A link, a bit hillarious maybe (the wings) and perhaps incorrect, but magnificent!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgm9yxJQDTw
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Pauline
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- Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:02 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
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- Sun Dec 14, 2014 9:07 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Housing remains and graveyard- 1500 BC and Macedonia
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2605
Re: Housing remains and graveyard- 1500 BC and Macedonia
Thank you for your comment.Yes, they named the place the "New Amphipolis' because of the importance of the findings.
- Sat Dec 13, 2014 1:56 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: Housing remains and graveyard- 1500 BC and Macedonia
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2605
Housing remains and graveyard- 1500 BC and Macedonia
Recent finds in Pieria (Macedonia) have been found such as arch-like houses and graves.
Here is the link for the entire article
http://www.lifo.gr/now/culture/56967
and here are 2 photos
Here is the link for the entire article
http://www.lifo.gr/now/culture/56967
and here are 2 photos
- Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:46 pm
- Forum: Book reviews
- Topic: Latsis Foundation - Kerameikos
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2334
Latsis Foundation - Kerameikos
Hi all Christmas present! A new volume by Latsis Foundation presenting the most important cemetery in ancient Athens has arrived. http://www.latsis-foundation.org/megazine/publish/ebook.php?book=77&preloader=1 Some of the findings (mostly parts of vases with presentations) are most likely photog...
- Wed Dec 03, 2014 11:04 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
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Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
My dear fellow the bull is a usual figure in the art of ancient Greece from the Minoan era. I was simply refering to the bull being presented in a frontal way as being rare occurence in painting.
- Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:58 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
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Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Possibly the second one. Anyway its really very very rare a representation full frontal of a bull (if i see well) and its a evidence of a new concept in painting.
- Wed Dec 03, 2014 1:49 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: For no apparent reason
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2662
Re: For no apparent reason
Well this the famous Abul Simbel statues (Ramses is depicted 4 times) but I know nothing of the epigraph you speak of.
- Sun Nov 30, 2014 8:24 pm
- Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
- Topic: For no apparent reason
- Replies: 3
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For no apparent reason
I had this photo set aside years ago from an old french magazine because the rare angle of the photo shows how the enormous statue hands were paced on the thighs. There was a similarity in the way the hands move with certain greek 6th BC seated statues in Samos island. These are however old observat...
- Sun Nov 23, 2014 12:39 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 546078
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
The Greek tv show "Overthrow" - The entitre truth about Amphipolis - yesterday aired this episode about Amphipolis. http://www.megatv.com/anatropi/default.asp?catid=26404&subid=2&pubid=34156777 In the episode some of the most well-known archaeologists of Greece talk about their ta...
- Tue Nov 18, 2014 9:44 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 546078
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
The Greek tv show "Overthrow" - The entitre truth about Amphipolis - yesterday aired this episode about Amphipolis. http://www.megatv.com/anatropi/default.asp?catid=26404&subid=2&pubid=34156777 In the episode some of the most well-known archaeologists of Greece talk about their tak...
- Wed Nov 12, 2014 6:51 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 546078
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipol
I also want to see the photo of the bones at the moment of the finding. They are not presentable? They are not pretty enough ? We will see them in the presence of the Prime Minister?
God only ONE photo.
God only ONE photo.
- Wed Nov 12, 2014 5:10 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 546078
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipol
1) The sex of the deceased can be found within ONE MINUTE
2) Also ( ROUGHLY) the age
3) Also a trained eye can distinguish within a few hours (ROUGHLY) injuries and other stresses.
Therefore i expect some announcement. SOON
2) Also ( ROUGHLY) the age
3) Also a trained eye can distinguish within a few hours (ROUGHLY) injuries and other stresses.
Therefore i expect some announcement. SOON
- Wed Nov 12, 2014 12:17 pm
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 546078
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipol
The skeleton is almost 'INTACT'Zebedee wrote:If this is an inhumation, and that isn't a little box of remains there but a coffin, then it does get very interesting.
- Wed Nov 12, 2014 11:32 am
- Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
- Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
- Replies: 1585
- Views: 546078
Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipol
13.30 pm.Found the dead -skeleton in Amphipolis tomb, third chamber.
- Wed Nov 12, 2014 10:21 am
- Forum: The Diadochi
- Topic: Zeugma- The city of Seleukos Nikator
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13676
Re: Zeugma- The city of Seleukos Nikator
These are brilliant mosaics and surely a major find. Shame we don't know their date. I think 2th century BC. The city of Seleukia-Apameia has a long long archeological history.( google) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdE9EB67rMg Also look the link above PS Apameia was the only anatolian wife not to...