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New Pompeii Graffiti May Rewrite History

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44 pointshecubus16 comments

When you say things like "rewrite history" the implication is one of significance.

The month Vesuvius erupted is fairly irrelevant. There aren't any consequences to the fact changing. Pompeii is quite important in historical understanding of Rome, you would expect "history rewriting" discoveries to really be something. This isn't. Mildly interesting perhaps.

"Rewrite history" is the historical version of "scientists are baffled/astounded".

This theory on it happening in 1631 might scratch your itch:

https://www.stolenhistory.org/threads/79-a-d-no-more-pompeii...

The first article on the frontpage of stolenhistory.org is about how triumphal arches were, in fact, teleportation devices.

So no, whacky conspiracy theories don't scratch any itches.

Do you know if there's a report button here? That guy's comment should be removed.

This conspiracy theory he posted makes this entire platform look bad. And that's not even considering the missinformation it could spread..

I suppose the link was posted ironically.

If you look closer, you'll notice it's a community with featured threads on the front page. Like any forum, the quality varies across posts. The thread I link is well-sourced and presents compelling arguments.

EDIT: Granted, the author of the teleporter article is the same guy...

Here's a fun collection of ribald Pompeiian graffiti (NSFW): http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%2...

"O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed that you have not already collapsed in ruin."

This has been known for years. See this blog post from 2013 for example: https://garethharney.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/the-forgotten-...

The key piece, among other circumstantial evidence that was already known for decades, is a coin found many years ago and not this graffiti.

What a nasty website.

* video that floats over the text as you scroll

* empty gray thing that drops down from the top for no reason (prob. trying to display an ad, but UBlock Origin stops it?)

* when you page through the image gallery every new image makes the page jump-scroll down

* oh goody another floating video on the right side now

* image caption obscures bottom 1/5th of each image.

bleagh.

You need Noscript. I didn't see any of those things and didn't even think about it until reading your comment; then I looked at the Noscript icon and saw that it had blocked scripts from forbes.com.

To be honest, the walnuts and clothing are more convincing to me than a date without year. But it could be.

> This new graffito may not rewrite history, but I am more convinced than ever that an early fall date for the eruption is the one I should use when formulating hypotheses about and interpreting data from the human skeletal remains.

Markets?! We need laws regulating editors. The headline they provide is bullshit.

Changing a date would literally rewrite history without dramatically affecting most historical understandings.

According to the article itself, it either may or may not. So why say anything about it?

True but they get clicks, and make money, so it's never going to change.

Most of these click dependent websites are an unreliable source of news. Better to use youtube, preferably channels that get most of their income from patreon rather than ads. Just put those videos at 2x and get your information while doing other things.

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