Archeologists have discovered the tomb of Odysseus!

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...as well as the long-lost capital city of Ithaca.

more here.

Interesting how news of the find was buried due to local politics.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

...And on a nearby island, the burial mound of a very pissed off looking eyeless cyclops.

Seriously, fascinating stuff.

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

they've already found the skeleton of moses in a burger king bathroom, but people were getting busy there so it wasn't noticed for a while. it's being preserved in a vat of grease as we speak, awaiting the day bureacracy will get around to granting permission for non-fry cooks to examine it.

― professor latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 2 October 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

They never thought that the nearly identical names were more than coincidence1?@!?@

― orgone accumulator (ex machina), Sunday, 2 October 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

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seriously though i reckon there's a lot of finds like these that are buiried due to politics and bureaucratic shenanigans.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 3 October 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

"Kefalonia" and "Ithaka" are nearly identical names?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 3 October 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

The tomb of Odysseus has been found, and the location of his legendary capital city of Ithaca discovered here on this large island across a one-mile channel from the bone-dry islet that modern maps call Ithaca.

― orgone accumulator (ex machina), Monday, 3 October 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but they were digging around on the Cornell campus. Silly archaeologists!

― pr00de, where's my car? (pr00de), Monday, 3 October 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

Well, Ithaca IS gorges...

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 3 October 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

You understand the confusion, though? I mean you have a place with the exact same name and you just don't think to look across the river to an isthmus of some other island with some other name. Instead you look harder on the island with the same name.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 3 October 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

As a former archaeologist, I'd just like to point out that the usual "we've discovered the tomb of X!" is nice for publicity and bringing the money in, but never really tells us that much.

(This doesn't apply to Tutankhamen - he was an insignificant, minor king who noone had heard of before his tomb was found; what made him significant was having the only Pharonic tomb which wasn't robbed-out in antiquity)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 October 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

It's actually the tomb of Odysseus's gardener, Phillipe, who 'took care' of the missus while Odysseus was out on his drunken glorified snipe hunts.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 3 October 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

Boar hunts, too, of course.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 October 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

i can't stop bustin nuts over this story. didn't they find items strongly related to the ancient texts?

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

they found a little-known work by odysseus memorializing a rather uneventful day he spent strolling around dublin in 1904.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

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