And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Cartago delenda est - The Punic port of Carthage, 2300 years later.
They moved a lot of dirt/rocks (fill) around over the years. Looks about what they have done in the San Fran Bay. Maybe half the water surface since they started screwing with the SF Bay. Wonder how long it took to get the Carthage port reduced to the size it currently is?
Before the gold rush, and the ensuing hydraulic mining in the Sierras, South SF Bay was a hell of a lot deeper, and the extreme ass end of the bay was a deep water port.
Vesica Pisces https://www.ancient-symbols.com/symbols-directory/vesica-pisces.html
ReplyDeleteModern civil design can't hold a candle to that neat and tidy 3rd Century BC layout. Sometimes older is better.
ReplyDeleteHow far we've fallen...
ReplyDeleteI'm still pissed about the 3rd Punic War. Don't get me started about Cato the Elder.
ReplyDeleteWell that's just fucking awesome! I had no idea they had drones in 300BC!
ReplyDeleteOk then. Well, get a load of the Antikythera mechanism, dated from around the fall of Carthage (150 BC).
DeleteThe left image is obviously colorized.
DeleteWow, so much rising sea level, I wonder where the coffer dam is that holds all that excess water is?
ReplyDeleteThey moved a lot of dirt/rocks (fill) around over the years. Looks about what they have done in the San Fran Bay. Maybe half the water surface since they started screwing with the SF Bay.
ReplyDeleteWonder how long it took to get the Carthage port reduced to the size it currently is?
Before the gold rush, and the ensuing hydraulic mining in the Sierras, South SF Bay was a hell of a lot deeper, and the extreme ass end of the bay was a deep water port.
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