New Historical Find Mega Thread

[de officiis]

More mummies 'n stuff. Eight tombs, 2,500 years old.

See Inside This Newly Discovered Ancient Egyptian Cemetery

I wonder what my remains will look like 2,500 years from now. Not much, I suppose.

[Montegriffo]

I really feel for the Egyptians. Tourism used to be the second biggest industry after oil. Every other job was linked to visitors.
Perfume, handmade rugs, papyrus paintings, transport, riverboats, hotels, Red Sea resorts. All virtually dead now.
I met a lot of great people when I was there and I wonder how they are surviving now.

[K@th]

Part of a prehistoric human skull and a bison bone decorated with a zigzag pattern — dubbed the world's "oldest Dutchwoman" and "oldest Dutch artwork" — have been revealed by scientists in the Netherlands, in research that highlights a sunken treasure trove of human archaeology beneath the North Sea.

https://www.livescience.com/61882-skull ... ufferb3c96

[GloryofGreece]

I really feel for the Egyptians. Tourism used to be the second biggest industry after oil. Every other job was linked to visitors.
Perfume, handmade rugs, papyrus paintings, transport, riverboats, hotels, Red Sea resorts. All virtually dead now.
I met a lot of great people when I was there and I wonder how they are surviving now.

Was it relatively safe until the Arab Spring? Guess the security was protecting its cash cow. Another reason Ill likely never visit Israel and Persia as well. Sad really.

[Martin Hash]

It’s “safe” in all those places. Don’t get psyched out.

[Penner]

Ancient d20 die emerges from the ashes of time
Many centuries before Dungeons & Dragons was even a glimmer in the eye of Gary Gygax, ancient Egyptians were rolling a d20 die.

Let's go back in time. Way back. Keep going. OK, stop. You're in the Ptolemaic Period. It's somewhere around 304 to 30 B.C. You're in Egypt. You're playing Dungeons & Dragons. Except back then, it's more like Pyramids & Petsuchos.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns what may be the world's oldest d20 die. It's made out of serpentine and looks to be in remarkably good shape for its age.

https://www.cnet.com/news/ancient-d20-d ... s-of-time/

[Penner]

Picture of the ancient d20 die:

[K@th]

Picture of the ancient d20 die:

That's cool!

[Penner]

There are lost cities all over the world. Some, like the remains of Mayan cities hidden beneath a thick canopy of rainforest in Mesoamerica, are found with the help of laser lights.

Now the same technology which located those Mayan cities has been used to rediscover a southern African city that was occupied from the 15th century until about 200 years ago. This technology, called LiDAR, was used to “redraw” the remains of the city, along the lower western slopes of the Suikerbosrand hills near Johannesburg.

It is one of several large settlements occupied by Tswana-speakers that dotted the northern parts of South Africa for generations before the first European travellers encountered them in the early years of the nineteenth century. In the 1820s all these Tswana city states collapsed in what became known as the Difeqane civil wars. Some had never been documented in writing and their oral histories had gone unrecorded.

https://qz.com/1230830/a-lost-city-in-s ... echnology/

[SuburbanFarmer]

Wow. Found footage of San Francisco immediately after the 1906 quake.