Thursday, June 9, 2011

Roman skeleton unearthed in Dr Jenner's garden

This is Gloucestershire: "A skeleton which could date back to Roman times has been discovered by celebrity archaeologists. Professor Mark Horton and Dr Stuart Prior, from televison's Time Team, have unearthed the ancient bones in the garden of Dr Edward Jenner's museum at Berkeley."

Strabo ahead of his time by nearly 2,000 years

CBS News: "Chalk up another win for the ancient Greeks. The Greek historian and geographer Strabo wrote nearly 2,000 years ago that Piraeus, a small peninsula near Athens, had once been an island--and a new study in this month's issue of Geology shows he was right."