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Entries from July 2008

Date for Caesar’s Invasion Revised (a wee bit)

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · History

Fresh on the heels of the (somewhat dubious) attempt to fix the date of Odysseus’ return to Ithaca using astronomical information, comes this. Using details from Caesar’s Commentary and taking advantage of a fortuitous confluence of celestial events, scholars claim the traditional date of Caesar’s invasion of England should be slightly revised. The BBC reports:
Julius […]

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