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This is a very old tendency eg. The Nazis with their "ancient Teutonic eagle brooches". One of the most ludicrous is of course Israel when Yadin formally reburied a "zealot" defender of Masada (believing Josephus implicitly) only for it to be found that the bag of bones was probably a Roman attacker...

The statue looks like a Henry Moore reject.

There is a good book which looks at the construction of the Stonehenge trilothons.

It examines various different methods and concludes that brilliant as the various suggestions are the builders might have used all, or none of them.

Always the bulls

This is an impressive find. Having recently visited Ephesus and been given a lecture on the immense cost of archaeological excavations, one wonders how long this will take to excavate and research. The Nemi ships however show how advanced ancient boat building could be. Had the allies not bombed the...

Oh dear bit upset are we Huck? Dem uppitty a-rabs!

It all depends on what the hunter gatherers were hunting and gathering. Kangaroos and emus in OZ and and game in New Guinea etc do not "migrate" as such, they graze wherever they can. On the other hand during the cooler months in Northern NSW and Canberra bands would move to the highlands and feast ...

While British & French did indeed loot Egypt & other colonial possessions, the Rosetta Stone was looted from its original location in antiquity, possibly late antiquity, inferring that the Arab conquerors did the original looting. Try to keep the facts straight rather than relying on your typical, ...

There was a book published about 2 years ago about Champollion and the translation of hieroglyphics. The book spelled out how the British and French looted Egypt even ripping out the Rosetta down and other artefacts without the slightest regard for the Egyptian people. It is not surprising that ther...

Re: Nefertiti in the news again by Minimalist » Sat Nov 23, 2019 9:21 pm Does Zahi ever admit when he is wrong? Who knows but it always cheering when someone from a despised and exploited country speaks up and gets Westerners to take notice. One remembers the Maori and Koories who when they asked f...

Many of Napoleon's Marshals seem to have died from wounds such as this. I read that as the empire came under heavy attack in 1812 officers had to expose themselves more to the enemy in order to steady the new recruits as they ran out of veterans and experienced troops.

I never read the Express, I don't beleive "migrans" are responsible for the UK's ills or that Trade Unions are inventions of the Devil so it has nothing for me.

It is also not true that Napoleon's gunners used it for target practice

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-49728401 Always interesting when something which has been accepted for years is reinterpreted. Reminiscent from when a Merovingian tomb excavated in the 18th century was presumed to have a number of stylus's (now lost) Odd considering they were largel...

"A match of only five alleles does not prove any conclusive close family relationship. The data published by Hawass et al. gives only eight autosomal STR markers (Hawass et al., 2010)." From ISOGG Wiki: https://isogg.org/wiki/CODIS The previous genetic analysis really appears to be unsophisticated....