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Mali Magic How cool!
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Don’t worry rth, that tree wood’nt hurt you.
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'Rumpy Pompeii': Sex lives of the wild and ancient erupt in new exhibition
....erotic frescoes and statues recovered from the ashes of Pompeii are being brought together for a new exhibition.

'Art and Sensuality in the Houses of Pompeii', which runs from 21 April to 15 January 2023, showcases the eroticism that characterized virtually every space in the city, from private homes to bathrooms, from taverns to public spaces of the community.
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“Gaza farmer finds 4,500-year-old statue of Canaanite goddess”:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-61228553

“A stone statue of an ancient goddess of beauty, love and war has been found in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian archaeologists say that the head of the Canaanite deity, Anat, dates back 4,500 years to the late Bronze Age.
The discovery was made by a farmer digging his land in Khan Younis, in the south of the strip.”
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Satellite Images Aided the Discovery of an Ancient Civilization Buried in the Amazon

BY LAIGNEE BARRON
MARCH 28, 2018 2:01 AM EDT

Parts of the Amazon rainforest that were long believed to be almost uninhabited were actually home to a thriving, ancient civilization buried for centuries by jungle growth, according to a new discovery by archaeologists.

Today, remains dotting the fringes of the southern Amazon rim resemble little more than sporadic mounds sometimes encompassed by a shallow ditch. But analysis of satellite images and drone footage has revealed an extensive, pre-Colombian settlement dating back to 1250‒1500 A.D.

At their height, as many as one million people may have lived in these settlements, according to the study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.

“Many parts of the Americas now thought of as pristine forest are really abandoned gardens,” Christopher Fisher, a Colorado State University archaeologist who was not associated with the study, told the Wall Street Journal. “When you are on the ground, you cannot really see the landscape. You need a bird’s-eye view.”



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An Excavation in the Sea Depths Recovers Hercules From the Afterlife
An ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece is yielding secrets as an archaeological exploration project dives deeper. The effort relies on technological innovation.
As myth has it, Hercules had to complete 12 heroic labors to be absolved of guilt and to become immortal. A recent discovery picks up the story, long after the Greek and Roman tales concluded, to tell us a new version of his afterlife.

A likeness of the demigod of strength — who, the story goes, strangled a lion, decapitated a nine-headed underwater snake and captured a man-eating boar, among other feats — was lying at the bottom of the Aegean Sea. Or at least its head was.

A team of experts searching through a shipwreck off the coast of Greece, an excavation effort that took place from May 23 to June 15, dredged up what researchers believe is the marble head of a Hercules statue from ancient Rome dating back about 2,000 years.

The discoveries at the Antikythera shipwreck included parts of marble statues, human teeth and bronze and iron nails, said Lorenz E. Baumer, a professor of archaeology at the University of Geneva and one of the lead researchers on the project. This was the second excavation season of a five-year program, led by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece, that aims to continue research at the site, which was first discovered in the early 1900s by Greek sponge divers.
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As I recall, Hercules looked can good in a loincloth. Or was that a tunic?
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Please follow the video narration at the link
Why Scottish women and Icelanders are closely linked

28 JUNE 2022|HISTORY

It's easy to think that the Viking world was dominated by bearded, macho men, but that assumption is wrong. Both ancient 'Norse Sagas' and archaeological discoveries suggest that women actually played equally powerful roles within Viking society and politics.

Historian Dr Janina Ramirez tells the incredible story of 'Aud the Deepminded' - one of the first people to settle in Iceland in the 9th Century. Aud was a warrior, a leader, a freer of slaves... and a woman.

Written and narrated by Dr Janina Ramirez
Animated by Dominika Ozynska
Performances by Leikhópurinn X, Iceland
Executive produced by Howard Timberlake


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Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 2:57 pm As I recall, Hercules looked can good in a loincloth. Or was that a tunic?
Nope. :nope: Not buying it. :fingerwag:

You, young lady, will forget the difference between a loincloth and a tunic on the day I forget the difference between a bikini and a muu-muu.

Oh hay, I'm going to the beach today! Bikinis! :biggrin:
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Foggy wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 7:33 am Oh hay, I'm going to the beach today! Bikinis! :biggrin:
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Sam the Centipede wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 11:36 am
Foggy wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 7:33 am Oh hay, I'm going to the beach today! Bikinis! :biggrin:
Pictures of you in a bikini or it didn't happen!
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Incredibly Rare Battle Of Waterloo Skeleton Uncovered

15 Jul 2022

A major breaking story on History Hit.

Incredibly rare bones of men and horses have been discovered in July 2022 at the Waterloo Battlefield - and History Hit has been there to record the excavations as they unfold.

The veterans support charity 'Waterloo Uncovered' returned to the Waterloo battlefield in Belgium to conduct its first archaeological excavation since 2019, and over the past week have unearthed some fascinating discoveries - including an incredibly rare skeleton. It supports the shocking reports that most of the dead from elsewhere on the battlefield were hastily buried and then dug up and ground into fertiliser.

James Rogers is onsite for History Hit at the Mont-Saint-Jean farm excavation, a field hospital, where the skeletons of combatants and horses (as well as amputated limbs) have been found. These are incredibly rare discoveries on a Napoleonic battlefield and bring us closer to the harsh realities of the bitter fighting. James also visits the site of the famous ‘reverse slope’ where metal-detectorists are discovering musket balls and parts of uniforms.

It all helps to create a complete picture of the reality of this monumental battle that changed history - and History Hit will be there every step of the way as the story continues to unfold over the months and years to come.

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It's archaeology lost.
This made me feel angry, sad and admirative of the Man in the Hole.
Amazon activists mourn death of ‘man of the hole’, last of his tribe
Man resisted all attempts to contact him, laying traps and firing arrows at anyone who came too close.
Officials know very little about the man, but his determined independence and evident solace helped create a mystique around him that captured the attention of activists and media across Brazil and around the world.

“He didn’t trust anyone because he had many traumatising experiences with non-Indigenous people,” said Marcelo dos Santos, a retired explorer who monitored his wellbeing for Funai, Brazil’s national Indigenous foundation.
Dos Santos said he and other Funai officials left strategically placed gifts of tools, seeds and food but were always rebuffed.
They believe that sometime in the 1980s, illegal ranchers, after leaving initial offerings of sugar, gave the tribe rat poison that killed all bar the “man of the hole”.
“Because he resolutely resisted any attempts at contact, he died without revealing which ethnicity he belonged to, nor the motivations of the holes he dug inside his house,”

A Funai official who monitored the man’s wellbeing from a distance found his body lying in a hammock in a state of decomposition. Because he had placed brightly coloured feathers around his body, the official believes the man had prepared for death. He estimated the man was about 60 years old.

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Also, all of the above feelings. :(
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Massive Prehistoric Complex, with More than 500 Standing Stones, Found in Southern Spain

FRANCESCA ATON
August 19, 2022 1:54pm
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One of the largest megalithic complexes in Europe was discovered in Huelva, Spain. More than 500 standing stones were found during a land survey for an anticipated avocado plantation.

Located along the Spain-Portugal border, the land on which the stones sit spans roughly 1,500 acres. Before granting a permit to begin the avocado plantation, regional authorities requested a survey, which in turn revealed the stones.

There, at the La Torre-La Janera site, archaeologists found various types of megaliths, including standing stones, dolmens, mounds, coffin-like stone boxes called cists, and enclosures, ranging from three to ten feet high.

“This is the biggest and most diverse collection of standing stones grouped together in the Iberian peninsula,” José Antonio Linares, Huelva University and one of the project’s co-directors, told Agence France-Presse Thursday. Linares added that the oldest standing stones at the site were likely erected during the second half of the sixth or fifth millennium B.C.E.

“Standing stones were the most common finding, with 526 of them still standing or lying on the ground,” the researchers explained in a June article published in the Spanish prehistoric archaeology journal Trabajos de Prehistoria.

One of the most striking characteristics of the stones, however, was the diversity of their grouping in one location.




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It has lain within a burial chamber, undisturbed, for thousands of years. Now a remarkable Egyptian sarcophagus has emerged from deep beneath the sands near Cairo, to the excitement of archaeologists, who describe it as a hugely significant “dream discovery”.

The giant granite sarcophagus is covered in inscriptions dedicated to Ptah-em-wia, who headed the treasury of King Ramses II, Egypt’s mightiest pharaoh.

Ola El Aguizy, emeritus professor of the faculty of archaeology at Cairo University, discovered it in Saqqara, an ancient necropolis about 20 miles south of Cairo. Last year, El Aguizy, who heads the archaeological mission at the site, uncovered Ptah-em-wia’s surface-level tomb. Now she has found his underground burial chamber with the sarcophagus, which could reveal more about those who ruled Egypt after Tutankhamun.
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