News clips that are interesting

[Jona Lendering]

Archeologists claim to have found the palace of Odysseus:
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=119469

If only archaeologists could be happy with the finds themselves. A Mycenaean palace - wow! That's sufficient. There's no need to connect it to a written source. It's unscientific, and people will eventually recognize that.

[Ron Andrea]

Of course it's unscientific. News releases like that are not about informing the public but promoting oneselves.

Their success is documented by the sentence, "The Greek Ministry of Culture has provided more funding for the continuation of the excavations."

"More funding! Let's party, then go find another ruin and attribute it to Achilles." :wink:

[Dithrambus]

Archeologists claim to have found the palace of Odysseus:
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=119469

If only archaeologists could be happy with the finds themselves. A Mycenaean palace - wow! That's sufficient. There's no need to connect it to a written source. It's unscientific, and people will eventually recognize that.

Of course it's unscientific. News releases like that are not about informing the public but promoting oneselves.

Their success is documented by the sentence, "The Greek Ministry of Culture has provided more funding for the continuation of the excavations."

"More funding! Let's party, then go find another ruin and attribute it to Achilles." :wink:

You spoil-sports! :lol: :wink:

Yes, the finding of a Mycenaean palace is sufficiently exciting in and of itself, or at least it should be.

[Astiryu1]

I second that motion... 8)

[Jona Lendering]

Of course it's unscientific. News releases like that are not about informing the public but promoting oneselves.

Their success is documented by the sentence, "The Greek Ministry of Culture has provided more funding for the continuation of the excavations."

"More funding! Let's party, then go find another ruin and attribute it to Achilles." :wink:

Exactly. And this is why no one believes scholars and scientists any more. Their greed has destroyed their discipline.

[Astiryu1]

[url:3bnc0hz1]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100830/ap_on_re_ca/cn_canada_titanic_expedition_6[/url]

New "Titanic" pics.

[Paullus Scipio]

Interesting, Craig.....and you can follow various links to this interesting item for Romanophiles.....

WINE OF THE SARCOPHAGI
The Romans, as the saying goes, found truth in wine, and they made a habit of draining their cups dry. But they had enough restraint to leave this one bottle behind, stashed in one of two sarcophagi excavated in 1867 in what's now the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The wine in the cloudy, yellowed glass amphora, its neck anchored on either side by small dolphin-shaped handles, dates back to approximately A.D. 300, making it the oldest still liquid wine in the world. Now on permanent display at the History Museum of Pfalz along with other viticultural treasures, the drink is trapped beneath a film of olive oil, which the ancients commonly used to preserve wine from oxidation. Its age shows: thick brown clouds of fluid swirl with sediment, like something an ill-mannered child might concoct in his dinner cup. It may have survived intact, but even the most indiscriminate of Rome's drinkers would find this vintage past its prime.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packa ... z0y8bO63d6

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packa ... 71,00.html

[Vindex]

Threat to sites in flood stricken Pakistan

http://www.bajrfed.co.uk/content.php?21 ... n-Pakistan

And a Roman fort in Jordan...

http://www.bajrfed.co.uk/gallery/displa ... p?pos=-147

[Jona Lendering]

This news clip is also quite interesting, especially the photo - Nemrud Dagi is only three days away from Aslan Tepe.[attachment=0:1aw6ktb0]<!-- ia0 Knipsel2.GIF<!-- ia0 [/attachment:1aw6ktb0]

[Astiryu1]

Home movie found of the "Blitz" during WW2 ( In Color!!! )

[url:3ayfmr12]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100906/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_blitz_footage[/url]

[Astiryu1]

Ancient Egyptian city under the sea emerges
[url:qceisedi]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100907/ap_on_sc/ml_egypt_ancient_city_by_the_sea_2[/url]

[Paullus Scipio]

Craig, haven't you finished Herodotus yet??? D lol: ..........you'll find Thucydides even more interesting ! :wink:

[Jona Lendering]

An opera in Klingon (more). Don't judge my Dutch compatriots too harshly... :wink:

[Astiryu1]

Unpublished original photos of the "Lascaux" paintings from LIFE.

[url:3sl24ow3]http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/48231/inside-lascaux-rare-unpublished[/url]

[Astiryu1]

First I have heard of a new "3 Musketeers" movie. It has Ray Stevenson, Milla Jovovich, Orlando Bloom and many others. I will keep an eye out for this one.

[url:3djkczcf]http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=69909[/url]