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There is a rather frightening ghost story set in a Viking toilet, at first comical then less so. It concerns one of the men (dead) of Olaf Tryggvason and the last fight of the Long Serpent.

That would put it in the "could be" category. Unfortuantely one has to be sceptical of anything that comes out of nationalist Israel - as with other countries such as India frantically trying to rearrange their past toi suit a particular ethnic group. One is reminded of the highly embarrasing incide...

Sounds extremely dodgy. What tower in Jersulalem was dated to 1700 BC in the first place? And such a misdating would be obvious surely - cultural context etc.

The date is wring it is now thought Pompeii was destroyed in October.

Recall that it was not just the pyroclastic flow at the end. For the better part of a day Vesuvius rained ash and pumice down on the town and that gets heavy when it starts to build up. Somewhere there was a video rendering of the eruption. I wonder if I can still find it? It was presumed that this...

Isn't there evidence of contemporary salvage & scavenging shortly after the eruption? I seem to remember reading that the Pompeiians salvaged around the perimeters of the town, where possible. (maybe the same for Herculenium?) That's what happened to many of the town's statues, they were salvaged, ...

Science and knowledge are already under siege from a motley ragbag of climate change deniers, MMR sceptics, 5G phone nutters. There's no need to encourage others.

"Opinion is only worth hearing if it is well informed" - or at least based on basic science.

Maybe they have it in places not photographed, or maybe if they left anything out it would get stolen, I don'r know, but it would seem to be a much more awesome place to see if all the day to day trappings were left as they were 2000 years ago. Trouble is we don't know how homes in Pompeii would ha...

n all the pics and videos of Pompeii, even the newly opened areas there is never any day to day items. Plates, chairs, tables, jugs, beds, :wink: clothing, etc, etc. I would have thought that all that stuff would have been preserved by the pumice. Can someone tell me what happened to it? thanks. Mo...

One assumes the traces mean they didn't wash the pots, disgusting.

Could be natural. Always hard to tell with stone objects. There's always a row with Koorie artifacts, some are obviously man-made others may be naturally occurring, some rocks do gain sharp edges naturally. Context can help, is it near a midden? Is there the remnants of a butchered animal nearby? A ...

Seabirds eat shellfish as do many other life forms, why would the neanderthals be any different? It's simple to get and nutritious, a fairly obvious food.

And neither the RIs or Puritans were tolerant of Catholics, which in terms of the UK meant of course the Irish. Some had also fought in the 80 years war and were clearly brutalised by the event, so they were not all the tolerant, peaceful people they have been depicted. The impression of an inhospit...

That's what they used to use in Japan apparently for the same reason

Meh... It could have been worse... Belzoni could have been the one to 'excavate & restore' Knossos...

That is hardly consoling