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The Hill of the Dragon: Anglo-Saxon Burial Mounds in Literature and Archaeology
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The Hill of the Dragon: Anglo-Saxon Burial Mounds in Literature and Archaeology
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littleostraca: Thonis - Heracleion rises. Bronze statuette of...
Thonis - Heracleion rises.
Bronze statuette of pharaoh of the 26th dynasty, found at the temple of Amon area at Heracleion. The sovereign wears the “blue crown” (probably the crown of the accession). His dress is extremely simple and classical: the bare-chested king wears the traditional shendjyt kilt or loincloth.
©Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation, photo: Christoph Gerigk
More images and info about the discoveries here: http://bit.ly/18eNOQ9
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Startling Survival Story at Historic Jamestown: Physical Evidence of Survival Cannibalism
Startling Survival Story at Historic Jamestown: Physical Evidence of Survival Cannibalism:
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deadoldbones: The 3 axes displayed together.
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deadoldbones: 3 acheulean hand axes. The first I knapped myself...
3 acheulean hand axes. The first I knapped myself last year and is pictured earlier in my blog. The other 2 were cast from the original in bronze and iron using the lost wax method. The bronze axe weighs almost 2 pounds, with the iron axe weighing slightly less. The three taken together illustrate the three age system proposed by Danish archaeologist Christian Jurgensen Thomsen, the stone age, bronze age, and iron age. The model has been criticized since it was proposed as Eurocentric and insistent that progress moves along a set path of development towards the present although it still remains broadly used. Although the technology may change, the basic need for tools fulfilling a specific function remains the same.
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Consuming Colonists
Consuming Colonists: What recent evidence of cannibalism at Jamestown tells us about the earliest...
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Cash Crunch Prompts Controversial Sales At Chicago's Field Museum : NPR
Cash Crunch Prompts Controversial Sales At Chicago's Field Museum : NPR: The museum, already...
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Think Outside the Box to Find Extraterrestrial Life
Think Outside the Box to Find Extraterrestrial Life: We should think outside the box when...
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nevver: Pie comic
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Egyptians grab ancient land of the pharaohs to bury their dead
Egyptians grab ancient land of the pharaohs to bury their dead: xmorbidcuriosityx:
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Archaeological News: Before Babel? Ancient Mother Tongue Reconstructed
Archaeological News: Before Babel? Ancient Mother Tongue Reconstructed: archaeologicalnews:
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Archaeological News: The Met Will Return a Pair of Statues to Cambodia
Archaeological News: The Met Will Return a Pair of Statues to Cambodia: archaeologicalnews:
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winningthebattleloosingthewar: Photograph by Robert Clark, at...
winningthebattleloosingthewar:
Photograph by Robert Clark, at the Toulouse Museum, France
Murdered, then buried together in a grave festooned with antlers, two women from a Mesolithic cemetery on Téviec Island in Brittany, France, pay witness to a violent age.
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clarabolina: 1,700 year-old Roman cemetery discovered under...
1,700 year-old Roman cemetery discovered under another car park in Leicester
University of Leicester Archaeological Services, the same group that discovered King Richard III under a car park in Leicester, has found a Roman cemetery in another car park in the same city.
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webleymkiv: Legendary National Geographic photographer Luis...
Legendary National Geographic photographer Luis Marden—on his first foreign assignment—shoots the great ball court at Chichén Itzá in 1936. More than a sport, Maya ball games were spectacles that drew thousands to ceremonial centers.
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tselentis-arch: Notes on Teotihuacan’s Feathered Serpent...
This six-level step pyramid is decorated with feathered serpent heads and snake-like creatures. It was built possibly between 100-200 AD - DMC, INAH/M. MARAT
The excavation focused on a 330-foot-long tunnel which runs under the structure. The conduit was discovered in 2003 when heavy rain uncovered a hole a few feet from the temple. - CNMH, INAH
Hundreds of mysterious spheres - DMC, INAH/M. MARAT
To understand where and how the tunnel ended, the archaeologists used a 3-foot-long, remote-controlled robot which was able to explore the last part of the duct. - via discovery.com
The chambers are displayed as they were plotted by the laser scanner. - HÉCTOR MONTAÑO/INAH
Notes on Teotihuacan’s Feathered Serpent (2/2)
Hundreds of mysterious spheres discovered beneath the “Temple of the Feathered Serpent”
Last week, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History announced the discovery of “hundreds of spheres” in several rooms beneath the “Temple of the feathered Serpent”. The rooms were explored for the first time via a robotic device. The spheres, 4 to 10 cm in diameter, consisted of a clay core, covered with pyrite, which oxidized for thousands of years, became jarosite. The purpose or the meaning of those spheres remains unknown.[1]
According to a report by NBC’s Today Show, the tunnel concealing the three rooms had been sealed off 1,800 years ago and was rediscovered in 2003 after a heavy rainstorm caused the ground to sink, revealing the hole. [2]
According to Gómez Chávez, the tunnel was sealed twice by the Teotihuacan people. Thick walls, erected to block access, were demolished about 1,800 years ago in order to deposit something very important in the central chamber at the end of the tunnel.
“Maybe in this place,” Gómez Chávez said, “we will find the remains of those who ruled Teotihuacan.” [3]
The myth
While scientists continue to explore, it may be useful to remind that it’s impossible to understand an ancient civilisation by the terms of our modern world. We may have robots and scanners, but are unable to understand what a “power object” is or that burial might not refer exclusively to dead people.
An ancient civilisation has to be understood by its own terms, regardless of how incredible they may seem to our modern ears.
According to Carlos Castaneda, ancient Toltecs had the ability to transfer their feelings (their “power”) into objects, such as stone rings or similar. Those “power objects”, if retrieved later by some other person, could act as “feeling projectors” to the individual who retrieved them, enabling him to sense their owners’ sentiments at the moment of the initial “recording”.
Furthermore, it was told by the same author, that shamans of ancient mesoamerican civilisations used to bury themselves for a limited period of time or permanently, to revive their bodies by Earth’s energy or to acquire longevity.
These sound of course like fairy tales, but do we have a better explanation of what really was happening there?
Images via Discovery News
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The Fire from Within
This is a must for whoever wants to explore the myth-side of the story. For the science-side, see here.
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Ancient Pyramid's Stunning Astronomical Alignment
Ancient Pyramid's Stunning Astronomical Alignment: By: Owen Jarus, LiveScience Contributor...
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paigeautumn: Discovery of Ancient Roman Cemetery in...
Discovery of Ancient Roman Cemetery in Leicester
“Hidden beneath a parking lot in Leicester, England, archaeologists have discovered a…
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gardant: Con Co Ngua excavation potentially the earliest cemetery site in Southeast Asia
gardant: Con Co Ngua excavation potentially the earliest cemetery site in Southeast Asia:
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