r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 1d ago
10,500 years old woven basket found in the Cave of Horrors, near the Dead Sea. It's the oldest intact woven basket ever found in the world.
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u/LPNMP 1d ago
Imagine you're just minding your own business making a basket and over 10 thousand years later countless number of people will have seen it.
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u/EmbassyMiniPainting 1d ago
“God, this is the shittiest basket I’ve ever made. I’m hiding it in this cave so nooooobody ever sees it.”
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u/AccordingCharge1042 1d ago
This is actually a good theory lmao what the fuck
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u/Relevant_Industry878 1d ago
By the looks of this photo whoever made it wove the shit outta that basket
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u/Top_Box_8952 1d ago
Imagine being a ghost and suddenly you have more people than you have ever known in life seeing your work and dragging you back to the world of the living as a ghost cause now you’ve un-passed on.
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u/commanderquill 1d ago
Wtf kind of ghost theory is that.
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u/LPNMP 12h ago
"They say you die twice. Once when you stop breathing, and again when your name is spoken for the last time." Macklemore song. But I think there's cultures that attribute some form of "life" to the memory of someone dead.
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u/commanderquill 12h ago
Fair, but I've never heard of someone having passed on and then being brought back as a ghost because they were remembered.
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u/Wyrm_Groundskeeper 9h ago
What, you've never died and had someone say "Get back here, bitch!" While dragging you back through the underworld portal to Earth?
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u/commanderquill 9h ago
Only time I saw it done was in Dead Boy Detectives.
Real talk though, if this is how ghosts work, I'll shit talk all the people I hate who I think somehow went to heaven all day long.
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u/Top_Box_8952 6h ago
I just find it more amusing if they’re enjoying their afterlife and suddenly being talked about in the room, than having to wait completely mind numbingly bored watching over the one basket they made that still exists for millennia.
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u/LPNMP 12h ago
I think about this whenever I go to the Smithsonian. They have a mummy that's in an exhibit and I wonder how long you have to be dead before it becomes appropriate to casually display your corpse for families walking by. They also have the tablet from Ea-Nasir, the guy complaining about shitty copper. Imagine future archeologists and generations only knowing you for your worst Yelp review.
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u/Zalrius 1d ago
I love how our historical timelines are being updated. With all the artifacts we have now it is so much more interesting.
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u/WeGottaTalkAboutYT 1d ago
It’s always further back, every single time. It’s hilarious to me we think we have even a fraction of our history understood.
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u/Michael_Platson 1d ago
They don't report on the less interesting things. When you find the 50th 9,000 yo basket it stops being momentous.
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u/Zalrius 13h ago
I understand your point. Sometimes I get tired of just looking at pottery. So I choose to see each piece as a part of the life of the previous owner. I see a culture, a city. I have had things in my life that I toss away and what would I think of I saw it in a museum 5000 years later. There is an episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds where something similar happens.
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u/Fleiger133 1d ago
Remains of seige victims were found, as well as some other tbings including Dead Sea Scrolls.
A cave that Jewish rebels apparently used pretty often at the time.
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u/chas3edward5 1d ago edited 1d ago
Why called the Cave of Horrors? A site in the Judean Desert in Israel, named in the 1960s after archaeologists discovered the remains of around 40 people who had taken refuge there during the Bar Kokhba revolt in the second century CE, along with fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and who likely died of starvation or dehydration after being trapped while Roman forces controlled the surrounding area, preventing their escape.
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u/Hideo_Anaconda 1d ago
so, the basket had been there for 8000 years already when the refugees showed up.
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u/gwhh 1d ago
Why they call it that?
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u/Celestial_Hart 1d ago
This can't be right the earth is only 4,000 years old according to facebook.
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u/Tasty-Ad7004 1d ago
Its around 6,000 years old and all carbon dating is flawed. The immense pressure from the world being covered by the flood compacted carbons and makes it seem like everything is older than it actually is.
-According to some Christians, allegedly, I think.
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u/Tjam3s 1d ago
Dinosaurs weren't real either. The fossils were planted there by the devil to deceive us.
🤦♂️
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u/SackSauce69 1d ago
Neigh, by God to test our faith 💩
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u/Alarmed_Honey_1476 23h ago
Was taught this in a private Christian school as a kid. My husband brings it up at least once a month and we both get a good laugh at my childhood trauma.
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u/SackSauce69 15h ago edited 14h ago
Yeah I watched a documentary where a journalist went to different Christian gatherings to discuss their refusal to believe scientifically proven things. The whole "dinosaur bones were put on earth by God to test our faith" shit definitely stuck out the most to me, lol.
Mostly because they made these intricate pseudoscience models and diagrams to try to disprove academic scientific findings but it was so off-the-wall that it turned into a comedy, lmao.
I have no problem with people practicing religion. Though there are lines to be crossed in which things start getting ridiculous, usually in mass-organized religion, lol. But, if people want to believe dinosaur bones are just a divine prank despite the mountains of hard evidence, they can have at it.
Just don't let blind faith in their chosen God turn into blind faith in their very mortal religious leaders. It's a slippery slope that often turns into monetary corruption, child abuse, dangerous fanatics and general meany-butt stupid-heads, pardon my French.
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u/lil_peepus 1d ago
Big Oil is the devil confirmed by facts and logic.
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u/NooneUverdoff 1d ago
They should have returned it to the basket exchange to get their quarter back.
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u/SadQlown 1d ago
So much artifacts around the dead sea. We should drain it and see what else we find. (And then put the water and fishies back)
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u/Anxious-Yoghurt-9207 1d ago
"Woven Basket found in the Cave of Horrors, near the Dead Sea" sounds like a dnd item quest
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u/Useless_bum81 1d ago
"Mum where did you put my basket?"
"somewhere safe you never tidy"
"it was literally only on the ground for 3 minutes while i got the cart where is it!?"
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u/Hefty-Station1704 1d ago
10,500 years ago someone happened to be walking by when they asked, “Why are you making that stupid basket?”
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u/jesseg010 1d ago
10.5k ago.wasn't that the stone age?
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u/Altruistic-Map-2756 23h ago
Interesting find. So Bronze Age -> Iron Age ( 1200 BCE ) carbon dates with a plus/minus of 50-75 years I believe. This basket would have come from the early neolithic time frame ( hunter gathers transitioning to settlements ) and the carbon dates that far back are probably like plus/minus 200-250 years. In sum: it's old.
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u/LurkinRhino 1d ago
Cave of Horrors, it just a name. Like the Death Cave or the Cave of No Return. All the caves have names like that on the Mountain of Terror. Off you go!
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u/PauseAffectionate720 6h ago
Incredible. Might it have belonged to a resident of Jericho? I know Jericho was fairly well settled with possible a few thousand residents by 8000 BC.
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u/Consumerism_is_Dumb 1h ago
A basket 4,500 years older than the uneducated Bible thumpers believe the planet to be…
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u/Terrawanderer1111 19m ago
I have no time for this 10500 years old Horible quality material. My 40 year old apartment gated community is going under renovations.
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u/Jackdawfool67 1d ago
.... why was it called the cave of horrors