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Re: Archaeology ...
« Reply #50 on: July 03, 2022, 12:51:53 AM »
A stone crannog found in Derry North Ireland ...

 https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-61986065

The very short article provides a brief video showing what it currently looks like, and how it might have looked around the time it was built.
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« Reply #51 on: July 08, 2022, 02:59:35 AM »
A bear cub bone found in a cave associated with Neanderthal findings has the potential to have been sort of like a flute ...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHXV07YCGKY
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Re: Archaeology ...
« Reply #52 on: July 18, 2022, 01:09:28 PM »
Horses, and a human found at Mt. St. Jean, and a search of the reverse slope at Waterloo ...

With the pandemic delaying the excavations at the Battle of Waterloo, archaeologists have now returned in 2022 to the site, and begun excavating what is understood as having been the British field hospital at the Mt. St. Jean farm.  Besides the human remains of limbs discard after amputations occurred, there have also been found horse (quite the hypothesis in the video on those), and the skeletal remains of only the second human to be be found at the battlefield.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-foPIB4rrJY
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Re: Archaeology ...
« Reply #53 on: August 03, 2022, 03:01:37 PM »
4300 dinosaur footprints found in northwestern China ...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gakLsjljiX0
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Re: Archaeology ...
« Reply #54 on: September 13, 2022, 02:21:53 PM »
While on youtube today I came across a channel called Miniminuteman where they dispel historical conspiracies. The video I watched was about the Baghdad Battery (which should be properly known as the "Parthian Jars") and it was great. Interestingly enough there was a recommended response video by Artifactually Speaking where an archaeologist in that specific field of study watched the Miniminuteman video and brings in his expertise to provide more information about the topic and also help dispel the conspiracy. He even corrects the Miniminuteman several times and provides additional context to the whole subject. Really worth a watch! Especially Artifactually Speaking's video which provided a lot of the context that Minimuntemen couldn't find but was searching for.

Miniminuteman video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRZR_TeVi5Y

Artifactually Speaking's reaction video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZBsNGPVK2s

The TL;DR:
They were most likely magic jars with spells and incantations in them. More than likely to keep away evil spirits from the home.
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Re: Archaeology ...
« Reply #55 on: December 17, 2022, 12:57:42 AM »
Some interesting archaeology being done in Lake Huron, and the ideas coming from it ...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2eGkCIErFY
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Re: Archaeology ...
« Reply #56 on: December 23, 2022, 02:32:39 AM »
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« Reply #57 on: March 03, 2023, 01:43:02 PM »
A new chamber has been located inside one of the Great Pyramids in Eygpt ...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHHQdK1AtTc

... there is already speculation that an additional discovery could be made relatively soon, and some are saying the chamber was only being used to reduce the Pyramid's overall weight.
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« Reply #58 on: March 03, 2023, 02:50:09 PM »
Here is a video with a lot more information on the new find at the Great Pyramids ...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tp2uOFGK7s
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Re: Archaeology ...
« Reply #59 on: March 04, 2023, 05:25:24 AM »
Oldest sentence found so far ... in the Cananite alphabet ...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8NHg82wbsk

 
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« Reply #60 on: March 11, 2023, 07:15:40 AM »
Some analysis of the north face corridor of the Great Pyramid ...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAxelvcgH1g
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Re: Archaeology ...
« Reply #61 on: March 11, 2023, 12:31:41 PM »
Here's an interesting video that discusses a recent theory on how the Great pyramid was built ...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JlnMs616Z0
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Re: Archaeology ...
« Reply #62 on: April 30, 2023, 11:12:54 PM »
Some interesting findings in studying the casing stones at the top of the Khafre pyramid ...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4vV1aAgVGw
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Re: Archaeology ...
« Reply #63 on: June 08, 2023, 05:16:04 PM »
Not sure this counts as archaeology, although an interesting interpretation of a possible encounter between a T-Rex and two Quetzalcoatus ...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWGnlAQsRaE

The Chicago Field Museum has actual fossils of Quetzalcoatus, and a display of what one might have looked like as well.  These were another pre-historic creature that would have towered over humans.
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Re: Archaeology ...
« Reply #64 on: June 15, 2023, 05:27:33 AM »
I'm disappointed at the lack of Lizardmen

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Re: Archaeology ...
« Reply #65 on: September 17, 2024, 02:21:34 AM »
Some info on hillforts in southern England ...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s46eOe7oO_I
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