Archaeological News

[rohala]

The entrance to the tomb. It certainly looks interesting.

 

 

[toysoldier]

Well,gonna be interesting if the skeleton shows either eye or neck injuries

[mnm]

You got me with that one Phillip II had an eye injury, Marie Antoinette a neck one, so?

[toysoldier]

Alexander had some kind of twisted neck condition, reported by many authors and works of art. They debate whether it was congenital or the result of an accident or battle injury.

And yeah, i don't necessarily accept the Alexandria tomb.

[mnm]

Thank you TS, I really have read a lot on Alexander - say Arrian, Green, Tarn, Scullard, even that beautiful Mary Renault's Funeral Games trilogy , but I wasn't recalling that neck deformity, I'll try and look it up as you left me curious!

[X-Files]

A 200-year-old stoneware seltzer bottle that was recently recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea contains alcohol, according to the results of a preliminary analysis. Researchers discovered the well-preserved and sealed bottle in June, while exploring the so-called F53.31 shipwreck in Gda?sk Bay, close to the Polish coast. Preliminary laboratory tests have now shown the bottle contains a 14-percent alcohol distillate, which may be vodka or a type of gin called jenever, most likely diluted with water.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/still-drinkable-200-old-booze-found-shipwreck-121828218.html

[Chris Werb]

This is the biggest thing going in archaeology in my part of the world.

 

http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/nessofbrodgar/

[X-Files]

A home owner living in the Melikgazi district of Kayseri province in Anatolia made a surprising discovery while clearing out an area under his house – a subterranean city, of which 4,000 square metres have been excavated so far, according to a report in Hurriyet Daily News. The region of Anatolia in Turkey is famous for its underground cities, particularly in the region of Cappadocia where more than 40 complete underground cities and 200 underground villages and tunnel towns complete with hidden passages, secret rooms, and ancient temples have been found.

Mustafa Bozdemir, 50, was bequeathed a house in Melikgazi five years ago and decided to carry out restoration work. He explained that what he thought was a single-storey house, turned out to have multiple levels of ancient rooms beneath it. “We also found some remains during the cleaning works such as human bones. They were examined by a team from Erciyes University,” said Bozdemir.

 

- See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/home-owner-discovers-ancient-underground-city-anatolia-102001#sthash.g3gkngAQ.dpuf

Edited August 28, 2014 by X-Files

[WRW]

 

 

I have watched many of these programmes and have no problem with the possibility of aliens - when I see this guy I am inclined to think somebody was left behind

[WRW]

Normally we live just outside Izmir - Turkey

I would be afraid to dig more than a few Centi Meters in the garden for fear of tripping over some ruins, Directions in our place can be - yurn lft at the first coliseum , then rifght at the castle and then again right at the aquaduct

We have Troy up the road from us and Ephesus down the road

[toysoldier]

So... whats the ghosts form the past situation there?

[WRW]

fortunately so far have not come across any - long may it stay that way

[Ivanhoe]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/denmark/11079056/Viking-ring-fortress-discovered-in-Denmark.html

 

 

Archaeologists in Denmark have discovered a distinctive ring-shaped Viking fortress which historians believe may have been used to launch an invasion of England.

 

The fortress found on the Danish island of Zealand, around 30 miles south of Copenhagen, is the fifth circular fortress to be unearthed, and the first in over 60 years.

 

[Marek Tucan]

Re. the London, article mentions a 21-gun salute being prepared... Perhaps careless handling of the slow match?

[Mr King]

For fucks sake.

 

 

In the real world, foot of Egyptian mummy with prosthetic toe

 

[Ivanhoe]

Not news, but new to me;

 

http://www.heritagedaily.com/2014/06/nazi-weather-station-kurt-2/103568

 

if you like history etc., that website has lots of interesting stuff.

[Mike Steele]

The Ripper unmasked!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2746321/Jack-Ripper-unmasked-How-amateur-sleuth-used-DNA-breakthrough-identify-Britains-notorious-criminal-126-years-string-terrible-murders.html?ito=social-facebook

[toysoldier]

Vicky was right, couldn't have been an English gentleman.

[mnm]

For fucks sake.

 

 

In the real world, foot of Egyptian mummy with prosthetic toe

 

 

I had no idea. In a H&S course I took I was told that the loss of a big toe directly implied an 20% decrease of your balance, this may ot not be related.

[Ivanhoe]

I was thinking it was more of an appearance thing; after all, the Egyptians all wore sandals apparently.

[mnm]

No socks!

[T19]

No socks!

Only the English ones

 

Lol

[X-Files]

A team of archaeologists is currently conducting excavation work on 20 hectares of land in Fleury-sur-Orne (northwestern France), which is earmarked for residential development. This site has revealed an important Middle Neolithic (4500 BC) necropolis containing twenty monuments and some intact burials.

 

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2014/neolithic-necropolis-contains-twenty-monumental-tombs

[Ivanhoe]

 

No socks!

Only the English ones

 

Lol

 

 

Spot the Brit;

 

[X-Files]

This particular coin appears to have been minted in the kingdom of Lydia in western Anatolya, sometime in the second half of the seventh century BCE, which put the coin’s age at more than 2750 years

http://sofiaglobe.com/2014/09/09/diver-finds-2750-year-old-gold-coin-in-bulgaria/