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  • Reply to: The Helmet That Shows Celtic Warriors Helped the Roman Army Conquer Briton   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Cousin_Jack

    I’m always confused by a what a Briton was and is and whether those that were the original Britons still survive.

  • Reply to: Unleashing The Power of the Gods: Hexes and Black Magic in the Ancient Greek Olympics   5 years 4 months ago
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  • Reply to: Has the Enigmatic Voynich Manuscript Code Finally Been Cracked?   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Sasa

    Hello, Ashley, and thank you for your time to write this article.
    However, since I'm a professor of the Croatian language, I'd like to point out some facts you did wrong. First, the Glagolitic script did not evolve "from Turkic language systems" (it was invented centuries before Ottomans' spreading). Second, it is pretty sure that Voynich was not written in any Slavic language; the word formation is completely different. (I'm not going to start about "Serbo-Croatian".) ;-)

  • Reply to: Mysterious Cocaine Mummies: Do They Prove Ancient Voyages Between Egypt and Americas?   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: cacarr

    Total bullshit.

  • Reply to: Another Venus? Rare Neolithic Female Figurine Discovered in Turkey   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: elicia david

    How ignorant can an article be! The most casual student of the Neolithic knows that these female figurines, of large female humans, have been found in the tens of thousands, all over the middle east, eastern europe, turkey, Greece etc .. . Not rare in the least!

  • Reply to: Khopesh—The Egyptian Sword that Forged an Empire   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: kjohnson

    You stated “Before the Bronze Age, only axes were available because copper is not strong enough to withstand the metallurgical processes required to make swords.” I’ve read that there were copper swords but they were very short due to the weakness you describe. I read you references and did not find this statement. Where did you get this information. Or is it just a supposition?

  • Reply to: Researchers discover secret recipe of Roman concrete that allowed it to endure for over 2,000 years   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: George Kopeczky

    So you are Rome, and want to build a Pantheon no one can copy. You mix concrete with pozzolan, aka basalt ash and pour building parts. And write THIS part down in detail.

    Now... what would prevent people from copying this technique ever after? Nothing. Unless you conveniently "forgot" to mention a second part that's also needed for this recipe to work. Such as, having free army labor to chisel basalt girders that go into this basalt concrete for reinforcement. Scientist in 2000 whips out instrument, looks at the finished Pantheon wall, says "Wow, there's nothing but basalt in this, no steel at all. A monolithic pour with no reinforcement!" While in fact quite likely it's chiseled basalt girders in the wall that are doing the heavy lifting. It's just being discovered that basalt reinforcement has 2x the strength of steel at 20% of steel's weight. Obviously, the Ancient Romans didn't have 2000 degree kilns to manufacture basalt rebar as we do today to reinforce concrete. My hunch is, the Romans just took a big honking basalt boulder and had the free labor (aka Army soldiers) chisel the reinforcement girder shapes out of it. And THIS is why no one continued the recipe after the demise of the Roman Empire. Not because all the masons came down with an unexplainable case of collective amnesia how to mix Roman concrete. But because this recipe also required the free rock chiseling labor of an entire Roman Army detachment.

  • Reply to: Shipwreck’s Cargo Belonged to Most Important Shogun Clan in Japanese History   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: fuuten

    Its not just a clan though. The Tokugawa families were the rulers of the (relatively), peaceful Edo period. Which lasted for over 250 years.

  • Reply to: Ancient Australian Aborigines connected to Lascaux Cave, France   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Derek Cunningham

    I think what may have happened is the population decreased and moved southwards during the last Ice Age. Then the group in the southwestern region of the Pacific Ocean migrated northwards and to America at the end of the Ice Age. That idea could cover both possibilities (Out of Africa and Australia outward migration.

  • Reply to: More than a Sip and You Feel a Drip: A Morbid Motif for the Crafty Pythagoras Cup   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Brad Majors

    This is known in India as Lord Krishnas' Bowl, said to have been in use for thousands of years. Which culture "discovered" this first?

  • Reply to: Archaeologists Find the First Example of a Harappan Couple Burial   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Ms.Hillers

    This is an important discovery because it proves that people were romantic even in the past. It may sound silly, but such moments make it possible to believe that people wanted gender equality even in those distant times.
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  • Reply to: Great Pyramid Casing Stone Exhibit On Rocky Ground As Egypt Challenges Its Legality   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Edward Hanson

    Marble is limestone that has been subjected to heat and pressure.

  • Reply to: Head on a Platter: The Ancient Practice of Headhunting   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: IJ

    Maori preserved the heads of the chiefs which were brought out to view during certain ceremonies. But when Europeans came they began trading them and attacking other tribes to gain that tribes heads to trade and when that source began to dry up tattooed salves (yes, even Maori had slaves) and then killed them and traded those heads too. Don't get too upset, if was just something they did to gain superior weapons for war. Here's a link to read - http://tangatawhenua16.wixsite.com/the-first-ones-blog/single-post/2017/... . And another link - http://tangatawhenua16.wixsite.com/the-first-ones-blog/single-post/2016/... and one more - https://www.cvltnation.com/mokomokai-the-preserved-heads-of-maori-tribes...

  • Reply to: The First Complete Maya Steam Bath For Ritual Use Found in Guatemala   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Prysm

    This is a perfect example of how archaeology is not an exact science. Archaeologists make their best guesses given the information that they have, which can sometimes end up being wrong. It's all up to interpretation. But of course, point this out to them and they get all defensive. Information that we have long held as 'gospel' could end up being totally mistaken, a guess tinted by our modern views; And once something has been decided upon, any other possible interpretation is almost violently shunned. This is why, unless there is absolutely iron-clad, irrefutable evidence of something, I take the interpretation with a grain of salt. I feel it's important to keep an open mind.

  • Reply to: Nasty Nauplius: The Revenge-Seeking Sailor Who Ruined Trojan War Heroes’ Lives   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: George Metaxas

    True, this is how Dictys Cretensis narrates the story. Homer though doesn't say a word about either Nauplius or Palamedes, either in Iliad or Odyssey. Is it because Homer was a close relative of Ulysses as Pythia responded to the question of emperor Hadrian? On the other hand, Dictys' story isn't considered very credible, as the manuscript that bears his name was discovered in Nero's time under questionable conditions, to say the least.

  • Reply to: Achilles and Patroclus: Close Confidants or Passionate Paramours?   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: bedb

    Achilles is whatever you want him to be. He had sex with women and men. He was a pedophile, gay rapist and necrophiliac shagging a dead woman he had just slain. And he was involved in two incidents of women being sacrificed.
    Which is why my two guys are Menelaus and Diomedes, a flash of boob and Menelaus was taking Helen home. And Diomedes so wanted to impress his warbride/concubine Cressida, that he went after Troilus everytime he saw the other man. It would have been a nobler death if Troilus had died by Diomedes' sword than being raped to death by Achilles.
    Which bring me to this. Patroclus was older than Achilles. Achilles was the receiver.

  • Reply to: Discovery of Lost Citadel May Prove the Existence of King David   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: the Oracle

    And who is the Queen of Canada, never having been born there nor lived there?

  • Reply to: More Orichalcum, the Atlantis Alloy, Turns Up with Helmets at a Sicilian Shipwreck, What Was its Use?   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: QuarkScy

    Orichalcum had a reddish glow. The story of Atlantis is clear. The Romans mislabeled Brass or Bronze as orichalcum and it has stayed that way that Orichalcum is Bronze. When the ancient Greeks clearly differentiated between the two.

  • Reply to: Archaeologists in the UK Find Two Mutilated Skeletons   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: pete wagner

    This fits a pattern of the assault on the ancient Aryans, who had spread their peaceful stone culture on the three continents. We know what the Romans did at Corinth around 150 BC; they genocided the men (tens of thousands) and enslave all the women and children. What happened in Thebes, with their golden hair Sphinxes, known for its tall blondes (as per Plato), is a big mystery.

  • Reply to: Roman Weapons: Sharp Blades to Conquer the Ancient World   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Crasslee

    It should be noted that the picture provided to illustrate the Pilum, actually shows a legionary with a spear.

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