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Archaeologists find Bronze Age tombs lined with gold
Science Daily ^ | December 17, 2019

Posted on 12/18/2019 10:49:36 AM PST by rdl6989

Archaeologists with the University of Cincinnati have discovered two Bronze Age tombs containing a trove of engraved jewelry and artifacts that promise to unlock secrets about life in ancient Greece.

The UC archaeologists announced the discovery Tuesday in Greece.

Jack Davis and Sharon Stocker, archaeologists in UC's classics department, found the two beehive-shaped tombs in Pylos, Greece, last year while investigating the area around the grave of an individual they have called the "Griffin Warrior," a Greek man whose final resting place they discovered nearby in 2015.

Like the Griffin Warrior's tomb, the princely tombs overlooking the Mediterranean Sea also contained a wealth of cultural artifacts and delicate jewelry that could help historians fill in gaps in our knowledge of early Greek civilization.

(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: bronzeage; catastrophism; godsgravesglyphs; greece; griffinwarrior; jackdavis; linearb; mycenaean; mycenaeans; pylos; sharonstocker; tholos
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“...as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold - everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment - an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by - I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, 'Can you see anything?' it was all I could do to get out the words, 'Yes, wonderful things.” ― Howard Carter, The Tomb of Tutankhamen Gold still Wows Em even after 3/4 thousand years
21 posted on 12/18/2019 12:20:19 PM PST by elbook
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To: rdl6989

Question: Why do most of the discoveries in archaeology come from academics outside of the country of interest? You would think the Greeks would take pride on doing this on their own. I really am curious.


22 posted on 12/18/2019 12:29:01 PM PST by Shark24
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To: Shark24

Foreign universities have lots of money and Greece is broke?


23 posted on 12/18/2019 12:34:03 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: rdl6989

If you asked these archaeologists the day before they made this find, they would surely have said “We’re happier finding an old latrine than a room full of gold because the latrine tells us things about the people while gold is pretty but we don’t learn much from it.” I’d bet that he day after they were like “Did you see what we found! Boom! Find of a lifetime! We’ve all dreamed of a find like this!”


24 posted on 12/18/2019 12:41:05 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: bgill

“All the gold in Greece is buried in the middle of Pylos in somebody else’s name.”

The name on the grave is Arch Stanton.


25 posted on 12/18/2019 2:39:40 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: rdl6989

“Archaeologists find Bronze Age tombs lined with gold”

Heck, we have an ex-President and ex-VP that have their pockets lined with gold.


26 posted on 12/18/2019 2:42:19 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: elbook

Good story, but it was BS.

Carter had already opened the tomb weeks before when they first dug it up. He knew what was in there, or he wouldn’t have sent for his sponsor to come all the way over from England for the “official” opening.


27 posted on 12/18/2019 2:45:15 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Chewbarkah

Yep. Alexander the Great weeps.


28 posted on 12/18/2019 3:09:45 PM PST by Shark24
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To: elbook
His grave carries an inscription from a chalice found in the tomb:

"May your spirit live, may you spend millions of years, you, who love Thebes, sitting with your face to the north wind, your eyes beholding happiness."
29 posted on 12/18/2019 5:13:49 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Thanks rdl6989.

30 posted on 12/18/2019 10:49:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
One of *those* topics.


A gold pendant with an engraved depiction of the head of the Egyptian goddess Hathor. 15th century B.C.E. Credit...Vanessa Muros, via the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati

A gold pendant with an engraved depiction of the head of the Egyptian goddess Hathor. 15th century B.C.E. Credit...Vanessa Muros, via the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati

31 posted on 12/18/2019 10:53:09 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Mighty fine art work from those folks. There are none in my heritage, but I’m sure they were talented, anyway....

;o]

‘Face


32 posted on 12/19/2019 12:48:57 AM PST by Monkey Face (It's important to know when to stop arguing with people and simply let them be wrong. ~~ Kara W ~~)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s a grey alien wearing a space helmet. Anyone can see that, plain as day.

/ancient aliens theorist


33 posted on 12/19/2019 7:11:05 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: rdl6989; SunkenCiv
***Archaeologists find Bronze Age tombs lined with gold***

I hope one is in my back yard!

34 posted on 12/19/2019 9:56:42 AM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: BenLurkin

Is it even possible? Yes, it is.
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos

35 posted on 12/19/2019 11:56:31 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Shark24; Chewbarkah
What Chewbarkah said. In addition, it's a pretty small country (north of 11 million, including the piles of illegals from muzzie hell-holes), with more Greek-ancestry people living in other places around the world than are found in Greece (an estimated million and a half in the US alone). As with so many other immigrants, Greek-ancestry people aren't always sure of the specifics of why their ancestors left the homeland, but often it was due to relative opportunity, and/or poverty in Greece, or due to some kind of family feud that their side lost. Greece has adopted the UNESCO suggested model for the structuring of its educational system, I'm sure that's just the best idea in history, eh?

36 posted on 12/19/2019 12:08:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Boogieman; elbook
Nope. Carter wired Caernaevon, who had agreed to pay for one more year, and he hustled over and they opened it; however, the official opening was contrived to be a big publicity photo-op type event; they had already entered the tomb, to make sure the event wasn't going to be a big dud. That doesn't mean they went all the way back into the inner shrine -- it took years of careful handling and catalogueing of everything to empty the outer room.

37 posted on 12/19/2019 12:13:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Monkey Face
Whaddayamean, that looks *nothing* like a cow!!! ;^)

38 posted on 12/19/2019 12:16:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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A gold pendant with an engraved depiction of the head of the Egyptian goddess Hathor. 15th century B.C.E. Credit...Jeff Vanderpool/Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati

A Pylos combat agate.Credit...Jeff Vanderpool/Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati

39 posted on 12/19/2019 12:18:39 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I don’t recall any of my Vik ancestors raising cattle...they just pillaged for what they wanted! LOL!

;o]


40 posted on 12/19/2019 12:31:55 PM PST by Monkey Face (On bad days, I remind myself that my track record for getting through bad days is 100% so far! FB))
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