1/8/23 Report - Gold Coins In Clay Pot Found. Ancient Sports Trophy. Bigger Surf Coming. The Light.

 

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1100-year-old Gold Coins Discovered by Teens
Source: TheArchaeologist (See link below)

In 2020 two teenagers volunteering at an archaeological dig in central Israel unearthed hundreds of 1,100-year-old gold coins, reports the Associated Press.

The 18-year-olds found the cache of 425 coins inside a clay vessel buried in the city of Yavne, according to Reuters. The currency appears to date to the ninth century, when the Abbasid Caliphate controlled much of the Near East and North Africa.

“This is one of the earliest known caches from this period (late [ninth] century A.D.) found in the country,” says Robert Kool, a coin expert with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), in a statement. “The coins are made of pure 24-carat gold.”...

Here is that link, thanks to William K.

Israeli Teens Discover Trove of 1,100-Year-Old Gold Coins (thearchaeologist.org)

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. 2 Corinthians (4:7)

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Source: The Guardian (link below)

Gladiator fights backed by roaring crowds in impressive-looking arenas have long inspired film-makers behind classics such as Gladiator and Spartacus. Now new research reveals for the first time that such a sporting spectacle took place in Britain in the late second century AD.

Crucial evidence has been discovered within a spectacular vase – decorated with a depiction of a gladiatorial combat – which was unearthed from a Roman grave in Colchester in 1853.

New tests prove the Colchester Vase was made of local clay around AD 160-200 and that an inscription bearing the names of two featured gladiators was cut into the clay before firing, rather than afterwards, as previously assumed. It was therefore an intrinsic part of the vessel’s original design rather than a later addition to a generic arena representation.

That means the vase was the ultimate in sports memorabilia, perhaps commissioned by a gladiator trainer or owner, or someone else involved with such contests.

Here is that link.

‘Startling’ new evidence reveals gladiators fought in Roman Britain | Archaeology | The Guardian

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What if we have it all wrong?   What if we have it all backwards?  In what way does the brain create consciousness or does the body host the spirit?  Aren't they entirely of a different types and substances? Yet we expect the primordial soup to birth all there is of knowing.

The materialist believes in nothing but what he can see, hear, touch, or feel, but has no idea where it came from.  Sentience sees the eyeballs and mechanisms of sight, but disappears when the molecules of the mechanism of the body retire.

What if consciousness is the stuff of nature, the context of the world, and not soup that somehow learns to soar?  What if the Great consciousness said, "Let there be light," and separated light from darkness?  What if all-knowing consciousness made man in his image, as a smaller conscious being, but the lesser consciousness chose darkness rather than light?  But the light did not abandon the smaller being and continued to flicker within.?

“Your eye is like a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. But when it is unhealthy, your body is filled with darkness.  (Luke 11:34)

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Source: MagicSeaWeed.com

Four-six and then five - eight.  Not huge, but not bad.  

I'd like to see a more sustained wind direction, but still I'd expect some short-term erosion on some beaches if this actually happens.

Good hunting,

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