All Roads Lead to Rome: Building the Eternal City, Part I

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All Roads Lead to Rome: Building the Eternal City, Part I

We sit down with Rocco Buttliere, master of giant microscale replicas of real buildings, cities, and even a whole country, to get a behind-the-scenes look at his latest project: Rebuilding ancient Rome... all of it.

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Diggin' Dinos

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cmaddison's quest for the Iron Builder throne continues with this wonderful little diorama depicting a paleontological dig in some arid location. The discovery is a hapless stegosaurus it would appear. Bad luck for the dino some 65 million years ago, good luck for the scientists who have found what looks to be a rare complete fossilized skeleton.

A Bad Day, 65 Million Years Ago

Some Crackin' Good Archeology

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Some things I brought back from the UK: I started drinking my tea with milk again, I discovered McVitties Rich Tea biscuits, I won't shut up about the toasted cheese sandwich at Borough Market and I watch Time Team. I recently found out that almost every episode is on YouTube and have been watching whenever I can. So when I saw this MOC by peggyjdb all I could hear was Phil's charming thick accent.

Excavation begins