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The Romans also claimed that Druids were sacrificing ppl as a pretext to wipe them out. It is hard for me to believe these type of claims especially when we dont really have the Carthagians perspective.
The skull at 3:31 has predominate brows, not much different to earlier neanderthal or archaic humans. How much anthropology is based on guess work? Would be interesting to check tree rings from that time to determine if drought conditions caused migration.
Maybe a statue or head of some type fitted (anchored)into the slot? Looking down, over the entryway.
No, Troy was destroyed by Heinrich Schliemann. Schliemann didn't dig through layers, he blew up layers with dynamite, destroying any newer levels, ie newer information about this city. He did more harm than good.
Further Research needed for more definitive results!🤔
Me watching this after seeing the mamamax drama: "wait, werewolf cult is real?"
Maybe it is the Greeks who are the "Sea People".... And they have been hiding in Plain sight.
I wonder why there are no depictions in Scythian artwork. Or, rather, why we have no known examples of them in Scythian artworks.
Haha! God no. Is there No end to denial
I think there is a lost precursor to the ill-advised. There are details like the mention of leopards and other things that point to an earlier Era than homer.
There are also claims that William The Conqueror also 'salted' virtually the whole area of the northern most parts of England during his infamous 'Harrying of the North'. But I've always wondered if that would really have been feasible, even considering that there are still until this very day salt works not far in places like Nantwich, etc. Seems a ridiculous amount of 'man hours' would be needed to be able to do such a thing, even today.
It is Troy, watch Michael Wood's "In search of the Trojan War".
War has always been an ugly business. However, not every occurrence was man-made by some malicious, sadist asshole leaders, though they are rife throughout history. Natural catastrophes have also “salted” portions of the earth, at least near oceans and seas, during earthquakes, which resulted in tsunamis, and some areas of subsidence. A recent example of this happened to Southcentral Alaska during the 1964 mega-thrust earthquake, in which approximately 10,000 miles of coastline was either uplifted, or sank between 7 1/2-33 ft, flooding the area with ocean seawater. (G. Plafker, 1965, 1967, USGS) There is also evidence of tsunami-related damage from a mega-tsunami of the Cascadia fault during the 1700s, causing several “ghost forests” also created when the trees were inundated and killed by seawater. Just fyi, some possible earthquake-driven tsunamis in the ancient world are listed on the website below. www.ancientportsantiques.com/ancient-climate/tsunamis/#:~:text=Earthquakes%20are%20fairly%20well%20distributed,intensity%20evaluated%20to%20X%2DXI.
Carthago deledo est (or whatever) - soiunds like a literary device.
I thought Carthage had to be moved many miles inland.
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do the 70k year old jade bracelet with a drilled hole, made by Denisovans
I wonder if part of the reason the myth stuck around is that the destruction of Carthage and the associated economic/political structure was so complete that it was *as if* the city had been salted. Even the language of the Carthaginian people would die out.
Graham Hancock: "This is yet another example of thousands of sites that mainstream archaeologists are hiding the truth about." Giorgio Tsoukalis: "Could it be? Ancient alien astronauts came down and built this site?" Both hilarious, and free to say what they want, but.... I blame the shameless idiots at The History Channel for giving these nutjobs a forum.
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For more info on the legends infused into Homer's version of a long-known and transferred story, see video "A Hittite Version of the Trojan War." I know we are presented the thesis that Homer's version records elements of a sea people's invasion; however, incidents can occur and when they are talked about, it's not uncommon that a memory of another story is used to explain a current event. People link ideas as they progress in experience; often the link is forgotten, and the newly envisioned concept is thought to be the first version. The effect of time on memory and the re-association of ideas into a new vision is very common. Twelve witnesses can see an accident, and each can have a slightly different take on the accident. We are talking about thousands of years of reuse and use of ideas to express the current events of a society. We will suffer wars and invasions in years to come; how will they be remembered and applied to future generations who, in turn, will experience the same type of events? We must remember ultimately that Homer is discussing the honor of heroes, their failings, their triumphs, and their ends within the culture of Greece (how it existed at the time) that, like any people, will want to affirm their values and ideals through the lens of literature and art.
The thesis of the video we are commenting on posits the theory that the Iliad could be partly a recounting of invasion by the "sea people."
No Homers Club
The Vatican and the Jesuits have strong armed the South American press etc to keep silent on the Roman Amphora and Roman shipwrecks chocking the Amazon River. To maintain the Mel Gibson Conquistador good guys Catholic Columbus ownership narrative.
Naw others here are the fools
Salting the Carthage might have been used metaphorically, not literally as just meaning the city's destruction.
My sister found a Roman wra sword and a pike several feet under the ground in West Lynn, Oregon on a construction site where they were remodeling.
I think it was the crab people crab people
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The Brazilians buried evidence of Roman amphora after a explorer made the discovery.
The Greeks were expert sailors and could have been blown off course and hit Brazil. Same with the Phoenicians, who were said to been the first to circumnavigating Africa, years before the Romans.
It was really they sent the Christians they because they say they are the salt of the earth for the Romans it was a win win they got rid of the Christians and they had to deal with tons of people preaching to them all of the time 😂😂😂😂😂
I am thinking an occasional rich iron age benefactor paid to have his lineage added into the story, and Homer was simply the most famous of the oral tellers of the stories
“What happened to the other stuff on the ship?” Easy explanation. We’re lucky to have the head at all if it is indeed from a Roman ship making landfall that long ago,
Why would the alleged Roman ship carry terracotta sculptures? Also there is the problem of some 12 centuries between the production date and the time it was buried in Mexico. Much too long for a terracotta artifact. If it was a marble head, it would be more probable that it survived over a 1000 years of being used in Mexico.
I actually disagree with all how everyone fixates on the Scythians would speculating about real world inspirations for the Amazons. mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2024/05/amazons-and-anatolia.html
It's almost silly to not treat is as historical at this point
Yeah, after in real life a city destroyed by a fucking NUCLEAR BOMB less than a century ago now is populated again, I know for sure that meme about "and nothing will grow there anymore" is patented bullshit.
Weren't the Mycenaeans part of the Sea People? It is hard to believe they were not, especially since Philistines (=Peleset, listed by Egyptians as one of the Sea People tribes) turned out to be Greek.
Peleset archaology shows solid Mycenaean cultural element. Interestingly the Odyssey describes Odysseus' raid on Egypt and general adventuring which is rather interesting.
Cartago delenda est!
The romans already conquered the city, why make it infertile?
How accurate do you think an oral story that was passed down for generations is going to fucking be…
Salt was valuable, as evidenced by the root of the word “salary”. Roman soldiers were paid in salt. So perhaps the Senate spend salt on soldiers who, after taking the city, destroy the local crops so the remaining Carthaginian’s are unable to feed themselves. From the perspective of the Rome, they salted the earth.
It seems very clear to me that Homer’s writings are a somewhat misremembered take on the bronze age collapse (aka the original 1st world war). Greeks and their allies vs everyone else in the eastern mediterranean. Troy was just one of the locations the Greeks invaded; Odysseus’s journey is an attempt to recall the Greeks warring around the eastern mediterranean. Timing lines up, players line up, outcome lines up. Someone tell me why I’m wrong.
Barbary lions were actually larger than African lions. There is a small relict population being bred by Howletts zoo. From surviving Barbary lions that were captive in North Africa.
The sea peoples are all Greeks. Eqwesh = Αχαιοί Lukka = Λύκιοι Sheklesh =Σικελοί Sherden =Σαρδηνοί Teresh =Τροιζηνοί Tjekker =Θράκαι Weshesh = Θεσσαλοί Denyen =Δαναοί Peleset =Πελασγοί Some other ancient sources call all of them simply 'Peleset' and 'Palastou', and later 'Philistines' . After they defeat in Egypt they settled in what is today Israel. Present day Palestinians have that same name and to some limited extend the bloodline.
They could have irrigated the land with sea water, which would add salt to the earth.
Achilles existed. You don't.
Wtf horrible accent ?