The view of and from Sussita. Photo by Dr. Michael Eisenberg
Posted on 09/28/2013 7:15:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
An unexpected discovery awaited a team of Israeli archaeologists in a drainage canal dating from roughly 2,000 years ago: an aluminum bottlecap. From a beer bottle.
No, the good people of ancient Sussita weren't producing aluminum metal. The meaning of the startling discovery is that millennia after its construction, the drainage canal was still working, centuries after the city's final destruction by earthquake.
Made of aluminum and feather-light, the bottle-cap floated on rainwater that washed into the canal, says Dr. Michael Eisenberg, head of an Israeli archaeological team digging the site.
This canal, or less romantically -- a sewer, passed beneath the floor of the public bathhouse being excavated in the city, which the Greeks called Antiochia Hippos. Its end was discovered several hundred meters away by Eisenberg and his team.
The archaeologists believe this remarkably robust sewage system drained effluent from a postulated public toilet near the bathhouse. If the sewer's upper opening is found, the public toilet will be found as well, Aizenberg postulates.
Happily for historians, the Sussita sewer system contained not only a beer bottlecap but much more. For instance several hundred bronze coins, swollen and rusted from eons of exposure to urine, were also found inside.
Ten dice made of bone found near the coins provided further evidence of the sewer's function: Eisenberg believes that the city's inhabitants gambled with dice as they sat in the bathroom. Just as latter-day man accidently drops his phone into the john, thus the people of yore apparently let coins and dice fall into the sewer.
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The view of and from Sussita. Photo by Dr. Michael Eisenberg
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/275338
Beer Cap Found Embedded in Archeological Excavation
8/28/2013 / Elul 22, 5773
Arutz Sheva
The cap for a bottle of Tuborg beer was discovered in a archeological excavation conducted by Haifa University. On Wednesday archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa announcement they found the contemporary item discarded inside ancient stone architecture. It was discovered in Hippos, a Roman city that once existed near the Sea of Galilee. It was known in Aramaic and Hebrew as Sussita. Archeologists are not sure how the beer cap ended up in what ostensibly was a sealed location for the past 2,000 years. They believe the beer cap possibly floated into the ruins of a drainage canal during a period when water still flowed. Tuborg is a common brand of beer distributed in Israel.
So everyone discounts someone having a beer nearby?? I’m sure they’re all over the earth.
Had to be Tuborg. LOL Just had to be.
FMCDH(BITS)
Who would have thought - urine makes bronze SWELL!!!
Damn time travelers leaving their trash all over the place. At least it wasn’t Heineken.
Next thing you know they’ll find a Kosher pizza box.
How long before we see on TV, it must have been ancient aliens?”
Well, the beer bottle cap may explain why UFO's crash.
It’s hard to find a postulated public toilet, when you really need to go. Sometimes they’re just not there.
One point twenty one gigawatts!
Oh, yeah, like it *wasn’t*. ;’)
They’re digging in an ancient sewer. I’ll bet they find some interesting s**t there.
And a few buckskin condoms maybe.
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