Roman Towns Built With Astronomy


	Roman Towns Built With Astronomy

invictus

5-8-2007 12:59 PM

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archaeology, astronomy, ancient history, stellar alignments, rome, science

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5-8-2007 10:59 PM

X-Ray Mike

Wow!

5-9-2007 11:18 PM

k9riley99

invictus, may I ask you if you study or is your field in archaeology or astronomy. Your clips are always fascinating and usually regarding the science and or the architecture of an ancient building with a great deal of history behind the clip.

If I am being to personal, I'm sorry, but I so much enjoy all your clips.

Thank you for this one.
k9

5-10-2007 9:26 AM

invictus

Thanks very much k9, for the compliments. I am not "academically" working on the archaeology field but I got history education as well as economics and BA (my main degree) and I have been professionally working on some specific researches that focus on ancient history, particularly on archaeoastronomy and ancient sacred texts since the late 90s.

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