Noah's Archeology Flashcards

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Richard III

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Buried at Greyfriars Church

Died in War of the Roses

Henry VIII destroyed the church

British archeologists determined that King Richard III was buried under a parking lot

With DNA tests, it was confirmed that the body was Richard III

Richard had a common form of scoliosis

Reburied at Leicester Cathedral

Minister John Glenn says that burying him there can make sure that future generations can see his remains too

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Buddhist Temple in Pakistan

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Located at Gandhara
“a trade crossroads and cultural meeting place between India, Central Asia and the Middle East”

Team unearthed coins, jewellery, statues, seals, pottery fragments and other ancient artefacts

Abandoned in the third century C.E. following an earthquake

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Fastest Human in History

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Footprint found in New South Wales (Australia)

Young aboriginal girl named Mary Pappen Jr spotted footprints

Mungo National Park- swampy wetland

20,000 years ago

Steve Webb, with Bond University, found that one of them was running at 37 km/h on mud, barefoot and, without intense training

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Controversy is about a Richard III play by Globe Theatre in London

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Portrayed by a woman, Globe Theatre’s boss Michelle Terry

Terry has stressed that she won’t play a scoliosis Richard, but a narcissist one

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Ostia Antica

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Once an ancient Roman city

Ostia means “ancient mouth”

One of Rome’s first settlements

Kristin Jackson points out that one good thing about Ostia Antica is there are no pushy vendors, no street noise, and no crowds on some days

Mile-long road Decumanus Maximus

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Pompeii

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Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

Professor Eric Poehler from University of Massachusetts used 3D mapping technology to put together a grid of the transportation network showing how people moved around that time

People ate seafood and pork- even fed pigs different stuff to make their bodies taste different

Fish sauce kid known as Umbricuis Scaurus

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The Girsu Project

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Sumerican city- Girsu in Iraq

Technology was used to subsurface remains at tablet hill

Ennui temple- God Nigirsu

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Jurassic Park

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American science fiction media franchise created by Michael Crichton

Take place on an island, namely Isla Nublar, located on the Pacific coast of Central Rica,

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Rosetta Stone

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Made by the priests of Memphis (capital city of ancient Egypt)

Explaining about Ptolemy V Epiphanes’ reign

3 Languages

Thanks to the Rosetta Stone, we managed to decipher the Egyptian scripts

Found by a Frenchman, but after France surrendered because of Napoleon’s departure, it was passed to the British

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The Land Before Time

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The first first movie was directed by Don Bluth, with help as executive producer by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg (also the director of jurassic park)

About four young dinosaurs and a pterosaur. After finding the Great Valley, they raise a carnivorous baby, survive a drought and a cold snap, and witness a solar eclipse

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Godzilla

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American monster film

American Sailor attempts to return to his family while caught in the crossfire of an ancient rivalry between Godzilla and two parasitic monsters known as MUTOs

Criticised for the script, characters, and Godzilla’s insufficient screen time

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Feathered T-Rex

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Unlike bones, feathers will eventually decompose after a few years.

Many dinosaur skeletons were covered in feathers, including the Yutyrannus and Dilong, which were close relatives to the T-rex

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Borobudur

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It’s the biggest Buddhist monument in the world

Indonesia

9th Century

Sailendra Dynasty

Vesak Day celebration

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Taposiris Magna Stele

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Dubbed as the other Rosetta Stone

Talks about the 7th year of Ptolemy V’s reign, instead explaining it

A stele is typically a wooden or stone slab erected, usually for funerals

Inscribed with 20 lines of Hieroglyphic and Demotic inscriptions, unlike the Rosetta Stone’s 3 languages

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Petra

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Inhabited by the Nabataeans (ancient Arab)

7000 BC

Rediscovered by the amazing Swiss traveller, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt

Petra means “rock” in Greece, because many people had control over Petra

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Sutton Hoo

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Suffolk, England

Anglo-Saxon culture

Archeologist Basil Brown

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Vesuvius Challenge

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Funded largely by Elon Musk

Initiated by Brent Seales and supported by backers from Silicon Valley

Aimed to decipher ancient code, particularly focusing on scrolls recovered from the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

A team comprising Youssef Nader, Luke Farritor, and Julian Schilliger utilized AI technology to tackle the challenge and successfully read the text

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Voice cloning application

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HeyGen.
Automatically dubs a user’s voice in another language, it also uses AI to alter facial expressions and mouth movements to fit the spoken text, making it look all the more legitimate

Youtube Feature- Aloud
Gives a port for creators to dub their content on a video

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Largest libraries

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Dolphins channel jumping pandas from moon night club beach carnival

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10th Largest Library

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Danish Royal Library (Copenhagen)

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9h Largest Library

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National Library of China (Beijing)

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8th Largest Library

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National Diet Library (Tokyo & Kyoto +)

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7th Largest Library

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National Library of Russia (St. Petersburg)

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5th Largest Library

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Russian State Library (Moscow)

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6th Largest Library

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Bibliotheque Nationale de France (Paris)

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2th Largest Library

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British Library (London)

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3th Largest Library

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Library and Archives Canada (Ottawa)

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4th Largest Library

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New York Public Library (NYC)

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Aztec Calendar Stone

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After Spanish conquest buried in the Zocalo

Mounted in Mexico city cathedral

Originally located in Tenochtitlan

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Largest Library in the world

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Library of Congress (Washington D.C.)

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Ocumtun

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Mayan city

Expedition by Dr. Ivan Saric

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Montevideo Maru

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Merchant ship of Japan

Military ship in world war II

Sunk by US submarine- Sturgeon

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Lucy

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Discovered in Ethiopia

Donald Johanson

Australopithecus fossil

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Ardi

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Fossil of A. Ramidus

Discovered in Ethiopia

Discovered by college students

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Java Man

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Homo erectus erectus

Human fossil discovered on island “java”

Fossil represents missing link between apes and humans

Dubois gave species name

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Taung Child

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Dean Folk said this is a very important discovery

Fossil of A. Africanus

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Oldowan tool kit

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Oldest recognisable tools found in the archaeological record

Believed to be early members of the genus Homo

Eventually replaced by more sophisticated Acheulean tools.

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Paranthropus robusus

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Extinct hominin species

Bipedal creature despite a robust head

Broad, herbivore-like teeth for grinding

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HMS Endurance

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His/ Her majesties ship

Involved in Falklands war

After naming ship endurance, it took explorer Ernest Shackleton expedition to Artic

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Library of Alexandria

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Founded by Alexander the Great

Royal library founded by Ptolemy I Soter

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Tujiaaspis vividus

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Silurian jawless fish

China

Evolution of Fins

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Theories of the burning of Alexandria

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1) Julius Caesar’s set a fire to destroy enemy ships accidentally spread and burned down part of the Library of Alexandria

2) Theophilus destroyed library as it was assosiated with a church and converted it to a temple

3) Moslem Caliph Omar burned books for fuel

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Paleoart Image- Phillip Henry Delamotte

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Motu, SCP

Sculped, Crystal Palace

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Paleoart Image- Adolphe François Pannemaker

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Paneermaker, PWA

Primitive World, Apocalypse

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Paleoart Image- Charles R. Knight

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MHCA

Movement, Hunting, Competitive archeologists

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Paleoart Image- Alexei Petrovich Bystrow

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Bistro, IEPS

Inostrancevia eating Pareiasaurus, Soviet

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Paleoart Image- Zdenêk Burian

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Zed, MBES

Mammoth, books, extinct species

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Paleoart Image- Konstantin Konstantinovich Flyorov

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Flytrap, TSF

Tarbosaures, scientist, fiction

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Paleoart Image- Ely Kish

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Kiss, WCCKD

Woman, climate change, killed dinosaurs

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Paleoart Image- Eduard Riou

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Roo, IPFW

Ichthyosaur, Plesiosaur fighting, waves

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Muzeon park of Arts

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Statues removed as communism fell

Moscow

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House of Wisdom

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Hub for scientific exploration

Library

Islamic Golden Age