The Second PBL

PBL- By Ming Ho Dong, Thanh Van Nguyen, Soorahami Nastioupourri

The Museum of Religious Antiquities in Bangkok would like to exhibit the Carthaginian Scrolls and the museum is looking for teams of skilled communicators knowledgeable in History, Religion, Architecture and Engineering, to create the exhibit.

The scrolls were discovered eleven years ago in the Catacombs of Rome, by three Argentinean archeologists. It was believed that the two well-preserved, but hitherto unknown, scrolls date from the early days of the Catholic Church. The scrolls were carbon-dated and it appeared they were written about 380 AD, just after Rome was sacked by the Vandals. The Roman Empire collapsed shortly thereafter.

The scrolls discuss in detail the many excesses of the Romans, concluding that their communal bathing habits and centrally-heated homes led to a moral laxness that the church needed to eradicate. The scrolls lay out a plan to eliminate all vestiges of Roman engineering and ingenuity from areas under its control.

From the historical record, we know that after the Fall of the Roman Empire, which many modern historians do attribute to a moral laxness and softening of will, Europe was plunged into a millennium-long dark age. The civilized world’s focus shifted to the Arab world where the arts and sciences flourished.

Many archeologists and historians believe that these scrolls are forgeries. They claim that they were created less than 15 years ago, to “show” that the Fall of the American Empire, and the movement of science and the arts to Asia, was due in large part to the US government becoming a Theocracy in 2015, banning research in biology, medicine and cosmology.