The Archaeology Thread

[Brian37]

After Pompeii, I'd say anything Egyptian. I love the colors and shapes of the ancient Egyptian era of the Pharaohs. Although I would not want to be these guys.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/01/24/africa/ki...sk-charges

[The Grand Nudger]

Cahokia, crown jewel and trading hub of the mississippian empire. At it's height @ 1100-1200ad, it may have exceeded the population of contemporaneous London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia

[The Valkyrie]

Cahokia, crown jewel and trading hub of the mississippian empire. At it's height @ 1100-1200ad, it may have exceeded the population of contemporaneous London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia

This is completely new to me.

Thank you!

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Doesn't work if you donate you body to science.

I'm having a Viking funeral.

After I've raided Lindisfarne.

And you know I won't be in my own mass grave, right?

I thought about a Viking funeral, but after I’ve snuffed it, the wife will need the houseboat to live on.

But she’s agreed to dump my body on some rich guy’s yacht and set it on fire.

Boru

[The Grand Nudger]

Yeah, they were chert warlords, fuckin brilliant.

[Angrboda]

UCL team solves Antikythera Mechanism mystery

The 2005 data revealed thousands of text characters hidden inside the fragments, unread for nearly 2000 years. Inscriptions on the back cover include a description of the cosmos display, with the planets moving on rings and indicated by marker beads. The team worked to reconstruct this display.

Two critical numbers in the X-rays of the front cover, of 462 years and 442 years, accurately represent cycles of Venus and Saturn respectively. When observed from Earth, the plants’ cycles sometimes reverse their motions against the stars. Experts must track these cycles over long time-periods to predict their positions.

PhD candidate and team member Aris Dacanalis explained that the classic astronomy of the first millennium BC originated in Babylon, but that nothing in the astronomy suggested how the ancient Greeks found the highly accurate cycles for Saturn and Venus.

Using an ancient Greek mathematical method described by the philosopher Parmenides, the team has reportedly discovered how the cycles were derived, as well as recovering the cycles of all other planets where evidence was missing.

“After considerable struggle, we managed to match the evidence in Fragments A and D to a mechanism for Venus, which exactly models its 462-year planetary period relation, with the 63-tooth gear playing a crucial role,” said PhD candidate and team member David Higgon.

Professor Freeth explained that the team then created mechanisms for all of the planets that would calculate the new advanced astronomical cycles and minimise the number of gears in the whole system, so that they would fit into the tight spaces available.

[Angrboda]

A new set of Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient fragments of biblical texts dating back almost 2,000 years and thought to have been hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome, have been found in the West Bank.

The Israel Antiquities Authority announced Tuesday that a four-year archaeological project uncovered portions of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets, including the books of Zechariah and Nahum. It was the first such discovery for 60 years.

Also uncovered was a 6,000-year-old skeleton of a partially mummified child and a 10,500-year-old basket, which Israeli authorities said could be the oldest in the world. A CT scan revealed the child's age was between 6 and 12 — with the skin, tendons and even hair partially preserved.

(NBCNews)

[Gwaithmir]

Bay of Naples, Italy - Archaeologists have recently discovered the remains of two men in a luxurious villa at Civita Giuliana, half a mile northwest of Pompeii. Researchers were able to make casts of the men's bodies, who were victims of the 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius eruption. Both men wore woolen tunics and one appeared to be a slave between the ages of 18 and 25. (ARCHAEOLOGY, March/April/2021)

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Miles-Long 'Canvas' Of Prehistoric Art







Boru

[Pat Mustard]

Doesn't work if you donate you body to science.

I'm having a Viking funeral.

After I've raided Lindisfarne.

And you know I won't be in my own mass grave, right?

Raiding Lindisfarne is soooo passé. Only poseurs do that.

All the cool kids sail up the Seine.