The Archaeology Thread

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I was six at the time.

[Fake Messiah]

I was six at the time.

Good for you then bc all movies were for kids.

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Archaeologists unearthed a Sphinx-like statue and the remains of a shrine in an ancient temple in southern Egypt, antiquities authorities said Monday.



https://apnews.com/article/egypt-antiqui...33fb41ba3a

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I was six at the time.

Good for you then bc all movies were for kids.

LOL Citizen Kane for instance.

[Fake Messiah]

So you lived in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, & 20s, and which decade was the best?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

For what? '70s is when I got into the world. Arrived at Hong Kong in January 1970. '70s and '80s I slept in 72 countries. '90s and '00s I was enrolled at Purdue for 14 years.

[Anomalocaris]

The oldest known flute is ~60 000 years old. The oldest indication of humans wearing pants is ~20 000 years old. This means there was a roughly 40 000-year period when we had music, but no pants.

Woodstock may have just been an attempt to return to 'the good old days'.

Boru

But we had toga, probably not purple or white, but toga

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The oldest known flute is ~60 000 years old. The oldest indication of humans wearing pants is ~20 000 years old. This means there was a roughly 40 000-year period when we had music, but no pants.

Woodstock may have just been an attempt to return to 'the good old days'.

Boru

But we had toga, probably not purple or white, but toga

Enough party politics.

[Fake Messiah]

I guess what you could call the "Japanese version of Shroud of Turin" went under analysis (their holy artifact)

A new analysis of a mummified "mermaid" found in a Japanese temple has revealed exactly what it is made from, and it's not what scientists thought.

The results showed that the mermaid's torso did not belong to a monkey but instead was made predominantly from cloth, paper and cotton that was held together by metal pins running from the neck to lower back. It had also been painted with a paste made from a mix of sand and charcoal.

However, the torso was covered in components stripped from other animals. Mammal hair and fish skin, likely from a pufferfish, covered parts of the arms, shoulders, neck and cheeks. The mermaid's jaw and teeth were also likely taken from a predatory fish, and its claws were made from keratin, meaning they likely came from a real but unidentifiable animal.

The lower half of the mermaid did come from a fish, likely a species of croaker — a ray-finned fish that makes a croaking sound with its swim bladder, which helps it control its buoyancy.

The researchers were not able to identify any complete DNA from the mermaid, but radiocarbon dating of the scales indicated they could date back as far as the early 1800s.

The new analysis suggests that the mermaid was most likely created to trick people into believing that Ningyos and their supposed healing abilities were real, researchers wrote. However, it also shows that the tricksters behind the creation also put much more effort into stitching together the counterfeit creature than expected.

There are 14 other "mermaids" that have been found in Japan, and the team now hopes to analyze others for comparison.

https://www.livescience.com/haunting-mer...s-expected

[Anomalocaris]

or the Piltdown mermaid?

[Fake Messiah]

‘Spectacular’ new find: Roman military camps in desert found by Oxford archaeologists using Google Earth



Three new Roman fortified camps have been identified across northern Arabia by a remote sensing survey by the University of Oxford’s School of Archaeology.

The camps were identified using satellite images. According to the research team, they may have been part of a previously undiscovered Roman military campaign linked to the Roman takeover of the Nabataean Kingdom in AD 106 CE, a civilisation centred on the world-famous city of Petra, located in Jordan.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-04-27-spe...ists-using