Ancient coolness

[lagilman]

I admit it, I am always particularly pleased/amused when history puts a thumb to the eye of the "Everything started with the Greeks and Romans" crap we were taught in grade school...

After being uncovered by Soviet archaeologists, ancient mysteries revealed in Turkmen desert sands



(h/t mevennen)

Comments

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

Wow...

[elsceetaria.livejournal.com]

That's pretty awesome.

[janetl.livejournal.com]

That's cool!

I'm with you on being twitchy at talk of the Golden Age of Greece and Rome and the sad fall from grace afterwards. Yeah, some very good stuff, along with slavery and misogyny.

[threeoutside.livejournal.com]

I love that stuff! (The Turkmenistan dig) Too bad the world spends so damn much on death and destruction instead of studying fascinating things like this.