Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

The roughly 2,000-year-old ancient sarcophagus, located in Naples in southern Italy, was first probed with a micro-camera in order to assess if breaking the seal might harm the precious artifacts and remains it contains (pictured above) by exposing them to the air
© Superintendent of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape
© Superintendent of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape

1 posted on 07/26/2024 9:14:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: SunkenCiv

*Deadpan, sarcastic voice of Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones character begins*


3 posted on 07/26/2024 9:35:55 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SunkenCiv

“Researchers plan to share images of the newly found mummies at a later date.”

That will be interesting if I ever see them.


4 posted on 07/26/2024 10:25:22 PM PDT by Revel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SunkenCiv

Rubbing myself with goosefoot and wormwood.


7 posted on 07/27/2024 12:11:50 AM PDT by DannyTN
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SunkenCiv

‘In recent months, in fact, laboratory analyses conducted on samples taken from the inhumations and the depositional beds have returned a considerable amount of data on the treatment of the deceased’s body and the funerary ritual carried out, significantly enriching the panorama of our knowledge.’

Wow...Thats some gimme some grant money talk right there.

Somebody tell Kameltoe she has a long lost relative in Naples...


8 posted on 07/27/2024 2:25:56 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SunkenCiv

Junk science without pictures.


9 posted on 07/27/2024 4:14:07 AM PDT by exPBRrat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SunkenCiv

I bet you a dollar that, if this shroud is even viewable, that there is no image of the person on it. Just one more of thousands of shrouds that have been found that have no image like the Shroud of Turin....


10 posted on 07/27/2024 4:29:19 AM PDT by Nabber
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SunkenCiv

“Archaeologists make ‘unprecedented’ discovery after unsealing a 2,000-year-old tomb’

They found the body of Nancy Pelosi’s twin sister?


12 posted on 07/27/2024 6:59:38 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: SunkenCiv

I wonder if the reporter knows that “opus incertum” is “uncertain work?”


14 posted on 07/27/2024 10:22:16 AM PDT by scrabblehack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson