Majorityrights News > Category: Archeology

Couple of fun stories from the DT.

Those good old boys in JD Hogg’s county done gone an’ painted Portland.

Protests by rival far-right and left-wing groups in Portland descended into violence on Sunday, as the opposing sides engaged in clashes and at least one man was arrested for firing a gun at demonstrators.

Nobody was hurt in an exchange of gunfire - and by Sunday evening there was no word on any injuries in numerous other skirmishes that saw opposing sides brawling, dousing each other in what appeared to be bear spray and breaking car windows of rivals.

Police Chief Chuck Lovell said during a briefing on Friday that officers would not necessarily intervene to break up fights between the groups.

...  while among the effete and guilt-ridden of Cambridge (not the one in MA):

The exciting, go-ahead Classics Department is responding to an earlier call from the Chair of the Classics Faculty Board for “public acknowledgement of the problems of racism within Classics and the need for active anti-racist work within our discipline.”

Cambridge University’s archaeology museum is to add signs to explain the “whiteness” of sculpture plaster casts, as part of the Classics Faculty’s new anti-racist strategy.

Plaster casts of Roman and Greek sculptures that are on display at Cambridge University’s Museum of Classical Archeology, as well as around lecture rooms, give a “misleading impression” of the whiteness and “absence of diversity” of the ancient world.

... The new information panels about the “whiteness” of plaster cast sculptures are due to go on display later this year, according to the faculty.

How much harm could it do for the department’s dons to be maced and getting shot at in Portland, and the Proud Boys to be running Classics at Cambridge?
I mean, really ...

A Classics prof teaches one of his Rhodes students:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/world-news/2021/08/23/TELEMMGLPICT000268790934_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqr9mCRwwDbt1nwdZ9X8c_6f4Xpit_DMGvdp2n7FDd82k.jpeg?imwidth=680

Humphreys makes the case that Nero was actually a much more benign, benificant and popular ruler than portrayals through the Jewish popularizing perspective of Christianity would have people believe. Nero actually transformed Rome from a wooden to a marble city; refining Roman life in many ways, in fact, with the development of parks, recreation and culture; thereby displaying contemplation and concern for matters far better than any preoccupation with persecuting Christians. It was thus necessary for Jewish interests to fabricate through Christianity, the popular notion of Nero as evil.

Part 2, 9:14 -

Demonizing of Nero Begins:

The Jews, in rebellion from 66, identify the personification of evil - Beliel - with the Roman emperor. In coded “revelation” the Beast is Nero. His death stiffened Jewish resistance.

Messianic sectarians concoct an apocalypse (later called the Testament of Hezekiah) which equates Belial with the Antichrist, an “indwelling” spirit of evil.

The last years of Nero’s reign saw the Jews in rebellion.

In Rome, following Nero’s suicide, political strife divides the nation… 

The Flavians, humble soldiers, were desperate to legitimize their new regime (by daunting contrast to the popular ruler, Nero). Hence the completion by Vespasian of the temple of Claudius. For the Flavians, Nero had been a weak, effeminate ruler. They had little interest in his cultural conquest, but gave the biggest, bloodiest festival of all to the Roman people; the amphitheater, lavishly financed by the plunder of the Jewish temple.

Related at Majority Rights:

MR Interview of Kenneth Humphreys by James Bowery Concerning the Syncretic Origin of Christianity
http://www.majorityrights.com/audio/KenHumphreys.mp3

While not exactly an ethnonationalist, in fact, prissy on a “Spencerian” level, Rick Steve does a professional job of showing us around our European nations, providing a convenient source of information for those of us who cannot make it around to all these places; a view at our convenience which should, nevertheless, give inspiration for our fight.

This one tours the Scottish Highlands. Others will be added subsequently…

A mound, unceremoniously beside the road, sits atop profound treasure…

“I think the thing that’s so strange about it is that it was such an unpromising looking site,” said Ms Jackson.

Daily Mail, 9 May 2019:

Found next to an Aldi (a German based grocery franchise), the ‘UK’s answer to Tutankhamun’s tomb’: Burial site thought to belong to Anglo-Saxon Prince Saexa is uncovered in Essex in one of Britain’s ‘most significant archaeological finds EVER’

- Thought to be the burial chamber of the brother of Anglo-Saxon King Saebert
- Has been hailed as the ‘British equivalent of Tutankhamun’s tomb’ by experts
- The tomb is completely intact as looters and archaeologists could never find it
- It was discovered on land on land between a pub and an Aldi supermarket

A royal burial site found beneath a roadside verge in Essex has been dubbed one of the most significant archaeological finds ever made in England.

       

Discovered between a pub and an Aldi supermarket, it is thought to be the burial chamber of the brother of Anglo-Saxon King Saebert. Researchers behind the find have hailed it as the ‘British equivalent of Tutankhamun’s tomb’ - despite little similarities in appearance. Belying its unglamorous location, inside the chamber are 40 artefacts thought to have belonged to the ancient Essex prince Saexa.

The Anglo-Saxons were Pagans, but the Christian items found in the chamber suggest the religion was still important in England 1,400 years ago.

It is the earliest Christian Anglo-Saxon princely burial found in the UK, according to experts from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA).

Royal families emerged in Anglo-Saxon times in Kent, Essex and across south-east England.

Saebert and Seaxa’s mother was from the Kentish royal family, but their maternal aunt, Bertha, was a French princess who married into their royal family and brought her Christian beliefs with her.

That may explain the gold crosses on the prince’s eyes and the coins in the chamber, which are clearly Christian, while the very idea of a burial chamber is Pagan.

The researchers say the site represents a ‘transitional moment’ in this country’s history before Christianity took over.

       
        Princely burial chamber in Southend.

Sophie Jackson, the director of research at the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA), which helped study the tomb, told the Daily Mail: “This is one of the most significant archaeological finds ever seen in England.

“It is the British equivalent of Tutankhamun’s tomb as everything in it is just as it was left 1,400 years ago.

“It was found on an unpromising site, which is just really a grass verge, but this is an aristocratic burial site and the artefacts provide a great insight into religious life at the time.”

Daily Mail, 8 May 2019:

Ancient Polish grave could reveal a chilling 5,000-year-old story of how men returned from a hunt to find the women and children of their extended family had been ruthlessly massacred.

- A mass grave of 15 individuals, mostly women and children, was found in 2011
- The remains were part of the same, extended family and they died violently
- It is thought the men of the village were away when an attack was launched

Imagery credit: National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)

A prehistoric burial site has revealed the brutal massacre of the women and children of a large family in Poland 4,800 years ago. That’s the theory of researchers who have analysed the remains of a group of 15 prehistoric people uncovered near the village of Koszyce (just northeast of Krakow).

The tragic burial site is strangely lacking adult men and experts believe the women and children in the grave were murdered while the men were away.

They suggest they returned from a trip, perhaps a hunting expedition, to find their families slaughtered at the hands of a violent rival group.

The surviving warriors carefully arranged the remains of their loved ones , with mothers cradling their children and accompanied with jewellery and pets.

A prehistoric burial site has revealed the brutal massacre of the women and children of a large family in Poland 4,800 years ago. That’s the theory of researchers who have analysed the remains of a group of 15 prehistoric people. Pictured: Bones of the dead

Excavations in 2011 uncovered the mass grave and the smashed bones and caved skulls within revealed their violent deaths.

Analysis of the bones of the dead showed they all came from a group of interrelated families who lived around 2800 BC

Four of the women were buried alongside their children and, of the few men in the pit, four were half-brothers. The heart-ache for those who buried the slaughtered family members is expressed in how they are positioned, researchers suggest.

[...]

Genome analysis found the people to be farmers and the research, published in PNAS, says the Corded Ware people may have been to blame for the heinous act.

The groups shared DNA but the Corded Ware society was thriving and expanding rapidly across Europe, and this may have led to the slaughter of the neighbouring people. 

The Corded Ware people are believed to have interbred and merged with the Yamnaya folk, who have recently been heralded as the most violent group of people to ever live.

Yamnaya culture emerged roughly 5,00 years ago in the European steppe and spread rapidly across the rest of the continent, destroying cultures and interbreeding.

Ancient DNA reveals these migrants were well nourished, tall and muscular. Some archaeologists also argue that the warrior tribe consisted of skilled horsemen.

‘It looks like they lived mostly on meat and milk products,’ Kristian Kristiansen at the University of Gothenburg told New Scientist. ‘They were healthier and probably physically quite strong

The globular Amphora people lived between 3400 and 2800 BC in central Europe.

They existed at the same time as the Corded Ware people and the Yamnaya. 

They were farmers by trade, raiding livestock - especially pigs.

The settlements they lived in may have been small, rudimentary and temporary, researchers have found.

The culture had impressive burials, with large pits and gifts to accompany the dead.

These would often include animal remains and sacrifices.

It shared DNA with the Corded Ware society which was thriving and expanding rapidly across Europe.

These people also bred and mingled with the invading Yamnaya from the west, who were ruthlessly efficient muscular killers that swept across the continent.

Related at Majorityrights:

Cochran on the genetic history of Jews, Aryans et al.

Begins in Poznan’s central market square with imagery commemorating The Polish Uprising of 1918/19; then goes up the adjacent hill to the castle where the first nobility of Poland lived; then shows Club Dragon; past Sienkiewicz museum (right foreground at 9:25, though I neglect to mention it in video), back into the market square to the Ratusz, into it’s renaissance salon; then into the Fara church; a peek into the archaeological museum; and into the market square again; finally, back to display of Pilsudski’s uprising where the tour began.

READ MORE...