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    Hatshepsut -Merytr 11 Queen of Egypt -- Discovery Channel Secrets of Egypts Lost Queen

    Hatshepsut -Merytr 11 Queen of Egypt -- Discovery Channel Secrets of Egypts Lost Queen



    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cUM0cmkPWQ0

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUM0cmkPWQ0


    Discovery Channel Secrets of Egypts Lost Queen

    hatshebut or Hatshepsut - female who ruled as a Pharroh

    CV20 Tomb

    Hatshepsut- Merytr II . ., Queen of Egypt MP

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    CLOUD PEOPLE of PERU - ancient city discovered in South America

    Ancient city discovered deep in Amazonian rainforest linked to the legendary white-skinned Cloud People of Peru
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...egendary-white-skinned-Cloud-People-Peru.html

    By Daily Mail Reporter
    Updated: 20:44 EST, 3 December 2008

    A lost city discovered deep in the Amazon rainforest could unlock the secrets of a legendary tribe.

    Little is known about the Cloud People of Peru, an ancient, white-skinned civilisation wiped out by disease and war in the 16th century.

    But now archaeologists have uncovered a fortified citadel in a remote mountainous area of Peru known for its isolated natural beauty.

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    An ancient Chachapoyas village located close to the area where the lost city was found

    It is thought this settlement may finally help historians unlock the secrets of the 'white warriors of the clouds'.

    The tribe had white skin and blonde hair - features which intrigue historians, as there is no known European ancestry in the region, where most inhabitants are darker skinned.

    The citadel is tucked away in one of the most far-flung areas of the Amazon. It sits at the edge of a chasm which the tribe may have used as a lookout to spy on enemies.

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    The area where the lost city was discovered by a team of archaeologists

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    The Chachapoyas, also called the Warriors of the Clouds, were an Andean people living in the cloud forests of the Amazonian region of present-day Peru

    The main encampment is made up of circular stone houses overgrown by jungle over 12 acres, according to archaeologist Benedict Goicochea Perez.

    Rock paintings cover some of the fortifications and next to the dwellings are platforms believed to have been used to grind seeds and plants for food and medicine.

    The Cloud People once commanded a vast kingdom stretching across the Andes to the fringes of Peru's northern Amazon jungle, before it was conquered by the Incas.

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    The city was found in Amazonian rainforest in northern Peru

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    A mummy of a baby from the Chachapoyas culture

    Named because they lived in rainforests filled with cloud-like mist, the tribe later sided with the Spanish-colonialists to defeat the Incas.

    But they were killed by epidemics of European diseases, such as measles and smallpox.

    Much of their way of life, dating back to the ninth century, was also destroyed by pillaging, leaving little for
    archaeologists to examine.

    Remains have been found before but scientists have high hopes of the latest find, made by an expedition to the Jamalca district in Peru's Utcubamba province, about 500 miles north-east of the capital, Lima.

    Until recently, much of what was known about the lost civilisation was from Inca legends.

    Even the name they called themselves is unknown. The term Chachapoyas, or 'Cloud People', was given to them by the Incas.

    Their culture is best known for the Kuellap fortress on the top of a mountain in Utcubamba, which can only be compared in scale to the Incas' Machu Picchu retreat, built hundreds of years later.

    Two years ago, archaeologists found an underground burial vault inside a cave with five mummies, two intact with skin and hair.

    Chachapoyas chronicler Pedro Cieza de Leon wrote of the tribe: 'They are the whitest and most handsome of all the people that I have seen, and their wives were so beautiful that because of their gentleness, many of them deserved to be the Incas' wives and to also be taken to the Sun Temple.

    'The women and their husbands always dressed in woollen clothes and in their heads they wear their llautos [a woollen turban], which are a sign they wear to be known everywhere.'

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    Secret civilisation: a map of the region where the settlement was found

    The Chachapoyas' territory was located in the northern regions of the Andes in present-day Peru.

    It encompassed the triangular region formed by the confluence of the Maranon and Utcubamba rivers, in the zone of Bagua, up to the basin of the Abiseo river.

    The Maranon's size and the mountainous terrain meant the region was relatively isolated.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1091550/Ancient-city-discovered-deep-Amazonian-rainforest-linked-legendary-white-skinned-Cloud-People-Peru.html#ixzz16LEd3lW2
     
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    120 Million Year Old Map Found - Proof Of Ancient Civilization- Map of The Creator

    120 Million Year Old Map Found -
    Proof Of Ancient Civilization
    Pravda.ru
    Translated by Vera Solovieva
    http://www.conspiracy.co/forums/pro...old-map-found-proof-ancient-civilization.html


    The Map Of 'The Creator'

    A discovery by Bashkir scientists contradicts all traditional notions of human history: stone slabs which are 120 million years old and covered with the relief map of the Ural Region. This seems to be impossible. Scientists of Bashkir State University have found indisputable proofs of an ancient highly developed civilization's existence. The question is about a great plate found in 1999, with picture of the region done according to an unknown technology. This is a real relief map. Today's military has almost similar maps. The map contains civil engineering works: a system of channels with a length of about 12,000 km, weirs, powerful dams. Not far from the channels, diamond-shaped grounds are shown, whose destination is unknown. The map also contains some inscriptions. Even numerous inscriptions. At first, the scientists thought that was Old Chinese language. Though, it turned out that the subscriptions were done in a hieroglyphic-syllabic language of unknown origin. The scientists never managed to read it "The more I learn the more I understand that I know nothing," - the doctor of physical and mathematical science, professor of Bashkir State University, Alexandr Chuvyrov admits. Namely Chuvyrov made that sensational find. Already in 1995, the professor and his post-graduate student from China Huan Hun decided to study the hypothesis of possible migration of Old Chinese population to the territory of Siberia and Ural. In an expedition to Bashkiria, they found several rock carvings done in Old Chinese language. These finds confirmed the hypothesis of Chinese migrants. The subscriptions were read. They mostly contained information about trade bargains, marriage and death registration.

    OBSCHESTVO-raskopki-12hi.

    Though, during the searches, notes dated the 18th century were found in archives of Ufa governor-general. They reported about 200 unusual stone stabs which were situated not far from the Chandar village, Nurimanov Region. Chuvyrov and his colleague at once decided that stabs could be connected with Chinese migrants. Archive notes also reported that in 17th-18th centuries, expeditions of Russian scientists who investigated Ural Region had studied 200 white stabs with signs and patterns, while in early 20th century, archaeologist A.Schmidt also had seen some white stabs in Bashkiria. This made the scientist start the search. In 1998, after having formed a team of his students, Chuvyrov launched the work. He hired a helicopter, and the first expedition carried a flying around of the places where the stabs were supposed to be. Though, despite all efforts, the ancient stabs were not found. Chuvyrov was very upset and even thought the stabs were just a beautiful legend. The luck was unexpected. During one of Chuvyrov's trips to the village, ex-chairman of the local agricultural council, Vladimir Krainov, came to him (apropos, in the house of Krainov's father, archaelogist Schmidt once staid) and said: "Are you searching for some stone stabs? I have a strange stab in my yard." "At first, I did not took that report seriously, - Chuvyrov told. - Though, I decided to go to that yard to see it. I remember this day exactly: July 21, 1999. Under the porch of the house, the stab with some dents lied. The stab was so heavy that we together could not take it out. So I went to the city of Ufa, to ask for help." In a week, work was launched in Chandar. After having dug out the stab, the searches were stroke with its size: it was 148 cm high, 106 cm wide and 16 cm thick. While it weighed at least one ton. The master of the house made special wooden rollers, so the stab was rolled out from the hole. The find was called "Dashka's stone" (in honour of Alexandr Chuvyrov's granddaughter born the day before it) and transported to the university for investigation. After the stab was cleaned of earth, the scientists could not entrust to their eyes... "At first sight, - Chuvyrov sais, - I understood that was not a simple stone piece, but a real map, and not a simple map, but a three-dimensional. You can see it yourself."

    OBSCHESTVO-raskopki-10hi.

    "How did we manage to identify the place? At first, we could not imagine the map was so ancient. Happily, relief of today's Bashkiria has not changed so much within millions of years. We could identify Ufa Height, while Ufa Canyon is the main point of our proofs, because we carried out geological studies and found its track where it must be according to the ancient map. Displacement of the canyon happened because of tectonic stabs which moved from East. The group of Russian and Chinese specialists in the field of cartography, physics, mathematics, geology, chemistry, and Old Chinese language managed to precisely find out that the stab contains the map of Ural region, with rivers Belya, Ufimka, Sutolka," - Alexandr Chuvyrov said while showing the lines on the stone to the journalists. - You can see Ufa Canyon - the break of the earth's crust, stretched out from the city of Ufa to the city of Sterlitimak. At the moment, Urshak River runs over the former canyon." The map is done on a scale 1 : 1.1 km.

    Alexandr Chuvyrov, being physicist, has got into the habit of entrusting only to results of investigation. While today there are such facts.

    Geological structure of the stab was determined: it cosists of three levels. The base is 14 cm chick, made of the firmest dolomite. The second level is probably the most interesting, "made" of diopside glas. The technology of its treatement is not known to modern science. Actually, the picture is marked on this level. While the third level is 2 mm thick and made of calcium porcelain protecting the map from external impact.

    "It should be noticed, - the professor said, - that the relief has not been manually made by an ancient stonecutter. It is simply impossible. It is obvious that the stone was machined." X-ray photographs confirmed that the stab was of artificial origin and has been made with some precision tools.

    Origins

    At first, the scientists supposed that the ancient map could have been made by the ancient Chinese, because of vertical inscriptions on the map. As well known, vertical literature was used in Old Chinese language before 3rd century. To check his supposition, professor Chuvyrov visited Chinese empire library. Within 40 minutes he could spend in the library according to the permission he looked through several rare books, though no one of them contained literature similar to that one on the stab. After the meeting with his colleagues from Hunan university, he completely gave up the version about "Chinese track." The scientist concluded that porcelain covering the stab had never been used in China. Although all the efforts to decipher the inscriptions were fruitless, it was found out that the literature had hieroglyphic-syllabic character. Chuvyrov, however, states he has deciphered one sign on the map: it signifies latitude of today's city of Ufa.



    OBSCHESTVO-raskopki-18hi.

    The longer the stab was studied, the more mysteries appeared. On the map, a giant irrigative system could be seen: in addition to the rivers, there are two 500-metre-wide channel systems, 12 dams, 300-500 metres wide, approximately 10 km long and 3 km deep each. The dams most likely helped in turning water in either side, while to create them over 1 quadrillion cubic metres of earth was shifted. In comparison with that irrigative system, Volga-Don Channel looks like a scratch on the today's relief. As a physicist, Alexandr Chuvyrov supposes that now mankind can build only a small part of what is pictured on the map. According to the map, initially, Belaya River had an artificial river-bad.

    It was difficult to determine even an approximate age of the stab. At first, radiocarbonic analysis was carried out, afterwards levels of stab were scanned with uranium chronometer, though the investigations showed different results and the age of the stab remained unclear. While examining the stone, two shells were found on its surface. The age of one of them - Navicopsina munitus of Gyrodeidae family - is about 500 million years, while of the second one - Ecculiomphalus princeps of Ecculiomphalinae subfamily - is about 120 million years. Namely that age was accepted as a "working version." "The map was probably created at the time when the Earth's magnetic pole situated in the today's area of Franz Josef Land, while this was exactly 120 million years ago, - professor Chuvyrov says. - The map we have is beyond of traditional perception of mankind and we need a long time to get used to it. We have got used to our miracle. At first we thought that the stone was about 3,000 years. Though, that age was gradually growing, till we identified the shells ingrained in the stone to sign some objects. Though, who could guarantee that the shell was alive while being ingrained in the map? The map's creator probably used a petrified find."

    What could be the destination of the map? That is probably the most interesting thing. Materials of the Bashkir find were already investigated in Centre of Historical Cartography in Visconsin, USA. The Americans were amazed. According to them, such three-dimensional map could have only one destination - a navigational one, while it could be worked out only through aerospace survey. Moreover, namely now in the US, work is being carried out at creation of world three-dimensional map like that. Though, the Americans intend to complete the work only to 2010. The question is that while compiling such three-dimensional map, it is necessary to work over too many figures. "Try to map at least a mountain! - Chuvyrov says. - The technology of compiling such maps demands super-power computers and aerospace survey from the Shuttle." So, who then did created this map? Chuvyrov, while speaking about the unknown cartographers, is wary: "I do not like talks about some UFO and extraterrestrial. Let us call the author of the map simply - the creator."

    It looks like that who lived and built at that time used only air transport means: there is no ways on the map. Or they, probably, used water ways. There is also an opinion, that the authors of the ancient map did not live there at all, but only prepared that place for settlement through draining the land. This seems to be the most probable version, though nothing could be stated for the time being. Why not to assume that the authors belonged to a civilization which existed earlier?

    Latest investigations of the map bring one sensation after another. Now, the scientists are sure of the map being only a fragment of a big map of the Earth. According to some hypothesis, there were totally 348 fragments like that. The other fragments could be probably somewhere near there. In outskirts of Chandar, the scientists took over 400 samples of soil and found out that the whole map had been most likely situated in the gorge of Sokolinaya Mountain (Falcon Mountain). Though, during the glacial epoch it was tore to pieces. But if the scientists manage to gather the "mosaic," the map should have an approximate seize of 340 x 340 m. After having studied the archive materials, Chuvyrov ascertained approximate place where four pieces could be situated: one could lie under one house in Chandar, the other - under the house of merchant Khasanov, the third - under one of the village baths, the fourth - under the bridge's pier of the local narrow-gauge railway.

    In the meanwhile, Bashkir scientists send out information about their find to different scientific centres of the world; in several international congresses, they have already given reports on the subject: The Civil Engineering Works Map of an Unknown Civilization of South Ural."

    The find of Bashkir scientists has no analogues. With only one exclusion. When the research was at its height, a small stone - chalcedony - got to professor Chuvyrov's table, containing a similar relief. Probably somebody, who saw the stab wanted to copy the relief. Though, who and why?


    http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/04/30/28149.html
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    amazing video here:


    View: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwqqlh_dashka-stone-120-million-year-old-aerial-map-proven-authentic-by-nasa-and-russian-scientists_news

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    120 Million Year Old Map Found - Proof Of Ancient Civilization
    by 7redorbs 12-31-2009, 01:56 AM

    Notes: This is an old story from 2002, we almost guarantee NONE of you have heard about. It's so important it just has to be republished. It is confirmed as a genuine discovery by independent scientists in the U.S, previous to this expedition. It has not been widely publicised. We want to know why. We suspect why. This is not a hoax.

    120 Million Year Old Map Found - Proof Of Ancient Civilization
    Monday, 14 December 2009

    Pravda.ru
    Translated by Vera Solovieva
    5-1-2



    The Map Of 'The Creator'

    A discovery by Bashkir scientists contradicts all traditional notions of human history: stone slabs which are 120 million years old and covered with the relief map of the Ural Region.
    This seems to be impossible. Scientists of Bashkir State University have found indisputable proofs of an ancient highly developed civilization's existence. The question is about a great plate found in 1999, with picture of the region done according to an unknown technology. This is a real relief map. Today's military has almost similar maps. The map contains civil engineering works: a system of channels with a length of about 12,000 km, weirs, powerful dams. Not far from the channels, diamond-shaped grounds are shown, whose destination is unknown. The map also contains some inscriptions. Even numerous inscriptions. At first, the scientists thought that was Old Chinese language. Though, it turned out that the subscriptions were done in a hieroglyphic-syllabic language of unknown origin. The scientists never managed to read it
    "The more I learn the more I understand that I know nothing," - the doctor of physical and mathematical science, professor of Bashkir State University, Alexandr Chuvyrov admits. Namely Chuvyrov made that sensational find. Already in 1995, the professor and his post-graduate student from China Huan Hun decided to study the hypothesis of possible migration of Old Chinese population to the territory of Siberia and Ural. In an expedition to Bashkiria, they found several rock carvings done in Old Chinese language. These finds confirmed the hypothesis of Chinese migrants. The subscriptions were read. They mostly contained information about trade bargains, marriage and death registration.

    OBSCHESTVO-raskopki-12hi.

    Though, during the searches, notes dated the 18th century were found in archives of Ufa governor-general. They reported about 200 unusual stone stabs which were situated not far from the Chandar village, Nurimanov Region. Chuvyrov and his colleague at once decided that stabs could be connected with Chinese migrants. Archive notes also reported that in 17th-18th centuries, expeditions of Russian scientists who investigated Ural Region had studied 200 white stabs with signs and patterns, while in early 20th century, archaeologist A.Schmidt also had seen some white stabs in Bashkiria. This made the scientist start the search. In 1998, after having formed a team of his students, Chuvyrov launched the work. He hired a helicopter, and the first expedition carried a flying around of the places where the stabs were supposed to be. Though, despite all efforts, the ancient stabs were not found. Chuvyrov was very upset and even thought the stabs were just a beautiful legend.
    The luck was unexpected. During one of Chuvyrov's trips to the village, ex-chairman of the local agricultural council, Vladimir Krainov, came to him (apropos, in the house of Krainov's father, archaelogist Schmidt once staid) and said: "Are you searching for some stone stabs? I have a strange stab in my yard." "At first, I did not took that report seriously, - Chuvyrov told. - Though, I decided to go to that yard to see it. I remember this day exactly: July 21, 1999. Under the porch of the house, the stab with some dents lied. The stab was so heavy that we together could not take it out. So I went to the city of Ufa, to ask for help."
    In a week, work was launched in Chandar. After having dug out the stab, the searches were stroke with its size: it was 148 cm high, 106 cm wide and 16 cm thick. While it weighed at least one ton. The master of the house made special wooden rollers, so the stab was rolled out from the hole. The find was called "Dashka's stone" (in honour of Alexandr Chuvyrov's granddaughter born the day before it) and transported to the university for investigation. After the stab was cleaned of earth, the scientists could not entrust to their eyes... "At first sight, - Chuvyrov sais, - I understood that was not a simple stone piece, but a real map, and not a simple map, but a three-dimensional. You can see it yourself."


    OBSCHESTVO-raskopki-10hi.

    "How did we manage to identify the place? At first, we could not imagine the map was so ancient. Happily, relief of today's Bashkiria has not changed so much within millions of years. We could identify Ufa Height, while Ufa Canyon is the main point of our proofs, because we carried out geological studies and found its track where it must be according to the ancient map. Displacement of the canyon happened because of tectonic stabs which moved from East. The group of Russian and Chinese specialists in the field of cartography, physics, mathematics, geology, chemistry, and Old Chinese language managed to precisely find out that the stab contains the map of Ural region, with rivers Belya, Ufimka, Sutolka," - Alexandr Chuvyrov said while showing the lines on the stone to the journalists. - You can see Ufa Canyon - the break of the earth's crust, stretched out from the city of Ufa to the city of Sterlitimak. At the moment, Urshak River runs over the former canyon." The map is done on a scale 1 : 1.1 km.
    Alexandr Chuvyrov, being physicist, has got into the habit of entrusting only to results of investigation. While today there are such facts.

    Geological structure of the stab was determined: it cosists of three levels. The base is 14 cm chick, made of the firmest dolomite. The second level is probably the most interesting, "made" of diopside glas. The technology of its treatement is not known to modern science. Actually, the picture is marked on this level. While the third level is 2 mm thick and made of calcium porcelain protecting the map from external impact.
    "It should be noticed, - the professor said, - that the relief has not been manually made by an ancient stonecutter. It is simply impossible. It is obvious that the stone was machined." X-ray photographs confirmed that the stab was of artificial origin and has been made with some precision tools.

    Origins
    At first, the scientists supposed that the ancient map could have been made by the ancient Chinese, because of vertical inscriptions on the map. As well known, vertical literature was used in Old Chinese language before 3rd century. To check his supposition, professor Chuvyrov visited Chinese empire library. Within 40 minutes he could spend in the library according to the permission he looked through several rare books, though no one of them contained literature similar to that one on the stab. After the meeting with his colleagues from Hunan university, he completely gave up the version about "Chinese track." The scientist concluded that porcelain covering the stab had never been used in China. Although all the efforts to decipher the inscriptions were fruitless, it was found out that the literature had hieroglyphic-syllabic character. Chuvyrov, however, states he has deciphered one sign on the map: it signifies latitude of today's city of Ufa.


    OBSCHESTVO-raskopki-18hi.

    The longer the stab was studied, the more mysteries appeared. On the map, a giant irrigative system could be seen: in addition to the rivers, there are two 500-metre-wide channel systems, 12 dams, 300-500 metres wide, approximately 10 km long and 3 km deep each. The dams most likely helped in turning water in either side, while to create them over 1 quadrillion cubic metres of earth was shifted. In comparison with that irrigative system, Volga-Don Channel looks like a scratch on the today's relief. As a physicist, Alexandr Chuvyrov supposes that now mankind can build only a small part of what is pictured on the map. According to the map, initially, Belaya River had an artificial river-bad.
    It was difficult to determine even an approximate age of the stab. At first, radiocarbonic analysis was carried out, afterwards levels of stab were scanned with uranium chronometer, though the investigations showed different results and the age of the stab remained unclear. While examining the stone, two shells were found on its surface. The age of one of them - Navicopsina munitus of Gyrodeidae family - is about 500 million years, while of the second one - Ecculiomphalus princeps of Ecculiomphalinae subfamily - is about 120 million years. Namely that age was accepted as a "working version." "The map was probably created at the time when the Earth's magnetic pole situated in the today's area of Franz Josef Land, while this was exactly 120 million years ago, - professor Chuvyrov says. - The map we have is beyond of traditional perception of mankind and we need a long time to get used to it. We have got used to our miracle. At first we thought that the stone was about 3,000 years. Though, that age was gradually growing, till we identified the shells ingrained in the stone to sign some objects. Though, who could guarantee that the shell was alive while being ingrained in the map? The map's creator probably used a petrified find."
    What could be the destination of the map? That is probably the most interesting thing. Materials of the Bashkir find were already investigated in Centre of Historical Cartography in Visconsin, USA. The Americans were amazed. According to them, such three-dimensional map could have only one destination - a navigational one, while it could be worked out only through aerospace survey. Moreover, namely now in the US, work is being carried out at creation of world three-dimensional map like that. Though, the Americans intend to complete the work only to 2010. The question is that while compiling such three-dimensional map, it is necessary to work over too many figures. "Try to map at least a mountain! - Chuvyrov says. - The technology of compiling such maps demands super-power computers and aerospace survey from the Shuttle." So, who then did created this map? Chuvyrov, while speaking about the unknown cartographers, is wary: "I do not like talks about some UFO and extraterrestrial. Let us call the author of the map simply - the creator."

    It looks like that who lived and built at that time used only air transport means: there is no ways on the map. Or they, probably, used water ways. There is also an opinion, that the authors of the ancient map did not live there at all, but only prepared that place for settlement through draining the land. This seems to be the most probable version, though nothing could be stated for the time being. Why not to assume that the authors belonged to a civilization which existed earlier?

    Latest investigations of the map bring one sensation after another. Now, the scientists are sure of the map being only a fragment of a big map of the Earth. According to some hypothesis, there were totally 348 fragments like that. The other fragments could be probably somewhere near there. In outskirts of Chandar, the scientists took over 400 samples of soil and found out that the whole map had been most likely situated in the gorge of Sokolinaya Mountain (Falcon Mountain). Though, during the glacial epoch it was tore to pieces. But if the scientists manage to gather the "mosaic," the map should have an approximate seize of 340 x 340 m. After having studied the archive materials, Chuvyrov ascertained approximate place where four pieces could be situated: one could lie under one house in Chandar, the other - under the house of merchant Khasanov, the third - under one of the village baths, the fourth - under the bridge's pier of the local narrow-gauge railway.

    In the meanwhile, Bashkir scientists send out information about their find to different scientific centres of the world; in several international congresses, they have already given reports on the subject: The Civil Engineering Works Map of an Unknown Civilization of South Ural."
    The find of Bashkir scientists has no analogues. With only one exclusion. When the research was at its height, a small stone - chalcedony - got to professor Chuvyrov's table, containing a similar relief. Probably somebody, who saw the stab wanted to copy the relief. Though, who and why?

    Original Article at: Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun Foundation - 120 Million Year Old Map Found - Proof Of Ancient Civilization
    Translated by: The map of "the Creator" - Pravda.Ru
    Tertiary Source: Æóðíàë "ÈÒÎÃÈ"

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    Treasure in France...has it been found ???


    titleblog.
    http://www.renneslechateau.it/blog.php?month=201107

    Trovato a Rennes-le-Château il tesoro dei Visigoti?

    Sabato 30 luglio 2011 by Mariano Tomatis

    Mercoledì 27 luglio 2011 La Depeche du Midi, quotidiano dell'Aude, titola "Rennes-le-Château - Hanno trovato la grotta del tesoro".

    20110730a.
    La Depeche du Midi, 27.7.2011 (leggi l'articolo sul sito della rivista)

    Giovedì 28 luglio 2011 la notizia è ripresa su L'Indépendant: "Aude, sulla pista del tesoro dei Visigoti".

    20110730b.
    L'Indépendant, 28.7.2011 (leggi l'articolo sul sito della rivista)

    Venerdì 29 luglio 2011 è il turno di Aujourd'hui en France: "Rennes-le-Château -La misteriosa caccia al tesoro"

    20110730c.
    Aujourd'hui en France, 29.7.2011

    A 55 anni dal primo annuncio dell'esistenza di un tesoro a Rennes-le-Château, mai si era assistito a un clima tanto incandescente intorno alla scoperta di una grotta a poca distanza dal paese, individuata da tre studiosi che i giornali hanno immediatamente ribattezzato "gli Indiana Jones dell'Aude".

    Il nome del principale cercatore coinvolto nella vicenda ci intriga: si tratta di Pierre Jarnac (al secolo Michel Vallet), autore dei principali testi storici di riferimento e autentica autorità sull'argomento.

    Dal 2000, insieme a Didier Héricart de Thury, Jarnac lavora su una particolare ipotesi, sulle tracce di un presunto "segreto di Rennes-le-Château". Nel 2007 si unisce al gruppo Franck Daffos, un cercatore che non brilla per il suo rigore intellettuale. La scoperta di una grotta infiamma gli animi dei tre, ma fa esplodere le difficoltà. I tentativi di penetrarvi falliscono uno dopo l'altro, Daffos inizia una campagna personale di parziali rivelazioni su Internet senza l'autorizzazione degli altri due, finché nel maggio di quest'anno, Jarnac si arrende e abbandona il gruppo. Con sua grande sorpresa, nel luglio 2011 Héricart de Thury e Daffos pubblicano in un libro parte delle loro indagini: “L'Or de Rennes” quand Poussin et Teniers donnent la clef de Rennes-le-Château. Il lavoro di Pierre Jarnac è completamente disconosciuto, e quest'ultimo non ci sta. Domenica 24 luglio 2011, su un forum per cercatori di tesori, vuota il sacco per rovinare la festa ai due ex colleghi, rivelando per la prima volta un segreto tenuto nascosto per molti anni. Oltre all'ubicazione del luogo segreto, Jarnac descrive a grandi linee il complicato (e piuttosto maldestro) metodo di decodifica utilizzato:

    A causa di circostanze molto gravi e per la pesante campagna di calunnie che ho dovuto subire, ho deciso di rivelare il luogo che ho individuato. Ognuno è libero di credermi o no. Questo è il risultato del lavoro congiunto, diligente, costante di sette anni con Didier Héricart de Thury. La situazione è diventata ingestibile a causa della codardia e dell'atteggiamento autoritario ed egoista di Franck Daffos. Al fine di screditarmi, Daffos non pone limiti alle sue menzogne, e dal giugno 2007, quando ho incontrato per la prima volta Héricart de Thury, ha fatto di tutto per ostacolarmi. Abbiamo scoperto questo luogo studiando i quadri di Poussin e Teniers e interpretando il libro di Henri Boudet. L'epitaffio della Marchesa di Blanchefort conduce a una certa altitudine su una montagna. In realtà, la montagna è una collina: si tratta del picco di Couty, di fronte al borgo di Clamence, frazione del comune di Sougraigne.

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    Visualizza Il tesoro dei Visigoti in una mappa di dimensioni maggiori

    Segue una descrizione davvero intricata del modo in cui quadri di epoche diverse, un libro di fine Ottocento e la lapide di una marchesa morta a Rennes-le-Château avrebbero consentito di individuare la grotta.

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    La grotta individuata da Pierre Jarnac e soci (Fotografia tratta dal reportage di Christian Doumergue)

    Tra i quadri utilizzati spicca questa Pietà custodita nella chiesa di Rennes-les-Bains:

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    La Pietà nella chiesa di Santi Celso e Nazario a Rennes-les-Bains e una formazione rocciosa nei pressi della grotta (Fotografia tratta dal reportage di Christian Doumergue)

    La roccia a sinistra di Gesù ritrarrebbe quella nei pressi della grotta rinvenuta presso il picco di Couty.

    Da alcuni giorni la zona è controllata dalla gendarmerie. Il luogo ancora non ha dischiuso i suoi eventuali segreti né il tesoro di cui parlano i giornali. Accedere alle gallerie è complicato. Scrive ancora Pierre Jarnac:

    C'è un vero e proprio labirinto interrotto a un certo punto dall'acqua, probabilmente un ricettacolo di acque fangose creato dall'acqua piovana che ha portato con sé foglie e piccoli rami. [...] Superato questo ostacolo, un lungo corridoio dovrebbe portare a una sorta di camera dove si troverebbero gli scheletri di trenta schiavi che sono stati impiegati per scavare le gallerie e nascondere il tesoro. [...] Ecco il segreto di Rennes-le-Château. Anche in questo caso, ognuno è libero di credere o meno a quanto scrivo. Ognuno è libero di recarsi lì a vedere di persona. Comunque, per quanto mi riguarda, questa questione è chiusa. Da oggi tutti agiscano in coscienza, assumendo ognuno le proprie responsabilità.

    La topologia del labirinto non è stata individuata con sondaggi o studi sul campo, ma interpretando simbolicamente le stazioni della via Crucis nella chiesa di Santa Maddalena di Rennes-le-Château. Questo approccio "simbolico" solleva un gran numero di perplessità presso gli archeologi di professione, e solo una seria spedizione speleologica potrà confermare lo scenario davvero incredibile che emerge dalle ipotesi di Pierre Jarnac.

    Un ringraziamento speciale a Christian Doumergue che ha fornito le fotografie per questo post
    Special thanks to Christian Doumergue who provided the photographs for this post


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    Egyptian archaeologist, Dr. Ala Shaheen admits pyramids contain UFO technology


    Egyptian archaeologist admits pyramids contain UFO technology
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    In a shock statement, head of the Cairo University Archeology Department, Dr Ala Shaheen has told an audience that there might be truth to the theory that aliens helped the ancient Egyptians build the oldest of pyramids, the Pyramids of Giza.

    On being further questioned by Mr Marek Novak, a delegate from Poland as to whether the pyramid might still contain alien technology or even a UFO with its structure, Dr Shaheen, was vague and replied "I can not confirm or deny this, but there is something inside the pyramid that is "not of this world".

    Delegates to the conference on ancient Egyptian architecture were left shocked, however Dr Shaheen has refused to comment further or elaborate on his UFO and alien related statements.
     
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    Rome's Ancient Aqueduct Found
    http://www.romanarmytalk.com/17-rom...quaduct-quot-source-quot-near-rome-found.html

    Rome's Ancient Aqueduct Found
    The long-sought aqueduct that delivered fresh, clean water to Rome nearly 2,000 years ago, is found beneath a pig pasture northwest of the Italian city.


    By Rossella Lorenzi | Fri Jan 29, 2010 04:23 AM ET

    Roman aqueduct

    A view down the aqueduct nearly 10 feet underground. The chambers were found under a pig pasture in a town northwest of Rome.
    Michael and Edward O'Neill, MEON HDTV Productions


    THE GIST:

    * An ancient aqueduct that once delivered fresh water to Rome is found.
    * The 1,900-year-old tunnel was built by Emperor Trajan in 109 A.D.
    * The entry to the aqueduct was found through a secret door in a ruined chapel.

    The long-sought source of the aqueduct that brought clean fresh water to ancient Rome lies beneath a pig pasture and a ruined chapel, according to a pair of British filmmakers who claim to have discovered the headwaters of Aqua Traiana, a 1,900-year-old aqueduct built by the Emperor Trajan in 109 A.D.


    One of Rome's 11 aqueducts, the Aqua Traiana originated around Lake Bracciano, 25 miles from Rome. After collecting water from other springs on its way down to the capital, the channel finally reached Janiculum Hill in Rome, providing clean, drinkable water to the Trastevere district.

    BIG PIC GALLERY: Venture deep into this Roman aqueduct with the British filmmakers who discovered it in this photo gallery.

    "This aqueduct had an enormous importance as it supplied the capital with very pure spring water. Health and hygiene improved, as well as industrial activities. We have been able to find the very source of all this," documentary-maker Edward O'Neill told Discovery News.

    The team made their discovery between Lake Bracciano and the village of Manziana (about 25 miles northwest of Rome), amid thick vegetation and pig pastures.

    Edward O'Neill and his father Michael were searching for the Aqua Alsietina, Rome's lost aqueduct, when local people suggested investigating a long abandoned church known as the Madonna of the Flower.

    Exploring the chapel, the documentary makers found a concealed door which led to a subterranean chamber.

    Before descending to the underground complex, about 3 meters (9.8 feet) below, the O'Neills recruited Lorenzo Quilici, a leading authority on Roman hydro-engineering from Bologna University, and Allan Ceen, professor of history of architecture at Pennsylvania State University.

    Quilici confirmed that the building was Roman, rather than medieval, as had long been believed.

    "It's all Roman. The brickwork and waterproof hydraulic cement lining the tunnels is absolutely characteristic of the Trajanic age," Quilici said.

    Beyond the subterranean chamber, a 125-meter-long (410-foot-long) gallery led to the beginning of the aqueduct. But what struck the researchers was the chamber's decorations, made with a rare and costly type of paint known as Egyptian blue (calcium copper silicate).

    "This was an extraordinary monument, a vaulted, three-chambered semicircular nymphaeum (a monument consecrated to the nymphs in ancient Greece and Rome). At the center there was a small temple dedicated the the spring god, while on both sides there were two basins," Quilici said.

    Roofed with quite extraordinary vaults, still decorated with Egyptian blue, the basins filtered the spring water through bricks laid with gaps between them.

    "The basins had two functions: they collected the waters for the aqueduct and provided quite beautiful scenery," Quilici said.

    According to the researchers, the richly decorated vaulted ceilings suggest that Trajan (the 13th Roman emperor) almost certainly came there for the aqueduct's inauguration.

    Indeed, the emperor may have been in that area on June 24, 109 A.D., according to historical records.

    "By coincidence we first explored the aqueduct on June 24, 2009, exactly 1,900 years later," O'Neill pointed out.

    Trajan commemorated the opening of the aqueduct by minting a Roman coin and building a fountain on Janiculum Hill, right where the waters entered the city.

    The coin shows a river god atop flowing waters, reclining in what looks like a grotto or a tunnel.

    According to Rabun Taylor, professor of classics at the University of Texas at Austin, this is an unique finding.

    "This is a discovery of almost unprecedented importance in the long history of aqueduct studies," Taylor, who has published widely on the architecture and hydraulics of the city, said in a statement.

    In use until the Renaissance, the aqueduct was rebuilt by Pope Paul V between 1605 and 1615 and renamed Aqua Paola after him.

    Taking the water directly from Lake Bracciano, and not from the nearby springs as in Roman times, the papal aqueduct still brings water to Rome, culminating almost on the same spot on Janiculum hill.

    "The water however, it is not as fresh and pure as in Trajan's times. It is actually quite nasty," O'Neill said.

    The nymphaeum suffered an even worst fate. Located inside a pig farm, it is used today as a rubbish dump. Moreover, fig roots are pushing through the valuted ceiling.

    "The site is crumbling and could totally disintegrated in 20 years. It desperately needs to be restored," said O'Neill.
     
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    A Sunken City Named Heracleion

    A Sunken City Named Heracleion Gets Discovered After 1500 Years
    http://www.aroundthe-world.info/a-sunken-city-named-heracleion-gets-discovered-after-1500-years/

    A Sunken City Named Heracleion Gets Discovered After 1500 Years

    Posted by: kam November 22, 2013 in America 33 Comments
    Found a Goddess statue underwater

    Heracleion, a much prosperous and a known city had been engulfed underwater 1500 years ago. This grand city had also been mentioned by the Greek writer Herodotus, the 5th-century BC historian. He had told a wonderful tale of Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in the world, who had launched a thousand ships, travelled to Heracleion, then a port of ‘great wealth’, with her glamorous Trojan lover, Paris.

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    The team retrieves the statue of the god Hapi

    But until 2001, there had been no evidence of the city from this classical tale. But when a group led by French marine archaeologist Franck Goddio stumbled upon some relics, it led them to one of the greatest finds of the 21st century, a city underwater. The discovery took place when Goddio had been in search of Napoleon’s warships from the 1798 Battle of the Nile, when he had been defeated by Nelson in these very waters, but to his surprise, he stumbled upon this magnificent discovery. Goddio’s team has since been joined by the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology and the Department of Antiquities of Egypt to produce a wealth of dazzling finds.

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    The statues and part of a large stele are assemble

    The discoveries include the colossal statues of the Egyptian goddess Isis, the god Hapi, and an unidentified Egyptian pharaoh, all preserved in excellent condition by their muddy burial shroud. Along with these 16ft statues there are hundreds of smaller statues of Egyptian gods, among them the figures that guarded the temple where Cleopatra who was inaugurated as Queen of the Nile. Dozens of sarcophagi have also been found, containing the bodies of mummified animals sacrificed to Amun-Gereb, the supreme god of the Egyptians. Many amulets, or religious charms, have been unearthed, too, showing gods such as Isis, Osiris and Horus. These had been created not only for Egyptians but also for visiting traders who used to incorporate them into their religion or kept them as trinkets.

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    A red granite sculpture of a Ptolemaic queen

    Heracleion can now be added to the number as Egypt’s most important port during the time of the later pharaohs. The importance of Heracleion has further been seen by the discovery of 64 ships, the largest number of ancient vessels ever found in one place and a fascinating 700 anchors. The city had been a major motorway junction. It had a naturally navigable channel next to its ancient harbor and a further artificial channel appears to had been dug to accelerate trade.

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    A gold vessel, which is a shallow dish used throughout the Hellenistic world for drinking

    The very name of the city had been taken from the most famous of Greek heroes, Heracles aka Hercules whose 12 labors had killed the Hydra and had captured Cerberus, the multi-headed hellhound that guarded the gates of the Underworld who had captivated the ancient world. Heraklion, Crete’s capital and largest city, had also been named after Heracles, as was Herculaneum, the ancient Roman town that had been buried under ash when Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. When Heracleion had faded in importance in the later classical period, its neighboring city of Alexandria had become the capital of Egypt in 312BC.

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    A bronze statuette of a pharoah of the 26th dynasty

    The discovery of Heracleion will now add depth and detail to our knowledge of the ancient world, because among the discoveries, there are perfectly preserved steles (inscribed pillars) decorated with hieroglyphics. Once translated, they will reveal much about the religious and political life in this corner of ancient Egypt. A similar inscription on the Rosetta stone had been discovered in the Nile Delta town of Rosetta in 1799 by a French soldier, and now preserved in the British Museum, it had cracked the code of hieroglyphics in the first place.

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    An Ancient Lamp which was discovered during the search

    And like the Rosetta stone, those steles found beneath the waters of Aboukir Bay are inscribed in Greek and Egyptian, too. The possibility of discovery of many more archaeological gems at Heracleion has now been opened.

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    An archaelogist measures the feet of a colossal red granite statue

    Moreover, Heracleion had been extremely crucial to the economy of the ancient world. This can be seen in the discovery of gold coins and lead, bronze and stone weights from Athens (used to measure the value of goods and to calculate the tax owed), which depicts that Heracleion had been a lucrative Mediterranean post.

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    The god Hapi was the god of the flooding of the Nile, a symbol of abundance and fertility

    On the discovery of this magnificent city, the archaeologists had first faced the mammoth task of reassembling massive stone fragments on the seabed before they could haul them to the surface. Twelve years on, their fabulous finds have been exposed to public view for the first time after more than a millennium spent beneath the silt and water of Aboukir Bay, 20 miles northeast of Alexandria.

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    A 1.9m stele, commissioned by Nectanebo I (378-362 BC)

    Evidence shows that Heracleion slipped into its watery grave sometime in the 6th or 7th century AD. The discovery of this splendid city in Egypt has been thrilling and mesmerizing.

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    Roman Statues Found in Blue Grotto Sea Cave

    Roman Statues Found in Blue Grotto Cave


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    http://news.discovery.com/history/art-history/blue-grotto-statues.htm

    By Rossella Lorenzi
    http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/blue-grotto-statues-italy.html


    Italy's famed Blue Grotto sea cave was once decorated by Roman statues of sea gods, surveys reveal

    A number of ancient Roman statues might lie beneath the turquoise waters of the Blue Grotto on the island of Capri in southern Italy, according to an underwater survey of the sea cave.

    Dating to the 1st century A.D., the cave was used as a swimming pool by the Emperor Tiberius (42 B.C. - 37 A.D.), and the statues are probably depictions of sea gods.

    "A preliminary underwater investigation has revealed several statue bases which might possibly hint to sculptures lying nearby," Rosalba Giugni, president of the environmentalist association, Marevivo, told Discovery News.

    Carried out in collaboration with the archaeological superintendency of Pompeii, the Marevivo project aims at returning the Blue Grotto to its ancient glory by placing identical copies of Tiberius' statues where they originally stood.

    Celebrated for the almost phosphorescent blue tones of the water and the mysterious silvery light flowing through fissures in the rocks, the Grotta Azzurra, as the cave is called in Italian, is one of the top attractions in Capri.

    The island was the capital of the Roman empire between 27 and 37 A. D., when Tiberius made a permanent home there to take advantage of the mild climate and its seclusion.

    Dividing his time among 12 villas and orgiastic feasts, the emperor used to bath in the almost hallucinogenic blue light of the cave, swimming among naked boys and girls.

    The story goes that those who displeased him were thrown into the sea from a rock near his Villa Jovis. Perched 1,000 feet above the sea with Mount Vesuvius's cone in the distance, this was the most magnificent of his residences on the island.

    The Blue Grotto might have been equally amazing. In 1964, archaeologists recovered three statues from the sea bottom. One sculpture depicts the sea good Neptune, while the other two statues each represented the Greek god Triton, who was the son of Poseidon (Neptune, for the Romans).

    According to the archaeologists, the position of the Tritons' shoulders (the arms are missing) would suggest that the marine creatures were blowing into large seashells as if they were trumpets..

    Triton was known to carry a twisted conch shell, on which he blew to calm or raise the waves.

    The recovered sculptures confirmed an account by Roman scholar Pliny the Elder (23 A.D. - 79 A.D.), who described the sea cave as populated by a Triton "playing on a shell."

    Now on display at a museum in Anacapri, the three statues have provided a glimpse of the original setting of the Blue Grotto. Now on display at a museum in Anacapri, the three statues have provided a glimpse of the original setting of the Blue Grotto.

    According to the reconstruction, a swarm of Tritons headed by Neptune might have lined the rocky walls of the cave. Bathed in the magic light of the grotto, the statues stood with waters at their knees.

    During the Marevivo survey, aimed at finding the original bases of the three statues, divers found a total of seven bases at a depth of 150 meters (492 feet). This suggests that at least four other statues lie on the cave's sandy bottom.

    "The sculptures were all placed at the same level. It is likely that other statues will come to light as the project continues with new underwater investigations," diver Vasco Fronzoni told Discovery News.

    The Grotta Azzurra's reputation as a natural paradise was seriously threatened last month. The cave was closed twice due to fears that its waters had been contaminated by raw sewage.

    Aimed at returning the grotto to its full ancient glory, the Marevivo project is also expected to pave the way to a more strict controls to preserve the natural wonder.

    "By next summer, tourists to the Grotta Azzurra will enjoy a really unique experience," Giugni said.

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    Prince's Palace Found in Volcanic Crater ~Sextus Tarquinius, Roman Republic


    Prince's Palace Found in Volcanic Crater

    By Rossella Lorenzi
    Feb 11, 2013 03:00 AM ET
    http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/prince-palace-rome.html

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    The residence of Sextus Tarquinius, the prince who sparked the revolt that led to the foundation of the Roman Republic, may have been found.

    THE GIST:

    - The remains of an ancient palace have been found 12 miles outside of Rome.
    - The palace likely belonged to the Etruscan prince Sextus Tarquinius and dates back to the sixth century B.C.

    The remains of what might have been the residence of the Etruscan prince Sextus Tarquinius, son of the last legendary king of Rome Tarquinius Superbus (Tarquin the Proud), have been found on the slopes of an extinct volcanic crater about 12 miles from Rome, Italian archaeologists have announced.

    The palace was discovered on the site of the ancient acropolis of Gabii, where, according to legend, Rome's mythical founders, Romulus and Remus, were educated. The building dates to the sixth century B.C and boasts the highest intact walls from the period ever found in Italy, standing at around 6.56 feet high.

    "The dig has shown that the richly decorated monumental roof was dismantled, and the building filled with rubble. This has been a blessing, since it has allowed the palace to remain virtually intact," archaeologist Marco Fabbri of Rome's Tor Vergata University, told Discovery News.

    Fabbri and colleagues from Rome's Archaeological Superintendency believe that the residence was furiously demolished, probably during the Roman revolt in 510 B.C. that ultimately led to the foundation of the Roman Republic.

    The ongoing excavation has so far unearthed three, disconnected rooms which most likely opened onto a porticoed area.

    Under the building's exceptionally well-preserved floor slabs, eight round cells contained the remains of five stillborn babies.

    "We hope to unearth the rest of the residence this spring. In particular, we are looking to piece together the richly decorated roof," Fabbri said.

    A terracotta fragment of the roof has already been found. It features the image of the Minotaur, an emblem of the Tarquins.

    "It's a strong piece of evidence to support the hypothesis that the edifice was built for the Tarquin family," Fabbri said.

    Indeed, the archaeologists do not rule out the hypothesis that the building was home to generations of Tarquins, and believe its last occupant was Sextus Tarquinius.

    The son of Rome's last king, the despotic Tarquinius Superbus, Sextus Tarquinius is notorious for having raped Lucretia, the virtuous wife of his cousin Tarquinius Collatinus.

    The Roman historian Livy (Titus Livius), who lived 59 B.C.-A.D. 17, recounts that Lucretia, "overcome with sorrow and shame," stabbed herself after the attack. Her death sparked the revolt that put to an end the kingship of Tarquin the Proud and Sextus Tarquinius' life.

    "The people of Gabii murdered Sextus after he entered the town. It is not a coincidence that the lavish building is intentionally destroyed around this time," Fabbri said.

    According to Nicola Terrenato, professor of classical archaeology at the University of Michigan, there is no doubt that the ruins belonged to the cultural context of the late, archaic king-cum-tyrants in central Italy.
    "Even if the precise attribution was not 100 percent correct, this would not detract much from the scholarly value of this wonderful discovery," Terrenato, who currently heads another Gabii archaeological project, told Discovery News.

    "Gabii's archaeological potential is enormous. It is one of the largest cities in Latium, and it is completely unencumbered by later buildings. When one thinks that what has been excavated yet is far less than 10 percent of the city, it is clear that many more surprises are in store," Terrenato said.
     
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