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An interesting video:

Secret Knowledge Hidden Underneath the Great Sphinx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vV3oSnxLa0

Water erosion on the Sphinx going back about 13,000 years. The head of the Sphinx is small, out of proportion to the rest of the body. This suggests that the pharaohs re-carved it. The original head would most likely have been a lion, aligned with the constellation Leo 13,000 years ago.

The following's not archeology, but interesting:

Gun 'Van Gogh killed himself with' to go under hammer
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And this is a depressing article. Again not really archeology, but a great cultural loss:

The Day the Music Burned
msn.com/en-us/music/news/the-day-the-mu ... bo2#page=2

An incredible loss. If you care at all about 20th century popular music, look at the list of master tapes that were lost in this fire. Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, on and on and on.
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4,600-Year-Old Complex On A Tiny Greek Island Is Totally Changing Our Understanding Of Ancient Greece

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New excavations on the Aegean islet of Dhaskalio are giving archaeologists an entirely new understanding of ancient Greece. According to The Independent, a dig on the small island 125 miles southeast of Athens has revealed a stunning 4,600-year-old complex of buildings.

The complex is situated on the Dhaskalio islet off the island of Keros, and is shaped like a small pyramid-esque mountain peak. Researchers believe the site may have contributed to the core ancient Greek belief that mountaintops were where the gods lived.

The monumental effort required to complete this complex is only now coming into focus. Archaeologists have estimated that it took the Bronze Age Greeks at least 3,500 voyages to get somewhere between 7,000 and 10,000 tons of white marble from one island to another.

This would’ve required up to 24 maritime crew members to paddle for up to five hours. In total, the distance traveled was around 45,000 miles. The end result is what researchers believe to have been an enormous religious sanctuary comprised of about 60 buildings.

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Inside the wreckage of the doomed HMS Terror: Archaeological dive reveals stunning look at the ruins of a Franklin Expedition ship ‘frozen in time’ underwater nearly 200 years after its entire crew vanished
dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-740 ... -ship.html

Franklin's lost expedition
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_lost ... expedition

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Researchers to use high-energy X-rays to try to read hundreds of scrolls burned by Mt. Vesuvius thousands of years ago

The city of Herculaneum was caught in the same volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii in 79 A.D. These particular scrolls come from a villa found in Herculaneum that is thought to have been owned by Julius Caesar's (third and final) father-in-law, Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus....

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What Divers Found Deep In The Mediterranean Sea Seems Like Out Of Science Fiction

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleion
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Sampling DNA From a 1,000-Year-Old Illuminated Manuscript

... A group of archaeologists and geneticists in the United Kingdom have now analyzed the remarkably rich DNA reservoir of the York Gospels. They found DNA from humans who swore oaths on its pages and from bacteria likely originating on the hands and mouths of those humans. Best of all though, they found 1,000-year-old DNA from the cows and sheep whose skin became the parchment on which the book is written. ...

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Fearing End of World, Thief Returns 2,000-Year-Old Artifact After 15 Years
TEL AVIV – An Israeli man returned a 2,000-year-old catapult bolt to the Israel Antiquities Authority some 15 years after he took off with it while visiting the archaeological site of the Jerusalem Walls National Park in the City of David, saying he wanted to clear his conscience before the end of the world....
breitbart.com/middle-east/2020/03/17/fe ... -15-years/

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The Ancient Peruvian Mystery Solved From Space
The puquios were a “sophisticated hydraulic system constructed to retrieve water from underground aquifers,” says Rosa Lasaponara of the Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, in Italy. And they transformed this inhospitable region....
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DISCOVERED: 20 Sealed Ancient Egyptian Coffins Near Luxor In Egypt
mr-mehra.com/2020/05/discovered-20-seal ... ptian.html

Amazing. These all came from the same workshop. In the ground 3000 years.

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Oh come on. Nobody believes this fake story. 3,000-year-old wooden caskets well preserved ? Good for some elite archaeologist's career. There are plenty of ways to make convincing fakes.
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DWill wrote:Oh come on. Nobody believes this fake story.
It sounds pretty convincing to me. I've been reading reports from sources such as The Smithsonian, the Washington Post and the BBC. I've yet to hear of anyone expressing any doubt as to the authenticity of this find.
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