A place to discuss things of interesting or important historical note that happens upon the news, excavation of ruins, and just general interesting stuff that isn't politically motivated.
To start off:
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/21/14012333-400-year-old-marble-loot-revealed-by-drought-in-poland?lite
In Poland, they appear to be suffering from a severe drought. This drought has brought to the surface ancient marble pieces that were to be used as fountains and pillars and the like, but never made it to their destination. Researchers knew the pieces were there, but it was difficult to get at the items because they were under several feet of water.
Apparently the stonework was loot taken by Swedish invaders in the 17th century.
The article continues on discussing other finds made along the receding rivers.
That's cool that they made these archeological discoveries, although I'm sad to hear that it's at the expense of a drought.
Reading the article, I'm a bit confused why if they knew the artifacts were there, they didn't try to use a cheap sonar rig attached to a boat to try to find them on the river, since they say the water was the problem. Clearly the marble isn't buried in mud, so I would think sonar would be able to find it easily.
I'm guessing that when the river is 'full' that it is still not deep enough to bring in equipment big enough to actually pull the stuff up. Marble is really heavy.
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/11/14374921-giant-eyeball-found-on-beach-posing-mystery-for-marine-biologists?lite
So, this was on windows live's list of news articles. Thought it was rather interesting find. I wonder what this eyeball would go to? It's huge, whatever it is.
Well, they found out that the eyeball was from a sword fish. Anyways.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49389775/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UHvSssXA-m0
They've found a giant elk like drawing in the dirt, that may possibly predate those found in Peru by thousands of years.
Yeah, that's kind of freaky. o.o
http://now.msn.com/microscopic-creature-in-cocoon-found-by-researches-in-antarctica
This is definitely an interesting find. Lil 200 million year old creatures, dead, sadly.
If we ignore the part where they're microscopic, it reminds me of
At the Mountains of Madness.
HP Lovecraft wrote:
Orrendorf and Watkins, working underground at 9:45 with light, found monstrous barrel-shaped fossil of wholly unknown nature; probably vegetable unless overgrown specimen of unknown marine radiata. Tissue evidently preserved by mineral salts.
...
All greatly damaged but one, which gives almost seven-foot wing spread. Arrangement reminds one of certain monsters of primal myth, especially fabled Elder Things in Necronomicon. These wings seem to be membraneous, stretched on framework of glandular tubing.
...
Of organic specimens, eight apparently perfect, with all appendages. Have brought all to surface, leading off dogs to distance. They cannot stand the things.
...
“Complete specimens have such uncanny resemblance to certain creatures of primal myth that suggestion of ancient existence outside antarctic becomes inevitable. Dyer and Pabodie have read Necronomicon and seen Clark Ashton Smith’s nightmare paintings based on text, and will understand when I speak of Elder Things supposed to have created all earth-life as jest or mistake.
And so forth. I highly recommend reading it, as it probably earns the title of my favorite Lovecraft story.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50270582/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.UNTuv2_oSQt
They've found some interesting skeletons in Mexico. Apparently, they were deformed as children and in their current state, look quite alien.
Yes, yes I did
And it's a rather amusing and interesting article.
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Tampa-area-man-swallowed-by-sinkhole-4319642.php
So, it seems a giant sink hole opened up in Brandon, Florida, and swallowed someone up. They've not started looking for the guy yet, because they haven't been able to determine the boundaries of the hole and they've evacuated surrounding houses.
tifreak8x wrote:
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Tampa-area-man-swallowed-by-sinkhole-4319642.php
So, it seems a giant sink hole opened up in Brandon, Florida, and swallowed someone up. They've not started looking for the guy yet, because they haven't been able to determine the boundaries of the hole and they've evacuated surrounding houses.
They tried rescuing him right away, but gave up after what they saw was not "compatible with life", which is a nice way of saying he's a garbage cube now.
http://www.utaot.com/2013/03/06/scientists-think-they-have-found-the-mythical-sunstone-vikings-used-to-navigate-warships/
Something of interest. Apparently with a fresh/new version of this calcite, cut in a certain way, they can see where the sun is within 1° and for 40 minutes after sunset. Pretty fascinating read.
Some of you may remember I spent the summer building an outdoor passive freezer a couple summers back.
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2013/03/11/1980777/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ0ViMVxKZA
I've only watched a few minutes of this, and already it's super interesting. Definitely worth a watch.
This is only tenuously related to this topic as a whole, but the administrative assistant in my department recommended an excellent movie-length History Channel special to me called Life After People. It's quite fascinating, if rather humbling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XDbcMND7fY
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