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Follow-up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15454787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15454787 ("Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes fr
by DanAndersen 9y ago
Follow-up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15454787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15454787 ("Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves").
- imron 9y agoCalled it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15455843 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15455843
- hprotagonist 9y agoscholars disagree? how else do you expect anyone to get a PhD... :)
- Brakenshire 9y agoThey did say in the original article that the pattern was incorrect, and likely to have been a third party copy of a design originating in some Muslim area. That's disproven by the dating research presented here, but it wasn't unreasonable.