Lost cities / archaeology / ancient history

They've found a 'big-boned' animal that evolved in Australia. It's funny how evolution repeats 26m years later:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jun/25/fossils-of-big-boned-marsupial-shed-light-on-wombat-evolution-mukupirna

Wow. Now all that needs to happen is for HS2 to be cancelled after the archaeologists have used this funding, so that the finds can be explored further.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jul/11/hs2-works-unearth-skeleton-of-possible-iron-age-victim

I don't know much about Aboriginal heritage, but I'm trying to read more prompted by these stories:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/28/more-than-100-aboriginal-sacred-sites-some-dating-before-the-ice-age-could-be-destroyed-by-mining-companies

Some years ago a friend's mum found some indigenous art on the property they owned... Fearful of the hassle this would cause when they came to sell up, she destroyed all trace of it... It isn't just corporations that do it, it's systemic in Australia... 😢

Wow - what a tragic story. Such an important site destroyed in the pursuit of profit.

This one was mega depressing from earlier in the week, 46,000 years old and just detroyed

Yes, like listed buildings mysteriously catching fire in this country, although not quite with the same ancestry ...

46,000 years old

Yes, and that's only what they've found out so far. It's always a matter of how deep you dig. I have no doubt that the estimated time of human arrival in Australia will be revised as even older finds are made. Unfortunately, for that to happen you need this sort of site. :(

Hopefully the companies will begin to get the message that this isn't acceptable after this:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/11/rio-tinto-ceo-senior-executives-resign-juukan-gorge-debacle-caves

A find here that's not too ancient, but a reminder that slavery-like conditions were still going on in the 19th and 20th centuries, just as they are today:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/15/mexico-identifies-first-mayan-slave-ship

I posted something here on road-building near the Pyramids:

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15519475/

Just checking in to say thanks for updating this thread Oliver, I dont post a reply everytime, but i normally read all the articles

Went round the Archaeology Museum in Heraklion yesterday. Kitchen pots made 6000 years ago. Gave me the willies tbh.

The hands that made this pot belonged to someone who died 4000 years before Jesus:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ihzsTAicVJPpV9ew8

I always think that when you see people bringing Egyptian oil jars or bronze age relics on the antiques roadshow and then they're worth comparative little. I would love to own something so old and yet man made

its quite mindbollgling just how old something like that is.

also i read your post in the tune to the old fairy ad....csb.

Also I learned that the King of Crete was Minos. His missus Pasiphae climbed inside a fake wooden cow made by Daedalus (Icarus'father) so that she could mate with a bull.

Minos.

Taurus.

So the son of their union was called..

MINOTAUR!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/WgY8BcV24N62abZw6

the ancient greek myths legends gods and stuff its crazy. I need to read up more rather than relying on clash of the titans

It's a jumbled up myth that includes ejaculating scorpions (not scorpions who ejaculate)

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/pasiphae

Im in😯

I reckon it's a hell of a lot better than modern-day conspiracy theories ...

Still, I'm with Plato on Greek myth. :)

I can't believe this only sold for 2.6k

https://archmdmag.com/detectorist-discovery-of-a-full-set-of-hnefatafl-pieces-sells-at-auction/

Yes I echo this sentiment. Thanks @Oliver Schick you singlehandedly keep a lot of threads on this forum going.

I just came across this article which I thought was interesting
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-african-gold

For people unfamiliar with Mansa Musa
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/mansa-musa-musa-i-mali/

Thanks @oheyitsdrew and @spotter!