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In Jordan, a ‘stunning’ discovery under Petra’s ancient stone

(www.nytimes.com)
129 points aguaviva | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 18:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.24s | source
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lubujackson ◴[15 Oct 24 00:27 UTC] No.41843700[source]▶
Not to get all Indiana Jonesy about it, but 12 skeletons? From right around year 0? And they even show a picture of a weathered, ceramic cup?

The article plays it straight, but I'm pretty sure this = Holy Grail confirmed.

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pushupentry1219 ◴[15 Oct 24 00:36 UTC] No.41843745[source]▶
Year 0? I thought Petra was much much older than that.

If year 0 is correct, these people were buried long after Petra was a bustling city then?

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kelnos ◴[15 Oct 24 19:00 UTC] No.41851943[source]▶
Yeah that bit doesn't pass the smell test. Petra had been around for about 400 years by the time Jesus supposedly held his last supper.

It seems much more likely that these 12 skeletons date back to the earlier days of the city.

(Nitpick: there was no year 0; 1 BC goes right into AD 1. And Jesus' supposed death was around AD 33, not AD 1. Sometimes people think "AD" means "After his Death", but it's really "Anno Domini", or "the year of the/our Lord", when he was supposedly born.)

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1. tengwar2 ◴[16 Oct 24 14:06 UTC] No.41859172[source]▶
Historians don't have a year 0, astronomers do. In fact the historical calendar is a bit messy for other reasons, e.g. the year beginning in April rather than January for a long time.