Hey, that’s one of our posters here!
The artifacts from the Holy Temple in Jerusalem looted by Titus as depicted on the Arch of Titus.
I’ve always thought it was an attempt to create a filtered well to turn seawater into sweet. The various platforms and weird fillers above them would make sense as filters. The seawater tunnel leads to the bottom of the well, and the water would rise through the filters during high tide.
Not that any of it would work, but the builder didn’t know that. You can just see how he might have thought it would.
Mistakes happen. It was getting dark, they need to get back to the ship due to the tides and nobody noticed it had been left behind. Ships have lots of them, and maybe nobody counted whether they had retrieved all 12 they brought ashore, or only 11.
Of all the BS associated with Oak Island, the idea that somebody left a tool behind at the worksite is the simplest to believe or explain legitimately. It’s everything else that’s wackadoodle.
Did they ask Cave Johnson?
Huh - I didn’t realize he’d written an opera other than “Treemonisha”.
Circling back to the Lewis and Clark expedition 1803-1806 , there are actually very few artifacts extant or having provenance that were known to have been purchased and carried on the expedition. Some are on display at the Philadelphia Historical Society or Jefferson’s home at Monticello, and maybe in the museum at St. Louis, Missouri, and the Smithsonian. It’s basically just a handful of items, although estimates are they started out with the equivalent of about 3 fully loaded tractor trailers of supplies and trade items. The reason for the dearth of exhibits is after the successful conclusion of the enterprise they auctioned off almost all of the equipment and surplus.
The first thing that is striking is historians aren’t entirely sure what rifles they carried. Lewis spent quite a lot of time at Harper’s Ferrry getting the expedition outfitted. It is assumed that they carried the very latest and greatest 1801 models. But there is perhaps only one rifle that is known to have been associated with the expedition. Lewis also brought along an early repeating rifle - an Air Rifle, and this too is subject to conjecture. About 1905 a branding iron was discovered in a river in Oregon, capt Lewis’s iron for use on wooden shipping containers, or marking trees, etc. Other thsn that, not much. Historians don’t even know if the ingenious powder canisters made of Lead carried on the expedition were round, or square. Arguments can be made foe both. It is possible a cache or two remains undisturbed near the Great Falls, Montana.
After the expedition concluded Lewis was found in a bad way at Grinder’s Tavern, en route to Washington, DC, speculation at the time was that he was robbed or murdered, or committed suicide. One of the tasks that Jefferson had for the expedition was documenting and cataloguing the various “Indian Nations” language and pronunciations for place names, etymology, and at the time, this was a big area of research at the time. Naturally there were lots of crackpot theories about “Lost Tribes” and legends of fair haired norseman found far inland, isolated tribes of red hairs, Melungeons, etc. But from a scholarly approach to languages this may have been a gold mine.
Regardless of the motivation at the time though, these papers, a systematic collection of various languages would be useful today perhaps for researchers in determining how language evolves.
It’s possible Lewis’s papers and other items stolen in Tennesee are languishing somewhere in an attic or something like that.
As an aside, Manifest Destiny is a pretty good comic series.
Yeah, I’m not convinced. The whole affair (if true) was to VERY carefully hide the loot. To leave a glaring clue like that is just highly improbable. It’s not just a tool, it’s essentially a arrow pendulum pointing right at the treasure hole.
“Treasure Hole”, band name!
One thing they do find is the mercury left over at the campsites from the pills they took. But Yeah, I find that interesting that hardly any artifacts survive.
The Secret History of Twin Peaks reveals the confidential papers of Meriwether Lewis with insights into his mysterious demise
OR a movie with really bad music…
Porky’s V: Treasure Hole
I’d watch it.
No one could think that her remains would survive, given shallow burials in the tropics… but parts of her aircraft could survive somewhat recognizable form.
Reminds me, much of MH370 hasn’t been found… Its just a debris field at ocean depth… so gets harder to find as time passes.
Japanese swords… they disarmed all the Japanese people, so guns and swords of all sorts were confiscated… and no matter their value or if they were mainly ceremonial … the swords got confiscated and destroyed…
I guess all the people still on the lookout for the sword somehow missed your definitive proof.
I recall a book on geology making the argument that almost all lost mine legends are nonsense.
In an area with productive gold mines, some rich ore will of course be stolen. A thief who shows up with a bunch of this wishing to profit from it needs a plausible story as to its origin. A “lost mine” meets this need nicely.
It’s not that dumb. The Hope Diamond was delivered to the Smithsonian via registered U.S. mail.
How does that make it not dumb? So it worked one time.
It worked many times.
Hope Diamond Delivered by Mail
When New York jeweler Harry Winston donated the famous Hope Diamond – all 45.52 carats of it – to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., he chose a familiar, trusted carrier to transport the jewel: the Post Office Department. “It’s the safest way to mail gems,” Winston told The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.). “I’ve sent gems all over the world that way.”