Ancient Engineering
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From Hand-drag to Jumbo: A Millennium of Dredging
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General Interest (Chat) 07/30/2004 8:27:24 AM PDT with 1 comment
IADC (International Association of Dredging Companies) ^ | 1999 | IADC
In the 7th century BC, the Assyrian king Sennacherib constructed an 80-kilometre-long, 20-metre-wide stone-lined canal to bring fresh water to his capital Nineveh. Compared to 20th century standards, one is surprised to learn that the project, which included a 330-metre-long aqueduct, was completed in only one year and three months time.
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Ancient Egypt
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Smenkhkhare, the Hittite Pharaoh
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General Interest (Chat) 07/30/2004 9:42:36 AM PDT with 1 comment
BBC History ^ | September 5, 2002 | Dr Marc Gabolde
[T]he exclusively masculine epithets referring to this individual in the same tomb and on a now-vanished block at Memphis, confirm that we are dealing with a man - as distinct from the pharaoh-queen Ankh(et)kheperure Neferneferuaten... Contrary to Ancient Egyptian custom, Smenkhkare is not presented under a coronation name and a birth name in his two cartouches, but under two coronation names. The explanation for this curious fact seems to me clear: both his royal names were composed on the occasion of his coronation. He therefore must have had another name beforehand... The absence of a birth name, the lack of...
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Roman Empire
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Archaeologist's dig reveals solution to ancient riddle of lost Roman town
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General Interest (Chat) 07/30/2004 7:47:49 AM PDT
Telegraph Online ^ | Sunday 30 July 2000 | Adam Lusher
Brian Philp has spent 34 years quietly amassing evidence to support his theory that Noviomagus, a small "trading post" town on a busy Roman route between London and the south coast, lies beneath fields next to St John the Baptist church in West Wickham, Kent. Academics now say that his theory is so strong there should be a full excavation of the site... The location of Noviomagus has tantalised historians for centuries because it is well-documented in Roman records but no credible material evidence has ever been found... The scholar Robert Talbot suggested Old Croydon as a possible site...
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New Dating For Wat's Dyke
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General Interest (Chat) 07/30/2004 7:13:00 AM PDT
History Today ^ | August 1999 | Keith Nurse
The new information places the construction of the dyke within the shadowy period that began with the formal withdrawal of the Roman administration (AD 410) and ended with the absorption of the area into Mercia. The report concludes: 'The dyke should therefore be regarded as being contemporary with that other great fifth-century linear earthwork, the Wiltshire Wansdyke, rather than Offa's Dyke, and should be considered as an achievement of the post-Roman kingdom of the northern Cornovii, rather than the work of seventh- or eighth-century Mercia.'
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Ancient Greece
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Was There a Trojan War?
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General Interest (Chat) 07/29/2004 11:43:38 PM PDT with 4 comments
Archaeology ^ | May/June 2004 | Manfred Korfmann
A spectacular result of the new excavations has been the verification of the existence of a lower settlement from the seventeenth to the early twelfth centuries B.C. (Troy levels VI/VIIa) outside and south and east of the citadel. As magnetometer surveys and seven excavations undertaken since 1993 have shown, this lower city was surrounded at least in the thirteenth century by an impressive U-shaped fortification ditch, approximately eleven and a half feet wide and six and a half feet deep, hewn into the limestone bedrock. Conclusions about the existence and quality of buildings within the confines of the ditch...
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New Ice-Core Evidence Challenges the 1620s age for the Santorini (Minoan) Eruption
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General Interest (Chat) 07/29/2004 12:25:45 AM PDT with 11 comments
Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 25, Issue 3, March 1998, Pages 279-289 ^ | 13 July 1997 | Gregory A. Zielinski, Mark S. Germani
Determining a reliable calendrical age of the Santorini (Minoan) eruption is necessary to place the impact of the eruption into its proper context within Bronze Age society in the Aegean region. The high-resolution record of the deposition of volcanically produced acids on polar ice sheets, as available in the SO42-time series from ice cores (a direct signal), and the high-resolution record of the climatic impact of past volcanism inferred in tree rings (a secondary signal) have been widely used to assign a 1628/1627 age to the eruption. The layer of ice in the GISP2 (Greenland) ice core corresponding to...
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Atlantis
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Archaeologists to seek Kyrgyz Atlantis
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 07/30/2004 8:53:01 PM PDT with 8 comments
Big News Network.com ^ | Saturday 31st July, 2004 | Editorial Staff
A Kyrgyz-Russian expedition has embarked for an ancient city covered by Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, local media reported Wednesday. Issyk-Kul, 2,250 square miles in area, is a mountain lake in the north of the country. Historians and legends tell about a disappeared island in the lake with fortifications near the north coast where Tamerlane, the Tartar conqueror in southern and western Asia and ruler of Samarkand, held noble prisoners in the 14th century, the Vecherniy Bishkek newspaper said. People have reported seeing stone buildings in on the bottom of northeast Issyk-Kul, not far from the mouth of the Tyup River....
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The Search For Atlantis 'Ends At Ayia Napa' (Cyprus)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/27/2003 5:01:50 PM PDT with 76 comments
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 9-28-2003 | Fiona Govan
The search for Atlantis 'ends at Ayia Napa' By Fiona Govan (Filed: 28/09/2003) It may be the answer generations of experts on the ancient world have been looking for. New research claims that the fabled ancient civilisation of Atlantis is located close to Cyprus. After nearly 10 years of research using ocean mapping technology and accounts from ancient texts, an American explorer says he has evidence that Atlantis lies beneath the deep blue waters off the southern tip of the island.Robert Sarmast, a self-proclaimed mythologist and expert on the ancient world, makes this claim in his book, Discovery of Atlantis...
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Search For "Lost" Atlantis Centers On Strait Of Gibraltar
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/04/2002 4:45:18 PM PST with 37 comments
National Geographic ^ | 0104-2001
Search for "Lost" Atlantis Centers on Strait of Gibraltar The Record, Bergen County, New Jersey January 4, 2002 It was Plato, around 360 B.C., who first described an ancient, exotic island kingdom catastrophically buried beneath the sea when its once-virtuous people angered the gods with their pronounced tilt toward sin and corruption. Since then, creative souls ranging from Jules Verne to Kirk Morris, Maria Montez, Fay Spain, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michael J. Fox, and Walt Disney have sought to explain and exploit the terrible fate that befell Atlantis. Vases from Atlantis? Archaeologists made an important find in the 1960s, lending support ...
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Catastrophism & Astronomy
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An Impact Event in 3114BC? The beginning of a Turbulent Millennium.
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Posted by ckilmer
On News/Activism 01/03/2003 8:06:06 PM PST with 40 comments
personal.eunet.fi ^
An Impact Event in 3114BC? The Beginning of a Turbulent Millennium. Recurring Phenomenon: The Cosmic DisasterThe Mayan CalendarStonehengeA Possible Source for the 3100 BC Event Collected and commented by Timo Niroma, Helsinki, Finland Go to the Evidence of Astronomical Aspects of Mankind's Past and Recent Climate Homepage Recurring Phenomenon: The Cosmic Disaster Besides the most evident cosmic catastrophes ca. 2200 BC and 2345 BC there are other events during the Holocene that are so widely global and difficult to explain by only the Earth's own mechanisms that a cosmic explanation must evidently be taken into account. The first so-called...
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Precolumbian, Clovis, & PreClovis
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Professor Says Mayan Calendar Does Not Portend Earth's Doom (2012AD)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/01/2003 3:18:59 PM PST with 58 comments
Tuscaloosa News ^ | 1-1-2003 | Steve Reeves
Professor says Mayan calendar does not portend Earthís doom By Steve Reeves January 01, 2003 TUSCALOOSA | Does our planet have only a scant 10 more years of existence left? Some people believe the ancient Mayan calendar suggests the end of the world will come on Dec. 21, 2012. But University of Alabama professor Enrique Gomez is not among them. ìThe world wonít end in 2012," laughed Gomez, who teaches in UAís astronomy and physics department. ìI can assure you of that." Gomez, a native of Mexico City, said he is much more interested in Mayan culture and how the...
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Gods Graves Glyphs digest for 2004-07-31
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