BlackWidowPilot  | 03 May 2008 8:38 a.m. PST |
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| Pictors Studio | 03 May 2008 8:52 a.m. PST |
No thanks, I've already got one. |
| Swampster | 03 May 2008 9:24 a.m. PST |
It was found a couple of decades or so back.
The theory that this may be Philip III's tomb isn't new either! |
| Sue Kes | 03 May 2008 3:26 p.m. PST |
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| BlackWidowPilot | 05 May 2008 6:18 a.m. PST |
"It was found a couple of decades or so back.
The theory that this may be Philip III's tomb isn't new either!"
LOL! Well, I guess that's what I get for hanging around the WW2 Discussion boards… 
Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net |
| Swampster | 05 May 2008 7:34 a.m. PST |
Not to worry – National Geogrpahic presented it as a new theory. I think this was spurred by someone resurfacing the 'not Philip II' theory. |
| JJartist | 05 May 2008 2:34 p.m. PST |
Recent genetic research said the remains could not have been a middle aged man. I look that up…so Arrhidaeus it is in my mind, much more convincing than the initial propaganda :)
JeffJ |
| Warrenss2 | 05 May 2008 3:10 p.m. PST |
Did they store it in "Warehouse 51"? You know… the same place where they crated up the Ark at the end of "Raiders fo the Lost Ark". Seriously… interesting article. |
| Swampster | 06 May 2008 12:06 a.m. PST |
I'd be surprised if you can tell a skeleton's age at death by genetics. I guess telomeres might help but I don't think that's a very exact science. The main thrust of this argument is that the architecture would fit the period post-Alexander. This could well be correct. The system of weight marked on the containers also looks helpful. However, it does depend on whether these things have previously only been known from Alexanderian onward sites or if there is definite evidence that these things were intriduced by him. |
| myrm11 | 06 May 2008 1:50 a.m. PST |
"I'd be surprised if you can tell a skeleton's age at death by genetics. I guess telomeres might help but I don't think that's a very exact science" ….well if it only had X chromosomes then it would be sufficient to prove that the remains 'could not have been a middle aged man' :) |
| Col Scott 2 | 06 May 2008 4:25 a.m. PST |
Terre,
UGGGGH
Can't believe I was reading it just as intensely as when I first heard this joke from my uncle decades ago. Very nice. |
