01-25-2002, 07:17 PM
"We're amassing a mound of circumstantial evidence, but there's no clincher"<br>
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Mound? More like a steaming heap... This is the same sort of flabby reasoning that concludes (for example) the Egyptians could never have built the pyramids and needed aliens to help them.<br>
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This particular little folk myth, like the *legio IX* marching into the mists of northern Britain, just will not die. If he wants something fascinating to pursue he could try the Roman army in the Crimea (it's lousy with them), but really, this is nonsense. I bet we get a Channel 4 documentary on it some time soon... :-(<br>
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I admit I am suspicious of sinologists, ever since one wrote to me after I published an article reconstructing the armour of the terracotta warriors telling me that I had stolen his idea.. he just hadn't got round to writing anything about it yet. However, I should add *no more* suspicious than I am of Romanists... ;-)<br>
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Mike Bishop <p></p><i></i>
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Mound? More like a steaming heap... This is the same sort of flabby reasoning that concludes (for example) the Egyptians could never have built the pyramids and needed aliens to help them.<br>
<br>
This particular little folk myth, like the *legio IX* marching into the mists of northern Britain, just will not die. If he wants something fascinating to pursue he could try the Roman army in the Crimea (it's lousy with them), but really, this is nonsense. I bet we get a Channel 4 documentary on it some time soon... :-(<br>
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I admit I am suspicious of sinologists, ever since one wrote to me after I published an article reconstructing the armour of the terracotta warriors telling me that I had stolen his idea.. he just hadn't got round to writing anything about it yet. However, I should add *no more* suspicious than I am of Romanists... ;-)<br>
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Mike Bishop <p></p><i></i>
