<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1ccdc1e7-9020-42da-8c82-494ccdb0ec60/EE593967-4B3D-4A44-927B-695A05DC63DA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.discoveryon.info/2009/09/1st-century-graves.html&title=Archaeologists%20Find%201st%20Century%20Graves%20in%20Slovenia" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.discoveryon.info/2009/09/1st-century-graves.html&title=Archaeologists%20Find%201st%20Century%20Graves%20in%20Slovenia" style="font-size: 11px;">www.stumbleupon.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.discoveryon.info/2009/09/1st-century-graves.html&title=Archaeologists%20Find%201st%20Century%20Graves%20in%20Slovenia"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.discoveryon.info/img/77FC5033-E49E-4EBA-8870-B02865E101A7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.discoveryon.info/2009/09/1st-century-graves.html&title=Archaeologists%20Find%201st%20Century%20Graves%20in%20Slovenia"><DIV><SPAN>Archaeologists have found the remains of a Roman burial ground dating to the 1st century near the former tobacco factory Tobacna tovarna in Ljubljana. So far, 25 graves have been discovered, most of which contained cremated bodies, head of the excavations Barbara Hofman told.</SPAN></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.discoveryon.info/2009/09/1st-century-graves.html&title=Archaeologists%20Find%201st%20Century%20Graves%20in%20Slovenia"><SPAN>The burial ground was located by the road leading from ancient Emona, today's Ljubljana, towards Aquileia (SW), as it was common in ancient times to bury the dead by the road outside the city walls.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.discoveryon.info/2009/09/1st-century-graves.html&title=Archaeologists%20Find%201st%20Century%20Graves%20in%20Slovenia"><SPAN>According to Hofman, the area most probably served for burying one or two generations of Emonians in the 1st century, while some burials from the 3rd and 4th century are also evident.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.discoveryon.info/2009/09/1st-century-graves.html&title=Archaeologists%20Find%201st%20Century%20Graves%20in%20Slovenia"><DIV><SPAN>Almost all of the discovered graves are rectangular tegula cassettes, while a vertically triangular shape was used in one grave.</SPAN></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.discoveryon.info/2009/09/1st-century-graves.html&title=Archaeologists%20Find%201st%20Century%20Graves%20in%20Slovenia"><SPAN>The ashes were mostly contained in amphoras and glass urns, but were also scattered in some of the graves, Hofman explained.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.discoveryon.info/2009/09/1st-century-graves.html&title=Archaeologists%20Find%201st%20Century%20Graves%20in%20Slovenia"><SPAN>She said other items found in the graves were mostly ceramic oil lamps or table vessels.</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EE593967-4B3D-4A44-927B-695A05DC63DA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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