The Archaeology Thread

[Gurn Blanston]

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"'Mind blowing' ancient settlements uncovered in the Amazon"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01458-9?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=9bc6fd08a5-briefing-dy-20220526&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-9bc6fd08a5-45297858

Very interesting.  I look forward to seeing more research being done there,  curiosity  certainly piqued. 

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[MusicTurner]

Very interesting.  I look forward to seeing more research being done there,  curiosity  certainly piqued. 

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Yes, another case for the study of the very wide-spread, ancient pyramid cultures...

Even as an average person, one could probably spend half an hour every single day, on the internet, just trying to briefly keep up with the most important new events and archeological discoveries, as they are presented in major news media. There's so much happening in that scientific field ...

[Gurn Blanston]

Yes, another case for the study of the very wide-spread, ancient pyramid cultures...

Even as an average person, one could probably spend half an hour every single day, on the internet, just trying to briefly keep up with the most important new events and archeological discoveries, as they are presented in major news media. There's so much happening in that scientific field ...

Very true, and this has only accelerated since LIDAR came along. I watch a show on National Geographic Channel regularly called "Lost Cities" with Albert Lee, and LIDAR is his specialty. Absolutely amazing the things he shows, mainly (but far from only) Mayan cities that were completely unknown at the turn of the millennium!

[Wanderer]

From Rome with Love: Reuniting the Vatican fragments of the Parthenon.

[Wanderer]

Pope Francis returns three fragments of Parthenon to Greece.