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New evidence of ancient child sacrifice found in Turkey
Remains of young people who were ritually sacrificed have been found from Bronze Age Mesopotamia. Led by Museum scientific associate Dr Brenna Hassett, a team examined burial practices at Başur Höyük, a Bronze Age cemetery in Turkey. It contains a series of individuals who were buried between 3100 and 2800 BCE. The site dates to 500 years before the famous Royal Cemetery of Ur, a luxurious series of tombs that form the resting place of Mesopotamian rulers.
An excavation of Başur Höyük [DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2018.63] [DX] uncovered a large, coffin-like stone tomb that contained multiple burials, with an unprecedented number of high-status grave goods for the period and region.
In three graves were found the remains of at least 11 people, male and female, ranging from age 11 to young adults. Several people were buried outside the tomb with elaborate ornaments and grave goods. Brenna says, 'The burials are remarkable because of the youth of the individuals, the number that were buried and the large wealth of objects that were buried with them.
Also at Live Science and Newsweek.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday July 01 2018, @06:10PM (6 children)
Between your post and the AC's post in the preceding thread, both containing links to Wikipedia, brings up a something I have noticed lately in Wikipedia. For some reason in the last few weeks some script kiddie at Wikipedia has decided that hyperlinks in the text of articles should be roll over opened. I find this kind of thing highly annoying.
End of divergent rant.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 01 2018, @07:02PM
You can turn that off, although I forget which setting I eventually found with which to do it. Even if you don't have an account there, it turns those previews off.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Sunday July 01 2018, @10:02PM
It's hip to make square (boxes pop open)
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 02 2018, @02:08AM
Browsing the internet without a script blocker?? Are you MAD? uBlock origin disabled that "feature" straight out of the box for me.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday July 02 2018, @04:01AM (2 children)
Yep, me too. I'm annoyed that browsers are willing to do it, and that I can't disable most of this crap- in the browser. I HATE ALL onmouseover things. Menus popping up and down just because I'm moving my mouse pointer to something I want to do. Absolutely stupid. End of rant, sorry...
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 03 2018, @08:02AM (1 child)
But is javascript stupid, or is running it by default stupid?
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(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday July 03 2018, @09:45AM
I don't think it's a clear all or nothing, but for me the default is off. Most of my web browsing for 20+ years has been done with javascript off, and me occasionally ranting about the evils of javascript. In the early days I simply noticed that most web pages took much much longer to load with javascript on, and that's still true. But even way back then I also noticed, looking at the code, that javascript was communicating with 3rd-party webservers, trackers, advertising, etc. Not cool! So I've kept it mostly off.
But I don't hate javascript entirely, just some of what it can do, or more exactly, what browsers are willing to do, and what the OS is allowing the browser to do.