Posted on 12/17/2024 12:27:38 PM PST by Red Badger
Here exposed basalt has (I guess) a higher iron content, exposed Cretaceous era basalt is rust colored.
Even given that, if you chiseled letters into it they would probably show the unoxidized basalt color.
Just watched a great YouTube video on that.
Evidence of “ Vikings” hundreds of years before they were infamously historical Vikings.
Thanks. I can’t imagine chiseling basalt without steel tools!
I can but it a LOT of little pieces of basalt to carve out a character.
Then there’s the problem of sharpening the small pieces of basalt...
They could have it upside down.
Looking at the large spiral figure at the “bottom”, it occurs to me that this could be a naming symbol, like a crest or corporate symbol at the top of a letterhead.
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The history of Colchis is interesting. It was an important source of saffron, which in addition to being used to make rice golden, was important for medical uses. It is still being offered as a valuable dietary supplement. The Argonaut’s search for the Golden Fleece may in fact have been referring to the Search and trade in saffron. The drug Colchisine is derived from that. Saffron can still be bought from some supplement companies for health promoting purposes. I plan to get some for myself. I saw some “paintings” from the ruined cities of Thera which were destroyed by the huge volcanic eruption around 1500 BC. THey showed women/goddesses dancing and holding the saffron crocuses.
The tablet was decoded and found to contain song lyrics.
Documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggGzE5KfCio
I’ve been working on this all day and have only managed to decode one word, Ovaltine.
It is the harvesting not the growing that is hard.
Strangely Engraved Rock Is Giant ‘Treasure Map’, Archaeologists Say
Science Alert | 18 October 2023 | By ANTOINE AGASSE, AFP
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A Map to a Lost Bronze Age Kingdom? | The Mystery of the Saint Belec Slab
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The European Bronze Age exists just beyond the grasp of our surviving written sources from antiquity, in many ways like a world cloaked in shadow, ever just outside the reach of light. We have, instead, plenty of archaeology on the European Bronze Age but how to make sense of it is often difficult and not clear.
In 1900, an artifact was discovered from the period—The Slab of Saint Belec, named after the barrow of Saint Belec in the Armorican Peninsula. A mystery for over a century, this is being changed by a recent study which suggests it is not only one of the oldest maps in the world, but also a map of a lost Bronze Age kingdom in Europe.
Maybe written boustrophedon.
If my linguistic skills are still accurate I believe the rest says fat bottomed girls make this rocking tablet go round.
Those guys got around!
I love archaeology shows.
They keep finding evidence of ancient people who got * way* farther from home than anyone had ever imagined.
The Vikings and tge Celts are my two favorite interests.
I’m just mad about Saffron................
He is hated by the woke clowns!! 😁 All his pod casts are outstanding!!!
And especially, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d48bhkOiEuA
Goes way back to the Yamnaya..steppe people, early bronze age, etc
Thank you!!!!
In the movie Highlander, I was cheering for the Kurgan.
:D
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