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Re: Pompeii skeletons reveal secrets of Roman family life
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"Lyle E. Browning" <[log in to unmask]>
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:31:39 -0500
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On Dec 14, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Denis Gojak wrote:
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> And besides, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You mean apart from providing several languages, indoor plumbing, central heating, or engineering of water supply systems and roads?

Or mosaics, statuary and other artwork oddities?

Or industrialization of mining, metal processing, gristmilling and a few other minor items?

But surely yours was a rhetorical question anyway.

Lyle Browning

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