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BakedGoods, in Italian archaeologists open 2,600-year-old tomb for first time, find wealthy family's treasures

Did they find any Boar Vessel, 600-500 BC, Estruscan, ceramic?

some_guy, in Tens of Thousands of Ancient Bronze Coins Dating from the 4th Century Discovered Off Sardinia

Only four were damaged. I’d like more info on how / why they were preserved so well. This is pretty awesome. What an incredible find.

If only history wasn’t taught as boring in high school. It’s so damn exciting. New stuff to admire almost every day.

DogMuffins, in Tens of Thousands of Ancient Bronze Coins Dating from the 4th Century Discovered Off Sardinia

Not sure I’ve read that correctly but 30,000 to 50,000 coins in excellent or rare condition? Amazing find.

Doesn’t seem to be any actual photos of them?

No_Eponym, in Skeleton with 4 prosthetic metal fingers unearthed from centuries-old grave in Germany
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They say the first thing that goes when you lose your hands are your fine motor skillshttps://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/c157b669-9ece-41a1-8ac6-e74500857158.jpeg

MisterNeon, (edited ) in Circular temple dedicated to Maya serpent deity discovered in Mexico
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Why didn’t they just put Kukulcán in the title?

Regardless, the round style temple is fascinating. That means a similar shared tradition with Quetzalcoatl-Ehecatl worship, where the construction of the temples emphasized airflow.

What I want to know is, does this mean this practice started in the area and is a development from earlier “Feathered Serpent” worship of “Olmecs” or a tradition from outside the region such as influence from Teotihuacan.

Etterra, in Skeleton with 4 prosthetic metal fingers unearthed from centuries-old grave in Germany

It got into my hand and it went bad - so I lopped it off at the wrist.

HootinNHollerin, in Skeleton with 4 prosthetic metal fingers unearthed from centuries-old grave in Germany
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Travalanche, in Skeleton with 4 prosthetic metal fingers unearthed from centuries-old grave in Germany
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errer,

Groovy

a_mac_and_con, in Skeleton with 4 prosthetic metal fingers unearthed from centuries-old grave in Germany
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I always enjoy discoveries like this, though am often also disappointed by how many people are still surprised by how not new prosthetics are.

Risk, in Larger-scale warfare may have occurred in Europe 1,000 years earlier than previously thought

Ah, humans. We never change, do we?

^^^^^dammit.

Fascinating article. Thanks for sharing.

TastyWheat, in 3,500-Year-Old Book of Spells to Guide The Dead Uncovered With Egyptian Mummies

The black book gives life, the gold book takes it away.

I DON’T KNOW THIS SYMBOL! IT’S… A BIRD…?

intensely_human, in Workers Unearth 19th-Century Shipwreck Beneath a Road in Florida

So uh … how does a ship sink on land? Was the sea level higher then? Is the ship between low and high tide lines? Was there a tsunami?

CouncilOfFriends, (edited )

Just a guess, if I was turning an irrigation canal into a road and there was a boat sunk in the mud I would likely put fill on top and call it good. St. Augustine is right on the coast, and Florida’s highest elevation is 345 feet so canals are more common around the wetlands

intensely_human,

Are canals at sea level, and now diked off to be dry? Or would they have had locks back when this ship was sailing?

ShittyBeatlesFCPres, in 3,500-Year-Old Book of Spells to Guide The Dead Uncovered With Egyptian Mummies

The archaeologists have to read each incantation out loud or they’re chickenshit.

caseyweederman,

Johnathan Sims would like to know your location

Saint_of_Illusion,

YOU MUST NOT READ FROM THE BOOK!

pimento64,

O, let not the pains of financial burden which come upon thee enter into my automobile. I am the Extended Warranty, and I am in the foremost part of the loan, and the insurance policy which protecteth me is that which is with all the paid claimants forever.

ADHDefy,
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"Klatu, barada, n-- ........ Necktie? Nectur? Nickle?""

Qkall,
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I want magic to be real… I would love for that to happen. Just a bunch of scientists in the dirt unlocking some ancient evil… That’s the world I want… Fuck what we have now.

HawlSera,

Same

768,

I’m alright.

TonyTonyChopper, in I spy with my Cold War satellite eye... nearly 400 Roman forts in the Middle East
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Don’t we have much better modern aerial photos?

Pons_Aelius,

The article goes into detail about that...

Many forts that Poidebard documented don't even show up in the 1960s and 1970s spy satellite imagery; the Dartmouth team only identified 36 of his original 116. "The attrition of the archaeological record has been substantial and these processes are unlikely to have slowed over the intervening decades," they wrote. They believe further research incorporating higher-resolution or even older satellite imagery should reveal many more Roman forts in the region

TonyTonyChopper,
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So they fell over? Got blown up? Buried in sand?

acockworkorange,

Yeah I don’t know what they mean exactly by “attrition of the archeological record” either, but I assume something like that.

BurnedDonutHole, in Bringing a shark to a knife fight: 7,000-year-old shark-tooth knives discovered in Indonesia

And not one picture of the said knifes in the article. When I see this kind of articles I just want to be able to slap the writer for not putting any photos of the discovery.

Here the source article https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/sharktooth-artefacts-from-middle-holocene-sulawesi/3E5CC1DD59D9770DAE9BEFFF88C11AC3

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