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| Four Ancient Swords and Pilum Found in Cave. Source: See British Museum link below. |
JERUSALEM (AP) — Four Roman-era swords, their wooden and leather hilts and scabbards and steel blades exquisitely preserved after 1,900 years in a desert cave, surfaced in a recent excavation by Israeli archaeologists near the Dead Sea, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday.
The cache of exceptionally intact artifacts was found about two months ago and tells a story of empire and rebellion, of long-distance conquest and local insurrection.
Researchers, who published the preliminary findings in a newly released book, propose that the arms — four swords and the head of a javelin, known as a pilum — were stashed in the remote cavern by Jewish rebels during an uprising against the Roman Empire in the 130s...
Thanks to Norbert B. for that link.
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Yesterday I mentioned that you can still access the original treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com, which began, I think, back around 2018. Unfortunately, most, but not all of the original posts are still available. A few got deleted when the blog wasn't working properly, and I deleted some of the older posts because I thought maybe there were too many posts. There are a lot, but I don't think that was the problem.
The reason I started tbr2020.blogspot.com as a continuation of the original blog is the large number of posts in the original blog made it very time consuming (almost impossible) to go all the way back to find the older posts. The blog simply got too big.
The first post in tbr2020 (this blog) is the 4/20/20 post. The first few posts in tbr2020 can also be found in treasurebeachesreport. I posted them in both blogs to make the transition from one to the other easier.
So the 4/20/20 post is the first one you'll find in tbr2020. For the older posts you'll have to go to treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com. Many people seem to be doing that.. The treasurebeachesreport still gets thousands of views daily.
I decided to look back through tbr2020 to see what the most read posts are. When I looked at the statistics, 9 of the 10 most read posts were from last November. Here is a list of the ten most read posts in tbr2020. (These are not links.). It is a snipping from my statistics list.
The list shows that we had some good beach metal detecting in November of last year. If you go to those posts, you'll see some finds and what was going on during that time period.
That was due to Nicole hitting the Florida coast up around Daytona. If you recall there was some very high water and some big erosion in some places, and there were some great finds made.
The post on that list that was not from November 2022 was from September of the same year and was headlining erosion that occurred in that month, so by the time Nicole hit, some sand had already been moved and those beaches were primed.
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New Zealand Researchers Turn To Fish To Find GoldThe team continued to apply their techniques in various locations in Otago, finding numerous places where the fish record is strong and the geology isn’t, and vice versa. By combining the two, they were able to piece together the jigsaw puzzle, eventually calibrating a “geo genomic clock” they could use to answer questions about river capture all over New Zealand and help them identify locations where old, gold-bearing rivers may be concealed.
New Zealand Researchers Turn to Fish to Find Gold - Tipopedia
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| Cone for Lee Source: nhc.noaa.gov. |
Above is the cone for Lee. Margot is behind Lee, but is headed north into the Atlantic.
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| ECMWF Model Showing Lee's Projected Position Next Thursday. |
So the ECMWF model is still showing Lee turning north and staying well east of the Florida coast. From that run of the model, it looks like Lee might send us some northeast winds at next Thursday, but the waves don't look like they'll have a more ESE direction. Of course, it is way too early to be sure about that.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net