Treasury of Atreus by Michael Schiavone
Posted on 11/11/2018 3:56:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The Scythians were renowned archers with recurved bows. Those bows were awfully powerful and I;ve always wondered how they strung them. And, there in great detail in a gold piece is a demonstration of how it was done by using the leg in a way I’d never thought of.
Great pics of archeological finds that were hidden too long behind governmental interference.
The National Geographic one was also on YT (when I searched using the Roku), and I think (it was late, I was sleepy, slept through the video) that one turned out to be the same freakin' show.
The Scythian objects I’ve seen are all beautiful. No exception here. Thanks.
Did they build that into the ground, or cover it with dirt after?
It's built row over row, and the dirt is piled up as they go, both to make it easier to build, and to create hoop stress so that it doesn't fall out.
It's not unlkely that the craftsmanship of the gold objects (particularly that urn) is Greek.
With the opening up of so many areas to archeological exploration and the new technology like lidar, this may be the golden age of discovery all over the world of finds of major importance. Looking at the satellite and lidar pictures of Egypt and Central America, the undiscovered remains of large sites with pyramids and cities are amazing.
And more laymen are catching the bug and actually finding stuff on Sattelite photos. The 12 y.o. kid that predicted a major site in Central America based on astronomical positioning (or whatever)is off the charts.
There was more travel to different areas in ancient times than previously thought. I think we will see evidence of cross-fertilization of cultures more and more with the opening up of areas once behind the Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain.
The most recent discovery in Crimea emphasized Russian claims, and was about a Greek "city" of 5000 sq meters, whichi is a bit more than 1.25 acres. That's either a rather poor village, or a single set of buildings from a single ancient estate.
Wholeheartedly agree about LIDAR and satellite, although it still requires trowels on the ground. In the Amazon I think it will turn out that the boom and bust cycle long documented in Central America's series of civilizations and cultures will be found to have occurred there as well.
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