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Re:In Jordan, a 'Stunning' Discovery Under Petra's Ancient Sto by kelnos on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @03:00PM (#41851943)
Yeah that bit doesn't pass the smell test. Petra had been around for about 400 years by the time Jesus supposedly held his last supper.

It seems much more likely that these 12 skeletons date back to the earlier days of the city.

(Nitpick: there was no year 0; 1 BC goes right into AD 1. And Jesus' supposed death was around AD 33, not AD 1. Sometimes people think "AD" means "After his Death", but it's really "Anno Domini", or "the year of the/our Lord", when he was supposedly born.)

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Re:In Jordan, a 'Stunning' Discovery Under Petra's Ancient Sto by ithkuil on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @03:58PM (#41852494)
Alternatively we can parse AD as "Advancing Dates" and BC as "Backward Counting"
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Re:In Jordan, a 'Stunning' Discovery Under Petra's Ancient Sto by tengwar2 on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @10:06AM (#41859172)
Historians don't have a year 0, astronomers do. In fact the historical calendar is a bit messy for other reasons, e.g. the year beginning in April rather than January for a long time.
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