Hodie est a.d. III Id Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 25 Pyanepsion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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In this week’s episode of PillarTalk, Will rejoins Lewis and Joe for another instalment of ‘Dodgy Deaths’ – this time looking at Georgie, the young boy found beneath the Vindolanda Fort, Alexander the Great’s potential cause of death and La Brea Woman – one of the oldest murder victims in the USA.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders, it portends blessings from the god and the winds shall blow from the east.
… adapted from the text and translation of:
Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)
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