Archaeologists carry out first dig at tomb linked to King Arthur

Phys dot org ^ | July 5, 2022 | Joe Stafford, University of Manchester

[flaglady47]

“a 5,000-year-old tomb linked to King Arthur...”
“Maybe they will find directions on how his flour is made.”

And mighty fine flour it is, indeed......

[Sacajaweau]

That’s cool.......

[arthurus]

with his stone club Excalibur.

[usurper]

King Arthur 5000 years ago???

Yea, how could they have quested for the Holy Grail 3000 years BC.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I like the entire movie, except that they couldn’t seem to figure out how to end it.

[week 71]

This is very interesting - thanks for posting! Hope they find Merlin’s book of crafts - grin.

[MotorCityBuck]

Kind of confusing ain’t it.My recollection is @ 870AD.

[centurion316]

King Arthur: a myth or an actual post Roman chieftain ruling in an era when the written record fell out of fashion. Who knows?

[Bob434]

Lol,rd rr-

[Bigg Red]

Mark

[arthurus]

I read a very convincing book ,hose title and author escape me, that posited two Arthurs one the other’s grandson. They are both historical characters and the Arthurian tales, the more credible ones, place Artur in two conflated cultural periods, one with Arthur as a Romanized British king during the later stage of the Roman Empire and the grandson as king fighting the Saxons a few centuries later. That author in his peregrinations found evidence of both in Southwest England and Wales. Now I want to find that book again.

[jimmygrace]

Apparently King Arthur existed PRIOR to Roman Britain, not afterwards, along with Merlin, Tyrion Lannister, and the Hobbits...

[pax_et_bonum]

Maybe this guy was in there.

[MotorCityBuck]

It is defiantly a confusing history after the Romans left. The Saxon, and then the Vikings.
I find this video very helpful, as I enjoy the history of England. Talk about illegal immigration problems :)

[Grimmy]

You know how the ancient links go.

It’ll be an Error 404 Tomb Not Found.

[GingisK]

Arthur will come back and marry Boudica.

[Hiddigeigei]

Thomas Malory’s two volumn “Le Morte d”Arthur” based on French and English sources at the time (mid 15th century) is a fun book to read if you’re into reading. If you’ve plowed through Chaucer, you will find it much easier going. It’s on the internet.

[SunkenCiv]

Parts of him, anyway. :^)

[SunkenCiv]

LOL

[SunkenCiv]

Could have been some tomb raiders, raiding a tomb left centuries (maybe many centuries) earlier by an earlier population.