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The Jade burial suits are hand-crafted jade suits from the Han Dynasty of China, used for the ceremonial burials of China’s elite and members of the ruling class.
The Chinese developed a fascination with Jade as early as 6000 BC during the Neolithic period, producing ritual and ornamental tools or weapons as symbols of political power and religious authority....
The Immortal Armour of China's Jade Burial Suits (heritagedaily.com)
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A white shark, tracked by the research group OCEARCH, pinged off the Treasure Coast for the second time in less than a week.
After surfacing off Vero Beach on Jan. 17, the 9-foot 6-inch male shark nicknamed "Simon," made his way south and pinged near the Stuart coast at 12:03 a.m. on Saturday....
Here is that link.9-foot great white shark continues Treasure Coast visit, pings off Stuart, Florida (msn.com)...
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A large, grassy hill in Norway known as the Herlaugshagen burial mound was likely the site of a pre-Viking ship burial, a new analysis finds.
Archaeologists have long wondered whether the oversize mound in Leka, a municipality in central Norway located along a known centuries-old shipping route, once housed a ship. This summer, researchers conducted surveys at the coastal site and discovered several large rivets that would have held the vessel together, as well as wooden remains that are likely from the ship, according to Norwegian SciTech News, a news outlet that provides coverage for the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the Foundation for Industrial and Technical Research (SINTEF).
"The sizes of the ship's rivets and the preserved wood around several of the rivets show that the preservation conditions are good," Geir Grønnesby, an archaeologist at NTNU who led the surveys, told Live Science in an email. "This is the largest burial mound in Trøndelag (Central Norway) and one of the largest in Norway."...
And here is that link.
Oldest known ship burial discovered in Norway predates Vikings | Live Science
I forget who sent me this link. Sorry.
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Don't forget all the posts in the old treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com web site. Yesterday it had over 1000 hits, which is not unusual. Some days it still gets thousands of hits. Here is a post that was getting a lot of attention yesterday.
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