"Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones" Topic

What have we here…………….
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Cool! Thanks for sharing.

Maybe someone did a switcheroo on Ptolemy, and it is really Alex.

I note that the article states that the bones were "scattered around a wooden coffin." Also, there is no mention of funerary objects, jewelry, etc., or the significant coins for the ferryman. Perhaps a listing of items is being held for later, or the tomb was plundered in the past, or possibly even deliberately desecrated some time after burial. Or the personage buried was significant enough to warrant being placed in an already prepared tomb, but politically and influentially "on the outs," as it were, thus recieving a barren burial (which could indeed fit Alexander's widow's state at the time of her murder, though of course not definitive). Personally, I suspect plunder, but will be interested to see what more comes out of this.

Neat.

hmmmm of all the people who died and were entombed from that time period, this must be Alexander? Did Fox news (tm) write this article?

Oh please. According to the byline, it's from a French news service, Agence France Presse (AFP). The link itself is from Yahoo News. According to Wikipedia (yeah, I know), AFP is the largest and oldest international press agency in the world.

In any case, speculation that the tomb is that of Alexander the Great or a very close relative or ally has been quite seriously put forth as a possibility. But the article itself does not assert that it is Alexander's tomb at all, but states that focus of discussion tends to favor Roxana, Olympias, or one of Alexander's generals. In fact, the article says that any chance of the tomb being Alexander's is "highly unlikely." So how one reads the article and comes away thinking that it was asserting the body to be Alexander the Great's, I have no idea.

"hmmmm of all the people who died and were entombed from that time period, this must be Alexander? Did Fox news (tm) write this article?"

Talk about gratuitous and vaguely pathetic.

Parzival,,
You are correct. One of the experts was quoted as saying there was no evidense to believe the tomb was possibly Alexander's. I still take umbrage to the headline of Qreece "holding its breath" waiting for an answer. The circus element of archeology has ed up our collective understanding of the ancient world for far too long.
I'm sorry if my joke hit a nerve but what passes for journalism these days is funny enough, I guess.
They could have at least waited until the bones had been identified as being male or female prior to publishing the page of speculation surroing the equivalent of a paragraph of news.

Oh, for the record, here is an article carried by Fox News: link

It actually has more details and appears to be both more accurate and better written. I will note in full disclosure that it comes from a popular news source called "Live Science" that features articles on scientific discoveries and the like. Live Science articles are frequently featured on the Fox News site.

With the detail of the Persephone mosaic, one speculates if the body might indeed be a young woman. The myth seems to fit such a death.

That is a better written article. Thanks for shating.
RC