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Just imagine your own thoughts or writings being read almost five millennia from now - it does make one think about mortality.
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Yes, it's almost incomprehensible to think about that timescale! I find it incredible that someone's writings are still well read and studied etc after a few hundred years never mind a few thousand!
Imagine what would be made of the DS forums if they were to be read in 5,000 years... ![]() Imagine the technology in five millennia - who knows what will be possible then? |
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A couple of recent Archaeology stories that may be of interest - including the fact that Otzi the Iceman may have had the shits!
![]() http://www.livescience.com/53289-isr...-building.html http://www.livescience.com/53291-pho...m=most-popular http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...robes-science/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...ion-180957738/ |
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Oh God, the Stonehenge one is a nightmare. The Preseli Hills gang are in the ascendency. Every time my partner and her colleagues get together we have the same argument over dinner, with the various non-archaeologist wags and habs desperately trying to seperate them before blood spills over the bread rolls.
![]() My personal highlight would be finally finding the long rumoured secret chamber/s inside the Great Pyramid. I am just amazed the Egyptian archaeological authorities have been dragging their arses for so long - and they still have not opened the bloody hidden doors deep inside the shafts in the Queen's Chamber. Conspiracy nuts could have an absolute field day with this. Runner up would be the discovery of Nefertiti's intact tomb - hidden in plain sight for almost a century. Fingers crossed. |
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Never mind at least they are arguing over something interesting!
![]() My personal highlight would be finally finding the long rumoured secret chamber/s inside the Great Pyramid. I am just amazed the Egyptian archaeological authorities have been dragging their arses for so long - and they still have not opened the bloody hidden doors deep inside the shafts in the Queen's Chamber. Conspiracy nuts could have an absolute field day with this. Runner up would be the discovery of Nefertiti's intact tomb - hidden in plain sight for almost a century. Fingers crossed. As for the dinner party conversation being interesting, you try watching half a dozen barking mad archaeologists experimenting with the cutlery to see if they can drag the cruet across the table. |
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I am just amazed the Egyptian archaeological authorities have been dragging their arses for so long - and they still have not opened the bloody hidden doors deep inside the shafts in the Queen's Chamber.
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O god, you have NO idea...
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Some recent stories that may be of interest to some (including the incredibly ancient Göbekli Tepe temple complex).
http://www.livescience.com/53406-ear...eroglyphs.html http://news.discovery.com/history/ar...ies-160119.htm http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...egypt-science/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...y-archaeology/ |
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More on how incredible ancient some Fairytales are.
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/a...tories/424629/ |
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The recent building boom in London has been a veritable goldmine for archaeologists in tracing the deep past of the city. This superb feature article from the latest National Geographic magazine makes for some really fascinating reading.
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The recent building boom in London has been a veritable goldmine for archaeologists in tracing the deep past of the city. This superb feature article from the latest National Geographic magazine makes for some really fascinating reading.
![]() http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/20...chaeology-text ).When I go to a site, I always ask nicely if I can look at the spoil heap... (helps being married to an archaeologist, but as it is to be thrown away, they usually say yes) and have a rather nice collection of bits and bobs, like Roman tiles, pottery and bottles. I found a lovely old Roman brick and part of an amphora on a small dig in a pub car park last year. It's all broken of course, but even so it is wonderful to hold a piece of clay and see the fingermarks of the person who made it so long ago. |
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Whatever people think of governments here, we have some great laws that require sites to have archaeological inspections... so we find lots of history with someone else digging the holes (well, not quite, and builders hate it, but tough
).When I go to a site, I always ask nicely if I can look at the spoil heap... (helps being married to an archaeologist, but as it is to be thrown away, they usually say yes) and have a rather nice collection of bits and bobs, like Roman tiles, pottery and bottles. I found a lovely old Roman brick and part of an amphora on a small dig in a pub car park last year. It's all broken of course, but even so it is wonderful to hold a piece of clay and see the fingermarks of the person who made it so long ago. when I was a student I shared flats with students from the Institute of Archaeology and went on a few digs, mostly just looking into the holes as they were 'professional digs'.......and we used to go on the mudflats alongside the Thames at low tide and see what we could find........never found anything Roman but lots of clay pipes ! |
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yeah it's a big thrill finding old stuff
when I was a student I shared flats with students from the Institute of Archaeology and went on a few digs, mostly just looking into the holes as they were 'professional digs'.......and we used to go on the mudflats alongside the Thames at low tide and see what we could find........never found anything Roman but lots of clay pipes ! |
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I am glad that you both enjoyed the article - it seems we are now in a golden age of Archaeological discovery in the British Isles.
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The Babylonians observed the heavens with highly advanced mathematics.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...tronomy-space/ http://www.livescience.com/53518-bab...ancy-math.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...ght-180957965/ |
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A 4,550 year old funerary boat recently discovered near the Pyramids.
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No all you conspiracy folks - the Ancient Greeks did not use laptops.
![]() http://www.livescience.com/53629-gre...ng-laptop.html http://news.discovery.com/history/ar...ops-160205.htm The uncertain science of mummy identification. http://news.discovery.com/history/an...nce-160208.htm http://news.discovery.com/history/an...tos-160208.htm |
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A mysterious ancient Mesolithic cemetery has been discovered in Germany.
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The cultural genocide wrought by the living filth of Islamic State - anyone who goes to join this utter scum from here should never be allowed to f*****g come back!
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The noble efforts to digitally reconstruct the ancient artifacts and monuments destroyed forever by the death cult scum of Islamic State.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...nts-180958098/ |
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The world of Archaeology is attempting to combat the consequences of the 'wonderful' Arab Spring that the media and politicians were all so very positive about when it first began.
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This really is astonishing!
![]() http://news.discovery.com/history/an...ago-160218.htm http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...n-archaeology/ The most complete Bronze Age wheel to date has been found at 'Peterborough's Pompeii'. ![]() http://phys.org/news/2016-02-bronze-...date-farm.html |
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Wow, most of these articles are so interesting! I'm especially surprised a garment like that has survived for so long - what a find.
I hadn't heard about Peterborough's Pompeii before. So much stuff going on and I didn't have a clue. |
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