{"id":14776,"date":"2003-06-25T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-25T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/25\/did-a-meteor-impact-in-ad-312-alter-history\/"},"modified":"2003-06-25T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-25T13:42:00","slug":"did-a-meteor-impact-in-ad-312-alter-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/25\/did-a-meteor-impact-in-ad-312-alter-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Did A Meteor Impact In A.D. 312 Alter History?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>BBC<\/i> reports that a team of geologists has discovered a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/3013146.stm\" target=\"_blank\">meteor crater in Italy that dates back to around A.D. 300, which could explain a divine vision supposedly witnessed by Emperor Constantine<\/a> in A.D. 312 during a battle for the rule of Rome.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlychurch.org.uk\/constantine.html\" target=\"_blank\">Traditional accounts of the event<\/a> relate that a &ldquo;radiant cross appearing in the heavens, with the inscription, &lsquo;By this thou shalt conquer,&rsquo;&rdquo; inspiring him and his army to win the battle and convincing him to allow Christianity to flourish under his subsequent rule.  One wonders whether a chance event like a meteor impact could have irrevocably altered history&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-105654856158793433?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports that a team of geologists has discovered a meteor crater in Italy that dates back to around A.D. 300, which could explain a divine vision supposedly witnessed by Emperor Constantine in A.D. 312 during a battle for the rule of Rome. Traditional accounts of the event relate that a &ldquo;radiant cross appearing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/25\/did-a-meteor-impact-in-ad-312-alter-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Did A Meteor Impact In A.D. 312 Alter History?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}