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- Sat Aug 17, 2024 9:17 am
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Bronze Age Boat Experiment
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1233
Bronze Age Boat Experiment
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/12/science/uae-ancient-magan-boat-reconstruction A Bronze Age-style ship just sailed through the Persian Gulf 4,000 years after it was designed Writings on an ancient clay tablet have allowed experts to reconstruct a Bronze Age ship made of reeds and sail it on a maid...
- Sun Aug 11, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: Mythology, Ritualisms, Traditions and Folklore
- Topic: Combating Pseudoscience
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15856
Re: Combating Pseudoscience
Yes and pointless commentary on 7 year old threads is not appreciated.
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- Mon Aug 05, 2024 10:18 am
- Forum: New World
- Topic: Ontario Lake - Mysterious Structure
- Replies: 21
- Views: 16412
Re: Ontario Lake - Mysterious Structure
Actually, 16 years after the last post it is not all that "fascinating."
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- Fri Jul 19, 2024 10:42 pm
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Special Issue: Excavations at Schöningen
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5415
Re: Special Issue: Excavations at Schöningen
While the Schoningen Spears are not exactly news....they were first found in the 90's.... this article from last April expresses some interesting observations about the technical woodworking ability of the manufacturers some 300,000 ybp and no one is suggesting that they were HSS. https://www.scienc...
- Wed Jul 17, 2024 9:34 am
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Ancient Mystery?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1619
Re: Ancient Mystery?
When I visited the Roman/Greek ruins at Pompeii, Ephesos and Corinth the guides made it a point to note that where businesses were established on the ground floors on the various streets (this version of Corinth was the Roman city after the Romans had leveled the Greek city in 147 BCE) they would po...
- Wed Jul 17, 2024 9:23 am
- Forum: Mythology, Ritualisms, Traditions and Folklore
- Topic: Religious thought
- Replies: 43
- Views: 77748
Re: Religious thought
I suspect it is a legacy from the early days of archaeology. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries most "archaeologists" were sent out by religious-based institutions looking for evidence that their fairy tales were true. It's a knee jerk reaction and I agree that there is a large degr...
- Wed Jul 17, 2024 9:17 am
- Forum: Anthropology and Primitive Societies
- Topic: Interesting Hypothesis
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10792
Re: Interesting Hypothesis
Well...we and their art have survived to the present. The artists have not so all we have to go by is careful investigation of what is discovered as evidence. The Great Pyramid presents the same dilemma. No one knows how it was built but there are countless hypotheses out there claiming one or anoth...
- Wed Jun 19, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Ancient Mystery?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1619
Ancient Mystery?
Of course whenever a building is found which has no immediately obvious purpose the archaeologists fall back on "ritual" in order to have a handy label. Might have been a community barbecue pit, too! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/discovery-of-4000-year-old-structure-in-greece-s...
- Tue Jun 11, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: There Were Survivors in 79 CE!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1825
- Sun Jun 09, 2024 9:23 am
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: There Were Survivors in 79 CE!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1825
There Were Survivors in 79 CE!
https://www.rawstory.com/records-of-pomp...to-unders/ Records of Pompeii’s survivors discovered Quote: On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities of...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:32 pm
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Herculaneium Scrolls Being Unwrapped - Read.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2093
Herculaneium Scrolls Being Unwrapped - Read.
This time, the deciphered extract relates to the life of Plato. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/30/style/plato-herculaneum-papyrus-scrolls-intl-scli-scn/index.html Ancient text reveals details of Plato’s burial place and final evening, experts say Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have fina...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: New World
- Topic: I thought this might interest some of you.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10524
Re: I thought this might interest some of you.
The thread is 10 years old.
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:33 am
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Pompeii Continues to Divulge Its Wonders
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2334
Pompeii Continues to Divulge Its Wonders
From the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68777741 Quote: Pompeii: Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city Quote: Stunning artworks have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried in an eruption from Mount Vesuvius in AD79. Archaeologists s...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:01 pm
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Major Find In Britain....
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2291
Major Find In Britain....
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-remarkable-roman-villa-in-britain-boasts-magnitude-decor-and-mysterious-miniature-objects-180984063/?utm_source=smithsonian-weekender&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&spMailingID=49631164&spUserID=NzQwNDU2ODI3MjAS1&spJobID=268061...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:53 pm
- Forum: Old World
- Topic: Roman Sundial Unearthed
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2262
Roman Sundial Unearthed
Interesting archaeological find...although hardly unique. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240...vings-time Quote: The ancient Roman alternative to daylight savings time Quote: Just like we do today, the ancient Romans divided up each day into 24 units – but for the vast majority of the year, th...