Penitent_Exile
Penitent_Exile t1_jcud0df wrote
Reply to Roman tomb reveals burnt remains left in place, covered by bricks, sealed with lime, encircled by bent and broken nails — rites to restrain the dead from rising by marketrent
Deep within the rock, they buried him. In a tomb so dark, it would never come to light.
Penitent_Exile t1_j90f0ws wrote
Reply to comment by Morbanth in Discovery of 4,500-year-old palace in Iraq may hold key to ancient civilisation | Archaeology by JesseBricks
Grand-dad of Mjolnir, but can also turn into gryphon. Hmmm.
Penitent_Exile t1_j90c7lo wrote
Reply to Discovery of 4,500-year-old palace in Iraq may hold key to ancient civilisation | Archaeology by JesseBricks
So did it thrive in pre-Akkadian Sumer or during? Akkadian clay tablet has been found.
Penitent_Exile t1_ixn4iga wrote
Reply to comment by ImThatAnnoyingGuy in Researchers in Galicia open 15th-century tomb to test Columbus link theory. Explorer is generally believed to have been born in Italy in 1451 but some argue he was in fact born in Spain by ArtOak
I agree. America was Spanish achievement regardless of Columbus's heritage. But, still, for some people it might be heart-warming knowing he was "one of ours".
Penitent_Exile t1_ixn36j4 wrote
Reply to Medieval shipwreck discovered in Norway during hunt for WWII ammunitions - could be one of Norway's oldest shipwrecks has been found on the bottom of a lake near Oslo. by ArtOak
If it had bow and stern - how can it be one of the oldest shipwrecks? That is if Viking shipwrecks are immensely scarse.
Penitent_Exile t1_ixi7acs wrote
Reply to comment by subtlebulk in Lost islands cited in Welsh folklore and poetry are plausible, new evidence on the evolution of the coastline of west Wales has revealed by marketrent
Heavy agriculture tends to do that with bodies of water. Look up history of Missouri. Poor river.
Penitent_Exile t1_jeehu8f wrote
Reply to Geoff Keighley is brutal lol by x2FrostFire
E3 is a thing of the past, we live in a different world today. I'm thinking something like mix of Indie hubs and non-pretentious AA-presentations could be the future.