For Those Interested in Archaeology

Faith. You gotta have faith.

 

I may just have died and gone to Heaven, chaps.
"Forget 'X' marks the spot.
An amazing online map has been produced that pinpoints all the archaeological treasures around Europe - and further afield – and pulls up information about them at the click of a button.
Called Vici, the interactive digital map is described as an 'archaeological atlas of classical antiquity'.
It's inspired by Wikipedia, with more than 400 contributors adding pictures and information about sites and artefacts to the map since it launched in 2011. To date, there are more than 85,000 locations marked on the map and nearly 40,000 images.
making them easy to track down, the exact coordinates of each site is identified.
With a particular focus on Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, the sites that feature on Vici.org include the Roman villa at Lullingstone, Kent, which dates back to around AD75 and features' rich mosaic tiled floors' and a burial chamber.
There is also the remains of Trajan's bridge in Romania - which was the world's longest arch bridge for more than 1,000 years - and Malta's roughly 5,000-year-old Mnajdra temple complex.
Rene Voorburg, who created the map, tells MailOnline Travel: 'Nearly every day new places are added by the contributors. Some are very active and have added thousands of markers.'"
www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-12124281/Which-ancient-treasures-near-house-Map-reveals-locations-historic-sites.html

 

Let's hope the findings actually get published soon.
"For more than half a century, academics wondered if the German town of Rungholt was a 'mythical' but fictional settlement much like Atlantis.
Now, researchers have shown that the medieval trading port really did exist, by locating the remains of its main church under the North Sea.
The experts used magnetic techniques to find the 130-foot under mudflats at North Frisia, the historic region off Germany's north coast near the border with Denmark.
The astonishing discovery comes more than 660 years after the town sank in 1362, hit by a storm that the town's man-made defences failed to keep at bay.
As Christian legend goes, the town was sent the destructive weather by God as a punishment for the sins of its inhabitants, thousands of whom died.
The discovery was announced by experts at Kiel University, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the Center for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology, and the State Archaeology Department Schleswig-Holstein in Germany.
The team told MailOnline that the discovery of the church was made just four weeks ago and as such has not been described in a research journal yet – although it's unclear what state of preservation the church is in after 660 years."
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12159779/Germanys-Atlantis-Experts-discover-lost-city-Rungholt.html

 

Very interesting story...As we know people usually/mainly live next to the sea or water way connected to the sea...So much of our/human history could well be under the sea, several hundred meters/yards, even kilometres from what is the shore today. Aboriginals in Australia have been here for 40-60 thousand years, long enough to see other "human" species and mega fauna: 13 foot meat eating kangaroos! Giant 3 tonne wombats etc etc...


So much Human history buried out in the bays of the world...

 

Yeah, didn't sea levels worldwide rise about 300' after the last Ice Age? There was a Mediaeval English town called Dunwich which vanished in a storm in 1386, similar to this German place. I'm sure they found a 9,000 year old hunter-gatherer site on the seabed off Berwick on Tweed a lot of years ago too.
Fascinated by programmes like Drain the Oceans. I know they're largely conjecture and CGI, but think how much stuff could be waiting to be found.

 

Hmmm...Tempting thought. Usually advanced civilisations leave footprints...Chemicals etc etc...A billion years ago would be difficult to detect though.

The definition of civilisation has changed since i was a boy...Like many words have had their meaning watered down or changed entirely - Either due to misuse or some PC silly reason. The word racism for example has changed considerably in 50 years...it almost means nothing now.




"A civilization is a complex human society, usually made up of different cities, with certain characteristics of cultural and technological development."

I remember going "out bush" when growing up...Very basic food (like half a tomato and a chunk of cheese for lunch) and water to drink. Driving back we would hit the "Bark Hut" - A pub that was the last vestige of civilisation, or the first if you are coming in from the bush...One of the most popular drinks in the NT is Iced Coffee...SO for me civilisation is pulling into the Bark Hut and ordering an iced coffee so cold there are ice slithers in your mouth....Civilisation!

Bark Hut


My beloved Iced Coffee: