[boomop1]

Was he named Kennedy?

[kinoxi]

Fabric is quite a find.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Geez, the headlines! I kept envisioning someone 2,700 years old petrified in the ashes of Pompeii at a loom. Okay, so I didn’t sleep very well last night.

[SengirV]

I love when these AMAZING archeological find stories come with no pictures. Grrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Candor7]

The yellowed, brittle material was found in a copper urn during a rescue excavation in the southern town of Argos, a Culture Ministry announcement said.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The age of this material is a real astounding factor.It is interesting.

In Riddle of the Desert Mummies, plaid hand woven material on the corpses of Celts was found in the Takla Makhan Desert, which is probably older than 2700 years, about 3200 years old.

Chapter Seven, "Hami and Hallstatt" (pp. 131-145), looks at the remains of the fair haired people of this important oasis area some three hundred miles east of Urumchi. The plaid garments are reminiscent of the Celts.

For Tokharian shares more linguistic features with Celtic than with any other branch. Since the similarity extends to textile technology too, the case warrants careful investigation. In fact it was this puzzle that had drawn me to Chinese Turkistan in the first place. p. 133

She distinguishes relatively modern tartan design from Celtic plaid twills dating from at least the early first millennium B.C.E."

Ch. 6 THE MUMMIES OF URUMCHI, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, W.N. Norton and Company, New York, 1999

Fabric often tells a lot about a people. The above plaid fragment was analyzed to have been made from European sheep wool, it having a distinct fiber signature from oriental sheep. It was found thousands of miles East of Europe, worn by a Celt.

Perhaps this Mediterranean fabric will reveal more about the Argonauts. (The British ethnocentric cultural myth that plaid was invented in Scotland in the 15th Century is not true, and the Scottish folk tales about the ancient origin of Plaid are indeed true. The very underpinnings of Scottish, Irish and Breton culture are also likely very ancient)

[bannie]

Was it the piece Penelope weaved/unweaved?

[gcruse]

“a copper urn’

Q: What’s a copper urn?
A: About forty thousand right out of the academy.

[tet68]

The cylindrical urn also contained dried pomegranates — offerings linked with the ancient gods of the underworld

All hail Demeter, whose rich hair falls in golden plaits as only a goddeses does.

Drink the Kykeon, become Epoptes!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[Knitting A Conundrum]

Amazing for people to publish stories about artefacts with no pics....

[itsamelman]

[SunkenCiv]

The History of Etruria: Burning of the Books
The Mysterious Etruscans

One noted discovery of the 20th Century was the Liber Linteus, or Linen book, which was thought to be the fragments of an Etruscan book made of linen and re-used to preserve an Egyptian Mummy. The Liber Linteus can be seen in Zagreb museum. If linen was used as a medium, then this would have had even less chance of survival than papyrus. Certainly there have been examples of models of Etruscan books found in the tombs of Cerveteri. These suggest that Linen was indeed traditionally used by the Etruscans for the written word.

The question of the scope of Etruscan literature remains unanswered, but it is quite clear from other sources that it must have been quite substantial. Censorinus refers to the Annals of Etruria, and during the late Roman Republic and Early Imperial years it was considered quite fashionable for Roman Patricians to send their boys to Etruscan schools to further their education. Some of this would no doubt have been a grounding in the disciplina etrusca, but it seems unlikely that that was all that they learned. We also know that enough of the history of Etruria survived in written form even up to late Imperial times for the emperor Claudius to write a twenty volume history of Etruria. (together with an 8 volume history of the Carthaginians, both in the Greek Language) If even a fragment of this history survived today it would answer a great many questions.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Would have liked a picture.

[SunkenCiv]

Prehistoric Women: Not So Simple, Not So Strange
New Scientist | 3-28-2007 | Germaine Greer
Posted on 03/31/2007 2:03:47 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1809862/posts