India
It is of no surprise to me at all of course.
The ASI seem surprised, stating that it puts India on a par with Mesopotamia, but it’s clear to me the Indus was the first civilisation, and one day it will be proven. I’d prove it myself if I had a few million and permission for a ten-year dig at Mohenjo-Daro!
Right, back to the book, another six pages last night, I’m going full pelt for a 2019 publication!
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/310-1809/trenches/6875-trenches-india-sanauli-chariots
India
What I mean by the headline is this – 70,000 visitors a day paying an entrance fee – Rs 50 for Indians and a staggering Rs 1100 for foreign tourists (around £10 – India has a way of getting back what we stole from them!)
Anyway, my point is this – with that much revenue coming in from visitors then surely that money can fund the restoration project.
The government does not need to step in from that perspective. The ASI just needs to create a department to handle the job, and use the funds from tourist revenue to pay for it. Job done. But then things in India are never that simple! 🙂
Russia
The title speaks for itself… a three-month-old foal has been found perfectly preserved in permafrost in Siberia, and will provide a surprising amount of information to scientists in the coming years. DNA testing will certainly add to the wealth of knowledge already obtained regarding the origins of horses, their habitat, and their spread throughout Asia.
India
Delhi to be precise.
Although human occupation stretches back to the second millennium BC, artefacts suggest the city that is now Delhi only dates to 300 BC during the Mauryan era, a long time after the kingdom of the Pandavas, talked about extensively in the Mahabharata.
The archaeological survey of India (ASI) has excavated up to ten metres into the ground at Purina Qila, and at the 4.5 metre level they have found Pre-Mauryan walls.
In the Mahabharata, the Kingdom of Indrasprastha is dated to 900 BC. The new findings push the date of Delhi’s history back to around 600 BC, so it appears the ASI are closing in on the fabled city of the very famous Mahabharata.
I am certain they will strike gold any time soon…
England
Just a note as a response to the news that 10 of the 25 bodies found near Stonehenge had Welsh DNA…
NO, it does not mean the Stonehenge builders were Welsh!
For god’s sake, when will this nonsense stop?
How can you come to a conclusion like that?
If I dig up a body in a cemetery does that mean they built the church?
Stupid people.
I am shocked that the university that I’ve worked with are concluding the Stonehenge builders were Welsh. For a start it’s only 10 of the 25 people, less than 40% of the sample.
Secondly – and there is no doubt people from all over the Britain were a part of that building project – what proof do they have that the bodies recovered had anything to do with the building of the monument?
The dates could well be wrong, and unless you find a document giving the names of those involved we will NEVER know who built Stonehenge.
Again, it’s time guesswork based on loose evidence stopped once and for all.
Great for the headlines, but not great for advancing archaeological research.
I am quite annoyed about this, as you can see. I live very close to Stonehenge so it’s in my blood.
India / Andaman Islands
The brutality from British rule in India is rarely exposed in western sources, and certainly not taught in schools, but the British were responsible for the deaths of millions of Indians during their control of this vast and beautiful country.
The legacy of British rule has left positive traces all over India – the railways, educational establishments and cricket are the three most notable – but underlying this development and modern living lies a trail of brutality, racism and murder on a scale probably never seen before. It’s that scale, measured in staggering numbers, which makes the crimes of Pol Pot look like a playground argument, and the man himself a near saint. Am I exaggerating? No, some Indian sources put the number of deaths of Indians at the hands of the British in the tens of millions, and during droughts the British would steal crops from the local farmers, leaving millions of them and their families to starve to death. India’s history is utterly horrifying on a scale that we cannot imagine.
This article shows how the British used their prisoners. No doubt many of them on Ross Island were tortured and murdered on this remote island. This story is the tip of the iceberg, but of course once again it’s just a western article that fails to recognise the mass genocide carried out by the British Empire in India.
Egypt
It’s about time indeed… the tide is turning again.
This revelation may have profound ramifications in the scientific world for the entire future of the study of ancient structures.
Of course, this isn’t a new theory – amateurs and theoretical archaeologists like myself have been coming up with these ideas for years, but what’s new is that a team of scientists has finally done something that might resemble credible research into what these structures really are, because they certainly weren’t tombs for dead pharaohs.
The interesting “light bulb” carvings etched into the walls of the Temple of Hathor, at Dendera, may well indeed have been some kind of conductor of electricity, as many researchers have suggested for years.
I am hoping that archaeology will continue on its usual path as we have so much more to discover under the ground, but like the old Darwin model of Evolution, and the Out of Africa theory, I hope we start to see a new dawn in the study of our clearly superior ancestors, and thus we will truly start to uncover our real history and where we come from.
As Graham Hancock has said many times, we are a species with amnesia.
Maybe we are finally starting to wake up.
https://www.rt.com/news/434723-giza-pyramid-electromagentic-energy/
