Share The Skull Of A 12 Year Old Boy Who Died 200 Years Ago I would love to live in a place where history literally erupts from the ground. Living in Oregon, nothing is more than 150 years old, and finding a skeleton on the riverbank is more likely to be murder than history… except [...]
Browsing the archives for the archaeology tag
The Bones Of Richard The Third Have (Likely) Been Discovered.
15 Sep, 2012 in Coolest Shit Ever, fnordShareFrom Bosworth Field To A Carpark Has The Last Plantagenet King Been Found? Richard the Third has long been villified as a twisted, deformed monster, mainly through Shakespeare’s writing. Well, Old Bill was writing under a Tudor monarch, and Henry VII was the first Tudor king, and he got to be king by killing Richard [...]
Empire Never Ended – Wolves in Sheikh’s Clothing (Another Klassic Krusty from 2007)
26 Feb, 2011 in fnord, Reposts From Old Blog, wisdomShareHere is the second installment of “Back When He Wrote With Substance”, also known as reposts from my old blog. The first repost I did was about Orson Welles and F for Fake. It’s another artifact from Ur-Youdopia, and it’s about Philip K Dick, the Black Iron Prison, and Care Bears. Enjoy. Thanks for reading. [...]
Archaeologists Discover A 5000 Year Old Wooden Door, Near Zurich. Coolest Door Ever.
22 Oct, 2010 in Coolest Shit Ever, fnordShareThis is as simple as it is amazing, Youdopia. Archaeologists in Zurich found a stone age settlement, embedded in anaerobic river mud. Lots of cool organic stuff was preserved, like this amazing door. Whoever built this door, with hinged intact, and assembled with an ingenious peg design, lived further away from the birth of Christ [...]
Antikythera Mechanism Emulator – Ancient Byzantine Mechanical Computer Is The Coolest Shit Ever.
7 Sep, 2010 in Coolest Shit Ever, fnordShare This is both super cool, and kind of shoulder shruggy, Youdopia. The Antikythera Mechanism, which I created, is an ancient astronomical computer, dating back to the second Century CE. Cool beans. It’s complexity and accuracy is thousands of years ahead of what we expect from that era. You can read about it and just [...]
Coolest Shit Ever: Coptic Church Found On Site Of St. Apollo’s Monastery
12 May, 2010 in Coolest Shit Ever, fnordShare Let’s hear it for Mother Sophia and the Desert Fathers, Youdopia. The desert fathers were the monks of early, early Christianity, that went out into the desert to fast, meditate, and generally live the ascetic life that Jesus talked about. Read the Bible. Jesus never said a word about homos, but he was clear [...]
Coolest Shit Ever: The Catacombs Of Rome Are 3D Mapped With High Resolution Scanners (all 115 miles of them!)
5 May, 2009 in Coolest Shit Ever, fnordShare So, I was reading the latest journal from the Austrian Academy Of Sciences, as is my custom, and I saw this amazing project. Full 360 degree laser mapping, and scanning, of the Roman Catacombs. Which ones, you ask? All of them. The full 100+ miles of them, not the 500 meters that is open [...]
The Ten Oldest Jokes In The World (Religion not included)
15 Aug, 2008 in craziest shit ever, fnord, humor, wisdomSharePull My Finger Not On List Jokes Age Poorly Shamelessly foisted from Discovery.com. Their embed code didn’t work, so I nicked it… and I’ll do it again. The oldest recorded joke dates back to 1900 B.C, according to a research into the ten oldest gags carried by the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and commissioned by [...]
Share Youdopian culture embraces its Thracian heritage. Cool beans.
Revolutionary War Shipwreck From 1780, Discovered In Lake Ontario
15 Jun, 2008 in Coolest Shit Ever, fnordShare HMS Ontario Amazing Preservation I like shipwrecks. When I was a kid, and I would read from the giant pile of National Geographic magazines in our living room, I always loved the articles about sunken ships. Whether they were World War 2 hulks, or doomed galleons, I loved them. The HMS Ontario was a [...]
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