New Historical Find Mega Thread

[C-Mag]

New Photos of isolated Brazilian Kamayurá people
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... water.html

[doc_loliday]

Those pics are pretty amazing.

[C-Mag]

Wine Meant to Toast John Adams’s Presidency Was Just Discovered
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/sto ... cebook_cnt


Liberty Hall Museum—which is located on the campus of Kean University, one of New Jersey's largest state schools—has been going through an extensive renovation with the goal of allowing their visitors to walk through every era of American history. Recently, the museum took one massive leap toward that objective in the most unexpected of ways. It was announced that the museum discovered several cases of Madeira wine from 1796 that had been shipped from Portugal for the celebration of John Adams's presidency.

[C-Mag]

Baia was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire – the place where the rich and powerful came to carry out their illicit affairs.
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/2018010 ... of-the-sea

Interesting

[Penner]

Baia was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire – the place where the rich and powerful came to carry out their illicit affairs.
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/2018010 ... of-the-sea

Interesting

I thought that Pompeii was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire?

[C-Mag]

Don't know, I posted it because I'd never heard of the place

[Speaker to Animals]

Capua was the big resort city. Pompeii and Herculaneum were really just port towns.

[K@th]

One Of The Largest Known Diamonds Ever Has Just Been Discovered

910 carats!

[C-Mag]

Complex engineering and metal-work discovered beneath ancient Greek 'pyramid'

Latest find on Cyclades’ Keros includes evidence of metal-working and suggests the beginnings of an urban centre

Archaeologists from three different countries involved in an ongoing excavation have found evidence of a complex of drainage tunnels – constructed 1,000 years before the famous indoor plumbing of the Minoan palace of Knossos on Crete – and traces of sophisticated metalworking.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... ek-pyramid

[Hastur]

Savage


8,000-Year-Old Heads on Stakes Found in Mysterious Underwater Grave

The discovery of a burial containing 8,000-year-old battered human skulls, including two that still have pointed wooden stakes through them, has left archaeologists baffled, according to a new study from Sweden.

It's hard to make heads or tails of the finding: During the Stone Age, the grave would have sat at the bottom of a small lake, meaning that the skulls would have been placed underwater. Moreover, of the remains of at least 11 adults placed on top of the grave, only one had a jawbone, the researchers said.

The burial did contain other jawbones, although none of them, except for an infant's, were human. While excavating the site, archaeologists found various animal bones, including dismembered jawbones and arms and legs (all from the right side of the body), said study co-lead researcher Fredrik Hallgren, an archaeologist at the Cultural Heritage Foundation in Västerås, Sweden. [See Images from the Mysterious Burial Found in Sweden]

"Here, we have an example of a very complex ritual, which is very structured," Hallgren told Live Science. "Even though we can't decipher the meaning of the ritual, we can still appreciate the complexity of it, of these prehistoric hunter-gatherers."

This strange burial site would have been hidden from view during the Stone Age, except for a few wooden stakes that may have poked above the water's edge, Hallgren said. Whoever made the grave began by tightly placing large stones and wooden stakes together at the lake's bottom, making a flat structure measuring about 39 feet by 46 feet (12 by 14 meters), meaning each side was about the length of a school bus.

The bones were placed on top of these stones in a particular order; archaeologists found the human remains in the center of the structure, brown bear bones on the southern part and, finally, big game animals, including wild boar, red deer, moose and roe deer, on the southeastern part of the stone packing.

"It's a very enigmatic structure," Hallgren said. "We really don't understand the reason why they did this and why they put it under water."