12-08-2005, 06:49 PM
My theory is that Roman luggage handlers were worse than modern ones.
So this is probably the last remains of some Roman dignitaries lost holiday luggage, it may have resulted in some Mayan/Aztec chief arriving at his destination and finding out that his own suitcase had ended up in Parthia!
Either that or the postal sevice was getting really bad towards the end of the Roman Empire (like the current UK postal service is now) and they may have thought a package with Thessalonica written on it was meant for Teotihuacan instead - which shows the importance of writing a postcode/zipcode properly I guess!
Actually I shouldn't knock our post office because you'll think I'm being all political (I don't really want to be locked away for 90 days by Mr Blair's thought police for being cynical in public).
Looking on the bright side, it could solve our energy crisis... in order to split the atom cheaply - UK scientists should simply put it in the mail marked 'fragile' !!!!!!!
So this is probably the last remains of some Roman dignitaries lost holiday luggage, it may have resulted in some Mayan/Aztec chief arriving at his destination and finding out that his own suitcase had ended up in Parthia!
Either that or the postal sevice was getting really bad towards the end of the Roman Empire (like the current UK postal service is now) and they may have thought a package with Thessalonica written on it was meant for Teotihuacan instead - which shows the importance of writing a postcode/zipcode properly I guess!
Actually I shouldn't knock our post office because you'll think I'm being all political (I don't really want to be locked away for 90 days by Mr Blair's thought police for being cynical in public).
Looking on the bright side, it could solve our energy crisis... in order to split the atom cheaply - UK scientists should simply put it in the mail marked 'fragile' !!!!!!!
