Ancient Nonsense - Carthage Sea Port
« Reply #133 on: March 21, 2012, 09:48:41 PM »
The thing about is they don´t really know what it´s for but it appears pretty similar to later Astrolabes
http://www.astrolabes.org/history.htm
The medieval ones were as big as the palm of the hand and apparently could be used to store dates of meetings, places etc.

Offline Aaron

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Re: "Daily" Ancient Nonsense - Carthage Sea Port
« Reply #134 on: March 21, 2012, 10:48:27 PM »
Didn't someone recently recreate that with legos?

 

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