RE: The Archaeology Thread
February 8, 2022 at 2:10 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2022 at 2:13 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Archaeologists Find 40 Beheaded Roman Skeletons With Skulls Between Their Legs in a late Roman cemetery in southern England.
Archeologists said that one interpretation could be that the decapitated skeletons were criminals or outcasts, although decapitation was a "normal, albeit marginal, burial rite" during the late Roman period.
Over the next few years, the researchers will study the exhumed skeletons, offering an opportunity to learn more about Roman civilization's historic lifestyles, diet, and beliefs.
The team also uncovered over 1,200 coins at the site, along with several lead weights indicating that this was an area of trade and commerce.
https://www.sciencealert.com/archeologis...their-legs
Archeologists said that one interpretation could be that the decapitated skeletons were criminals or outcasts, although decapitation was a "normal, albeit marginal, burial rite" during the late Roman period.
Over the next few years, the researchers will study the exhumed skeletons, offering an opportunity to learn more about Roman civilization's historic lifestyles, diet, and beliefs.
The team also uncovered over 1,200 coins at the site, along with several lead weights indicating that this was an area of trade and commerce.
https://www.sciencealert.com/archeologis...their-legs
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"