{"id":19537,"date":"2024-04-20T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19537"},"modified":"2024-04-19T21:30:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T01:30:38","slug":"on-the-discovery-of-old-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19537","title":{"rendered":"On the Discovery of Old Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost<br>  Which blamed the living man.<\/p>\n<cite>Matthew Arnold, &#8220;Growing Old&#8221;<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Growing Old&quot; by Matthew Arnold\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YNbzcnW0q4c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matthew Arnold captures something in his 1867 poem &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/52311\/growing-old\">Growing Old<\/a>.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know what is exactly. Seems a bit obtuse to a spry Gen-Xer like me. But I was thinking of old things today, because I&#8217;ve caught wind of many recent archeological finds and thought I&#8217;d share them with you today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Vikings<\/strong>: Let&#8217;s start with the unearthing of over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/a-trove-of-viking-combs-unearthed-in-england-illustrates-the-raiders-penchant-for-hair-care-180984089\/\">a couple thousand fragments of combs and brooches<\/a>, some &#8220;carved from the antlers of red deer, and a few were made of bones from animals like whales.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ice Skating<\/strong>: Archeologists with the Comenius Museum in P\u0159erov, the Czech Republic&#8217;s Moravia region, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/archaeologists-discover-1000-year-old-ice-skate-1882475\">discovered a 1,000-year-old ice skate<\/a>. &#8220;It dates back to the time when there was a very important fortress in the area of the Upper Square. It served as a stronghold for Polish King Boleslav the Brave, who occupied Moravia at the time and had his soldiers stationed there.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Greeks and Romans<\/strong>: Pompeii\u00a0got even more impressive with the discovery of gorgeous frescos depicting Helen of Troy and Cassandra<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"474\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8NEW \ud83d\udea8<br><br>I was on site at Pompeii shortly after they made the stunning discovery of exquisite frescoes of figures from the Trojan War in a newly uncovered winter dining room.<br><br>Story from the site is here:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yytoJLDIs5\">https:\/\/t.co\/yytoJLDIs5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BBFJw6WnAa\">pic.twitter.com\/BBFJw6WnAa<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jack Blackburn \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@HackBlackburn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HackBlackburn\/status\/1778317283271549300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Caesar<\/strong>: A team from the University of Tokyo have found <a href=\"https:\/\/greekreporter.com\/2024\/04\/19\/villa-first-roman-emperor-augustus-found-italy\/\">an ancient villa that they believe to have been owned by Caesar Augustus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And researchers working in the area of Rome&#8217;s Colosseum have uncovered a home with an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/italian-archaeologists-uncover-ancient-mural-made-of-seashells-and-imported-tile-180983489\/\"> exceptional mural showing &#8220;weapons and musical instruments<\/a> as well as ships and tridents.&#8221; The director general of museums at the Italian culture ministry said, &#8220;There is nothing else like it from this period in Rome. There is nothing like it even at\u00a0Pompeii.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Swedish Longsword:<\/strong> And finally, the grave of a tall Swedish man with an impressive longsword was violated by the Halland Cultural Environment in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/archaeology\/medieval-grave-of-very-very-powerful-man-and-his-4-foot-long-sword-unearthed-in-sweden\">unrestrained excavations of the Franciscan friary in Halmstad<\/a>. I fear for the townspeople who will be troubled by his vengeful ghost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man. Matthew Arnold, &#8220;Growing Old&#8221; Matthew Arnold captures something in his 1867 poem &#8220;Growing Old.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know what is exactly. Seems a bit obtuse to a spry Gen-Xer like me. But I was thinking of old things today, because I&#8217;ve caught wind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19537\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the Discovery of Old Things<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[5159],"class_list":["post-19537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized","tag-archeology"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19541,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19537\/revisions\/19541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}