Who Were The Romans ?

[Cavaros]

Analysis of the ethnic make-up of the Roman legions:


http://balkancelts.wordpress.com/201...n-the-balkans/

[Linet]

I read it... but i cant say i understood what you want to say :/

[Cavaros]

Well, there are graphs and its written in clear language. What exactly don't u understand?

[Mistic]

Cool page. Thanks.

[Contra Mundum]

I think they were English, Welsh, Irish or Australian judging by the movies I have seen.

[Amarantine]

There is a book, also, very interesting, Kingdom of forgotten-at the same blog.

http://balkancelts.files.wordpress.c.../book-2008.pdf

[Peyrol]

Roman paints from Pompei


















(this is partially restored/renovated by the Napoli National Museum)

[Peyrol]

Rome as city was founded, actually, with the unification of the etrurian villages in the northern banks of river Tiber (Tevere in modern italian) with the southern ones, wich were inhabited by latin people; plus, the city absorbed a lot of other central italian immigrant people, like osco-sabellian, sabinian, campanians and also many of greek people from the colonies of "Megas Hellas".

Roman culture of the first kings was heavy etrurian and greek influenced, 5 of the total 7-8 kings were etrurians, the same latin language spoken in the city (wich actually was different from latin spoken by other latin cities) was heavy etruscan and greek influenced (30% of latin vocabulary was/is of etrurian origin)...the religion, the architecture, the clothing style, the organization...all a syncretism between 3 cultures: etrurian, latin and colonial greek.
The same word "Roma" come from etrurian language and mean "The place in the middle of the river".





Etrurian (real holder of the city in the first centuries) paints from Fanum Voltumnæ archeological site, Tuscany












This last one is very representative, because is the celebration for the visit of a Ligurian King, probabily the legendary king Nemryss (so, celtic/ gallo italic) to the etrurian Lukumon (prince)...the celtic king and the other ligurian man are very fair compared to etrurians

[Amarantine]

To classified them?

They are quite different...naked man is CM, others mostly Dinaric.

What do you think?

I was slow, my post was for the first set of pictures.

[Linet]

I think they look like Italians...no more no less...

The paintings are greek? They look like it.

I meant that i didnt know why you made this thread... if you wanted us to comment on something... or if you made it just for people to read..