10-12-2018, 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
I was really into Archeology for a couple of years in the 80's. Went on some digs. Found a new Roman mosaic floor in a house no one knew existed. Kind of cool to be the first person to see something so beautiful for the first time in 2000 years. All of the colors were intact.
Most of the Archeologist's, at that time anyway, that I talked with thought Atlantis was a BS story or it was a fraction of the myth that was built up by Roman writers for political and social reasons.
They always thought Troy was real. And then we found it 20 years later.
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Troy was found in 1870.
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