Xiongnu "iphone" excavated

[Duncan Head]

https://siberiantimes.com/science/others/news/archeologist-in-awe-at-2100-year-old-iphone-like-belt-buckle-unearthed-in-atlantis-grave-in-tuva/

[Imperial Dave]

 

[Erpingham]

I liked that one of the other skeletons is described as a "leather designer". 

[Imperial Dave]

presumably an ancient Starbucks coffee cup will turn up somewhere soon

[Erpingham]

presumably an ancient Starbucks coffee cup will turn up somewhere soon

I'm sure I have told the tale of being set the task on an archaeological site to dig a test pit into the medieval layers under a cellar.  After two feet of excavation, I came across a plastic coffee cup sitting on the flagged cellar floor.  Demolition rubble.  On a previous site, he had a team of us excavating a rubble layer by hand for a week which turned out to be levelling for the car park that had occupied the site since the sixties.

[Imperial Dave]

exactly....