Thanks Lurker.
Posted on 08/10/2019 10:06:50 AM PDT by Anoop
Sometime between 1400 and 1200 B.C., two Minoan men were laid to rest in an underground enclosure carved out of the soft limestone native to southeast Crete.
Both were entombed within larnakes—intricately embossed clay coffins popular in Bronze Age Minoan society—and surrounded by colorful funerary vases that hinted at their owners’ high status. Eventually, the burial site was sealed with stone masonry and forgotten, leaving the deceased undisturbed for roughly 3,400 years.
Yes. Not laid to rest; stuffed. Into a box. To rest.
Would’ve given my left arm for military ordinance.
As an adult, that is the same reason I count myself lucky, I didn’t find any.
If I dig you up the day after you are buried, I get in trouble, if I dig you up after 3400 years I’m a hero.
What is a respectful amount of time to wait before digging up graves and selling their contents?
I feel the same way.
When I lived in Tidewater Virginia, A British hospital site was discovered at Yorktown. Some university had begun to excavate when they got a letter from the British ambassador reminding them that it was a graveyard for their war dead.
Asked them to cease and they did.
Cremation is the only way to thwart these sick grave robbers.
I am sure the farmer was thrilled to find an ancient site under his farm.
If it were me, I would start shoveling it back over. And I would say nothing until the day after I sold the farm. Its been buried for 2,000 years. Whats another 20 or thirty.
All fun and games until you accidentally awaken the Minotaur.
I had a professor who spent a lot of time in Greece (exploring ancient battlefields and roads). Greek farmers would tell him about things they had found on their land because they trusted him not to tell the authorities...they didn’t want the government to come in and take their land for an archaeological site.
What PIF said.
Thanks Lurker.
Thanks, this is very interesting.
The ancient chamber tomb was entirely intact and undamaged by looters.
The ornate pottery vessels found inside the tomb were all in good condition.
Intact tomb of Bronze Age Minoan man discovered in Ierapetra, Crete
TornosNews.gr | Wednesday, August 22, 2018 | unattributed, Daily Mail
Posted on 8/25/2018 11:33:48 AM by SunkenCiv
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Looks like he was hacked up pretty good to fit in that little tub. ...Or, perhaps the bones were found after carrions had finished.
When your family, your community, and possibly your nation have disappeared from all but specialized scholars’ memory, and there is something to be learned across several disciplines (history, biology, anthropology, sociology just off the top of this factory worker’s head) from studying your bones and the things people put in the box with you.
As for this body I inhabit, I will cease to be interested in its condition within seconds of leaving it. God will give it back better than it’s ever been when He’s ready, no matter what has happened in the meantime, and if that includes becoming a museum exhibit, well — have a good look!
I always thought It funny that in today’s world it is okay for so called experts to dig up the graves of the ancients. We dig up these guys, the tombs in Egypt, etc. If we were to go dig up George Washington, people would lose their minds. But, it is okay to dig up King Tut to see what he had in his tomb.
It’ll be looted now. All these years they have lain quietly. Now they will wind up in some building with people gawking at them.
Looks like the middle eastern practice of placing bones in an ossuary after decomposition had done for the soft tissues.
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