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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.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: bronzeage; catastrophism; godsgravesglyphs; greece; griffinwarrior; jackdavis; linearb; mycenaean; mycenaeans; pylos; sharonstocker; tholos
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To: SunkenCiv

Thx. 1453 was a bad year.


41 posted on 12/19/2019 12:40:59 PM PST by Shark24
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To: SunkenCiv

“Carter wired Caernaevon, who had agreed to pay for one more year, and he hustled over and they opened it...”

That’s the official story. However, the “sealed” door showed signs that an opening had already been made and then closed again. Carter, of course, attributed that to “ancient tomb raiders”, but there is a lot of evidence that this is just a story Carter concocted because it put them in a more favorable position regarding the find in light of Egypt’s recent laws on antiquities. If the tomb hadn’t been looted previously, then they would get nothing at all out of the discovery.

“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.”

Well, they did go all the way in, according to letters we now have from Carnarvon and his daughter that contradict Carter’s account. We also know that Carter had even removed artifacts from the tomb before the “official” opening, and there are quite a few artifacts that could only have come from the tomb that mysteriously were never seen by the Egyptian authorities and ended up in western museums.


42 posted on 12/19/2019 1:05:38 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

It shouldn’t be a problem pointing out a picture of one, somewhere on the web. I’d love to see that.

The tomb was robbed twice in antiquity.

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/tutrobbery.htm


43 posted on 12/19/2019 11:00:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Monkey Face
An old story about Harald Hardrada, that he was brought before the King with his brothers, Guthorm and Halfdan. When King Olaf asked the boys what they would like to own, one of Harald's brothers replied that he would like vast fields of grain; the second replied that he'd like so many cattle they could devour the first brother's grain in one meal; Harald replied that he wanted to own enough warriors to eat those cattle in a single sitting.

44 posted on 12/19/2019 11:12:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yep, that sounds like Vik lore alright!

Olav and Harald Hardrada are in my heritage. I think the chart I saw said one could have a million offspring in 20 generations. That’s a lot of begetting!

;o]

‘Face


45 posted on 12/20/2019 2:13:17 AM 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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To: 240B; 75thOVI; Adder; albertp; asgardshill; At the Window; bitt; blu; BradyLS; cajungirl; ...
Another slow week -- here are the other GGG topics introduced since the previous Digest ping:

46 posted on 12/21/2019 12:31:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Monkey Face
They were "on the vik" a lot.

47 posted on 12/21/2019 12:33:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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48 posted on 02/06/2020 7:04:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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