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Remains of 2,000-year-old monkeys buried like sleeping children reveal Romans and ancient Egyptians imported them from India as household pets
The First News ^
| August 24, 2020
| Joanna Jasinska
Posted on 08/28/2020 11:32:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Ancient Romans and Egyptians imported monkeys from India as household pets, Polish archaeologists have discovered.
By examining the skeletons of monkeys buried in the animal cemetery in the Red Sea port of Berenice researchers found that the primates were rhesus macaques endemic to India, rather than some local species.
Archaeologists from the Warsaw University's Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology were in the process of excavating a vast animal cemetery when they came across the monkey skeletons.
For years they assumed they belonged to guenon species, quite common in this area.
It was only by using 3D scanners and comparing the bones with others that they made the incredible discovery.
Professor Marta Osypinska, a zooarchaeologist from the Polish Academy of Sciences, said: "We believe that the influential Romans who lived in Berenice, a faraway outpost, in the first and second, wanted to make their time pleasant with the company of various animals. Among them were also monkeys."
The pets were carefully buried in an animal necropolis and arranged like sleeping children.
Additionally, one of them was covered with a woolen fabric. The other had two large shells by their heads, including one coming from the Indian Ocean or south-eastern shores of Africa. On both sides of the animal, there were amphora fragments. In one of them there was a piece of cloth, and in the second one - a skeleton of a very young piglet, and next to it three kittens.
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; ancientnavigation; berenice; egypt; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; india; navigation; romanempire
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The monkey pets were found carefully buried in an animal necropolis and arranged like sleeping children. [Marta Osypinska]
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posted on
08/28/2020 11:32:25 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
08/28/2020 11:33:19 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/28/2020 11:35:15 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Sine Q-Anon.....................)
To: SunkenCiv
and in the second one - a skeleton of a very young piglet, and next to it three kittens...
OK..I’m officially freaked out for today.
Sometimes dead is better.
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posted on
08/28/2020 11:35:47 AM PDT
by
dp0622
(I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE COVID GODFATHER I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!)
To: SunkenCiv
Hell;;
We have one running for Vice President...
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posted on
08/28/2020 11:35:55 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: SunkenCiv
So it was their circus and their monkey.
Tagline!!!
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posted on
08/28/2020 11:36:26 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(In this circus called the Democrat Party, Biden is the monkey and Harris is the organ grinder...)
To: dp0622
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posted on
08/28/2020 11:37:26 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Sine Q-Anon.....................)
To: Red Badger
Lol
Democrats on election night
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posted on
08/28/2020 11:38:34 AM PDT
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dp0622
(I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE COVID GODFATHER I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/28/2020 11:40:41 AM PDT
by
Ken H
(Best SOTU ever!)
To: Red Badger
Polish archaeologists
So how many DOES it take to screw the top off of a monkey's sarcophagus?
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08/28/2020 11:54:53 AM PDT
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Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: SunkenCiv
Really? Humans kept pets? Who knew?
Quick. More grant money. Maybe they can figure out more earth-shattering discoveries.
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posted on
08/28/2020 11:55:28 AM PDT
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Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: Seruzawa
Importing monkeys from India?
Ancient Rome issued H1B visas?
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08/28/2020 11:58:25 AM PDT
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Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: SunkenCiv
I wonder if the Romans spanked their monkeys? 🤔
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08/28/2020 12:01:03 PM PDT
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Cowboy Bob
(Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Importing monkeys from India? Ancient Rome issued H1B visas?
Made my day! Thanks.
To: Seruzawa
You're an example of the same stupid wheel turning in the same stupid rut, over and over.
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08/28/2020 12:05:25 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
LOL. Whatever, warmonger.
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08/28/2020 12:09:49 PM PDT
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Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: Spirochete
Ancient Rome issued H1B visas?
Come to think of it, maybe they did. Have you ever tried to do math with Roman numerals?
To: SunkenCiv
Sadly, Rome didn’t survive long enough for this to develop into the “Planet of the Apes” plot line.
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08/28/2020 1:17:02 PM PDT
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fidelis
(Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
To: Cowboy Bob
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08/28/2020 6:32:55 PM PDT
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Trillian
To: fidelis
OTOH, we managed to get "Life of Brian" out of 'em. :^)
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08/29/2020 8:38:04 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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