Flagg the Wanderer
Mourning Algernon
In exchange for having my football questions answered, I would be more than happy to answer any archaeological questions!
I'd be happy to answer football questions if I can, Bob, but it looks like yours already were answered in the other thread.
So, I went down to Mexico and went out to the Aztec pyramids outside of Mexico City. Wow - tall. Plus I had a baby in a front pack (as usual) and it threw my balance off and nearly made both of us fall to an ignominious (and embarrassing, considering all the cameras at the ready) demise.
Anyway, the whole thing got me interested in ancient cultures, and I saw a show on...I don't know, probably the Discovery Channel or something, and it was about Santorini and some other surrounding cultures. They were making really interesting claims like Santorini was such a dominant force in the area that Egypt was paying tribute, and this was memorialized in hieroglyphics in Egypt. They claimed that Santorini was incredibly technologically advanced - they actually had indoor plumbing insofar as they had toilets that dumped into sewers and had valves that kept the sewer gasses from coming into the house.
They also claimed that one of the surrounding seafaring cultures (Crete?) had what amounted to the aircraft carriers of the age - two ships that had a huge walled platform between them to hold massive amounts of troops carried into battle. Like an enormous catamaran I guess.
Is that legit, or is that garbage? I always go under the assumption that anything I see in pop science media is wildly exaggerated or at least heavily glamorized. Those in particular were pretty hard for me to swallow.
Just tossing it out there. I'm sure there is any number of members here that have other questions about different things (I'm looking at you, TGIASM).
Sorry to stick this in the football forum, but I suspect that Bob would not have seen it in the 3RC. He just doesn't strike me as a 3RC kind of guy.
Thanks in advance, Bob!
And welcome to the Planet.