[HN Gopher] 2,300-year-old mosaic made of shells and coral found...
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2,300-year-old mosaic made of shells and coral found under Rome
Author : clouddrover
Score : 106 points
Date : 2023-12-23 14:07 UTC (8 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.cnn.com)
| SSLy wrote:
| Mirror please, the s(h)ite is blocking safari.
| jefftk wrote:
| Are you sure? It looks fine in Safari to me:
| https://imgur.com/a/lHTYmfL
| SSLy wrote:
| https://a.uguu.se/COCUiUWU.png And I've tried disabling
| AdGuard, didn't change anything.
| jefftk wrote:
| Any other extensions?
| ahmedfromtunis wrote:
| I'm surprise that they decided to put article about this mosaic
| under the "Style" section. I understand that this is were
| articles about the arts, design and architecture live, but still.
| readyplayernull wrote:
| Those blue stones, are they painted or natural?
| adrian_b wrote:
| As mentioned in the article, those are beads of Egyptian blue
| glass.
|
| The Egyptian blue glass was colored during manufacturing by
| including in the melted glass certain minerals that contained
| oxides of copper or, more rarely, oxides of cobalt.
|
| Modern blue glass is usually made with cobalt oxide, a process
| rediscovered during the Middle Ages.
| perihelions wrote:
| - _" Such an elaborate space would also have been used to impress
| guests with water games, which were very popular amongst nobility
| at the time. "We have found lead pipes embedded within the
| decorated walls, built to carry water inside basins or to make
| fountains spout to create water games," said Russo."_
|
| It was an eyebrow-raising reading how the water economics of
| ancient Rome worked [0]. Probably a microcosm of the dysfunction
| and absurdity of that city as a whole.
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_aqueduct#Distribution
| sologoub wrote:
| That article seems to describe a system where public uses were
| prioritized over paid. Like in any system, some degree of
| favoritism/corruption existed, but at least initially it seemed
| to still serve the public at large quite well. Especially when
| one considers many of their contemporary equivalents or what
| followed for centuries in Europe.
| lovecg wrote:
| Thanks for the link!
|
| > The construction of Rome's third aqueduct, the Aqua Marcia,
| was at first legally blocked on religious grounds, under advice
| from the decemviri (an advisory "board of ten"). The new
| aqueduct was meant to supply water to the highest elevations of
| the city, including the Capitoline Hill, but the decemviri had
| consulted Rome's main written oracle, the Sibylline Books, and
| found there a warning against supplying water to the
| Capitoline. This brought the project to a standstill.
|
| One can't help but draw parallels with modern day out of
| control environmental review process...
| JoeAltmaier wrote:
| Wow, the third of the screen lost to ads was obnoxious.
| neonate wrote:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20231223142429/https://www.cnn.c...
| gwbas1c wrote:
| I've never had an issue opening a CNN website; no subscription
| required. (I use Brave.)
|
| Do other people need to use archive.org to bypass something? Is
| it region-locked or otherwise has some other kind of barrier?
| MagerValp wrote:
| I just get an error page that says my browser is "preventing
| this site from implementing required components that protect
| your privacy".
|
| Yeah, no thanks, I trust my adblocker to do that for me.
| romanzubenko wrote:
| Making something so extremely beautiful is the surest way to
| optimize for long term longevity.
| crazygringo wrote:
| Unfortunately that's not true. Most beautiful stuff has been
| destroyed at one point or another.
|
| The laws of economics and war and necessity really don't care
| the slightest about beauty.
|
| The pyramids of Giza were covered with fine, smooth, white
| limestone that gleamed in the sunlight -- as beautiful as you
| could imagine. That didn't prevent people from stealing most of
| it later for their own purposes.
| iambateman wrote:
| I'll take the other side on this. OP said "surest" which you
| seem to interpret as "certain."
|
| Of course not _all_ beautiful artifacts persist - no one
| takes that position. But it is reasonable to say that most
| artifacts which receive attention today are just the
| artifacts which were formed with special care and whose
| beauty was preserved, probably by accident, for us.
| chasil wrote:
| When I visited the ancient city of Ostia ("Ostia Antiqua"), I saw
| several murals, some on the ground with instructions on how to
| walk on them, and some stacked vertically with chips that had
| fallen into the soil.
|
| The discovery on the Palatine is impressive, but far from unique.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostia_Antica
| archsurface wrote:
| "A five-year dig into the side of Rome's Palatine Hill yielded
| treasure last week when archaeologists discovered a deluxe
| banquet room..."
|
| A week to clean up from discovery? I thought these things took
| much longer.
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