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FEATURE - Archäologen haben in der Mongolei eine über 4000 Kilometer lange neue Chinesische Mauer freigelegt
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Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.
The excavations on a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia are flipping everything we thought we knew about ancient walls on its head.
The international dig has revealed that some colossal barriers stretching across the Eurasian steppe weren’t built to fend off invaders - as per legend - but instead to manage people, mark territory, and show off dynastic might.
The so-called Medieval Wall System (MWS) takes in Mongolia, China and Russia – and hows now being hailed as a forgotten sibling to the Great Wall of China. However, it may have had a different purpose.
“We sought to determine the use of the enclosure and the Mongolian Arc,” said Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who’s leading the excavations.
“What was its function? Was it primarily a military system designed to defend against invading armies, or was it intended to control the empire's outermost regions by managing border crossings, addressing civilian unrest, and preventing small-scale raids?
“Considerable investment in the garrison’s walls, as well as in the structures within them, suggests a year-round occupation”, concludes Professor Shelach-Lavi. “Future analysis of samples taken from this site will help us better understand the resources used by the people stationed at the garrison, their diet, and their way of life.”
The team, part of a Mongolian-Israeli-American research project called The Wall, surveyed the 405km-long Mongolian stretch – known as the Mongolian Arc – and excavated a fortified enclosure.
What they found was very different to what they expected.
The “wall” running along the Arc turned out not to be a towering fortress, but rather a shallow ditch and a mound of earth – unlikely to stop an army but perfect for controlling mo *** Local Caption *** 47
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DUK10163483_011
FEATURE - Archäologen haben in der Mongolei eine über 4000 Kilometer lange neue Chinesische Mauer freigelegt
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Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.
The excavations on a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia are flipping everything we thought we knew about ancient walls on its head.
The international dig has revealed that some colossal barriers stretching across the Eurasian steppe weren’t built to fend off invaders - as per legend - but instead to manage people, mark territory, and show off dynastic might.
The so-called Medieval Wall System (MWS) takes in Mongolia, China and Russia – and hows now being hailed as a forgotten sibling to the Great Wall of China. However, it may have had a different purpose.
“We sought to determine the use of the enclosure and the Mongolian Arc,” said Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who’s leading the excavations.
“What was its function? Was it primarily a military system designed to defend against invading armies, or was it intended to control the empire's outermost regions by managing border crossings, addressing civilian unrest, and preventing small-scale raids?
“Considerable investment in the garrison’s walls, as well as in the structures within them, suggests a year-round occupation”, concludes Professor Shelach-Lavi. “Future analysis of samples taken from this site will help us better understand the resources used by the people stationed at the garrison, their diet, and their way of life.”
The team, part of a Mongolian-Israeli-American research project called The Wall, surveyed the 405km-long Mongolian stretch – known as the Mongolian Arc – and excavated a fortified enclosure.
What they found was very different to what they expected.
The “wall” running along the Arc turned out not to be a towering fortress, but rather a shallow ditch and a mound of earth – unlikely to stop an army but perfect for controlling mo *** Local Caption *** 47
(c) Dukas -
DUK10163483_007
FEATURE - Archäologen haben in der Mongolei eine über 4000 Kilometer lange neue Chinesische Mauer freigelegt
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Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.
The excavations on a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia are flipping everything we thought we knew about ancient walls on its head.
The international dig has revealed that some colossal barriers stretching across the Eurasian steppe weren’t built to fend off invaders - as per legend - but instead to manage people, mark territory, and show off dynastic might.
The so-called Medieval Wall System (MWS) takes in Mongolia, China and Russia – and hows now being hailed as a forgotten sibling to the Great Wall of China. However, it may have had a different purpose.
“We sought to determine the use of the enclosure and the Mongolian Arc,” said Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who’s leading the excavations.
“What was its function? Was it primarily a military system designed to defend against invading armies, or was it intended to control the empire's outermost regions by managing border crossings, addressing civilian unrest, and preventing small-scale raids?
“Considerable investment in the garrison’s walls, as well as in the structures within them, suggests a year-round occupation”, concludes Professor Shelach-Lavi. “Future analysis of samples taken from this site will help us better understand the resources used by the people stationed at the garrison, their diet, and their way of life.”
The team, part of a Mongolian-Israeli-American research project called The Wall, surveyed the 405km-long Mongolian stretch – known as the Mongolian Arc – and excavated a fortified enclosure.
What they found was very different to what they expected.
The “wall” running along the Arc turned out not to be a towering fortress, but rather a shallow ditch and a mound of earth – unlikely to stop an army but perfect for controlling mo *** Local Caption *** 47
(c) Dukas -
DUK10163483_006
FEATURE - Archäologen haben in der Mongolei eine über 4000 Kilometer lange neue Chinesische Mauer freigelegt
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**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE**
Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.
The excavations on a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia are flipping everything we thought we knew about ancient walls on its head.
The international dig has revealed that some colossal barriers stretching across the Eurasian steppe weren’t built to fend off invaders - as per legend - but instead to manage people, mark territory, and show off dynastic might.
The so-called Medieval Wall System (MWS) takes in Mongolia, China and Russia – and hows now being hailed as a forgotten sibling to the Great Wall of China. However, it may have had a different purpose.
“We sought to determine the use of the enclosure and the Mongolian Arc,” said Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who’s leading the excavations.
“What was its function? Was it primarily a military system designed to defend against invading armies, or was it intended to control the empire's outermost regions by managing border crossings, addressing civilian unrest, and preventing small-scale raids?
“Considerable investment in the garrison’s walls, as well as in the structures within them, suggests a year-round occupation”, concludes Professor Shelach-Lavi. “Future analysis of samples taken from this site will help us better understand the resources used by the people stationed at the garrison, their diet, and their way of life.”
The team, part of a Mongolian-Israeli-American research project called The Wall, surveyed the 405km-long Mongolian stretch – known as the Mongolian Arc – and excavated a fortified enclosure.
What they found was very different to what they expected.
The “wall” running along the Arc turned out not to be a towering fortress, but rather a shallow ditch and a mound of earth – unlikely to stop an army but perfect for controlling mo *** Local Caption *** 47
(c) Dukas -
DUK10163483_004
FEATURE - Archäologen haben in der Mongolei eine über 4000 Kilometer lange neue Chinesische Mauer freigelegt
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**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE**
Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.
The excavations on a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia are flipping everything we thought we knew about ancient walls on its head.
The international dig has revealed that some colossal barriers stretching across the Eurasian steppe weren’t built to fend off invaders - as per legend - but instead to manage people, mark territory, and show off dynastic might.
The so-called Medieval Wall System (MWS) takes in Mongolia, China and Russia – and hows now being hailed as a forgotten sibling to the Great Wall of China. However, it may have had a different purpose.
“We sought to determine the use of the enclosure and the Mongolian Arc,” said Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who’s leading the excavations.
“What was its function? Was it primarily a military system designed to defend against invading armies, or was it intended to control the empire's outermost regions by managing border crossings, addressing civilian unrest, and preventing small-scale raids?
“Considerable investment in the garrison’s walls, as well as in the structures within them, suggests a year-round occupation”, concludes Professor Shelach-Lavi. “Future analysis of samples taken from this site will help us better understand the resources used by the people stationed at the garrison, their diet, and their way of life.”
The team, part of a Mongolian-Israeli-American research project called The Wall, surveyed the 405km-long Mongolian stretch – known as the Mongolian Arc – and excavated a fortified enclosure.
What they found was very different to what they expected.
The “wall” running along the Arc turned out not to be a towering fortress, but rather a shallow ditch and a mound of earth – unlikely to stop an army but perfect for controlling mo *** Local Caption *** 47
(c) Dukas -
DUK10163483_009
FEATURE - Archäologen haben in der Mongolei eine über 4000 Kilometer lange neue Chinesische Mauer freigelegt
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Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.
The excavations on a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia are flipping everything we thought we knew about ancient walls on its head.
The international dig has revealed that some colossal barriers stretching across the Eurasian steppe weren’t built to fend off invaders - as per legend - but instead to manage people, mark territory, and show off dynastic might.
The so-called Medieval Wall System (MWS) takes in Mongolia, China and Russia – and hows now being hailed as a forgotten sibling to the Great Wall of China. However, it may have had a different purpose.
“We sought to determine the use of the enclosure and the Mongolian Arc,” said Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who’s leading the excavations.
“What was its function? Was it primarily a military system designed to defend against invading armies, or was it intended to control the empire's outermost regions by managing border crossings, addressing civilian unrest, and preventing small-scale raids?
“Considerable investment in the garrison’s walls, as well as in the structures within them, suggests a year-round occupation”, concludes Professor Shelach-Lavi. “Future analysis of samples taken from this site will help us better understand the resources used by the people stationed at the garrison, their diet, and their way of life.”
The team, part of a Mongolian-Israeli-American research project called The Wall, surveyed the 405km-long Mongolian stretch – known as the Mongolian Arc – and excavated a fortified enclosure.
What they found was very different to what they expected.
The “wall” running along the Arc turned out not to be a towering fortress, but rather a shallow ditch and a mound of earth – unlikely to stop an army but perfect for controlling mo *** Local Caption *** 47
(c) Dukas -
DUK10162684_015
FEATURE - Aus Forschung und Wissenschaft: 2.000 Jahre alte Fresken in einem grossen Bankettsaal in Pompeji entdeckt
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A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order.
More than a century after the famous Villa of the Mysteries was unearthed, archaeologists have revealed a strikingly detailed frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine.
The nearly life-sized fresco, known as a "megalography" due to its large-scale figures, was found in a grand banqueting room in Insula 10 of Region IX in central Pompeii. It spans three sides of the room, while the fourth side opens onto a garden.
The vivid artwork portrays bacchantes, or maenads, as both dancers and fierce hunters. Some carry slaughtered kid goats or wield swords while holding the innards of animals. Young satyrs, with their distinctive pointed ears, are shown playing the double flute. At the centre of the frieze stands a mortal woman accompanied by an aged Silenus holding a torch, suggesting her initiation into the Dionysiac mysteries—a cult promising rebirth and the possibility of an afterlife.
Explaining its significance, Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts, rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere.
“Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality, we can observe the signs of a religious crisis that was affecting the ancient world, but we can also grasp the grandeur of a ritual that dates back to an archaic world.”
He also said the bacchante or maenad, “expressed the wild, untameable side of women,” who “break free from male order to dance freely” and take on traditional male pursuits like hunting.
Intriguingly, all the figures appear to *** Local Ca
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DUK10162684_003
FEATURE - Aus Forschung und Wissenschaft: 2.000 Jahre alte Fresken in einem grossen Bankettsaal in Pompeji entdeckt
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A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order.
More than a century after the famous Villa of the Mysteries was unearthed, archaeologists have revealed a strikingly detailed frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine.
The nearly life-sized fresco, known as a "megalography" due to its large-scale figures, was found in a grand banqueting room in Insula 10 of Region IX in central Pompeii. It spans three sides of the room, while the fourth side opens onto a garden.
The vivid artwork portrays bacchantes, or maenads, as both dancers and fierce hunters. Some carry slaughtered kid goats or wield swords while holding the innards of animals. Young satyrs, with their distinctive pointed ears, are shown playing the double flute. At the centre of the frieze stands a mortal woman accompanied by an aged Silenus holding a torch, suggesting her initiation into the Dionysiac mysteries—a cult promising rebirth and the possibility of an afterlife.
Explaining its significance, Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts, rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere.
“Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality, we can observe the signs of a religious crisis that was affecting the ancient world, but we can also grasp the grandeur of a ritual that dates back to an archaic world.”
He also said the bacchante or maenad, “expressed the wild, untameable side of women,” who “break free from male order to dance freely” and take on traditional male pursuits like hunting.
Intriguingly, all the figures appear to *** Local Ca
(c) Dukas -
DUK10162684_017
FEATURE - Aus Forschung und Wissenschaft: 2.000 Jahre alte Fresken in einem grossen Bankettsaal in Pompeji entdeckt
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A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order.
More than a century after the famous Villa of the Mysteries was unearthed, archaeologists have revealed a strikingly detailed frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine.
The nearly life-sized fresco, known as a "megalography" due to its large-scale figures, was found in a grand banqueting room in Insula 10 of Region IX in central Pompeii. It spans three sides of the room, while the fourth side opens onto a garden.
The vivid artwork portrays bacchantes, or maenads, as both dancers and fierce hunters. Some carry slaughtered kid goats or wield swords while holding the innards of animals. Young satyrs, with their distinctive pointed ears, are shown playing the double flute. At the centre of the frieze stands a mortal woman accompanied by an aged Silenus holding a torch, suggesting her initiation into the Dionysiac mysteries—a cult promising rebirth and the possibility of an afterlife.
Explaining its significance, Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts, rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere.
“Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality, we can observe the signs of a religious crisis that was affecting the ancient world, but we can also grasp the grandeur of a ritual that dates back to an archaic world.”
He also said the bacchante or maenad, “expressed the wild, untameable side of women,” who “break free from male order to dance freely” and take on traditional male pursuits like hunting.
Intriguingly, all the figures appear to *** Local Ca
(c) Dukas -
DUK10162684_004
FEATURE - Aus Forschung und Wissenschaft: 2.000 Jahre alte Fresken in einem grossen Bankettsaal in Pompeji entdeckt
**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE**
A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order.
More than a century after the famous Villa of the Mysteries was unearthed, archaeologists have revealed a strikingly detailed frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine.
The nearly life-sized fresco, known as a "megalography" due to its large-scale figures, was found in a grand banqueting room in Insula 10 of Region IX in central Pompeii. It spans three sides of the room, while the fourth side opens onto a garden.
The vivid artwork portrays bacchantes, or maenads, as both dancers and fierce hunters. Some carry slaughtered kid goats or wield swords while holding the innards of animals. Young satyrs, with their distinctive pointed ears, are shown playing the double flute. At the centre of the frieze stands a mortal woman accompanied by an aged Silenus holding a torch, suggesting her initiation into the Dionysiac mysteries—a cult promising rebirth and the possibility of an afterlife.
Explaining its significance, Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts, rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere.
“Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality, we can observe the signs of a religious crisis that was affecting the ancient world, but we can also grasp the grandeur of a ritual that dates back to an archaic world.”
He also said the bacchante or maenad, “expressed the wild, untameable side of women,” who “break free from male order to dance freely” and take on traditional male pursuits like hunting.
Intriguingly, all the figures appear to *** Local Ca
(c) Dukas -
DUK10162684_013
FEATURE - Aus Forschung und Wissenschaft: 2.000 Jahre alte Fresken in einem grossen Bankettsaal in Pompeji entdeckt
**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE**
A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order.
More than a century after the famous Villa of the Mysteries was unearthed, archaeologists have revealed a strikingly detailed frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine.
The nearly life-sized fresco, known as a "megalography" due to its large-scale figures, was found in a grand banqueting room in Insula 10 of Region IX in central Pompeii. It spans three sides of the room, while the fourth side opens onto a garden.
The vivid artwork portrays bacchantes, or maenads, as both dancers and fierce hunters. Some carry slaughtered kid goats or wield swords while holding the innards of animals. Young satyrs, with their distinctive pointed ears, are shown playing the double flute. At the centre of the frieze stands a mortal woman accompanied by an aged Silenus holding a torch, suggesting her initiation into the Dionysiac mysteries—a cult promising rebirth and the possibility of an afterlife.
Explaining its significance, Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts, rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere.
“Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality, we can observe the signs of a religious crisis that was affecting the ancient world, but we can also grasp the grandeur of a ritual that dates back to an archaic world.”
He also said the bacchante or maenad, “expressed the wild, untameable side of women,” who “break free from male order to dance freely” and take on traditional male pursuits like hunting.
Intriguingly, all the figures appear to *** Local Ca
(c) Dukas -
DUK10162684_014
FEATURE - Aus Forschung und Wissenschaft: 2.000 Jahre alte Fresken in einem grossen Bankettsaal in Pompeji entdeckt
**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE**
A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order.
More than a century after the famous Villa of the Mysteries was unearthed, archaeologists have revealed a strikingly detailed frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine.
The nearly life-sized fresco, known as a "megalography" due to its large-scale figures, was found in a grand banqueting room in Insula 10 of Region IX in central Pompeii. It spans three sides of the room, while the fourth side opens onto a garden.
The vivid artwork portrays bacchantes, or maenads, as both dancers and fierce hunters. Some carry slaughtered kid goats or wield swords while holding the innards of animals. Young satyrs, with their distinctive pointed ears, are shown playing the double flute. At the centre of the frieze stands a mortal woman accompanied by an aged Silenus holding a torch, suggesting her initiation into the Dionysiac mysteries—a cult promising rebirth and the possibility of an afterlife.
Explaining its significance, Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts, rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere.
“Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality, we can observe the signs of a religious crisis that was affecting the ancient world, but we can also grasp the grandeur of a ritual that dates back to an archaic world.”
He also said the bacchante or maenad, “expressed the wild, untameable side of women,” who “break free from male order to dance freely” and take on traditional male pursuits like hunting.
Intriguingly, all the figures appear to *** Local Ca
(c) Dukas -
DUK10162684_010
FEATURE - Aus Forschung und Wissenschaft: 2.000 Jahre alte Fresken in einem grossen Bankettsaal in Pompeji entdeckt
**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE**
A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order.
More than a century after the famous Villa of the Mysteries was unearthed, archaeologists have revealed a strikingly detailed frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine.
The nearly life-sized fresco, known as a "megalography" due to its large-scale figures, was found in a grand banqueting room in Insula 10 of Region IX in central Pompeii. It spans three sides of the room, while the fourth side opens onto a garden.
The vivid artwork portrays bacchantes, or maenads, as both dancers and fierce hunters. Some carry slaughtered kid goats or wield swords while holding the innards of animals. Young satyrs, with their distinctive pointed ears, are shown playing the double flute. At the centre of the frieze stands a mortal woman accompanied by an aged Silenus holding a torch, suggesting her initiation into the Dionysiac mysteries—a cult promising rebirth and the possibility of an afterlife.
Explaining its significance, Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts, rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere.
“Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality, we can observe the signs of a religious crisis that was affecting the ancient world, but we can also grasp the grandeur of a ritual that dates back to an archaic world.”
He also said the bacchante or maenad, “expressed the wild, untameable side of women,” who “break free from male order to dance freely” and take on traditional male pursuits like hunting.
Intriguingly, all the figures appear to *** Local Ca
(c) Dukas -
DUK10162684_005
FEATURE - Aus Forschung und Wissenschaft: 2.000 Jahre alte Fresken in einem grossen Bankettsaal in Pompeji entdeckt
**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE**
A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order.
More than a century after the famous Villa of the Mysteries was unearthed, archaeologists have revealed a strikingly detailed frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine.
The nearly life-sized fresco, known as a "megalography" due to its large-scale figures, was found in a grand banqueting room in Insula 10 of Region IX in central Pompeii. It spans three sides of the room, while the fourth side opens onto a garden.
The vivid artwork portrays bacchantes, or maenads, as both dancers and fierce hunters. Some carry slaughtered kid goats or wield swords while holding the innards of animals. Young satyrs, with their distinctive pointed ears, are shown playing the double flute. At the centre of the frieze stands a mortal woman accompanied by an aged Silenus holding a torch, suggesting her initiation into the Dionysiac mysteries—a cult promising rebirth and the possibility of an afterlife.
Explaining its significance, Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts, rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere.
“Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality, we can observe the signs of a religious crisis that was affecting the ancient world, but we can also grasp the grandeur of a ritual that dates back to an archaic world.”
He also said the bacchante or maenad, “expressed the wild, untameable side of women,” who “break free from male order to dance freely” and take on traditional male pursuits like hunting.
Intriguingly, all the figures appear to *** Local Ca
(c) Dukas -
DUK10162684_012
FEATURE - Aus Forschung und Wissenschaft: 2.000 Jahre alte Fresken in einem grossen Bankettsaal in Pompeji entdeckt
**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE**
A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order.
More than a century after the famous Villa of the Mysteries was unearthed, archaeologists have revealed a strikingly detailed frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine.
The nearly life-sized fresco, known as a "megalography" due to its large-scale figures, was found in a grand banqueting room in Insula 10 of Region IX in central Pompeii. It spans three sides of the room, while the fourth side opens onto a garden.
The vivid artwork portrays bacchantes, or maenads, as both dancers and fierce hunters. Some carry slaughtered kid goats or wield swords while holding the innards of animals. Young satyrs, with their distinctive pointed ears, are shown playing the double flute. At the centre of the frieze stands a mortal woman accompanied by an aged Silenus holding a torch, suggesting her initiation into the Dionysiac mysteries—a cult promising rebirth and the possibility of an afterlife.
Explaining its significance, Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts, rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere.
“Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality, we can observe the signs of a religious crisis that was affecting the ancient world, but we can also grasp the grandeur of a ritual that dates back to an archaic world.”
He also said the bacchante or maenad, “expressed the wild, untameable side of women,” who “break free from male order to dance freely” and take on traditional male pursuits like hunting.
Intriguingly, all the figures appear to *** Local Ca
(c) Dukas -
DUK10162684_006
FEATURE - Aus Forschung und Wissenschaft: 2.000 Jahre alte Fresken in einem grossen Bankettsaal in Pompeji entdeckt
**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE**
A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order.
More than a century after the famous Villa of the Mysteries was unearthed, archaeologists have revealed a strikingly detailed frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine.
The nearly life-sized fresco, known as a "megalography" due to its large-scale figures, was found in a grand banqueting room in Insula 10 of Region IX in central Pompeii. It spans three sides of the room, while the fourth side opens onto a garden.
The vivid artwork portrays bacchantes, or maenads, as both dancers and fierce hunters. Some carry slaughtered kid goats or wield swords while holding the innards of animals. Young satyrs, with their distinctive pointed ears, are shown playing the double flute. At the centre of the frieze stands a mortal woman accompanied by an aged Silenus holding a torch, suggesting her initiation into the Dionysiac mysteries—a cult promising rebirth and the possibility of an afterlife.
Explaining its significance, Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts, rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere.
“Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality, we can observe the signs of a religious crisis that was affecting the ancient world, but we can also grasp the grandeur of a ritual that dates back to an archaic world.”
He also said the bacchante or maenad, “expressed the wild, untameable side of women,” who “break free from male order to dance freely” and take on traditional male pursuits like hunting.
Intriguingly, all the figures appear to *** Local Ca
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FEATURE - Aus Forschung und Wissenschaft: 2.000 Jahre alte Fresken in einem grossen Bankettsaal in Pompeji entdeckt
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A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order.
More than a century after the famous Villa of the Mysteries was unearthed, archaeologists have revealed a strikingly detailed frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine.
The nearly life-sized fresco, known as a "megalography" due to its large-scale figures, was found in a grand banqueting room in Insula 10 of Region IX in central Pompeii. It spans three sides of the room, while the fourth side opens onto a garden.
The vivid artwork portrays bacchantes, or maenads, as both dancers and fierce hunters. Some carry slaughtered kid goats or wield swords while holding the innards of animals. Young satyrs, with their distinctive pointed ears, are shown playing the double flute. At the centre of the frieze stands a mortal woman accompanied by an aged Silenus holding a torch, suggesting her initiation into the Dionysiac mysteries—a cult promising rebirth and the possibility of an afterlife.
Explaining its significance, Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts, rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere.
“Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality, we can observe the signs of a religious crisis that was affecting the ancient world, but we can also grasp the grandeur of a ritual that dates back to an archaic world.”
He also said the bacchante or maenad, “expressed the wild, untameable side of women,” who “break free from male order to dance freely” and take on traditional male pursuits like hunting.
Intriguingly, all the figures appear to *** Local Ca
(c) Dukas -
DUK10162684_011
FEATURE - Aus Forschung und Wissenschaft: 2.000 Jahre alte Fresken in einem grossen Bankettsaal in Pompeji entdeckt
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A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order.
More than a century after the famous Villa of the Mysteries was unearthed, archaeologists have revealed a strikingly detailed frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine.
The nearly life-sized fresco, known as a "megalography" due to its large-scale figures, was found in a grand banqueting room in Insula 10 of Region IX in central Pompeii. It spans three sides of the room, while the fourth side opens onto a garden.
The vivid artwork portrays bacchantes, or maenads, as both dancers and fierce hunters. Some carry slaughtered kid goats or wield swords while holding the innards of animals. Young satyrs, with their distinctive pointed ears, are shown playing the double flute. At the centre of the frieze stands a mortal woman accompanied by an aged Silenus holding a torch, suggesting her initiation into the Dionysiac mysteries—a cult promising rebirth and the possibility of an afterlife.
Explaining its significance, Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts, rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere.
“Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality, we can observe the signs of a religious crisis that was affecting the ancient world, but we can also grasp the grandeur of a ritual that dates back to an archaic world.”
He also said the bacchante or maenad, “expressed the wild, untameable side of women,” who “break free from male order to dance freely” and take on traditional male pursuits like hunting.
Intriguingly, all the figures appear to *** Local Ca
(c) Dukas -
DUK10162684_008
FEATURE - Aus Forschung und Wissenschaft: 2.000 Jahre alte Fresken in einem grossen Bankettsaal in Pompeji entdeckt
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A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order.
More than a century after the famous Villa of the Mysteries was unearthed, archaeologists have revealed a strikingly detailed frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine.
The nearly life-sized fresco, known as a "megalography" due to its large-scale figures, was found in a grand banqueting room in Insula 10 of Region IX in central Pompeii. It spans three sides of the room, while the fourth side opens onto a garden.
The vivid artwork portrays bacchantes, or maenads, as both dancers and fierce hunters. Some carry slaughtered kid goats or wield swords while holding the innards of animals. Young satyrs, with their distinctive pointed ears, are shown playing the double flute. At the centre of the frieze stands a mortal woman accompanied by an aged Silenus holding a torch, suggesting her initiation into the Dionysiac mysteries—a cult promising rebirth and the possibility of an afterlife.
Explaining its significance, Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts, rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere.
“Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality, we can observe the signs of a religious crisis that was affecting the ancient world, but we can also grasp the grandeur of a ritual that dates back to an archaic world.”
He also said the bacchante or maenad, “expressed the wild, untameable side of women,” who “break free from male order to dance freely” and take on traditional male pursuits like hunting.
Intriguingly, all the figures appear to *** Local Ca
(c) Dukas -
DUK10162684_009
FEATURE - Aus Forschung und Wissenschaft: 2.000 Jahre alte Fresken in einem grossen Bankettsaal in Pompeji entdeckt
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A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order.
More than a century after the famous Villa of the Mysteries was unearthed, archaeologists have revealed a strikingly detailed frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine.
The nearly life-sized fresco, known as a "megalography" due to its large-scale figures, was found in a grand banqueting room in Insula 10 of Region IX in central Pompeii. It spans three sides of the room, while the fourth side opens onto a garden.
The vivid artwork portrays bacchantes, or maenads, as both dancers and fierce hunters. Some carry slaughtered kid goats or wield swords while holding the innards of animals. Young satyrs, with their distinctive pointed ears, are shown playing the double flute. At the centre of the frieze stands a mortal woman accompanied by an aged Silenus holding a torch, suggesting her initiation into the Dionysiac mysteries—a cult promising rebirth and the possibility of an afterlife.
Explaining its significance, Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts, rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere.
“Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality, we can observe the signs of a religious crisis that was affecting the ancient world, but we can also grasp the grandeur of a ritual that dates back to an archaic world.”
He also said the bacchante or maenad, “expressed the wild, untameable side of women,” who “break free from male order to dance freely” and take on traditional male pursuits like hunting.
Intriguingly, all the figures appear to *** Local Ca
(c) Dukas -
DUK10162684_007
FEATURE - Aus Forschung und Wissenschaft: 2.000 Jahre alte Fresken in einem grossen Bankettsaal in Pompeji entdeckt
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A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order.
More than a century after the famous Villa of the Mysteries was unearthed, archaeologists have revealed a strikingly detailed frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine.
The nearly life-sized fresco, known as a "megalography" due to its large-scale figures, was found in a grand banqueting room in Insula 10 of Region IX in central Pompeii. It spans three sides of the room, while the fourth side opens onto a garden.
The vivid artwork portrays bacchantes, or maenads, as both dancers and fierce hunters. Some carry slaughtered kid goats or wield swords while holding the innards of animals. Young satyrs, with their distinctive pointed ears, are shown playing the double flute. At the centre of the frieze stands a mortal woman accompanied by an aged Silenus holding a torch, suggesting her initiation into the Dionysiac mysteries—a cult promising rebirth and the possibility of an afterlife.
Explaining its significance, Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts, rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere.
“Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality, we can observe the signs of a religious crisis that was affecting the ancient world, but we can also grasp the grandeur of a ritual that dates back to an archaic world.”
He also said the bacchante or maenad, “expressed the wild, untameable side of women,” who “break free from male order to dance freely” and take on traditional male pursuits like hunting.
Intriguingly, all the figures appear to *** Local Ca
(c) Dukas -
DUK10162684_002
FEATURE - Aus Forschung und Wissenschaft: 2.000 Jahre alte Fresken in einem grossen Bankettsaal in Pompeji entdeckt
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A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order.
More than a century after the famous Villa of the Mysteries was unearthed, archaeologists have revealed a strikingly detailed frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine.
The nearly life-sized fresco, known as a "megalography" due to its large-scale figures, was found in a grand banqueting room in Insula 10 of Region IX in central Pompeii. It spans three sides of the room, while the fourth side opens onto a garden.
The vivid artwork portrays bacchantes, or maenads, as both dancers and fierce hunters. Some carry slaughtered kid goats or wield swords while holding the innards of animals. Young satyrs, with their distinctive pointed ears, are shown playing the double flute. At the centre of the frieze stands a mortal woman accompanied by an aged Silenus holding a torch, suggesting her initiation into the Dionysiac mysteries—a cult promising rebirth and the possibility of an afterlife.
Explaining its significance, Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts, rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere.
“Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality, we can observe the signs of a religious crisis that was affecting the ancient world, but we can also grasp the grandeur of a ritual that dates back to an archaic world.”
He also said the bacchante or maenad, “expressed the wild, untameable side of women,” who “break free from male order to dance freely” and take on traditional male pursuits like hunting.
Intriguingly, all the figures appear to *** Local Ca
(c) Dukas -
DUK10162684_001
FEATURE - Aus Forschung und Wissenschaft: 2.000 Jahre alte Fresken in einem grossen Bankettsaal in Pompeji entdeckt
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A newly discovered fresco in Pompeii is shedding fresh light on the mysterious Dionysiac cults of the ancient world - and how they depicted “wild” women who broke free of the male order.
More than a century after the famous Villa of the Mysteries was unearthed, archaeologists have revealed a strikingly detailed frieze depicting the procession of Dionysus, the god of wine.
The nearly life-sized fresco, known as a "megalography" due to its large-scale figures, was found in a grand banqueting room in Insula 10 of Region IX in central Pompeii. It spans three sides of the room, while the fourth side opens onto a garden.
The vivid artwork portrays bacchantes, or maenads, as both dancers and fierce hunters. Some carry slaughtered kid goats or wield swords while holding the innards of animals. Young satyrs, with their distinctive pointed ears, are shown playing the double flute. At the centre of the frieze stands a mortal woman accompanied by an aged Silenus holding a torch, suggesting her initiation into the Dionysiac mysteries—a cult promising rebirth and the possibility of an afterlife.
Explaining its significance, Gabriel Zuchtriegel said: “These frescoes have a profoundly religious meaning which, however, was also designed to decorate areas for holding banquets and feasts, rather like when we find a copy of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the wall of an Italian restaurant in New York to create a little bit of atmosphere.
“Behind these magnificent paintings, which play with illusion and reality, we can observe the signs of a religious crisis that was affecting the ancient world, but we can also grasp the grandeur of a ritual that dates back to an archaic world.”
He also said the bacchante or maenad, “expressed the wild, untameable side of women,” who “break free from male order to dance freely” and take on traditional male pursuits like hunting.
Intriguingly, all the figures appear to *** Local Ca
(c) Dukas -
DUK10163483_015
FEATURE - Archäologen haben in der Mongolei eine über 4000 Kilometer lange neue Chinesische Mauer freigelegt
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Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.
The excavations on a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia are flipping everything we thought we knew about ancient walls on its head.
The international dig has revealed that some colossal barriers stretching across the Eurasian steppe weren’t built to fend off invaders - as per legend - but instead to manage people, mark territory, and show off dynastic might.
The so-called Medieval Wall System (MWS) takes in Mongolia, China and Russia – and hows now being hailed as a forgotten sibling to the Great Wall of China. However, it may have had a different purpose.
“We sought to determine the use of the enclosure and the Mongolian Arc,” said Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who’s leading the excavations.
“What was its function? Was it primarily a military system designed to defend against invading armies, or was it intended to control the empire's outermost regions by managing border crossings, addressing civilian unrest, and preventing small-scale raids?
“Considerable investment in the garrison’s walls, as well as in the structures within them, suggests a year-round occupation”, concludes Professor Shelach-Lavi. “Future analysis of samples taken from this site will help us better understand the resources used by the people stationed at the garrison, their diet, and their way of life.”
The team, part of a Mongolian-Israeli-American research project called The Wall, surveyed the 405km-long Mongolian stretch – known as the Mongolian Arc – and excavated a fortified enclosure.
What they found was very different to what they expected.
The “wall” running along the Arc turned out not to be a towering fortress, but rather a shallow ditch and a mound of earth – unlikely to stop an army but perfect for controlling mo *** Local Caption *** 47
(c) Dukas -
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FEATURE - Archäologen haben in der Mongolei eine über 4000 Kilometer lange neue Chinesische Mauer freigelegt
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Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.
The excavations on a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia are flipping everything we thought we knew about ancient walls on its head.
The international dig has revealed that some colossal barriers stretching across the Eurasian steppe weren’t built to fend off invaders - as per legend - but instead to manage people, mark territory, and show off dynastic might.
The so-called Medieval Wall System (MWS) takes in Mongolia, China and Russia – and hows now being hailed as a forgotten sibling to the Great Wall of China. However, it may have had a different purpose.
“We sought to determine the use of the enclosure and the Mongolian Arc,” said Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who’s leading the excavations.
“What was its function? Was it primarily a military system designed to defend against invading armies, or was it intended to control the empire's outermost regions by managing border crossings, addressing civilian unrest, and preventing small-scale raids?
“Considerable investment in the garrison’s walls, as well as in the structures within them, suggests a year-round occupation”, concludes Professor Shelach-Lavi. “Future analysis of samples taken from this site will help us better understand the resources used by the people stationed at the garrison, their diet, and their way of life.”
The team, part of a Mongolian-Israeli-American research project called The Wall, surveyed the 405km-long Mongolian stretch – known as the Mongolian Arc – and excavated a fortified enclosure.
What they found was very different to what they expected.
The “wall” running along the Arc turned out not to be a towering fortress, but rather a shallow ditch and a mound of earth – unlikely to stop an army but perfect for controlling mo *** Local Caption *** 47
(c) Dukas -
DUK10163483_013
FEATURE - Archäologen haben in der Mongolei eine über 4000 Kilometer lange neue Chinesische Mauer freigelegt
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Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.
The excavations on a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia are flipping everything we thought we knew about ancient walls on its head.
The international dig has revealed that some colossal barriers stretching across the Eurasian steppe weren’t built to fend off invaders - as per legend - but instead to manage people, mark territory, and show off dynastic might.
The so-called Medieval Wall System (MWS) takes in Mongolia, China and Russia – and hows now being hailed as a forgotten sibling to the Great Wall of China. However, it may have had a different purpose.
“We sought to determine the use of the enclosure and the Mongolian Arc,” said Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who’s leading the excavations.
“What was its function? Was it primarily a military system designed to defend against invading armies, or was it intended to control the empire's outermost regions by managing border crossings, addressing civilian unrest, and preventing small-scale raids?
“Considerable investment in the garrison’s walls, as well as in the structures within them, suggests a year-round occupation”, concludes Professor Shelach-Lavi. “Future analysis of samples taken from this site will help us better understand the resources used by the people stationed at the garrison, their diet, and their way of life.”
The team, part of a Mongolian-Israeli-American research project called The Wall, surveyed the 405km-long Mongolian stretch – known as the Mongolian Arc – and excavated a fortified enclosure.
What they found was very different to what they expected.
The “wall” running along the Arc turned out not to be a towering fortress, but rather a shallow ditch and a mound of earth – unlikely to stop an army but perfect for controlling mo *** Local Caption *** 47
(c) Dukas -
DUK10163483_003
FEATURE - Archäologen haben in der Mongolei eine über 4000 Kilometer lange neue Chinesische Mauer freigelegt
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**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE**
Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.
The excavations on a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia are flipping everything we thought we knew about ancient walls on its head.
The international dig has revealed that some colossal barriers stretching across the Eurasian steppe weren’t built to fend off invaders - as per legend - but instead to manage people, mark territory, and show off dynastic might.
The so-called Medieval Wall System (MWS) takes in Mongolia, China and Russia – and hows now being hailed as a forgotten sibling to the Great Wall of China. However, it may have had a different purpose.
“We sought to determine the use of the enclosure and the Mongolian Arc,” said Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who’s leading the excavations.
“What was its function? Was it primarily a military system designed to defend against invading armies, or was it intended to control the empire's outermost regions by managing border crossings, addressing civilian unrest, and preventing small-scale raids?
“Considerable investment in the garrison’s walls, as well as in the structures within them, suggests a year-round occupation”, concludes Professor Shelach-Lavi. “Future analysis of samples taken from this site will help us better understand the resources used by the people stationed at the garrison, their diet, and their way of life.”
The team, part of a Mongolian-Israeli-American research project called The Wall, surveyed the 405km-long Mongolian stretch – known as the Mongolian Arc – and excavated a fortified enclosure.
What they found was very different to what they expected.
The “wall” running along the Arc turned out not to be a towering fortress, but rather a shallow ditch and a mound of earth – unlikely to stop an army but perfect for controlling mo *** Local Caption *** 47
(c) Dukas -
DUK10163483_016
FEATURE - Archäologen haben in der Mongolei eine über 4000 Kilometer lange neue Chinesische Mauer freigelegt
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**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE**
Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.
The excavations on a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia are flipping everything we thought we knew about ancient walls on its head.
The international dig has revealed that some colossal barriers stretching across the Eurasian steppe weren’t built to fend off invaders - as per legend - but instead to manage people, mark territory, and show off dynastic might.
The so-called Medieval Wall System (MWS) takes in Mongolia, China and Russia – and hows now being hailed as a forgotten sibling to the Great Wall of China. However, it may have had a different purpose.
“We sought to determine the use of the enclosure and the Mongolian Arc,” said Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who’s leading the excavations.
“What was its function? Was it primarily a military system designed to defend against invading armies, or was it intended to control the empire's outermost regions by managing border crossings, addressing civilian unrest, and preventing small-scale raids?
“Considerable investment in the garrison’s walls, as well as in the structures within them, suggests a year-round occupation”, concludes Professor Shelach-Lavi. “Future analysis of samples taken from this site will help us better understand the resources used by the people stationed at the garrison, their diet, and their way of life.”
The team, part of a Mongolian-Israeli-American research project called The Wall, surveyed the 405km-long Mongolian stretch – known as the Mongolian Arc – and excavated a fortified enclosure.
What they found was very different to what they expected.
The “wall” running along the Arc turned out not to be a towering fortress, but rather a shallow ditch and a mound of earth – unlikely to stop an army but perfect for controlling mo *** Local Caption *** 47
(c) Dukas -
DUK10163483_010
FEATURE - Archäologen haben in der Mongolei eine über 4000 Kilometer lange neue Chinesische Mauer freigelegt
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**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE**
Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.
The excavations on a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia are flipping everything we thought we knew about ancient walls on its head.
The international dig has revealed that some colossal barriers stretching across the Eurasian steppe weren’t built to fend off invaders - as per legend - but instead to manage people, mark territory, and show off dynastic might.
The so-called Medieval Wall System (MWS) takes in Mongolia, China and Russia – and hows now being hailed as a forgotten sibling to the Great Wall of China. However, it may have had a different purpose.
“We sought to determine the use of the enclosure and the Mongolian Arc,” said Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who’s leading the excavations.
“What was its function? Was it primarily a military system designed to defend against invading armies, or was it intended to control the empire's outermost regions by managing border crossings, addressing civilian unrest, and preventing small-scale raids?
“Considerable investment in the garrison’s walls, as well as in the structures within them, suggests a year-round occupation”, concludes Professor Shelach-Lavi. “Future analysis of samples taken from this site will help us better understand the resources used by the people stationed at the garrison, their diet, and their way of life.”
The team, part of a Mongolian-Israeli-American research project called The Wall, surveyed the 405km-long Mongolian stretch – known as the Mongolian Arc – and excavated a fortified enclosure.
What they found was very different to what they expected.
The “wall” running along the Arc turned out not to be a towering fortress, but rather a shallow ditch and a mound of earth – unlikely to stop an army but perfect for controlling mo *** Local Caption *** 47
(c) Dukas -
DUK10163483_005
FEATURE - Archäologen haben in der Mongolei eine über 4000 Kilometer lange neue Chinesische Mauer freigelegt
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**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE**
Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.
The excavations on a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia are flipping everything we thought we knew about ancient walls on its head.
The international dig has revealed that some colossal barriers stretching across the Eurasian steppe weren’t built to fend off invaders - as per legend - but instead to manage people, mark territory, and show off dynastic might.
The so-called Medieval Wall System (MWS) takes in Mongolia, China and Russia – and hows now being hailed as a forgotten sibling to the Great Wall of China. However, it may have had a different purpose.
“We sought to determine the use of the enclosure and the Mongolian Arc,” said Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who’s leading the excavations.
“What was its function? Was it primarily a military system designed to defend against invading armies, or was it intended to control the empire's outermost regions by managing border crossings, addressing civilian unrest, and preventing small-scale raids?
“Considerable investment in the garrison’s walls, as well as in the structures within them, suggests a year-round occupation”, concludes Professor Shelach-Lavi. “Future analysis of samples taken from this site will help us better understand the resources used by the people stationed at the garrison, their diet, and their way of life.”
The team, part of a Mongolian-Israeli-American research project called The Wall, surveyed the 405km-long Mongolian stretch – known as the Mongolian Arc – and excavated a fortified enclosure.
What they found was very different to what they expected.
The “wall” running along the Arc turned out not to be a towering fortress, but rather a shallow ditch and a mound of earth – unlikely to stop an army but perfect for controlling mo *** Local Caption *** 47
(c) Dukas -
DUK10163483_008
FEATURE - Archäologen haben in der Mongolei eine über 4000 Kilometer lange neue Chinesische Mauer freigelegt
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Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.
The excavations on a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia are flipping everything we thought we knew about ancient walls on its head.
The international dig has revealed that some colossal barriers stretching across the Eurasian steppe weren’t built to fend off invaders - as per legend - but instead to manage people, mark territory, and show off dynastic might.
The so-called Medieval Wall System (MWS) takes in Mongolia, China and Russia – and hows now being hailed as a forgotten sibling to the Great Wall of China. However, it may have had a different purpose.
“We sought to determine the use of the enclosure and the Mongolian Arc,” said Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who’s leading the excavations.
“What was its function? Was it primarily a military system designed to defend against invading armies, or was it intended to control the empire's outermost regions by managing border crossings, addressing civilian unrest, and preventing small-scale raids?
“Considerable investment in the garrison’s walls, as well as in the structures within them, suggests a year-round occupation”, concludes Professor Shelach-Lavi. “Future analysis of samples taken from this site will help us better understand the resources used by the people stationed at the garrison, their diet, and their way of life.”
The team, part of a Mongolian-Israeli-American research project called The Wall, surveyed the 405km-long Mongolian stretch – known as the Mongolian Arc – and excavated a fortified enclosure.
What they found was very different to what they expected.
The “wall” running along the Arc turned out not to be a towering fortress, but rather a shallow ditch and a mound of earth – unlikely to stop an army but perfect for controlling mo *** Local Caption *** 47
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DUK10163483_012
FEATURE - Archäologen haben in der Mongolei eine über 4000 Kilometer lange neue Chinesische Mauer freigelegt
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Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.
The excavations on a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia are flipping everything we thought we knew about ancient walls on its head.
The international dig has revealed that some colossal barriers stretching across the Eurasian steppe weren’t built to fend off invaders - as per legend - but instead to manage people, mark territory, and show off dynastic might.
The so-called Medieval Wall System (MWS) takes in Mongolia, China and Russia – and hows now being hailed as a forgotten sibling to the Great Wall of China. However, it may have had a different purpose.
“We sought to determine the use of the enclosure and the Mongolian Arc,” said Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who’s leading the excavations.
“What was its function? Was it primarily a military system designed to defend against invading armies, or was it intended to control the empire's outermost regions by managing border crossings, addressing civilian unrest, and preventing small-scale raids?
“Considerable investment in the garrison’s walls, as well as in the structures within them, suggests a year-round occupation”, concludes Professor Shelach-Lavi. “Future analysis of samples taken from this site will help us better understand the resources used by the people stationed at the garrison, their diet, and their way of life.”
The team, part of a Mongolian-Israeli-American research project called The Wall, surveyed the 405km-long Mongolian stretch – known as the Mongolian Arc – and excavated a fortified enclosure.
What they found was very different to what they expected.
The “wall” running along the Arc turned out not to be a towering fortress, but rather a shallow ditch and a mound of earth – unlikely to stop an army but perfect for controlling mo *** Local Caption *** 47
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DUK10163483_001
FEATURE - Archäologen haben in der Mongolei eine über 4000 Kilometer lange neue Chinesische Mauer freigelegt
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**VIDEO AVAILABLE: CONTACT INFO@COVERMG.COM TO RECEIVE**
Archaeologists have been excavating a “new Great Wall of China” that stretches for over 4,000 kilometres.
The excavations on a medieval frontier garrison in Mongolia are flipping everything we thought we knew about ancient walls on its head.
The international dig has revealed that some colossal barriers stretching across the Eurasian steppe weren’t built to fend off invaders - as per legend - but instead to manage people, mark territory, and show off dynastic might.
The so-called Medieval Wall System (MWS) takes in Mongolia, China and Russia – and hows now being hailed as a forgotten sibling to the Great Wall of China. However, it may have had a different purpose.
“We sought to determine the use of the enclosure and the Mongolian Arc,” said Professor Gideon Shelach-Lavi from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who’s leading the excavations.
“What was its function? Was it primarily a military system designed to defend against invading armies, or was it intended to control the empire's outermost regions by managing border crossings, addressing civilian unrest, and preventing small-scale raids?
“Considerable investment in the garrison’s walls, as well as in the structures within them, suggests a year-round occupation”, concludes Professor Shelach-Lavi. “Future analysis of samples taken from this site will help us better understand the resources used by the people stationed at the garrison, their diet, and their way of life.”
The team, part of a Mongolian-Israeli-American research project called The Wall, surveyed the 405km-long Mongolian stretch – known as the Mongolian Arc – and excavated a fortified enclosure.
What they found was very different to what they expected.
The “wall” running along the Arc turned out not to be a towering fortress, but rather a shallow ditch and a mound of earth – unlikely to stop an army but perfect for controlling mo *** Local Caption *** 47
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DUK10151252_022
FEATURE - Ägypten: Reiseimpressionen aus dem Land am Nil
Camels eating grass and waiting for tourists in the dessert, with The Great Pyramid, the largest Egyptian pyramid and the tomb of Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu, the middle Pyramid for Pharaoh Khafre and the smaller for Khafre’s son Menkaure. Three small pyramids built for Khufu’s queens are lined up next to the Great Pyramid, on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near Al-Jīzah (Giza) with Sfinx in Northern Egypt, The Step pyramid of Djoser, with Enclosure wall at Saqqara, Memphis former capital city and the Red and Bent Pyramid in Dahshur, 40 km south of Cairo.
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DUK10151252_019
FEATURE - Ägypten: Reiseimpressionen aus dem Land am Nil
Camels eating grass and waiting for tourists in the dessert, with The Great Pyramid, the largest Egyptian pyramid and the tomb of Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu, the middle Pyramid for Pharaoh Khafre and the smaller for Khafre’s son Menkaure. Three small pyramids built for Khufu’s queens are lined up next to the Great Pyramid, on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near Al-Jīzah (Giza) with Sfinx in Northern Egypt, The Step pyramid of Djoser, with Enclosure wall at Saqqara, Memphis former capital city and the Red and Bent Pyramid in Dahshur, 40 km south of Cairo.
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DUK10151252_018
FEATURE - Ägypten: Reiseimpressionen aus dem Land am Nil
Camels eating grass and waiting for tourists in the dessert, with The Great Pyramid, the largest Egyptian pyramid and the tomb of Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu, the middle Pyramid for Pharaoh Khafre and the smaller for Khafre’s son Menkaure. Three small pyramids built for Khufu’s queens are lined up next to the Great Pyramid, on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near Al-Jīzah (Giza) with Sfinx in Northern Egypt, The Step pyramid of Djoser, with Enclosure wall at Saqqara, Memphis former capital city and the Red and Bent Pyramid in Dahshur, 40 km south of Cairo.
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*** Local Caption *** 39640342
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DUK10151252_016
FEATURE - Ägypten: Reiseimpressionen aus dem Land am Nil
Camels eating grass and waiting for tourists in the dessert, with The Great Pyramid, the largest Egyptian pyramid and the tomb of Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu, the middle Pyramid for Pharaoh Khafre and the smaller for Khafre’s son Menkaure. Three small pyramids built for Khufu’s queens are lined up next to the Great Pyramid, on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near Al-Jīzah (Giza) with Sfinx in Northern Egypt, The Step pyramid of Djoser, with Enclosure wall at Saqqara, Memphis former capital city and the Red and Bent Pyramid in Dahshur, 40 km south of Cairo.
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*** Local Caption *** 39640399
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DUK10151252_014
FEATURE - Ägypten: Reiseimpressionen aus dem Land am Nil
Camels eating grass and waiting for tourists in the dessert, with The Great Pyramid, the largest Egyptian pyramid and the tomb of Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu, the middle Pyramid for Pharaoh Khafre and the smaller for Khafre’s son Menkaure. Three small pyramids built for Khufu’s queens are lined up next to the Great Pyramid, on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near Al-Jīzah (Giza) with Sfinx in Northern Egypt, The Step pyramid of Djoser, with Enclosure wall at Saqqara, Memphis former capital city and the Red and Bent Pyramid in Dahshur, 40 km south of Cairo.
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*** Local Caption *** 39640373
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DUK10151252_012
FEATURE - Ägypten: Reiseimpressionen aus dem Land am Nil
Camels eating grass and waiting for tourists in the dessert, with The Great Pyramid, the largest Egyptian pyramid and the tomb of Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu, the middle Pyramid for Pharaoh Khafre and the smaller for Khafre’s son Menkaure. Three small pyramids built for Khufu’s queens are lined up next to the Great Pyramid, on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near Al-Jīzah (Giza) with Sfinx in Northern Egypt, The Step pyramid of Djoser, with Enclosure wall at Saqqara, Memphis former capital city and the Red and Bent Pyramid in Dahshur, 40 km south of Cairo.
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*** Local Caption *** 39640354
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DUK10151252_009
FEATURE - Ägypten: Reiseimpressionen aus dem Land am Nil
Camels eating grass and waiting for tourists in the dessert, with The Great Pyramid, the largest Egyptian pyramid and the tomb of Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu, the middle Pyramid for Pharaoh Khafre and the smaller for Khafre’s son Menkaure. Three small pyramids built for Khufu’s queens are lined up next to the Great Pyramid, on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near Al-Jīzah (Giza) with Sfinx in Northern Egypt, The Step pyramid of Djoser, with Enclosure wall at Saqqara, Memphis former capital city and the Red and Bent Pyramid in Dahshur, 40 km south of Cairo.
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*** Local Caption *** 39640429
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DUK10151252_008
FEATURE - Ägypten: Reiseimpressionen aus dem Land am Nil
Camels eating grass and waiting for tourists in the dessert, with The Great Pyramid, the largest Egyptian pyramid and the tomb of Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu, the middle Pyramid for Pharaoh Khafre and the smaller for Khafre’s son Menkaure. Three small pyramids built for Khufu’s queens are lined up next to the Great Pyramid, on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near Al-Jīzah (Giza) with Sfinx in Northern Egypt, The Step pyramid of Djoser, with Enclosure wall at Saqqara, Memphis former capital city and the Red and Bent Pyramid in Dahshur, 40 km south of Cairo.
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*** Local Caption *** 39640371
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DUK10151252_006
FEATURE - Ägypten: Reiseimpressionen aus dem Land am Nil
Camels eating grass and waiting for tourists in the dessert, with The Great Pyramid, the largest Egyptian pyramid and the tomb of Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu, the middle Pyramid for Pharaoh Khafre and the smaller for Khafre’s son Menkaure. Three small pyramids built for Khufu’s queens are lined up next to the Great Pyramid, on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near Al-Jīzah (Giza) with Sfinx in Northern Egypt, The Step pyramid of Djoser, with Enclosure wall at Saqqara, Memphis former capital city and the Red and Bent Pyramid in Dahshur, 40 km south of Cairo.
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*** Local Caption *** 39640432
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DUK10151252_003
FEATURE - Ägypten: Reiseimpressionen aus dem Land am Nil
Camels eating grass and waiting for tourists in the dessert, with The Great Pyramid, the largest Egyptian pyramid and the tomb of Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu, the middle Pyramid for Pharaoh Khafre and the smaller for Khafre’s son Menkaure. Three small pyramids built for Khufu’s queens are lined up next to the Great Pyramid, on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near Al-Jīzah (Giza) with Sfinx in Northern Egypt, The Step pyramid of Djoser, with Enclosure wall at Saqqara, Memphis former capital city and the Red and Bent Pyramid in Dahshur, 40 km south of Cairo.
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*** Local Caption *** 39640387
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DUK10151252_002
FEATURE - Ägypten: Reiseimpressionen aus dem Land am Nil
Camels eating grass and waiting for tourists in the dessert, with The Great Pyramid, the largest Egyptian pyramid and the tomb of Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu, the middle Pyramid for Pharaoh Khafre and the smaller for Khafre’s son Menkaure. Three small pyramids built for Khufu’s queens are lined up next to the Great Pyramid, on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near Al-Jīzah (Giza) with Sfinx in Northern Egypt, The Step pyramid of Djoser, with Enclosure wall at Saqqara, Memphis former capital city and the Red and Bent Pyramid in Dahshur, 40 km south of Cairo.
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*** Local Caption *** 39640361
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DUK10151252_001
FEATURE - Ägypten: Reiseimpressionen aus dem Land am Nil
Camels eating grass and waiting for tourists in the dessert, with The Great Pyramid, the largest Egyptian pyramid and the tomb of Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu, the middle Pyramid for Pharaoh Khafre and the smaller for Khafre’s son Menkaure. Three small pyramids built for Khufu’s queens are lined up next to the Great Pyramid, on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near Al-Jīzah (Giza) with Sfinx in Northern Egypt, The Step pyramid of Djoser, with Enclosure wall at Saqqara, Memphis former capital city and the Red and Bent Pyramid in Dahshur, 40 km south of Cairo.
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*** Local Caption *** 39640378
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DUK10128945_013
FEATURE - Entdeckung am Blumengrab von Shanidar könnte das Geheimnis der Todesriten der Neandertaler aufdecken
Members of Ralph Solecki’s excavation team carrying the block containing Shanidar 4 (the flower burial), 6, 8 and 9 down from the cave to be transported to the Baghdad Museum for further study. See National News story NNburial. Cavemen may have buried their dead with flowers, suggests a major new discovery. Cambridge University archaeologists have unearthed an “articulated” Neanderthal skeleton - meaning all in one piece with the bones still arranged in the proper order - the first in over 20 years.The skeleton, dubbed Shanidar Z, was found in the Shanidar Cave on Bradost Mountain in Iraqi Kurdistan, one of the most important archeological sites of the 20th Century. The dig had to be abandoned for a year due to the close proximity of Islamic State forces. *** Local Caption *** 30722733
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FEATURE - Entdeckung am Blumengrab von Shanidar könnte das Geheimnis der Todesriten der Neandertaler aufdecken
Illustration of the possible burial position of the new Neanderthal remains from Shanidar Cave; the stone behind the head is shown in grey. See National News story NNburial. Cavemen may have buried their dead with flowers, suggests a major new discovery. Cambridge University archaeologists have unearthed an “articulated” Neanderthal skeleton - meaning all in one piece with the bones still arranged in the proper order - the first in over 20 years.The skeleton, dubbed Shanidar Z, was found in the Shanidar Cave on Bradost Mountain in Iraqi Kurdistan, one of the most important archeological sites of the 20th Century. The dig had to be abandoned for a year due to the close proximity of Islamic State forces. *** Local Caption *** 30722734
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FEATURE - Entdeckung am Blumengrab von Shanidar könnte das Geheimnis der Todesriten der Neandertaler aufdecken
The bones of the Neanderthal’s left hand emerging from the sediment in Shanidar Cave. See National News story NNburial. Cavemen may have buried their dead with flowers, suggests a major new discovery. Cambridge University archaeologists have unearthed an “articulated” Neanderthal skeleton - meaning all in one piece with the bones still arranged in the proper order - the first in over 20 years.The skeleton, dubbed Shanidar Z, was found in the Shanidar Cave on Bradost Mountain in Iraqi Kurdistan, one of the most important archeological sites of the 20th Century. The dig had to be abandoned for a year due to the close proximity of Islamic State forces. *** Local Caption *** 30722727
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DUK10128945_010
FEATURE - Entdeckung am Blumengrab von Shanidar könnte das Geheimnis der Todesriten der Neandertaler aufdecken
Members of Ralph Solecki’s team, Dr T. Dale Stewart (right) and Jacques Bordaz (left) at Shanidar Cave in 1960, working on removing the remains of Shanidar 4 (the ‘flower burial’) en bloc. This block of sediment was later found to also contain the partial remains of 3 more individuals. See National News story NNburial. Cavemen may have buried their dead with flowers, suggests a major new discovery. Cambridge University archaeologists have unearthed an “articulated” Neanderthal skeleton - meaning all in one piece with the bones still arranged in the proper order - the first in over 20 years.The skeleton, dubbed Shanidar Z, was found in the Shanidar Cave on Bradost Mountain in Iraqi Kurdistan, one of the most important archeological sites of the 20th Century. The dig had to be abandoned for a year due to the close proximity of Islamic State forces. *** Local Caption *** 30722729
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DUK10128945_009
FEATURE - Entdeckung am Blumengrab von Shanidar könnte das Geheimnis der Todesriten der Neandertaler aufdecken
The Neanderthal skull, flattened by thousands of years of sediment and rock fall, in situ in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan. See National News story NNburial. Cavemen may have buried their dead with flowers, suggests a major new discovery. Cambridge University archaeologists have unearthed an “articulated” Neanderthal skeleton - meaning all in one piece with the bones still arranged in the proper order - the first in over 20 years.The skeleton, dubbed Shanidar Z, was found in the Shanidar Cave on Bradost Mountain in Iraqi Kurdistan, one of the most important archeological sites of the 20th Century. The dig had to be abandoned for a year due to the close proximity of Islamic State forces. *** Local Caption *** 30722731
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