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The Great Tomb in Amphipolis, Greece

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Totally incredible. There are even traces of paint everywhere!

It was news to me when I discovered ancient Greece wasn't just white stone and marble everywhere. Almost all of it was painted bright, gaudy colors. In my opinion, it makes them more beautiful.

http://io9.com/5616498/ultraviolet-light-reveals-how-ancient...

Same in Egypt. There are still patches of paint on ceilings to be seen at the sights there. No sign of any Electrum though ;)

Thanks, I was looking around for that link.

I've known for a long time that ancient Greece wasn't white stone and marble everywhere, but I've never been able to quite picture it in my mind that way. I still imagine Socrates wandering among white stone buildings and people leading processions to a white stone Parthenon.

This is a great resource - I'd been seeing a handful of photos from the site but it's striking to see them collected like this. The mosaic floor of Hermes is especially beautiful.

Looks nice, I've been following this local stuff for my Amphipolis fix:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/09/15/amphipolis-tomb-t...

There is also a 3D model of the tomb here: https://sketchfab.com/models/dfe1cfa036614fdb81ac11245566cbb...

So why on earth can't we find the Tomb of Alexander The Great yet?

We have gone to the moon. And we have lost a totally popular monument... This just proves how fucked up the Middle East really is...

Very interesting find, but the website is a bit cumbersome (apologies for being pedantic here) to use. Found it painful to click open and read just a small paragraph related to each photograph below.

Another recent interesting newspiece on archeology was about the 'Antikythera computer' [1] that is apparently almost 2000 years old. Unable to find the most authentic source for that report as it seems almost everyone picked up the story later on.

And then there was one recent piece on HN about 40,000 year old Indonesian Cave paintings via Smithsonian magazine [2]. All this is very intriguing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8434338

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