24 days ago
deusx : Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History - Newsweek.com - "Standing on the hill at dawn, overseeing a team of 40 Kurdish diggers, the German-born archeologist waves a hand over his discovery here, a revolution in the story of human origins. Schmidt has uncovered a vast and beautiful temple complex, a struct
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30 month ago
deusx : It is the death of history - Independent Online Edition > Robert Fisk - "Humankind is losing its history for the pleasure of private collectors living safely in their luxurious houses and ordering specific objects for their collection."
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40 month ago
plasticbag : The BBC reports on attempts to reconstruct an ancient device thought to measure the movements of the stars - I don't know to what extent the reconstructions referred to in the article are trusted by Classicists or Archaeologists. I should really explore this more. It's sort of fascinating...
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plasticbag : There's a story doing the rounds of del.icio.us popular at the moment: "Lost city 'could rewrite history'" - It's about a city that was purported to have been discovered in the Gulf of Cambay in 2001/2002 that could predate other ancient archaeological sites by thousands of years. Unfortunately, it could very well be bunk, according to other articles I've found
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plasticbag : Wikipedia's article on the supposed ruins in the Gulf of Cambay - This page and the discussion page have the most references that are sceptical of the Gulf of Cambay city, although the article contains enough weasel words to be only semi-convincing.
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47 month ago
plasticbag : "Archaeologists have begun digging for what they think might be a pyramid hidden beneath a hill in Bosnia." - Fascinating. Awesome. Unbelievable. The more ancient cultures we can find the better.
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49 month ago
plasticbag : A 2,500 year old sarcophagus has been found in Cyprus, covered with paintings representing scenes from Homer... - Sometimes it's easy to forget that the history you read about in books actually bloody happened to real people. Moreover, how awesome is it that over two millennia since the time of the Greeks we're still finding more stuff and gaining more insight?!
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49 month ago
deusx : Sploid: Lion-headed goddess found in Egypt! - "According to the Book of Re, Sekhmet destroyed all of humanity once before. Ever since, Egyptians have lived in terror that She would eventually return."
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56 month ago
plasticbag : "American researchers claim to have found convincing evidence that locates the site of the lost kingdom of Atlantis off the coast of Cyprus." - I used to teach myth at University and for the most part the academic approach to this is to say that the myth or idea of Atlantis is way more important than any real place - and to remind people that Plato used a lot of metaphors and fables and literary
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