The multicultural heritage of western civilization

[The Baiter]

Will someone find a way to blame the dreaded Joo's for this fiasco?

BBC News - Roman remains in York are 'elite' African woman

Roman remains in York are 'elite' African woman

Archaeologists have revealed the remains of what they say was a "high status" woman of African origin who lived in York during Roman times.

Academics say the discovery goes against the common assumption that all Africans in Roman Britain were low status male slaves.........

 

[William Joyce]

Baiter, I've always believed that all monarchs of Britain, the entirety of the peerage and the exchequer as well were 100 percent black Africans, and that only through a campaign of racist lies by white supremacists do we believe otherwise.

 

[American Horse]

Will someone find a way to blame the dreaded Joo's for this fiasco?

BBC News - Roman remains in York are 'elite' African woman

Roman remains in York are 'elite' African woman

Archaeologists have revealed the remains of what they say was a "high status" woman of African origin who lived in York during Roman times.

Academics say the discovery goes against the common assumption that all Africans in Roman Britain were low status male slaves.........

A large part of the Roman Empire, and the most highly prized part was North Africa from the Straits of Gibralter to Egypt. Remember Cleopatra? Although she was from the Ptolemaic dynasty which was Hellenistic, she must have been part African. It sounds like the remains are from a high status Roman citizen, rather than a high status nominally British citizen. Cleopatra bore Caesar's child, and Antony (supposedly) died in her arms after the battle of Actium. She/Antony married and she bore him twins.

 

[William Joyce]

The Egyptians put black Africans in parades alongside animals. Needless to say, they didn't think very highly of them.

 

[waltky]

Sambor Prei Kuk given World Heritage status...

Ancient temple site in Cambodia earns UNESCO World Heritage status
Sunday 9th July, 2017 - The U.N. cultural organization added an ancient temple site in Cambodia to its world heritage list, the government said on Sunday, bringing the number of heritage sites in the Southeast Asian country to three.

Sambor Prei Kuk, or 'temple in the richness of the forest' in the Khmer language, located 206 km (128 miles) north of the capital Phnom Penh, is home to numerous temples, ten of which are octagonal. 'Some of these elements, including lintels, pediments and colonnades, are true masterpieces,' UNESCO said on its website. UNESCO said the area had been identified as Ishanapura, the capital of the ancient Chenla Empire, a Khmer civilization that flourished in the late 6th and 7th centuries and preceded the Khmer Empire.

Its remains cover an area of 25 square kilometers. The site has become increasingly popular with foreign tourists. 'The decision of the UNESCO's World Heritage Committee is another massive pride for the nation,' the Ministry of Culture of Fine Arts said in a statement on Sunday. Tourist arrivals in Cambodia rose 5 percent to five million last year. About 5.5 million tourists are expected to visit the country this year. Two other sites in Cambodia already have heritage status, including the popular Angkor Wat in Siem Reap province where parts of the 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' film were shot.

Angkor Wat and Preah Vihear, an 11th century temple on the border between Thailand and Cambodia, were listed as World Heritage Sites in 2004 and 2008, respectively. Sambor Prei Kuk was added to the list on Saturday along with other sites in China and India. Tibetan rights groups criticized UNESCO's decision to extend world heritage status to an extensive plateau area in a heavily Tibetan area, saying it reinforces Chinese control of the region.

Ancient temple site in Cambodia earns UNESCO World Heritage status

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UNESCO Adds to List of World Heritage Sites
July 09, 2017 - A remote Iranian desert city, Ice Age-era caves in Germany and a stone wharf in Brazil built for arriving African slave ships are three new additions to UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites.

The World Heritage Committee spent a week meeting in Kraków, Poland, to consider 34 significant historical and cultural sites to add to the list. This year's selections include the Iranian city of Yazd, which UNESCO describes as a "living testimony to the use of limited resources for survival in the desert." The city has managed to avoid so-called modernization that destroyed many similar Iranian towns, and has preserved its traditional homes, bazaars, mosques and synagogues.

Another site UNESCO added to the list is in the Swabian Jura in southern Germany, one of the areas in Europe where humans first arrived more than 40,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age. They settled in caves, first discovered in the 1860s, and where they created some of the oldest known figurative art. The U.N. cultural organization said the ancient musical instruments and prehistoric carved figures of animals and humans found in the caves help shed light on the origins of human artistic development.

The ruins of the "Cais do Valongo" or "Valongo wharf," seen in this Nov. 26, 2015 file photo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are now the new addition to UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites.​

UNESCO also placed the Valongo Wharf in central Rio de Janeiro on the World Heritage List. The stone wharves were built in the early 1800s for slave ships sailing from Africa to Brazil. UNESCO called the wharves "the most important physical trace of the arrival of African slaves on the American continent."

UNESCO added the World Heritage designation to more than 22 sites during its weeklong meeting in Poland, including choices that were controversial. They include the Hoh Xil area in the China's Qinghai province, a traditionally Tibetan area. By designating this a World Heritage site, the International Camnpaign for Tibet, an advocacy group critical of China's administration there, said UNESCO endorses the forced relocation of Tibetan nomads by Chinese authorities.

China has promised to preserve the traditions and cultural heritage of the Tibetan region. UNESCO also designated the Old City and Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron as a Palestinian World Heritage Site, angering Israel. The city is split between Israeli and Palestinian control with the Old City and tomb in the Israeli sector. The tomb is sacred to Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Israel accuses UNESCO of trying to hide Jewish ties to Hebron, while Palestinians contend Israel is seeking to undermine their history.

UNESCO Adds to List of World Heritage Sites