Looks very similar to the gold “wizard hats” that date to the same era, mostly found in Germany and France:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Gold_Hat

They are also covered in calendrical symbols.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Gold_Hat#/media/File%3ABerlin_Gold_hat_calendar.jpg

It should help for cow runs.

Does it have the name of the wrestler that won it, or the Federation that awarded it?

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I have seen a lot of modern representations of the galleass with round forecastles, were round forecastles or square forecastles more common on galleasses?

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Thanks for visiting & the feedback, and yes, I've been working with some friends at a few sites now, mostly around the Mediterranean, Central America, and Eastern Asia.

Earlier this year, I worked at Luxor Temple with the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the University of Chicago: https://luxortemple.mused.org/

And at St Catherine's Monastery / Museum in the Sinai with the Saint Catherine's Foundation: https://stcatherines.mused.org/

The other sites that are still coming out are in progress building content and will publish blog articles about them as each launches (at https://blog.mused.org/ if it's interesting).

A good farming belt then... Eh??

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Manorial court records, wills, and archeological evidence suggest that at least some peasants were wealthy enough to own painted cloths, religious icons, silver spoons, tablecloths, brightly colored clothing, and jewelry. The stereotype of dark and dirty peasant hovels does have some truth to it, if you're talking about the poorest peasants, but not all peasants were poor; most were middling and a few were fairly wealthy.

As for colors of clothing, red and yellow were the cheapest colors to produce while black, scarlet, indigo blue, and purple were the most expensive and were often restricted by sumptuary laws.

I doubt it. Hope I'm wrong though. Definitely the right thing to do.

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Props to the farmer for managing to not destroy it.

Hehe, Czech here. The guy was the sweetest guy ever in the tv report and he confessed he cleaned it with soap a lot haha. He knew he shouldn’t, but the natural curiosity taken over.

It's excellent., thank you .

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the fact that it remained in nearly perfect condition all this time AND was found by someone who possesses historical integrity blows my mind. Interesting about the circles 🌞

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In Czechia, you will actually got something like 10% of the actual price or even less, and if you find it with a metal detector, you won’t get anything. Believe me, I had found many things that are now in museum and didn’t ever get anything

To understand egypts relationship to outsiders you have to understand that Egyptians viewed Egypt as the kingdom of ma'aat (order, justice, how things were supposed to be) and non-Egypt as the kingdom of isfet (chaos, injustice, misrule, to do evil). With some exceptions everything outside the nile valley was chaos and unfamiliar, with the rivers being unreliable, the rulers strange and capricious and the people violent and given to chaos&misrule.

So much of egypts relations with abroad was the ritual conquest of chaos, with each pharaoh warring (or raiding under less militarily&economicly prosperous pharaohs) to establish dominance and take tribute. This changed somewhat over the millenia (with for example medjay mercenaries becoming the norm in the new kingdom era as internal security troops, to the point that medjay became the egyptian word for police), but in general egypt was suspicious of non-egyptians who hadn't established their role in the egyptian order.

Cleopatra was the most famous in the Ptolemaic line. They descend of Ptolemy, who was Greek/Macedonian, and came to rule after Alexander the Great conquered Egypt.

Many people are aware of the relationship between Cleopatra and Roman general Mark Antony, but slightly less known is that she had a son whose father was Julius Caesar.

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Amazing! Thanks so much for doing this!

Are there plans to use this process at other sites?

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I can't hate in reusing materials when it's not just for profit but rebuilding a new infrastructure, it's recycling!

I do see how's it's easy to combine those uses with grave robbery because both can be looked at as stealing history from the future.