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Mysterious 'Viking disease' linked to Neanderthal DNA
A new study finds that the key genetic risk factors for Dupuytren's disease, a crippling hand disorder, are derived from Neanderthals.
www.livescience.com
My dad had this. We did one of those genetic tests a few years back and it came back with something like 3% Neanderthal DNA, which is more than the average white person. Wild.
I did 23and me pretty early in the game and it came back that I was in the 96th percentile for Neandertal DNAMysterious 'Viking disease' linked to Neanderthal DNA
A new study finds that the key genetic risk factors for Dupuytren's disease, a crippling hand disorder, are derived from Neanderthals.
My dad had this. We did one of those genetic tests a few years back and it came back with something like 3% Neanderthal DNA, which is more than the average white person. Wild.
Now I'm down in the 70's as more cave people have done it.
Been binging an archeology show on HBO. Originally from Discover I think. Expedition Unknown. Really good show. Some hokey humor, some clear setups, some goose stepping to out dated beliefs like the Sphinx was built by Khufu. But in general, a really informative show where some of the locations were just being discovered/excavated around the time of filming. Some of it is fascinating. El Mirador...a city thousands of years old with massive pyramids, completely paved in plaster (the roads, aqueducts, everything) that was the size of L.A completely covered in trees and dirt, just looking like mountains.
Amazing what's still out there that we don't know when 99% of jungles and dessert is unexplored.
Side note - Talk about a raw deal. An episode on the WASPS. WWII all female pilots who tested planes right off the assembly line and made deliveries. When they died from faulty equipment, government didn't even pay for their funeral.
Amazing what's still out there that we don't know when 99% of jungles and dessert is unexplored.
Side note - Talk about a raw deal. An episode on the WASPS. WWII all female pilots who tested planes right off the assembly line and made deliveries. When they died from faulty equipment, government didn't even pay for their funeral.
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Yeah, I think that used to be on Discovery. Love learning about that stuff. I'll check it out next time I get HBO.
The downside is, you know a major discovery is not going to be made on the show because we'd have heard about it on the news long before their episode aired. Every episode is, "Ok, who gets their hopes up and says they're 100% convinced they found <insert random treasure here> only to have them find nothing or something else". But it still covers enough history and small finds and information that don't make headlines to keep it interesting. One of the suggest/related shows was much better, h it was just an entire season on the collapse of the bronze age and why the big dogs just vanished in a short time span
50 year drought, repeatedly hit by massive earthquakes, and a revolution from starving citizens will cause your civilization to collapse.
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dailycaller.com
‘Wiped Out In The Blink Of An Eye’: Archaeologist Claims He Has Found The Biblical City Of Sodom
An archaeologist claimed in an interview published in late June that he has identified the ancient Biblical site where Sodom once stood.
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‘Wiped Out In The Blink Of An Eye’: Archaeologist Claims He Has Found The Biblical City Of Sodom
An archaeologist claimed in an interview published in late June that he has identified the ancient Biblical site where Sodom once stood.
They talk about Sodom and nothing else. I've seen theories about specific sites and what happened to them, not so coincidentally in the same time period. The biggest issue with stories like this is that they look at 1 site and 1 site only. Not what's happening regionally to everyone at the same time. Although my timeline may be off, I can't remember exactly how close the alleged time of Sodom is in relation to the end of hte Bronze age, but...
. 3 major civilizations all surrounded the Mediterranean. You had the Hittites, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. They traded frequently, they had the best economies and strongest armies. 2 of the 3 completely disappeared, with Egypt barely surviving thanks to agriculture and breeding new forms of cows that were hardier. Once they connected all 3 of these and all the evidence, it became pretty obvious what happened. First, a drought that lasted at least 50 years. Soil samples prove it. The region is on multiple fault lines and there is a ton of evidence of split cliffs, ruins, monuments etc. that show the region was rocked by massive earthquakes. Volcanoes caused by the earthquakes likely added to it. To complete the trifecta, they had their own bought of smallpox that wiped out many. All of this, thanks to the plague, starvation, and disasters eventually led to a civil war of the poor revolting against the big dogs. These cities were destroyed both by natural disaster and war, wiped off the man, and covered by the sands of time. Maybe it's possible a cosmic impact triggered all of this.
I read a book you might like that covered the late bronze age:
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1177_B.C.:_The_Year_Civilization_Collapsed
The book focuses on Cline's hypothesis for the Late Bronze Age collapse of civilization, a transition period that affected the Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Cypriots, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Assyrians and Babylonians; varied heterogeneous cultures populating eight powerful and flourishing states intermingling via trade, commerce, exchange and "cultural piggybacking," despite "all the difficulties of travel and time."[1] He presents evidence to support a "perfect storm" of "multiple interconnected failures," meaning that more than one natural and man-made cataclysm caused the disintegration and demise of an ancient civilization that incorporated "empires and globalized peoples."[1][2] This ended the Bronze Age, and ended the Mycenaean, Minoan, Trojan, Hittite, and Babylonian cultures.[2]
Before this book, the leading hypothesis during previous decades attributed the civilizations' collapse mostly to Sea Peoples of unknown origin.[1][2][3][4]
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed - Wikipedia
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‘Wiped Out In The Blink Of An Eye’: Archaeologist Claims He Has Found The Biblical City Of Sodom
An archaeologist claimed in an interview published in late June that he has identified the ancient Biblical site where Sodom once stood.
One possible explanation:
A Massive Meteor May Have Destroyed The Biblical City Of Sodom
The ruins of the city of Tall el-Hammam leave clues that the city was destroyed in an Earth-shattering event. Recent research points to a likely culprit - a meteor.
www.forbes.com
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Pretty sure he is having his quota of butt sex..
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Half-million-year-old wooden structure unearthed in Zambia
Ancient timber preserved in a riverbed suggests humans were building wooden structures 500,000 years ago.
www.bbc.com
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I did not know that.
The Egyptians believed that you took things with you to the afterlife. That's why they mummified bodies in the first place. So it makes sense - don't want no limp dick in paradise, gotta be ready for action.
The Egyptians believed that you took things with you to the afterlife. That's why they mummified bodies in the first place. So it makes sense - don't want no limp dick in paradise, gotta be ready for action.
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Historian who found Richard III under car park claims Princes in the Tower escaped
New twist in the tale as Philippa Langley claims evidence suggests the two boys later tried to invade England to retake the crown
www.telegraph.co.uk