TITANIC SISTER SHIP BRITTANIC - SUNK IN WORLD WAR I - WRECK OPEN FOR DIVERS

DAILY MAIL SCIENCE - WRECK OF TITANIC SISTER SHIP BRITTANIC OPEN FOR DIVERS  an extensive article by Joe Pinkstone for Daily Mail Online...

Lots of good pictures. 

Excerpt: The vessel was made as part of the same project that created the Titanic and became a naval hospital ship for British forces in WWI.    It hit a sea mine in the Aegean off the coast of Greek Island Kea in 1916 and within an hour was at the bottom of the sea.  Thirty people on board were killed. ...

Notes:

Larger than the Titanic, after that sister-ship sunk the hull was redesigned.  it was never used for commercial transport. 

ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHEOLOGY, BURIALS, MUMMIES

Anthropology is one subject I love.  I love learning how the human developed culture, how cultures spread, and DNA is enhancing our understanding of human migration, ethnicity, and race.. 

I love knowing this life I lead is so much of the times.  Can I even really imagine the world of my great grandparents?  The ancient Greeks?  The life of a tribe in the Amazon?  Well, could they in their lives imagining air travel or rock and roll?

With anthropology we can try on what it was to live in another time and place, since we cannot yet actually TIME TRAVEL for a look-see.  But besides living there is dying.

Along with Anthropology, there is Archeology (digging evidence up and applying scientific methods and analysis to it), the two often going hand in hand.  One of the things that the Anthropologists and Archeologists look at is BURIALS.

Burials tell us so much about the person, the people.  The posture they are buried in, if they have a shroud, if there are tools or jewelry buried with them, or perhaps their pet cat...  if they were laid into the earth, had stones put on top of them, had a carved wood casket, were embalmed, had ordinary clothing on or were naked, and what direction they - and others in that graveyard - were facing; all of this telling.

One time I asked an Archeology professor, if so many millions of people had died on this earth in the past, why were there not MORE burials, more evidence of their lives.  He said most people were not buried.  They were cremated, or left out for the vultures,  or otherwise exposed.  Also many burials are now deep under the earth or the graves were robbed.  So when a burial is found and explored it can be a wealth of information.

Some of the more exciting burials I've learned about are in museums.  I saw an exhibit at the Getty in Malibu, California that had the painted cases that some ancient Greeks had been buried in, though living in Egypt.  Each had a painting of the person's face, as to be remembered in life. This was a time and place burial, influenced by both Greek and Egyptian notions.

Then there are the burials found in Hungary in which the people inside beautifully painted caskets, many who had died of TB, were found to be naturally preserved mummies.  Scientists of medicine are studying TB through these mummies.

Take a look at the stack of beautiful coffins at this link VAC HUNGARY - NATURAL MUMMIES - NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

Reading around these Hungarian mummies, I've learned that they are known people, for whom there are records, and descendants alive.

I don't know about you, but I personally do not think I would want to see any of my dead relatives  dug up so I could see what they look like, but did you know that a son of the Big Bopper,  the 1950's rock and roller who died in a plane crash, did just that, before having him cremated?

Can you tell that it's that time of year... that Halloween and All Souls Day are not so far away?

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BYZANTIUM THE LOST EMPIRE : JOHN ROMER HOST : ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEALOGY FILM REVIEW

BYZANTIUM  THE LOST EMPIRE : JOHN ROMER HOST : ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEALOGY FILM REVIEW

For more than 1000 years the Byzantine Empire was the greatest place on earth, a place that spread from Constantinople into German territories and into Syria. 

This is a two disk set and I watched it twice because it was so interesting, and while I watched it I thought of all the violence going on in the Middle East today. 

Greeks and Romans lived together in this empire, and in this empire great achievements were made in architecture and the arts. The finest of what was looted is still at St. Marks in Venice, Italy!

Over the last couple week's we have witnessed via the media the resignation of one Pope and the election of another, Pope Francis, who makes history as the first Jesuit and the first Pope who comes from the Americas.  I've read so very many articles around the resignation and election, from the journalistic to the speculative, from historical fact to strange prophecies which (I checked) the Catholic Church itself is not concerned with.

So I take a pause as the Easter and Passover Season is upon us, to reflect about how much life on earth has changed in the last 2000 years, and wonder if there will ever be both billions of people and peace on earth!

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