FRIDAY SURPRISE: Honey, where'd I put the city?

Friday, July 31, 2009 Filed in: Friday Surprise!, History, Completely irrelevant

The only area in which I feel inferior to Europeans is in the history of our respective lands. I once worked with a fellow who grew up in England, who told me the house in which his family lived was the newest on the block - and it was built in the mid-18th century. Here in the U.S., we just don't have century after century of defined habitation to study. Given my love of old and abandoned buildings, it's torture learning about the great ruins the Europeans get to explore!

The latest involves the high-tech rediscovery of the ancient Italian city of Altinum. I'll have to get the latest issue of Science and read up on it!


-=[ Grant ]=-

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