To be fair, they're more likely going to get more from a museum than from selling the actual gold

I love our reverence for history these days. Humans tended to just destroy, build over, or reuse building materials. Like the great pyramid of Giza. Used to be covered in limestone but that was stripped to help build Cairo.

That's extremely interesting! Could you share what the larger scope of the Giza Project entails?

That dude should quit the farming and buy a metal detector.

I've read quite a bit about the JFK assassination. Are there any similarly infamous European assassinations that I might find interesting? I don't mean one of the numerous Roman assassinations or something like that. I mean someone who was assassinated within the last 150 years or so. If there are conspiracy theories or controversy surrounding the event, even better.

Also, someone besides Franz Ferdinand, since that's already pretty well known.

I’ve seen the full image. I think you’re underestimating the precision that can be accomplished by a talented artisan, even by hand, without fancy tools.

It would be well within the means of a skilled craftsman to make a sufficiently precisely patterned stamp or press to accomplish what we see in that image, especially given how thin that gold is (the article even says such artifacts are rare to find, since they “tear like paper”). All you need to make a perfect circle is a stick and string, or even just two sticks tied together. Scoring and then smoothing/polishing precise concentric circles into a pattern made of wood or stone wouldn’t be hard for a craftsman with metal tools, and if the stamp is precise, it will stamp a precise pattern into something so easily malleable.

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Leeches and maggots are still used in medicine

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Are your trousers exploding or are you just happy to see me?

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Pretty sure they're just saying that they find it interesting that their old professor writes a lot of articles that end up being shared on this subreddit. Not much to explain there.

I feel like you answered your question to an extent. It's important to remember, though, that Lee was turned into an almost legendary figure in the south following the war. Longstreet was seen as a villain, supporting Republicans and working with "the enemy". So while Lee may have even defended him in private (I have no evidence he did, this is purely to make a point) those who wrote the histories of the two had motive to not acknowledge it.

Don't make meeee gooo down that rabbit hole once agaiiin

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I agree it looks stamped but look very closely at the uniformity of the rings. It wasn’t just hand chased into the metal. I also agree a tool was used to stamp it. But I’d say the tool end was spun and scored to make them concentric and evenly spaced. That’s why I suggested a lathe or some sort of spinning process. If you haven’t already, download the full images. They are quite sharp and you’ll see what I mean about the precision.

Yeah I hope he gets some $$$ for it. Honesty should be rewarded.

Can you be a little more specific?

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>Leeches anyone? Common up till the 1800's, people used leeches, usually in reference to bloodletting.

And maggots!

Looking into some Neanderthal culture, it is debated over how much culture they had. Art and other things from them were scarce compared to our cave paintings and jewelry. Some believed they lacked the mental ability to make these and that they copied humans, though the scarcity may have had other factors.

https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/homo-neanderthalensis/

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The author, Dr. Killgrove, is my old forensic anthropology professor.

Sell it to collectors would be my guess.

Heating food in plastic packaging in microwaves has always weirded me out. I won’t be shocked if that’s someday looked at as foolish in hindsight.