The Bible’s Buried Secrets

Been seeing this topic—how much of the Bible can be confirmed by archaeology—a lot in blog-posts and conversations, of late. I watched this documentary when it was broadcast, and my only real problem with it was that it was such a short series.
—Daz

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Episode 1 – “Did King David’s Empire Exist?”

Episode 2 – “Did God have a Wife?”

Episode 3 – “The Real Garden of Eden”

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Just Suppose

Found this rather interesting video, earlier. (I forget where I found the link, so apologies for not giving credit for that.)

I must admit, up front, that I don't really have a dog in this fight—whether an actual Jesus existed and so on being a rather different question than that of whether there's a god for him to have been a son of. I'm not much of a Biblical (and related material) scholar, either, so I can't really judge his hypothesis one way or the other. (And he doesn't, to give him credit, claim it's anything but a hypothesis.) That said, he does appear to raise some interesting questions and ideas about the history of the religion itself.

Anyway, here it is. Any thoughts, anyone?
—Daz

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A Bit Of Archeological News

I'm tempted to add "piped water" to my previous post, given that our supply has disappeared. Apparently it's due to a clean-up-and-replacement programme being carried out by Wessex Water. Given that we were given no notice that the supply would be interrupted, I'm guessing that there's been some sort of cock up. It's also left us with about half a kettle-full of water, and no idea when the mains supply will be back on. Ho hum.

Anyway, my reason for telling you this is that, while I was trying to find some additional information online (there is none), I came across this little snippet of news from a couple of weeks back.

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Clarke’s Lesser Magics

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
—Alfred North Whitehead

After reading a comment by Fojap, I've come up with what I hope might be a fun idea.

We've all (I should imagine) read and watched many histories of science and technology, so we could all quite easily list major developments like the plough, the lateen sail, the steam engine, the internet/world wide web and so forth.

But what about all the less obvious inventions? How many of us, for instance, would be able to afford good, long-lasting houses, if it weren't for the humble brick? So what would you list as your top three not-so-obvious technologies or inventions? They can be as simple or complex as you like, whimsical or serious.

After all of, ooh at least a minute's thought (You can tell I'm taking this very seriously, right?), I've come up with:

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A Kind Of Immortality

A while back I wrote a piece about someone having landed on my blog looking for info on Eugene Cernan leaving his daughter's initials scratched in the lunar surface. At the time, because of similarities in the search terms, the comparative obscurity of the bit of trivia that it concerned, and the fact that one of the searches seemed to be predicated on an opinion that it was untrue, I was more concerned with the apparent scepticism than the trivia itself. (It turns out that it had been mentioned in a popular American sit-com, by the way.) It got me to thinking, though…

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