This is so cool!

[DaisyRose]

I forgot to share this yesterday. This is a great step in the direction to learn more about our ancestors and the animals they were around. This is so cool I’m such a nerd for stuff like this.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/europe/preserved-cave-bear-scn-scli-intl/index.html

 

[Judge]

Wow....for an Ice Age animal in that condition it's quite a find! Thanks for sharing.

 

[DaisyRose]

Wow....for an Ice Age animal in that condition it's quite a find! Thanks for sharing.

I know that’s crazy. They got so lucky. All the organs are intact and scientists can see what the last meal was. I’m glad you enjoyed the interesting find.

 

[AdamG]

That is exciting! Soft tissue intact, awesome

 

[Judge]

I know that’s crazy. They got so lucky. All the organs are intact and scientists can see what the last meal was. I’m glad you enjoyed the interesting find.

Egyptian mummies fascinate me for similar reasons. Lately I've been spending a lot of time on YouTube investigating sunken warships as well. All things lost in time and eventually found again. Love it.

Sure beats finding any time capsule. Though a bit sad to hear people debating on the rate of decay of the Titanic.

 

[DaisyRose]

Egyptian mummies fascinate me for similar reasons. Lately I've been spending a lot of time on YouTube investigating sunken warships as well. All things lost in time and eventually found again. Love it.

Sure beats finding any time capsule.

Same I hope they find Cleopatra soon. There is a lady who is looking for her in Alexandria. Which is the capital of Egypt. I hope they find her soon along with Marc Anthony.

 

[Judge]

Same I hope they find Cleopatra soon. There is a lady who is looking for her in Alexandria. Which is the capital of Egypt. I hope they find her soon along with Marc Anthony.

Indeed. I'm still contemplating whether or not people are allowed to use ground penetrating radar in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. Probably prohibited, along with all the other private parties who would loot the place. Still I wonder if they've uncovered only a partial number of burial sites there.

Actually the present capital of Egypt is Cairo. But then Egypt has had multiple capitals over thousands of years. Alexandria being one of them. I always felt badly for the great fire that took their library in Alexandria. A huge loss to civilization. And Alexandria's "lighthouse"....another treasure in pieces just off the harbor. There have been some interesting shows on the History Channel about that structure.

With modern forensics, who knows what they might find with the bodies of Antony and Cleopatra. Yeah...cool stuff.

 

[DaisyRose]

Indeed. I'm still contemplating whether or not people are allowed to use ground penetrating radar in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. Probably prohibited, along with all the other private parties who would loot the place. Still I wonder if they've uncovered only a partial number of burial sites there.

Actually the present capital of Egypt is Cairo. But then Egypt has had multiple capitals over thousands of years. Alexandria being one of them. I always feel badly for the great fire that took their library in Alexandria. A huge loss to civilization.

Yea her story is so interesting. I like how her brother tired to overthrow her and she came back with the Greek army. She came back with muscle lol. When the Romans took over, they destroyed all their history including the library. They wanted to corrupt they history with their own. It’s sad how things turned out and how she had to go into hiding and eventually committed suicide.

 

[Judge]

Yea her story is so interesting. I like how her brother tired to overthrow her and she came back with the Greek army. She came back with muscle lol. When the Romans took over, they destroyed all their history including the library. They wanted to corrupt they history with their own. It’s sad how things turned out and how she had to go into hiding and eventually committed suicide.

Reminds me of how only some months back I was reading about Cleopatra's son Caesarion she had with Julius Caesar, and how he apparently didn't escape being murdered. Some of those kind of stories are very interesting to me in terms of rumors and conspiracies as to whether someone survived their ordeals.

Ironic to consider that ancient Egypt- and Rome both had a preference of recording history only favorable to the regimes in power at any given time.

On YouTube they have a presentation of how some believe Cleopatra actually looked. Same about Marie Antoinette as well. Sounds like we both have a thing for history. This is good!

 

[Athyrium]

Thank you so much for sharing it! It's really cool to see them find things in such a good condition.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

Same I hope they find Cleopatra soon. There is a lady who is looking for her in Alexandria. Which is the capital of Egypt. I hope they find her soon along with Marc Anthony.

And some in the Great Lakes are looking for Le Griffon, de La Salle's ship, the first on those inland seas, lost on its maiden voyage with no survivors.

 

[Judge]

And some in the Great Lakes are looking for Le Griffon, de La Salle's ship, the first on those inland seas, lost on its maiden voyage with no survivors.

I found seeing the sunken Edmund Fitzgerald to be interesting, though somehow a bit sad as well.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

I found seeing the sunken Edmund Fitzgerald to be interesting, though somehow a bit sad as well.

And in the song commemorating it by Gordon Lightfoot I know the geography: fron the sheltering Whitefish Bay to the Maritime Sailor's Cathedral. Spots in the Great Lakes have more shipwrecks than the Bermuda Triangle.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

Thanks for posting about the cave bear. Spooky.

 

[Judge]

And in the song commemorating it by Gordon Lightfoot I know the geography: fron the sheltering Whitefish Bay to the Maritime Sailor's Cathedral. Spots in the Great Lakes have more shipwrecks than the Bermuda Triangle.

I had never heard of the Edmund Fitzgerald until I heard Gordon Lightfoot sing about it. Great song...tragic ship.

 

[maycontainthunder]

Never ceases to amaze me what flukes survival in nature.

Here's another ice age find.

A gold miner found a mysterious grapefruit-sized fur ball. It turned out to be a 'perfectly preserved' 30,000-year-old squirrel..

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

A fossil site that I find amazing is the Ashfall site in Nebraska. 12 million years ago a volcanic eruption in Idaho blanketed the area in ash that contained very sharp glass-like particulates. The animals breathing this succumbed to silicosis and died around a watering hole. The site is a snapshot of great plains animals at the time. In the Rhino Barn, the skeletons are exposed as they are found. I highly recommend a visit to the Ashfall.

https://ashfall.unl.edu/