Archaeological News

[DADI]

Archaeologists Uncover Tale of Ancient Mikveh and WWII Australian Soldiers

 

 

 

In the Holy-Land - Layers upon layers..

Edited October 7, 2014 by DADI

[Ivanhoe]

http://www.weather.com/news/stone-age-shelter-peru-oldest-high-altitude-settlement-20141026

 

A remarkable new discovery high in the Peruvian Andes reveals that our distant ancestors rubbed elbows with the clouds.

 

Researchers have found two rock shelters and traces of human habitation more than 14,300 feet above sea level that date back over 12,000 years – evidence of the highest-altitude Stone Age settlement in the world.

 

The article talks about questions concerning genetic adaptation to high altitude, but doesn't mention extraterrestrials whatsoever.

[X-Files]

GUADALCANAL, Solomon Islands — Using a trowel to dig into the shadowy floor of the rain forest, pausing only to wipe away sweat and malaria-carrying mosquitoes, Atsushi Maeda holds up what he has traveled so far, to this South Pacific island, to find: a human bone, turned orange-brown with age.

Mr. Maeda, 21, was looking for the remains of missing Japanese soldiers at the site of one of World War II’s most ferocious battles. Others have done this work before him, mostly aging veterans or bereaved relatives. But he was with a group of mostly university students and young professionals, nearly all of them under 40 and without a direct connection to the soldiers killed here.

They had come to honor their countrymen, many of whom were no older than they are when they fell on the battlefield. The group was also searching for answers. “These young men who died here believed they were defending their family and loved ones,” said Mr. Maeda, a university junior in religious studies. “We need to rediscover their sacrifices and learn from them.”

As the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, there has been a surge in interest among young Japanese about the disastrous war that their nation has long tried to forget.

It is a phenomenon that crosses political lines, encompassing progressives who preach the futility of war as well as conservatives who question the historical record of Japan’s wartime atrocities. What these young people have in common is an urgent sense that they learned too little about the war, both from school, where classes focus on earlier Japanese history, and from tight-lipped family members, who prefer not to revisit a painful time.

Driving this nationwide pursuit into the past has been China’s hostility toward Japan over control of disputed East China Sea islands, known in China as the Diaoyu and in Japan as the Senkaku. Despite recent diplomatic maneuvering to ease tensions, anxiety about China’s rise remains strong in Japan.

“For the first time since 1945, Japan is facing a small but real possibility of conflict,” said Yurie Chiba, a magazine editor who organizes talks by veterans, has written about the new interest in World War II and argues that Japan must never go to war again. “This makes people want to learn more about those who fought in the war, to rediscover how horrible war can be.”

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/world/japanese-unearth-remains-and-their-nations-past-on-guadalcanal.html?_r=1

[Leo Niehorster]

Why does news have to be introduced with a person story? The news itself starts in paragraph 4.

First noticed this in TIME magazine in the 60's. Long intro story, before finally getting to to point.

[Corinthian]

Coz drama....

[mnm]

[Panzermann]

All done to keep the royal gene pool healthy and stop the inbreeding.

 

Nice to see something comes out of the corpse dug out from under the car park.

[Roman Alymov]

Intertsting military archeology case http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30306994

Edited December 11, 2014 by Roman Alymov

[DADI]

Olive oil traces dating back 8,000 years found in Israel

 

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Anciet cave in N.Israel may prove when humans began using fire

[Corinthian]

Olive oil traces dating back 8,000 years found in Israel

 

 

One reason why I enjoy olive oil. It has history behind it.

[TonyE]

Evidence of infidelity in Richard IIIs family tree....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30281333

 

Even today the lancastrians and their minions are trying to blacken the pure white rose of York. Fail they shall!

 

[DADI]

Unique 65-Foot Long Entrance Discovered at Herodian Hilltop Palace

 

 

Herodium

Edited December 18, 2014 by DADI

[Panzermann]

"Stairway to Herod"

New song by Led Zeppelin?

 

 

But seriously, was the article taken down? I get a 404 from jewish press.com

 

edited To add: works via The main page? weird.

Edited December 18, 2014 by Panzermann

[DADI]

 

"Unique 65-Foot Long Entrance Discovered at Herodian Hilltop Palace

Excavations also turned up hidden tunnels dug by Jewish rebels in the period of the Bar Kokhba Revolt.

By: Jewish Press Staff

Published: December 18th, 2014

Archaeologists have discovered a monumental 65-foot long by 20-foot wide entryway to the Herodian Hilltop Palace at the Herodium National Park.

The unique complex was uncovered by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology during excavations by The Herodium Expedition in Memory of Ehud Netzer over the past year, as part of a project to develop the site for tourism.

The main feature of the entryway is an impressive corridor with a complex system of arches spanning its width on three separate levels. These arches buttressed the corridor’s massive side-walls, allowing the King and his entourage direct passage into the Palace Courtyard. Thanks to the supporting arches, the corridor has been preserved to a height of 65 feet..

Hebrew University archaeologists Roi Porat, Yaakov Kalman and Rachel Chachy suggest that the corridor was built as part of Herod’s plan to turn Herodium into a massive artificial volcano-shaped hill, a vast and impressive monument designed to commemorate the architect-King.

Surprisingly, during the course of the excavations, it became evident that the arched corridor was never actually in use, as prior to its completion it became redundant. This appears to have happened when Herod, aware of his impending death, decided to convert the whole hilltop complex into a massive memorial mound, a royal burial monument on an epic scale.

Whatever the case, the corridor was back-filled during the construction of the massive artificial hill at the end of Herod’s reign. The upper section of a new monumental stairway stretching from the hill’s base to its peak, constructed during the course of this building phase, appears to have been built over it.

The excavators point out that not only was the arched corridor covered over in the course of the construction of the hill-monument, but also were all the structures earlier built by Herod on the hill’s slopes, including the Royal Theater uncovered by the expedition in 2008.

The only edifice not covered over was the splendid mausoleum-style structure, identified by Netzer, now deceased, and the expedition as Herod’s burial-place. Together with the monumental cone-shaped hill, this constituted the unique Herodian Royal burial-complex.

During the course of the current excavations, the original impressive Palace vestibule, blocked when the corridor became redundant, was also exposed. This entry-room, decorated with splendid painted frescoes, had a magnificent entryway leading into it, and offered evidence of the rebel occupation during the Great Revolt (66-71 CE), including Jewish Revolt coinage and crude temporary structures.

In addition, the excavations in the arched corridor also turned up impressive evidence from the Bar Kokhba Revolt period (132-135/6 CE): hidden tunnels dug on the site by the rebels as part of the guerilla warfare they waged against the Romans.

Supported in part by wooden beams, these tunnels exited from the hilltop fortress by way of the corridor’s walls, through openings hidden in the corridor. One of the tunnels revealed a well-preserved construction of 20 or so cypress-wood branches, arranged in a cross-weave pattern to support the tunnel’s roof.

In the future, according to Mr. Shaul Goldstein, Director of Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority, the excavation of the arched corridor will allow visitors direct access to the Herodium hilltop palace-fortress, in the same way that Herod entered it two thousand years ago.

There are also plans to provide tourists direct access from the structures on the slope, the Royal Theater and the Mausoleum, via the earlier monumental stairway, to the hilltop Palace."

Entranceway at Herodian Hilltop Palace.

Aerial view of Herodian.

 

[BP]

It's absolutely amazing the sheer amount of stuff they keep finding in Israel. I mean it's just a land area not much bigger than New Jersey, and yet they find whole towns, let alone 60' tunnels into a chamber within a city.

 

"So you mean the ruins of Atlantic City?"

"No, that whole town in the marsh right outside the city."

"Huh?"

[mnm]

It's all part of the Plan!

[TonyE]

I do like herodian tunnels.

[Corinthian]

It's absolutely amazing the sheer amount of stuff they keep finding in Israel. I mean it's just a land area not much bigger than New Jersey, and yet they find whole towns, let alone 60' tunnels into a chamber within a city.

 

"So you mean the ruins of Atlantic City?"

"No, that whole town in the marsh right outside the city."

"Huh?"

 

That's wot you get for being a "buffer state" of sorts and invasion corridor for rival empires in the region. Look at it as the ancient Middle East's version of the heavily fortified DMZ in Korea.

[mnm]

In this case it should be more of a Quisling with money to invest in real estate.

[TonyE]

 

 

Evidence of infidelity in Richard IIIs family tree....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30281333

 

Even today the lancastrians and their minions are trying to blacken the pure white rose of York. Fail they shall!

 

 

Nothing but a bunch of Yorkie bar lickers if you ask me.

 

There has been complaints that the planned funeral bears no real relationship to a medieval funeral, which is a shame. I for one would have liked to have seen any attempt to recreate a period funeral. Well, maybe with a few less beheadings and depraved public acts with sheep, but apart from that it would have been nice to aim for.

 

 

I would rather frolic upon an expired Yorkie bar than pay heed to the lancastrian minionites!

Good King Richard, rest in bliss for eons, thy white rose upon Bosworth Field.

 

[Ivanhoe]

It's absolutely amazing the sheer amount of stuff they keep finding in Israel. I mean it's just a land area not much bigger than New Jersey, and yet they find whole towns, let alone 60' tunnels into a chamber within a city.

 

 

Not sure where you're going with this. Are you implying that Jimmy Hoffa is buried in Haifa?

[Panzermann]

Thing with israel is that it is a focus of archaeological work. So much is found. Other areas of the planet are ignored. And nothing is found, because nobody is looking.

[Colin]

Historical finds are located upon geographic features that influence human movement and cultural development. Here archaeological surveys are roughly graded by geology features such as river delta's.

[Ivanhoe]

http://www.livescience.com/49147-egyptian-cemetery-million-mummies.html

 

The remains of a child, laid to rest more than 1,500 years ago when the Roman Empire controlled Egypt, was found in an ancient cemetery that contains more than 1 million mummies, according to a team of archaeologists from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

The cemetery is now called Fag el-Gamous, which means "Way of the Water Buffalo," a title that comes from the name of a nearby road. Archaeologists from Brigham Young University have been excavating Fag el-Gamous, along with a nearby pyramid, for about 30 years. Many of the mummies date to the time when the Roman or Byzantine Empire ruled Egypt, from the 1st century to the 7th century A.D.

 

 

Lets hope those archaeologists do not unearth the Book of Amun-Ra, else we might be facing a Million Mummy March.

[mnm]

Worse! They may find Angel Moroni golden tablets, then we'll have to bear witness to the great world domination contest between Mormons, Jews and Tomas.

 

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Forgot the Freemasons, Opus Dei, Liberals, whatever you wish.

Edited December 22, 2014 by mnm