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gunny wrote:Kennewick Man was found to have a projectile point in his spine.

When was this?

Could you provide a link, gunny.

BTW...welcome to our little clubhouse.

and one made of yew wood, dating to 1,700 years ago

I find that curious. Surely the bow had been developed by then and is a far superior weapon.

I don't think the editing makes a difference to my answer. Archaeologists routinely find and return with artifacts from other cultures. The museums of the world are full of them. I don't think it is possible to answer your question in a legal sense without knowing what Italian law has to say on the ...

"Stealing" implies that someone had possession of it. What you describe is that this thing was laying around in the trash and they were observant enough to spot it. I suppose it would depend on what the laws are in Italy governing discovery/ownership of ancient artifacts. I have no idea wh...

Thanks, Linguist, for bringing a little light to the subject and welcome aboard. You inspired me to go back to that web site and explore further. First of all, here is the web site: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/79-104/Readings/Gallery/ (It's World History with slides, apparently.) Mucking around...

Hey, Terry.

Missed you.

Priests then....pretty much like priests now....serve their own interests first.

They would have had a powerful incentive to "restore" the gods - and themselves - to their rightful place. It was quite lucrative for them.

I doubt that this was meant to be a "popular" religion in any case. The people's beliefs and practices would have gone on unchanged because they did not count for much. Akenaten, himself, was the principal beneficiary of the Sun God but that was pretty true under the traditional Egyptian p...

Archaeologist, William Dever, has made a pretty convincing case that monotheism among the Israelites did not become exclusive until after the Babylonian exile. He has found hundreds of idols of the Goddess Asherah at Israelite/Hudean settings.

It's in his book: Did God Have A Wife?

Yeah, it looks somewhat like Greek, but not like standard-Greek, if there was such a thing then. Where is Jean-Marie when you need him? Do you know a date and a place for that mosaic, Bob? No I don't. It was one of a series accompanying someone's art history lecture. And the writing does look Etrus...

Could the story of Moses be stolen from the much older Osiris myth?

BTW, Stan, I don't know what the story is with that particular statue but clearly the image of the babies being suckled by the wolf was know in ancient times. That writing looks like Greek to me.

J/m never used one word where 10,000 were possible.