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 wr0x2
 |  |  | July National Geographic
< on 6/30/2006 9:52 PM >
|  | | | If anyone here reads National Geographic, this month's issue has a cool article about Rome, and all the ancient stuff beneath it, including sewers, tunnels etc. It's not specifically about UE, but I found it pretty interesting nonetheless. Here's an online preview.
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| |  | Re: July National Geographic
<Reply # 1 on 6/30/2006 9:58 PM >
| | | | Posted by wr0x2
If anyone here reads National Geographic, this month's issue has a cool article about Rome, and all the ancient stuff beneath it, including sewers, tunnels etc. It's not specifically about UE, but I found it pretty interesting nonetheless. Here's an online preview.
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What a cool city to live in! I be underground all the time that I wasn't above ground exploring.
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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Hi/Po
  
Location: Earth
Gender: Male
| | Re: July National Geographic
<Reply # 3 on 7/1/2006 2:03 AM >
| | | | Those Romans really prepared an explorer's oasis. They essentially buried old buildings rather than demolished them to counter the Tiber river flooding.
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WhiteSox
| | Re: July National Geographic
<Reply # 4 on 7/4/2006 4:24 PM >
| | | | I read the article, it's real sweet. One of those guys urbanspelunked the Cloaca Maxima, and that's some big old shi-. Another guy discovered an old church under another church, and yet some more houses beneath the first church... we visited that place with a school trip this year. Must've been real special to actually /discover/ that.
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Urbandruid
Gender: Male
| | Re: July National Geographic
<Reply # 5 on 7/5/2006 8:47 AM >
| | | | This is the only real deficit that we here in the America's suffer. Our buildings just aren't quite old enough...
Reality is just a crutch for those who can not deal with their own fantasies. |
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DevilC
Location: Washington, District of Corruption
Gender: Male
I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their views.
| | | Re: July National Geographic
<Reply # 6 on 7/5/2006 11:42 AM >
| | | | When they do finally get old enough we turn them into sweet sweet parking lots and strip malls.
Science flies you to the Moon. Religion flies you into tall buildings. |
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Shai Hulud
Location: Evansville IN
Gender: Male
Shai, Team Phantom
| | Re: July National Geographic
<Reply # 7 on 7/13/2006 9:18 AM >
| | | | Haha, when I opened my issue to this page, my eyes instantly went wide with thoughts of exploring the entire Roman underground. Urban explorer's wet dream, eh?
Me: Why is there snow on her car? ... Wait a minute, that isn't snow at all!
MutantMandias: Nothin' gets past you, man. Nothin'.
-TN Waltz n 'Splore Volume 2 |
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dsankt
Location: live and in the fresh
| | | | Re: July National Geographic
<Reply # 8 on 7/13/2006 9:41 AM >
| | | | OMFG rome has been added to the worldtrip must stop priority listing. Wonder how much is accessible. 2000 year old sewers... mmm tasty.
The photos they showed in the teaser weren't as good as I was expecting from NG though. Will have to see what the issue holds!
dsk33ter
sleepycity.net: watch out for the third rail baby, that shit is high voltage. urbex and urban exploration photography |
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Coker19
Location: Westminster, Maryland
Gender: Male
| | | Re: July National Geographic
<Reply # 9 on 7/13/2006 1:55 PM >
| | | | Like Hi/Po said, Romans just buried their old buildings and built on top. Classic example is Nero's extravagant palace. But getting back on track, just imagine all that is under the street. I'll have to buy this issue.
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Charlie_Dunver
Location: Montreal
Gender: Male
| | | Re: July National Geographic
<Reply # 10 on 7/13/2006 4:31 PM >
| | | | Imagine being that guy going down and with your headlamp seeing a perfectly preserved frescoe that hasn t been seen in possibly a couple thousand years?
Just. Fucking. Amazing!
CD
http://neath.wordpress.com |
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HillbillyHorus
Location: Charlottesville Virginia
Gender: Male
Im in ur government, killin ur d00dz
| | | Re: July National Geographic
<Reply # 11 on 7/13/2006 6:40 PM >
| | | | That article made me puke my pants in joy!
You can't fall off a mountain. |
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Coker19
Location: Westminster, Maryland
Gender: Male
| | | Re: July National Geographic
<Reply # 12 on 7/14/2006 7:40 PM >
| | | | Posted by Charlie_Dunver
Imagine being that guy going down and with your headlamp seeing a perfectly preserved frescoe that hasn t been seen in possibly a couple thousand years?
Just. Fucking. Amazing!
CD
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I am the Bear
Location: Seattle Wa
Gender: Male
| | Re: July National Geographic
<Reply # 13 on 7/14/2006 8:31 PM >
| | | | everything is just so grandiose and gorgeous. the Italian architects always knew what they were doing. and it shows, over a thousand years later.
incredible
"To an outsider, the randomness of such discoveries is shocking. But for Romans, it is quotidian. In the course of going about his business, someone somewhere bumps up against an artifact that hasn't seen the light of day for hundreds—or thousands—of years"
^^^who wants to move to Rome?
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Coker19
Location: Westminster, Maryland
Gender: Male
| | | Re: July National Geographic
<Reply # 14 on 7/15/2006 4:09 AM >
| | | | Posted by I am the Bear
everything is just so grandiose and gorgeous. the Italian architects always knew what they were doing. and it shows, over a thousand years later.
incredible
"To an outsider, the randomness of such discoveries is shocking. But for Romans, it is quotidian. In the course of going about his business, someone somewhere bumps up against an artifact that hasn't seen the light of day for hundreds—or thousands—of years"
^^^who wants to move to Rome?
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Psssh, I'm game.
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