People also really like exaggerating a story.

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It’s in the range. Maybe a tad younger.

Ireland too! It’s really interesting how we have to strike a balance between continuing research, and preventing disturbance for future generations that may have access to better information tools and techniques

While this is true, I find it especially interesting when it comes to archaeology. Drawing conclusions from material remains that are thousands of years old seems to be a shaky business, it doesn't make sense to be so stubborn about new discoveries.

Is that as old as the pyramids?

I mean all throughout the history of science, new discoveries were often mocked and ridiculed by contemporaries.

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>Rey said that when he first brought up the project at international conferences no one believed him. “Everyone basically told me, ‘Oh no you’re making it up you’re wasting your time you’re wasting British Museum UK government funding’ – that’s what they were telling me,” he said.

That seems . . . odd. No one believed him? It seems like it would be very hard to get away with falsifying findings like this, and to not get away with it would be instant professional suicide. And to effectively and publicly accuse someone of fraud seems pretty close to libel/slander.

Strange. Probably I am missing something. At any rate, this is really cool and just goes to show that sometimes even the oldest and best known sites can still teach us new things.

Fair enough. I stand corrected

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Hi, I know that throughout the 19th century, advances in archaeology and historical study of ancient near east and the decipherment of texts, heavily impacted questions on the historicity of the different parts of the bible. I was wondering if there are any books which tell the story of how these discoveries changed and impacted biblical studies specifically in 19th century, thanks!

A lot of these are well known and documented "tells", large mounds known to cover ruins, ziggurats, cities, etc.

Often, they are left alone because exposing them to the elements can ruin the site. South and Central america have untold amounts of these "hills" in the jungle as well covering all kinds of ancient ruins

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Thanks!

"Whoever" if it's the subject of the sentence.

>everyone today knows Tesla

Tesla was less known for a long time, until a best-selling biography that centered around how he was very little known. Paradoxically, he became famous for not being famous, and for decades he was a household name always coupled with "but nobody knows who he is!"

Funny that another story now uses the same rhethoric about someone else.

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The British Museum press release and some images

The project has previously worked on preserving the world’s oldest bridge whilst training local archaeologists, partly in response to damage caused by Daesh: https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/worlds-oldest-bridge-being-preserved-iraq

Siemens bought Westinghouse Electric's power generation business. I think in the late 90s. A few smaller subsidiaries came with it as well, can't remember maybe Electrowatt came with it?

I read a book about Tesla and found out about Westinghouse there, and have appreciation for him; I'd say whoever researches and studies Tesla knows, whoever doesn't, doesn't, which makes sense

Was the comitia centuriata only open to soldiers. My understanding is that it was based on military membership (officers at the top, infantry at the bottom) until 241BC when any Roman citizen including civilians could vote in it, is that correct? Thanks