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janrinok
on Friday September 20 2019, @06:49PM
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Greek archaeologists uncover riches overlooked by robbers
Archaeologists in northern Greece have explored more than 200 new graves in a vast ancient cemetery that was plundered in antiquity but still retained rich finds, including a gold mask and bronze helmets.
In a statement Friday, the Culture Ministry said the most impressive finds came from the graves of warriors who died in the 6th century B.C. and were members of a powerful military aristocracy.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 20 2019, @07:14PM (4 children)
At what point does taking things from a grave become ok?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 20 2019, @07:38PM
When you put on your leather jacket, fedora, and bullwhip.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 20 2019, @10:13PM
As soon as the sun sets.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Saturday September 21 2019, @07:25AM (1 child)
When the findings are studied, with the knowledge being shared, and the artifacts being put on display for public admiration, rather than being melted and sold as bullion or sold to private parties for profit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 22 2019, @03:04PM
No only that, when there are many items of the same type or have little interest, after being studied, they may be again protected, buried and documented their location, so later on can be again recovered if needed
(Score: 3, Touché) by looorg on Friday September 20 2019, @11:09PM
... or imagine what they took if this is what they left behind.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Saturday September 21 2019, @02:19PM
What thrills me about such discoveries is the sense that for all our technology and millennia of recorded history, we're still just perched on the tip of the iceberg as far as understanding the human story goes. When I was a school kid in the 70's, we knew what the human story was. It was a linear story that teleologically proceeded from beginning to the present. Yet since then many discoveries have opened entire dimensions of the past:
They proved that the Vikings were at L'Anse aux Meadows [wikipedia.org], thus displacing Columbus as the first European to discover the New World.
Ballard surveyed the floor of the Black Sea [nydailynews.com] and found housing posts still intact, proving that tales of a Great Flood recorded in the Bible and elsewhere in the ancient world were based in fact.
Archaeologists proved the existence of a pyramid in Caral, Peru [youtube.com], that predates the Egyptian pyramids by 300 years and other civilizations in the Americas by 1000 years.
LIDAR revealed that Angkor Wat [theguardian.com] was actually a vast city that was in fact the largest empire in the world in the 12th century.
Sea shells, obsidian from Yellowstone, copper from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and jade from MesoAmerica found at Cahokia [asu.edu], near St. Louis, prove that a vast trading network and cultural sphere of city-states existed in North America long before the Indian tribes that the later European colonists encountered.
There have been many more. It's provocative to consider that the "reality" we inhabit is really an evanescent discursive bubble, and not necessarily fact.
Washington DC delenda est.