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“May Hold Key” What do they mean by this? I read the whole article and they never say why this discovery is important or what makes it so ground breaking. If the city and the civilization have been known for 140 years and we already knew about the Sumerian advances in writing etc., then why do we care about these new tablets or this palace?

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Did they find the WMDs there?

No, they thought it was the dolphins but it was actually secret mission by the chickens and cows.

Does anyone know of interesting legends or myths from the pirating and colonial expansion era in the 1600s? Similar to Libertatia and El Dorado. I find them very fascinating

30 years ago, almost nobody knew his story and he was not "famous" at all

That was the Chinese iirc

I don't know if or who ruined Scotland, but whoever they are, they're a contentious bunch!

Noah's ark 4,800 years ago.... so 4,500 years ago..

So many of these ancient sites are in now inhabitable places. It seems like the story of ancient civilization is a story of climate change and technological development.

The two aren't mutually exclusive though

Same reason why cops shouldn't be messing with crime scenes

So there's this building 20min away from my home that was built more than 2000 years before the pyramids

Pretty cool but they freaking could have lit the items properly.

What are the qualifications needed by someone who isn't an archaeologist to get a job on a digsite? What sort of duties do the locals perform?

That's why you publish the results. Average joe can access them too if he pays whatever 15 bucks to the journal or via scihub for free, but he can't understand what's inthe paper and has no equipment so he can't do anything. Most journals are free access now yet no average joe reads them anyway.

You must be a Reasonabilist!

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Smasher of thousands, yikes

There's two of them. The one from the title is not orange, but also not silver since the silver on it has decayed, but the pattern on it can still be seen (there is a pic of the dress and a pic of the pattern near the end of the article).