Prince's Palace Found in Volcanic Crater

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Source: Discovery News
Rossella Lorenzi

The remains of what might have been the residence of the Etruscan prince Sextus Tarquinius, son of the last legendary king of Rome Tarquinius Superbus (Tarquin the Proud), have been found on the slopes of an extinct volcanic crater about 12 miles from Rome, Italian archaeologists have announced.

The palace was discovered on the site of the ancient acropolis of Gabii, where, according to legend, Rome's mythical founders, Romulus and Remus, were educated. The building dates to the sixth century B.C and boasts the highest intact walls from the period ever found in Italy, standing at around 6.56 feet high.

"The dig has shown that the richly decorated monumental roof was dismantled, and the building filled with rubble. This has been a blessing, since it has allowed the palace to remain virtually intact," archaeologist Marco Fabbri of Rome's Tor Vergata University, told Discovery News.

Fabbri and colleagues from Rome's Archaeological Superintendency believe that the residence was furiously demolished, probably during the Roman revolt in 510 B.C. that ultimately led to the foundation of the Roman Republic.

http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/prince-palace-rome.html

[eShirl]

1. cool!

k&r

[jannyk]

2. Thank you adsos - I love your informative posts!

[malaise]

10. +1

Thanks adsos :D

[ConsAreLiars]

3. Yet one more example of why I get happy and click when I see one of your posts in GD.

Learning more about everything real.

Providing historical context.

Expanding our understanding of our history and our heritage and even ourselves.

And, on a purely personal level, for just bringing up memories of my good fortune to have experienced so many such places. Not just Knossos on Crete, but Akrotiri on Thera 3 years after the discovery when my companion argued (she was a force of nature not to be denied) got the archaeologist to go against past practice and give us non-professionals a tour (likely for the first time). It was like entering a nearly intact town that was a close cousin to those we had been seeing everywhere.

Many more countries and sites, but for the great majority of who can't get there in meat world (then I could, now I can't), your posts give a us a way to get close to being there, and access via links and searches to a deeper understanding than given to anyone who ever gets there on a tourist bus and listens to 15 minutes of infotainment.

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4. ConsAreLiars, you are much too kind

but I am thankful that my postings have provided some value, however sleight, to those who read them.

As you so well know, there is an enormous world out there, and an infinite life within the mind. These are things to cherish and experience, as much as possible.

How is your son doing in his adventure? Sending you any nice photos with that camera you gifted him with?

Blessings to you, my friend. :hi:

[ConsAreLiars]

8. Not too kind, just descriptive and appreciative.

And the site operators were insightful enough to agree that such posts are of value to all who read GD and should not be buried in some obscure sub-forum.

Second born is still an artist-in-residence with room and board and small cash. One example (not with the newer gear):



A HS dropout, later GED, tagging a photo with "pteridium aqualinum," Who sits in the wilderness quietly and is approached by a red fox and a marmot and a lizard and a stag?

A different drummer.

His Flikr slideshow, and he is using the new stuff very effectively: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonnyhayseed/show/

Firstborn is STILL a fully subsidized PhD candidate at UCB. High powered LGBT activist. Stayed partnered with the same woman after going FtM and getting married (2 kids) while there and doing TA as well as classes during the transition. Looks good and confident and capable.

Another different drummer.

Both are best friends to one another. Opposites in almost every way, or better and more accurately, two different parts of the same whole.

If I had been asked to describe what I wished my kids to become, I might have come up with happy, healthy and such, but never anything nearly as wonderful as both have become.

And I know you are seeing the same thing taking place with your daughter.

Of the works we have done, some may live on, and the influences we have had might ripple, but the kids get a few more years to add to that. Far too many get crippled by the poisons in the environment, all kinds, and never have a chance. We are lucky.

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[Cessna Invesco Palin]

5. I had a Sextus Superbus once.

Fucking brakes on the thing never worked properly. I traded it in for a Pinto.

[roguevalley]

6. adsos, another home run. thank you for all you do.

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7. I don't do much, roguevalley

but to the degree that you find pleasure in it, I am happy to do the bit that I do.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. I'm surprised at the bit about the Minotaur being a symbol of the Tarquins

I thought they were Etruscan, and thus more local to the area than using a Minoan myth would imply. Though I see there's now a theory they came from Lydia some time ago, so I guess they would have been involved in the Eastern Mediterranean and could have picked up the myth there.

http://www.physorg.com/news101272605.html