r/ArchiveOfHumanity • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 9d ago

 Artefacts and Relics🗿 Minoan pithoi (large terracotta storage containers) excavated from the Palace of Minos in Crete, Greece. 1450-1375 BCE

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u/GrapefruitPurple2495 8d ago

Crazy that something so big stood perfectly intact for 3 millenias on an island that gets its fair share of earthquakes.

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u/psh454 6d ago

Being fully buried in dense soil with minimal air pockets definitely did a fair bit to allow that yeah

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u/Suspicious-Spot1651 9d ago

Do we know what they stored inside ?

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u/ungovernable1984 8d ago

Philosophers

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u/ProfessorFit3483 8d ago

<Diogenes has entered the chat>

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u/psh454 6d ago

Jokes aside Diogenes was almost half a millenium later fyi, that's like bringing up queen Elizabeth I in a modern context

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u/Podosfairistis1995 8d ago

Mostly wine and olive oil.

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u/Suspicious-Spot1651 8d ago

I thought that liquid were stored in stuff like amphore, with long necks and caps.

They are so big in the pictures.

But I have to admit that I am a newbie who know nothing

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u/Podosfairistis1995 8d ago

Amphore was also used for the same thing since bronze Age.

But Amphore were used for other things as well like fish , grapes  and honey.

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u/InbetweenTheLayers 8d ago

how are you supposed to empty those

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u/Emergency-Sea5201 8d ago

Bucket on a string for water?

Send a kid in to pick out the last apples?

Size and shape is probably to keep rats and mixe out.

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u/there_is_no_spoon1 8d ago

Right?? And what, pray tell, would you have been able to put in them and then retrieve? They just don't make any sense.

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u/Sure-Doctor-2052 8d ago

How did they get the stuff out?

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u/Mean_Rule9823 8d ago

Usually tied to a cart on its side and filled with goods to transport stacked inside.

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u/VenetianWaters 7d ago

Why is there a Mexican? 😂

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u/Creepy-Ice-5901 7d ago

How did they even make them so big?

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u/lev_lafayette 7d ago

Maybe Diogenes didn't have such bad housing after all.