{"id":187184,"date":"2013-05-24T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/24\/in-his-house-at-rlyeh-dead-cthulhu-waits-dreaming\/"},"modified":"2013-05-24T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T00:12:00","slug":"in-his-house-at-rlyeh-dead-cthulhu-waits-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/24\/in-his-house-at-rlyeh-dead-cthulhu-waits-dreaming\/","title":{"rendered":"In His House at R&#8217;lyeh, Dead Cthulhu Waits Dreaming*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archeologists have found a <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/submerged-structure-beneath-sea-of-galilee-stumps-archaeologists.php?ref=fpb\">massive buried structure beneath Kinneret<\/a> (the Sea of Galilee):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">It\u2019s thousands of years old \u2014 a conical, manmade behemoth weighing hundreds of tons, practically begging to be explored.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The problem is \u2014 it\u2019s at the bottom of the biblical Sea of Galilee. For now, at least, Israeli researchers are left stranded on dry land, wondering what finds lurk below.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The monumental structure, made of boulders and stones with a diameter of 70 meters (230 feet), emerged from a routine sonar scan in 2003. Now archaeologists are trying to raise money to allow them access to the submerged stones.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIt\u2019s very enigmatic, it\u2019s very interesting, but the bottom line is we don\u2019t know when it\u2019s from, we don\u2019t know what it\u2019s connected to, we don\u2019t know its function,\u201d said Dani Nadel, an archaeologist at the University of Haifa who is one of several researchers studying the discovery. \u201cWe only know it is there, it is huge and it is unusual.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A massive ancient structure underneath a body of water full of historical and mystical overtones.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a bad feeling about this. <\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup> <span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Not exactly my line, Molly NYC made an abbreviated version of this in thee comments for the linked article.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archeologists have found a massive buried structure beneath Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee): The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated.It\u2019s thousands of years old \u2014 a conical, manmade behemoth weighing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212,1011,986,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology","category-history","category-middle-east","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}