{"id":725,"date":"2015-02-22T01:09:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T01:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/?p=725"},"modified":"2015-07-13T12:27:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T12:27:58","slug":"gegharot-shrines-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aragats.arts.cornell.edu\/index.php\/2015\/02\/22\/gegharot-shrines-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Gegharot Shrines, in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Late Bronze Age shrines at Gegharot discussed in the recent American Journal of Archaeology article by Adam T Smith and Jeffrey Leon have made it into the mainstream scientific (and not so scientific) news.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.livescience.com\/images\/i\/000\/074\/028\/original\/1--Shrines-unearthed.jpg?1424236898\" width=\"420\" height=\"316\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Terrace Shrine at Gegharot<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Shrines on LiveScience\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/49871-ancient-shrines-discovered.html\" target=\"_blank\">LiveScience<\/a> originated the article&#8211;thanks to Owen Jarus for a thoughtful, accessible piece.<\/p>\n<p>The article was picked up by <a title=\"Shrines-Yahoo\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ancient-shrines-used-predicting-future-discovered-121713730.html\" target=\"_blank\">YahooNews<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/history\/archaeology\/ancient-shrines-used-for-predicting-future-discovered-150220.htm\" target=\"_blank\">DiscoveryNews<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2015\/02\/20\/ancient-shrines-used-for-predicting-future-discovered\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/weird-science\/ancient-fortune-telling-shrines-unearthed-armenia-n309691\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a>, \u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-2962179\/How-Bronze-Age-rulers-got-HIGH-predict-future-Armenian-shrines-reveal-bizarre-practices-fortune-tellers-3-300-years-ago.html\" target=\"_blank\">DailyMail<\/a>. \u00a0The latter news outlet\u00a0gave the shrines its own unique spin, proving that even the Bronze Age can be sensationalized!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Sensationalized headlines from the Late Bronze Age:<\/p>\n<p>DailyMail: &#8220;How Bronze Age rulers got HIGH to predict the future: Armenian shrines reveal bizarre practices of fortune tellers 3,300 years ago&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ancient origins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ancient-origins.net\/news-history-archaeology\/possible-efforts-alter-future-greedy-ancient-polity-020225#sthash.x0hTVKWa.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">Ancient Origins<\/a>: &#8220;Despite possible efforts to alter the future, a greedy ancient polity went down in flames&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 2: An additional story ran in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2015\/03\/bronze-age-bones-offer-evidence-political-divination\" target=\"_blank\">Cornell Chronicle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Late Bronze Age shrines at Gegharot discussed in the recent American Journal of Archaeology article by Adam T Smith and Jeffrey Leon have made it into the mainstream scientific (and not so scientific) news. 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