#archaeology #minoan
Minoan, Any member of a non-Indo-European people who flourished (c. 3000–c. 1100 bc) on the island of Crete during the Bronze Age. The sea was the basis of their economy and power. Their sophisticated culture, based at Knossos, was named for the legendary King Minos.
*Alison Fisk on X: "From the Aegean Bronze Age, marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete, some 3,500 years ago. Heraklion Archaeological Museum. Photos my own. #Archaeology https://t.co/hj5O96zhYs" / X
https://twitter.com/AlisonFisk/status/1755177964008862129
Wow.
#tentacletuesday
Scientists discover 9000-Year-Old ‘Stonehenge-Like’ Structure beneath Lake Michigan https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/scientists-discover-9000-year-old-stonehenge-like-structure-beneath-lake-michigan
Cool and fascinating!
#Archaeology
so evil and t it just carries on
WIDESCALE #DESTRUCTION OF #CULTURAL #HERITAGE IN #GAZA by Geraldine Kendall Adams #MuseumsAssociation
"As of 25 January, Unesco says it has verified damage to 22 sites in Gaza since the war began, including five religious sites, 10 buildings of historical and/or artistic interest, two depositories of moveable cultural property, one monument, one museum and three archaeological sites.
Other media reports suggest that the destruction may be more extensive. Earlier this month, several news agencies reported that Israeli forces had demolished the main buildings of Al-Israa University, south of Gaza City, including a museum housing around 3,000 objects of art, archaeological artefacts, specimens, materials and instruments."
#CulturalHeritage #Museum #Archaeology #Gaza #War #Unesco #Architecture
*Alison Fisk on X: "Spectacular black and white floor mosaic in the women’s changing room at the Central Baths, Herculaneum. Triton with octopus, cuttlefish, cherub and dolphins. Early 1st century AD. Modern changing rooms could do with a #Roman style upgrade! 📸 my own #MosaicMonday #Archaeology https://t.co/v4hsERxD3h" https://twitter.com/AlisonFisk/status/1749370752380407902
Cool !
BBC News - Huge ancient city found in the Amazon
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67940671
Archaeology & Art on X: "Heqat, the Frog Goddess. Travertine, 15.4 x 14.7 x 15.5 cm. Predynastic Period to early first dynasty, ca. 2950 BC. Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio. https://t.co/fTxQIqqO3K" / X
@muse@diaspora.glaswings.com
https://twitter.com/archaeologyart/status/1733207353451802852
https://social.anoxinon.de/@ninawillburger/111487572807014972 ninawillburger@social.anoxinon.de - I'm in awe: holding a 40,000-year-old #IceAge masterpiece in your hand is something you don't get to do every day!
The amazing figurine of a woolly mammoth is carved in mammoth ivory. It will be on display at Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg from Saturday.
Found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura, south-west Germany.
And yes, I'm really, really happy 😊
Alison Fisk on X: "#MosaicMonday A feel-good favourite of mine to start the week! A cartoon-like little octopus from the floor of a #Roman villa at Villaquejida, Spain, 2nd-3rd century AD. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid. 📷 2021 #Archaeology https://t.co/MQI3xnvTRr" / X
#archaeology #israel
ISRAEL
Earth’s magnetic field supports biblical stories of destruction of ancient cities.
When battles raged in ancient cities, their rocks blazed so brightly that they could be reoriented according to Earth's magnetic field.
https://bigthink.com/the-past/earth-magnetic-field-biblical-stories-ancient-cities-destruction/
An Etruscan tomb found at the Osteria Necropolis in Vulci, northern Lazio, was opened recently and proved to be a fantastic repository for information on Etruscan trade. In this video I discuss this story, as well as the discovery of a Bronze Age step pyramid in Kazakstan that was most likely a mausoleum built by the Begazi Dandibay culture and the excavation of a clay tablet at Hattusa that's etched with the script of a lost language.
Interesting News Stories For Those Interested in History
#History #Archaeology #News #NewFindings #Etruscan #Kazakstan #Hattusa #Pyramid #Tablets #LostLanguage
Humans have existed for at least 200,000 years. Yet until recently, historians believed that cities, astronomy, architecture and numeracy did not arrive until agriculture emerged some 12,000 years ago. But what if that was wrong? What if cities existed before agriculture and our hunter gatherer ancestors enjoyed a far more complex existence than we thought? And if they did, then what are the implications for modern political theory - which justifies inequality on the basis that we live in a higher, more sophisticated form of society that was always inevitable? What if there were social revolutions before documented history? And what if humankind had engaged in innumerable experiments in how best to live - including ones that involved the rejection of what we would consider to be ‘civilisation’? Aaron Bastani discusses all of that, and more, with archaeologist and co-author of the bestselling ‘Dawn of Everything’ David Wengrow.
Everything We Think We Know About Early Human History is Wrong | David Wengrow on Downstream #wengrow #bastani #graeber #prehistory #history #archaeology #anthropology #civilisation #agriculture #enlightenment #book ">
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=UR-EN0YIBIg
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
[PDF] | [epub]
So Something Good From An Unexpected Source
#Science #CIA #Archaeology #RomanHistory #Syria #Iraq #Dartmouth #ScienceAlert
In this video by AJ from The Why Files he covers Gobekli Tepe and the encoded stones like pillar 43 aka The Vulture Stone. He talks about comet Encke and at one time it was 100 miles wide. At some point in the past, it broke apart and every year we pass through its debris the Taurids meteor shower which happens to peak in three days. He compares it to playing Russian roulette because there are mile wide objects in it.
11/02/23 (58:14)
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=r4xzFWW-FAA
Quote #GöbekliTepe and the #Vulture #Stone #Prophecy
We are the descendants of an ancient civilization; one which mastered technology, mapped the cosmos, and understood our relationship with the natural world.
Our ancestors traveled the world and built enormous structures. They scaled their creations into cities.
They shared a common governance and similar religious beliefs.
Our ancestors lived, as we do today, as a global society.
Around 14,500 years ago, this global superpower started to collapse.
First came uncontrollable change, and then a cataclysm. In less than a week, everything and almost everyone was gone.
Those left behind built monuments. Monuments not as tributes to Gods or homage to kings. The monuments are a warning to future generations: to us. That warning is simple: danger is coming.
Our civilization has ended before. And it will end again.
This is one story Big #Archaeology and world governments don’t want you to know. Once you hear it, you’ll never trust them again.
Because the danger that’s coming? There’s nothing they can do to stop it.
The 2,300-year-old Celtic village, discovered at a field in the northern suburbs of Munich, is the first entirely coherent Celtic village discovered in the German city-state of Bavaria.
The Celts of the La Tène civilization, who were prosperous in the late Iron Age around 450 BC, lived in the settlement until 1000 AD. The Celtic peoples first inhabited the area that is now Bavaria, but the Romans eventually overcame them and integrated it into their empire.
During an archaeological investigation as part of the development of a new residential area, an above-average number of house plans from former settlements were discovered. These post holes, now visible as circles in the gravel, are the last remains of individual mine houses. They provide impressive evidence that around 500 people lived in today’s Feldmoching district as early as the Iron Age – an enormous number for that time.
A residential construction project in the heart of Gaza has led to an archaeological find - a Roman cemetery dating back two thousand years.But the Israeli b...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #AncientRomanburialgrounduncovered #Archaeology #Gaza #GazaStrip #Gazaexcavation #Romancemetery #aljazeera #aljazeeraenglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #archaeologicalfind #latestnews #newsheadlines
Gaza excavation: Ancient Roman burial ground uncovered
