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Re:In Jordan, a 'Stunning' Discovery Under Petra's Ancient Sto by Telemakhos on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @02:10PM (#41851333)
The article says the skeletons date to 400-100 BC, so, no. Year 0 doesn't exist (1 BC is followed directly by AD 1), and the holy grail would have to date from AD 33 or so, because Jesus didn't die in the year of his birth.
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Re:In Jordan, a 'Stunning' Discovery Under Petra's Ancient Sto by BugsJustFindMe on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @02:37PM (#41851680)
> The article says the skeletons date to 400-100 BC...and the holy grail would have to date from AD 33 or so

It says "between 400 B.C. and A.D. 106". That encompasses all relevant dates.

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Re:In Jordan, a 'Stunning' Discovery Under Petra's Ancient Sto by SoftTalker on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @02:36PM (#41851667)
How accurately can skeletons be dated? Within 100 years? 10 years? a year?
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Re:In Jordan, a 'Stunning' Discovery Under Petra's Ancient Sto by kelnos on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @02:59PM (#41851929)
They didn't actually date the skeletons, because they haven't excavated the site to physically examine them. The time range given by the article is just from the date the city was founded, until it was annexed by the Romans.

It's a pretty safe assumption that they were buried there before the Roman annexation. My guess would be they were buried much closer to 400 BC than to AD 106.

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Re:In Jordan, a 'Stunning' Discovery Under Petra's Ancient Sto by auadix on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @02:25PM (#41851539)
Romans were like, what is this 0 you're talking about?
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Re:In Jordan, a 'Stunning' Discovery Under Petra's Ancient Sto by gerdesj on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @05:06PM (#41853126)
It's roughly 753 ab urbe condita, big nose!
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