Noah's Archeology Flashcards
Richard III
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
Buddhist Temple in Pakistan
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
Fastest Human in History
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
Controversy is about a Richard III play by Globe Theatre in London
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
Ostia Antica
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
Pompeii
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
The Girsu Project
Sumerican city- Girsu in Iraq
Technology was used to subsurface remains at tablet hill
Ennui temple- God Nigirsu
Jurassic Park
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,
Rosetta Stone
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
The Land Before Time
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
Godzilla
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
Feathered T-Rex
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
Borobudur
It’s the biggest Buddhist monument in the world
Indonesia
9th Century
Sailendra Dynasty
Vesak Day celebration
Taposiris Magna Stele
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
Petra
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
Sutton Hoo
Suffolk, England
Anglo-Saxon culture
Archeologist Basil Brown
Vesuvius Challenge
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
Voice cloning application
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
Largest libraries
Dolphins channel jumping pandas from moon night club beach carnival
10th Largest Library
Danish Royal Library (Copenhagen)
9h Largest Library
National Library of China (Beijing)
8th Largest Library
National Diet Library (Tokyo & Kyoto +)
7th Largest Library
National Library of Russia (St. Petersburg)
5th Largest Library
Russian State Library (Moscow)
6th Largest Library
Bibliotheque Nationale de France (Paris)
2th Largest Library
British Library (London)
3th Largest Library
Library and Archives Canada (Ottawa)
4th Largest Library
New York Public Library (NYC)
Aztec Calendar Stone
After Spanish conquest buried in the Zocalo
Mounted in Mexico city cathedral
Originally located in Tenochtitlan
Largest Library in the world
Library of Congress (Washington D.C.)
Ocumtun
Mayan city
Expedition by Dr. Ivan Saric
Montevideo Maru
Merchant ship of Japan
Military ship in world war II
Sunk by US submarine- Sturgeon
Lucy
Discovered in Ethiopia
Donald Johanson
Australopithecus fossil
Ardi
Fossil of A. Ramidus
Discovered in Ethiopia
Discovered by college students
Java Man
Homo erectus erectus
Human fossil discovered on island “java”
Fossil represents missing link between apes and humans
Dubois gave species name
Taung Child
Dean Folk said this is a very important discovery
Fossil of A. Africanus
Oldowan tool kit
Oldest recognisable tools found in the archaeological record
Believed to be early members of the genus Homo
Eventually replaced by more sophisticated Acheulean tools.
Paranthropus robusus
Extinct hominin species
Bipedal creature despite a robust head
Broad, herbivore-like teeth for grinding
HMS Endurance
His/ Her majesties ship
Involved in Falklands war
After naming ship endurance, it took explorer Ernest Shackleton expedition to Artic
Library of Alexandria
Founded by Alexander the Great
Royal library founded by Ptolemy I Soter
Tujiaaspis vividus
Silurian jawless fish
China
Evolution of Fins
Theories of the burning of Alexandria
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
Paleoart Image- Phillip Henry Delamotte
Motu, SCP
Sculped, Crystal Palace
Paleoart Image- Adolphe François Pannemaker
Paneermaker, PWA
Primitive World, Apocalypse
Paleoart Image- Charles R. Knight
MHCA
Movement, Hunting, Competitive archeologists
Paleoart Image- Alexei Petrovich Bystrow
Bistro, IEPS
Inostrancevia eating Pareiasaurus, Soviet
Paleoart Image- Zdenêk Burian
Zed, MBES
Mammoth, books, extinct species
Paleoart Image- Konstantin Konstantinovich Flyorov
Flytrap, TSF
Tarbosaures, scientist, fiction
Paleoart Image- Ely Kish
Kiss, WCCKD
Woman, climate change, killed dinosaurs
Paleoart Image- Eduard Riou
Roo, IPFW
Ichthyosaur, Plesiosaur fighting, waves
Muzeon park of Arts
Statues removed as communism fell
Moscow
House of Wisdom
Hub for scientific exploration
Library
Islamic Golden Age
