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by Minimalist
Sat Aug 17, 2024 9:17 am
Forum: Old World
Topic: Bronze Age Boat Experiment
Replies: 0
Views: 534

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...
by Minimalist
Sun Aug 11, 2024 11:19 am
Forum: Mythology, Ritualisms, Traditions and Folklore
Topic: Combating Pseudoscience
Replies: 8
Views: 15043

Re: Combating Pseudoscience

Yes and pointless commentary on 7 year old threads is not appreciated.

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by Minimalist
Mon Aug 05, 2024 10:18 am
Forum: New World
Topic: Ontario Lake - Mysterious Structure
Replies: 21
Views: 15389

Re: Ontario Lake - Mysterious Structure

Actually, 16 years after the last post it is not all that "fascinating."

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by Minimalist
Fri Jul 19, 2024 10:42 pm
Forum: Old World
Topic: Special Issue: Excavations at Schöningen
Replies: 5
Views: 5104

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...
by Minimalist
Wed Jul 17, 2024 9:34 am
Forum: Old World
Topic: Ancient Mystery?
Replies: 2
Views: 1165

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...
by Minimalist
Wed Jul 17, 2024 9:23 am
Forum: Mythology, Ritualisms, Traditions and Folklore
Topic: Religious thought
Replies: 43
Views: 76379

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...
by Minimalist
Wed Jul 17, 2024 9:17 am
Forum: Anthropology and Primitive Societies
Topic: Interesting Hypothesis
Replies: 15
Views: 9716

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...
by Minimalist
Wed Jun 19, 2024 2:04 pm
Forum: Old World
Topic: Ancient Mystery?
Replies: 2
Views: 1165

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...
by Minimalist
Tue Jun 11, 2024 9:18 pm
Forum: Old World
Topic: There Were Survivors in 79 CE!
Replies: 4
Views: 1104

Re: There Were Survivors in 79 CE!

by Minimalist
Sun Jun 09, 2024 9:23 am
Forum: Old World
Topic: There Were Survivors in 79 CE!
Replies: 4
Views: 1104

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...
by Minimalist
Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:32 pm
Forum: Old World
Topic: Herculaneium Scrolls Being Unwrapped - Read.
Replies: 0
Views: 1598

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...
by Minimalist
Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:10 pm
Forum: New World
Topic: I thought this might interest some of you.
Replies: 12
Views: 10074

Re: I thought this might interest some of you.

The thread is 10 years old.
by Minimalist
Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:33 am
Forum: Old World
Topic: Pompeii Continues to Divulge Its Wonders
Replies: 0
Views: 1829

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...
by Minimalist
Sun Apr 07, 2024 1:01 pm
Forum: Old World
Topic: Major Find In Britain....
Replies: 0
Views: 1784

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...
by Minimalist
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:53 pm
Forum: Old World
Topic: Roman Sundial Unearthed
Replies: 0
Views: 1768

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...