This issue of Archaeology Answers Newsletter

This issue of Archaeology Answers Newsletter

1. HOW TO EMPTY A SPORTS STADIUM

The Maya played a ball court game vaguely similar to modern basketball, manoeuvring the solid rubber ball not with hands but with agile hips and knees.

Passing the ball through the high stone ring was a feat so rare that the player who achieved it had the right to claim the jewels and cloaks of all the spectators.

As a result, one basket goal quickly emptied the stadium.

2. ANCIENT MACHINERY

Speculation can now end! The machinery believed to have been used to construct the Great Pyramid of Cheops, at Giza, Egypt, has been found. From it, a model was used to raise a heavy van and another model was demonstrated in Cairo to the Antiquities Department.

Pliny, writing of the erection of an obelisk by Rameses, records that it was erected by the power of machinery.

(Gosse, Civilization of the Ancient Egyptians, pp.108,109)

3. ANCIENT TUNNEL SYSTEMS

A huge network of military tunnels has been discovered in China. The network is the biggest found so far in China, covering 300 square kilometres. The tunnels were discovered in Hebei province 100 kilometers south of Beijing. They consist of passageways linking large halls capable of sheltering groups of warriors. (China Daily)

Sahara, Africa No less than 230 visible tunnels at least ten feet high and twelve feet wide, have been discovered between Sebha, the modern capital of the Fezzon, and the oasis of Ghat on the Algerian border. They run an average length of three miles – a total of 700 miles – not counting those that are unknown. In places they run less than 20 feet apart.

Considering the 100,000 graves found in the wadi, the region must have been populous, which presupposes an adequate and regular rainfall in the Sahara when the tunnels were built several millennia ago.(James Welland, Lost Worlds in Africa, Book 3)

4. SOUND WAVES & ANTI-GRAVITY

In many parts of the world, legends tell of flying vessels That were propelled by the power of sound (derived from voice or beating). In Dead Men’s Secrets I refer to such traditionsin Babylon, Egypt and Bolivia. Comparable traditions have now surfaced from ancient India, Finland, from the Bantu of Malawi and the Algonkin of North America.

Footnote NASA scientists have succeeded in using sound waves to levitate pellets of glass or metal!

5. CENTRAL HEATING & FLUSH TOILETS

In Northumberland, Britain’s ancient border country, archaeologists have discovered some correspondence, the faint traces of personal letters left behind by the Roman soldiers unlucky enough to patrol this bleak landscape nearly 2,000 years ago. These men were stationed at Vindolanda fort, just south of Hadrian’s Wall. The time was 115 AD.

One letter reads “I have sent you … pairs of socks from Sattua, two pairs of sandals and two pairs of underpants.

Another contains an invitation from a woman, Flavia Severa, presumably the wife of a senior soldier, to another.

Another fragment, covered with excerpts from the Poet Virgil, seems to be a writing exercise scrawled by a child.

There are striking parallels with modern society. For instance, some of the women living in the Garrison wore distinctly modish footwear, neatly blazoned with the maker’s name. And one reads of the soldiers’ saunas, central heating and flush toilets. Such was life at the edge of the Roman Empire.

6. ANCIENT TOWN FACILITIES

The city of Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus Valley was serviced with sewers made of brick with a bitumen finish, and these drained not only the main streets but the side streets as well. They were big enough for a man to walk through them standing upright.

From each house, ceramic drains ran to the sewers. The city had large public baths, with changing rooms, fountains and steam baths. A huge swimming pool was served with pipes and drains for changing the water. The swimming pool is still watertight, after 4,500 years.

7. ANCIENT CONTRACEPTION; PREGNANCY TESTS; SEX OF AN UNBORN CHILD DETERMINED

The Egyptians made a chemical contraceptive by grinding together acacia spikes, honey and dates.

The mixture was applied on a wad of fibres inserted into the vagina. (We now know that acacia spikes contain lactic acid, a chemical that kills sperm.)

In ancient Egypt, it was possible to have a pregnancy test at the earliest stages, and at the same time to determine the sex of the unborn child. The method used was to take a woman’s urine and soak bags containing wheat and barley with it. If the subject was pregnant, the urine would accelerate the growth of the WHEAT if the child was MALE, or the BARLEY if FEMALE.

(Such tests in modern times are comparatively recent. Not until 1926 was a urine pregnancy test discovered. And it was another 7 years before the acceleration of wheat and barley was confirmed by laboratory tests.)


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