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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 ...
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.
Foreign universities have lots of money and Greece is broke?
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!”
“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.
“Archaeologists find Bronze Age tombs lined with gold”
Heck, we have an ex-President and ex-VP that have their pockets lined with gold.
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.
Yep. Alexander the Great weeps.
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One of *those* topics.
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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...Vanessa Muros, via the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati
Mighty fine art work from those folks. There are none in my heritage, but I’m sure they were talented, anyway....
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It’s a grey alien wearing a space helmet. Anyone can see that, plain as day.
/ancient aliens theorist
I hope one is in my back yard!
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?
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.
Whaddayamean, that looks *nothing* like a cow!!! ;^)
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
I don’t recall any of my Vik ancestors raising cattle...they just pillaged for what they wanted! LOL!
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