- "Excavators also removed a layer of mud roughly 4 centimeters (1.5 inches) thick from inside the coffin that Fényes hopes could contain more treasures."
i strongly suspect this is not "mud" but the dried precipitate of liquified soft tissue, [coffin liquor] and condensation.
- > “The peculiarity of the finding is that it was a hermetically sealed sarcophagus. It was not disturbed previously, so it was intact,” said Gabriella Fényes, the excavation’s lead archaeologist.
If this is the case -- dont scientists have interest in analyzing the air contents inside this sealed box before it is fully opened -- maybe by inserting a narrow tube? Might that not teach us something that may help us preserve future archaeological finds better? Maybe we are irreversibly destroying some of the evidence inside it by casually opening them? (I am sure they are not intentionally careless or destroying it -- but just wondering if future scince might make the current scientific process look clunky and ill-advised)
- There's something about how this article was written that reads like grave robbing, especially the bit about them hoping to discover "more treasures."
- A Roman sarcophagus was found on a beach in Bulgaria last year [1]. It was used as a bar and had holes drilled for LED lighting.
[1] https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/08/12/beach-bar-sarc...
- We are much closer in time to Marco Polo than Marco Polo was to this girl.
by jamonserrano
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- Video (in Hungarian) about the excavation and the opening of the sarcophagus. They remove the lid at 8:30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LknkrGnCTG8
- Where did the mud inside come from if it was still sealed?
- The famous last words: "Let's open this Sarcophagus and see what we find inside..."
- What a strange way to date it. "The Roman sarcophagus from the III century CE is unearthed in Budapest". Okay? The Roman Empire did span that far in that time period, and IIRC that time period is already quite well represented archaeologically speaking.
- Goddamn the website is atrocious to use on a phone, let me pinch to zoom in on the photos!
Good post though.
by gverrilla
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- What an aggressive website: at the same time, there's 2 different popups, a display ad and a video ad playing without being activated. Doesn't AP make enough money selling news to news organizations? Disgusting.
by Andrew-Tate
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by sandworm101
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- >> Untouched by looters and sealed for centuries,
Until today. Open a grave one day and you are a grave robber. Open it on some other day and you are a scientist. I think the people who sealed the grave wouldn't see much of a difference.
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