Ancient/Classical History/Expert Profile

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Recent Answers from Francesco Marchesani

2009-06-23 Race of Ancient Egyptians:

Hello, actually applying modern notions of race (white, black, asian) to ancient Egypt is anachronistic, and about skin colour, the ancient Egyptians were neither black nor white: they had a fair/olive

2009-02-14 mummifacation:

Hello, the arms were crossed over the chest in emulation of the pose of Osiris, the god of eternity, as found in all the paintings and statues of him, thus it represents eternal life for the deceased

2009-01-23 Roscius Fabatus:

Hello, Lucius Roscius Fabatus (it's a person's name) was a member of the ˇ"tresviri aere argento auro flando feriundo" (literally, three men for striking and casting bronze, silver and gold), a group

2008-11-04 Slaves:

Hello, the topic is really broad, but I think the answer is rather simple and applies to most cases that happened in the past: all the populations that were enslaved and, often, transferred to far away

2008-08-13 Plutarch:

Hello, I guess those books are a collection of different books and essays by Plutarch: "Parallel Lives" is a series of biographies of ancient men organized in tandem (one Roman and one Greek), to compare