Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of iHeartRadio. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy B. Wilson and I'm Holly Frye. It is time for our latest installment in our series we call Unearthed, which if you're new to the show, that's when we talk about things that have been literally or figuratively unearthed over the last few months. This has grown over the many years that we've been doing this podcast, and now it tends to be two parts, which is the case this time. So today's episode, we're kicking off with some updates and then we'll talk about books and letters and edibles and potables and art. We will have some other things in Wednesday's episode to talk about, so I'll let Holly kick it off, all right. So, last time on Unearthed, we talked about how you'rs ago someone had stolen a pair of ruby slippers used in the movie The Wizard of Oz from the Judy Garland Museum. That museum is in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, not Grand Rapids, Michigan, which is what we said in the episode, but we corrected it in a listener mail.

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of iHeartRadio. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy B. Wilson and I'm Holly Frye. It is time for our latest installment in our series we call Unearthed, which if you're new to the show, that's when we talk about things that have been literally or figuratively unearthed over the last few months. This has grown over the many years that we've been doing this podcast, and now it tends to be two parts, which is the case this time. So today's episode, we're kicking off with some updates and then we'll talk about books and letters and edibles and potables and art. We will have some other things in Wednesday's episode to talk about, so I'll let Holly kick it off, all right. So, last time on Unearthed, we talked about how you'rs ago someone had stolen a pair of ruby slippers used in the movie The Wizard of Oz from the Judy Garland Museum. That museum is in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, not Grand Rapids, Michigan, which is what we said in the episode, but we corrected it in a listener mail.

We messed it up. It was my fault.

We messed it up. It was my fault.

The slippers were recovered, but when the case went to trial, part of the defense involved the perpetrator's lawyer saying that his client had thought they were real rubies. And then there was another late breaking development involving an accessory to the case being charged for his involvement, and that had a whole revenge porn element. Yeah, it was a kind of a wild twist of things that happened with those shoes.

The slippers were recovered, but when the case went to trial, part of the defense involved the perpetrator's lawyer saying that his client had thought they were real rubies. And then there was another late breaking development involving an accessory to the case being charged for his involvement, and that had a whole revenge porn element. Yeah, it was a kind of a wild twist of things that happened with those shoes.

As we said last.

As we said last.

Time, the Ruby Slippers are going to go up for auction, was announced that that was the plan. The Judy Garland Museum wants to buy them because while the shoes were stolen from the museum, the museum did not actually own them when that happened. The shoes were actually on loan from collector Michael Shaw. So now the museum is accepting donations to try to raise enough money to buy these shoes. It's not completely clear how much money they will need to raise, though, since when things are auctioned the final selling price is sometimes a lot higher than expected. The museum, which is housed in Judy Garland's birthplace, is also now offering a Ruby Slipper Theft guided tour. I'm so into it. This auction is expected to take place in December, so it may be a little while before we know the outcome. I know, I'm kind of pretty tempted to make a donation. You can find out how to do that on the museum's website. Prior hosts of a show as we move on from that. Prior host did a show on Pompeii in October of two thousand and nine, and pomp has come up a number of times on Unearthed since then. There have been a lot of new findes at Pompeii recently. A lot of them are connected to an effort to kind of establish a perimeter between the areas of Pompeii that have been excavated and the areas that have not. One of the newly excavated rooms is a banquet room with walls that are adorned with murals depicting scenes from the Trojan War. These murals are on a black background, which archaeologists believe may have been an attempt to cut down on the appearance of smoke residue from lamps that were in the room. Figures in the panels include Helen of Troy, Paris, and Paris's sister Cassandra. There's also a staircase, and underneath its arches archaeologists discovered two gladiators drawn in charcoal and a depiction of an enormous phallus. There are many of those in Pompeii. Archaeologists have also excavated another room. This one's decorated all in blue, and they've interpreted it as a Roman shrine known as a secrarium, that would have been used for sacred or ritual purposes. The walls in this room are decorated as well, this time with female figures representing the seasons of the year. Some of these figures also seem to be allegorical representations drawn from agriculture. There's graffiti all over Pompeii, and some of the latest discoveries also include drawings on the walls that appear to have been done by children, and some of these are quite violent, gladiators fighting one another and hunters attacking boars with spears. This area also includes places where it looks like children trace their hands onto the wall. One part of this room has traces of whitewash, suggesting that at some point someone tried to paint over the children's drawings. We also have a couple of fines that are kind of Pompeii adjacent, so we will talk about those now. Archaeologists working north of Mount Vesuvius have found what may have been the villa where Emperor Augustus died. That villa was destroyed in the same eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, so Augustus did not die in this eruption. He died in the year fourteen CE, but the site of the villa where he died was lost. This find is not definites, but the villa that has been unearthed is from the correct time period. Also, in a prior on Earth, we talked about efforts to read scrolls that had been buried in Herculaneum in this same eruption. One team has had a new breakthrough with these efforts, using infrared and X ray scanners to create what researchers describe as a bionic eye. This allowed them to read parts of a papyrus called History of the Academy written by philosopher Philademus that had previously gone undeciphered. The History of the Academy describes it's the school Plato founded in Athens as well as information about the life of Plato. Some of what's in this history contradicts other accounts. For example, this newly read text makes it sound as though Plato was captured and enslaved just after the death of Socrates sometime around four hundred BCE, but other accounts suggested that happened much later, in three eighty seven BCE. The scroll also includes information about where Plato was buried, specifically saying that he was buried on the Academy grounds. Some of the headlines around this paper really focused on Plato's burial place, but there's already been some commentary about these headlines being overstated. Among other things, there are questions about how two specific words in the account have been translated, and whether Philademus's account is more accurate than other contradictory descriptions of Plato's death and burial. Being on from the Pompeii stuff, the National Trust for Scotland announced the discovery of a number of artifacts at the site of the Battle of Cullawden. They made this announcement ahead of the two hundred and seventy eighth anniversary of the battle. The battle took place on April sixteenth, seventeen forty six, and it marked the end of the Jacobite Rising of seventeen forty five. Our episode on the Jacobite Rising of seventeen forty five came out on July fourth, twenty sixteen. Unearthed items there include musket balls and grape shot, as well as a broken copper shoe buckle. The broken buckle and a flattened piece of grape shot were found near one another, so there is some speculation that the buckle belonged to Donald Cameron of Lochiel, Hereditary Chief of Clan Cameron. Cameron was part of the uprising and was described as being wounded about both ankles by grape shot as he was advancing at the head of his regiment. So it makes sense they would put together the shoe buckle in the grape shitt. Yeah, a couple of the articles that I read about it didn't include that part, and so it was sort of like, this buckle may have belonged to Donald Cameron, but like without saying why, why they believe that to be the case because of this account of how he was wounded. Next, we released an updated version of our episode on the Voyage Manuscript on May seven, twenty fourteen, and the Voyage Manuscript has come up on Unearthed several times since then. Unlike many of the Voyage manuscripts stories that we have covered on on Earth, though, the one that we have to talk about this time is not from somebody claiming that they have.

Time, the Ruby Slippers are going to go up for auction, was announced that that was the plan. The Judy Garland Museum wants to buy them because while the shoes were stolen from the museum, the museum did not actually own them when that happened. The shoes were actually on loan from collector Michael Shaw. So now the museum is accepting donations to try to raise enough money to buy these shoes. It's not completely clear how much money they will need to raise, though, since when things are auctioned the final selling price is sometimes a lot higher than expected. The museum, which is housed in Judy Garland's birthplace, is also now offering a Ruby Slipper Theft guided tour. I'm so into it. This auction is expected to take place in December, so it may be a little while before we know the outcome. I know, I'm kind of pretty tempted to make a donation. You can find out how to do that on the museum's website. Prior hosts of a show as we move on from that. Prior host did a show on Pompeii in October of two thousand and nine, and pomp has come up a number of times on Unearthed since then. There have been a lot of new findes at Pompeii recently. A lot of them are connected to an effort to kind of establish a perimeter between the areas of Pompeii that have been excavated and the areas that have not. One of the newly excavated rooms is a banquet room with walls that are adorned with murals depicting scenes from the Trojan War. These murals are on a black background, which archaeologists believe may have been an attempt to cut down on the appearance of smoke residue from lamps that were in the room. Figures in the panels include Helen of Troy, Paris, and Paris's sister Cassandra. There's also a staircase, and underneath its arches archaeologists discovered two gladiators drawn in charcoal and a depiction of an enormous phallus. There are many of those in Pompeii. Archaeologists have also excavated another room. This one's decorated all in blue, and they've interpreted it as a Roman shrine known as a secrarium, that would have been used for sacred or ritual purposes. The walls in this room are decorated as well, this time with female figures representing the seasons of the year. Some of these figures also seem to be allegorical representations drawn from agriculture. There's graffiti all over Pompeii, and some of the latest discoveries also include drawings on the walls that appear to have been done by children, and some of these are quite violent, gladiators fighting one another and hunters attacking boars with spears. This area also includes places where it looks like children trace their hands onto the wall. One part of this room has traces of whitewash, suggesting that at some point someone tried to paint over the children's drawings. We also have a couple of fines that are kind of Pompeii adjacent, so we will talk about those now. Archaeologists working north of Mount Vesuvius have found what may have been the villa where Emperor Augustus died. That villa was destroyed in the same eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, so Augustus did not die in this eruption. He died in the year fourteen CE, but the site of the villa where he died was lost. This find is not definites, but the villa that has been unearthed is from the correct time period. Also, in a prior on Earth, we talked about efforts to read scrolls that had been buried in Herculaneum in this same eruption. One team has had a new breakthrough with these efforts, using infrared and X ray scanners to create what researchers describe as a bionic eye. This allowed them to read parts of a papyrus called History of the Academy written by philosopher Philademus that had previously gone undeciphered. The History of the Academy describes it's the school Plato founded in Athens as well as information about the life of Plato. Some of what's in this history contradicts other accounts. For example, this newly read text makes it sound as though Plato was captured and enslaved just after the death of Socrates sometime around four hundred BCE, but other accounts suggested that happened much later, in three eighty seven BCE. The scroll also includes information about where Plato was buried, specifically saying that he was buried on the Academy grounds. Some of the headlines around this paper really focused on Plato's burial place, but there's already been some commentary about these headlines being overstated. Among other things, there are questions about how two specific words in the account have been translated, and whether Philademus's account is more accurate than other contradictory descriptions of Plato's death and burial. Being on from the Pompeii stuff, the National Trust for Scotland announced the discovery of a number of artifacts at the site of the Battle of Cullawden. They made this announcement ahead of the two hundred and seventy eighth anniversary of the battle. The battle took place on April sixteenth, seventeen forty six, and it marked the end of the Jacobite Rising of seventeen forty five. Our episode on the Jacobite Rising of seventeen forty five came out on July fourth, twenty sixteen. Unearthed items there include musket balls and grape shot, as well as a broken copper shoe buckle. The broken buckle and a flattened piece of grape shot were found near one another, so there is some speculation that the buckle belonged to Donald Cameron of Lochiel, Hereditary Chief of Clan Cameron. Cameron was part of the uprising and was described as being wounded about both ankles by grape shot as he was advancing at the head of his regiment. So it makes sense they would put together the shoe buckle in the grape shitt. Yeah, a couple of the articles that I read about it didn't include that part, and so it was sort of like, this buckle may have belonged to Donald Cameron, but like without saying why, why they believe that to be the case because of this account of how he was wounded. Next, we released an updated version of our episode on the Voyage Manuscript on May seven, twenty fourteen, and the Voyage Manuscript has come up on Unearthed several times since then. Unlike many of the Voyage manuscripts stories that we have covered on on Earth, though, the one that we have to talk about this time is not from somebody claiming that they have.

Solved the code.

Solved the code.

Instead, research published in the journal Social History of Medicine builds a hypothesis that this manuscript might be a work devoted to women's health, particularly sexual health, and that it was inciphered as an act of self censorship. This draws from the work of fifteenth century doctor Johannes Hartlib, who called for the use of quote secret letters to hide recipes for preparations meant to prevent or end pregnancies from common people, sex workers, and children. In an article originally published in The Conversation, author Keegan Brewer points out that the Voyage Manuscript is full of depictions of naked women, many of them holding objects near their genitals or pointing those objects toward their genitals. This paper also hypothesizes that the rosettes that are found in one part of the manuscript are a coded representation of conception and development. Moving on, we've talked about the domestication of chickens a few times on the show. We talked in the most detail about that in our episode on The Chicken of Tomorrow on May seventeenth, twenty twenty three. Chickens were probably domesticated from red jungle fowl, which are native to Southeast Asia. That happened possibly as far back as sixteen fifty BCE. Research published in the journal Nature Communications in April looks at the question of where and when domesticated chickens were introduced after that. This can be tricky to study because it is often hard to distinguish the bones of wild birds from the bones of domesticated chickens that look a lot like them, and also the bones themselves tend to be very brittle and not preserved very well in the archaeological record. This team was working with eggshell fragments in Central Asia, collecting them from twelve archaeological sites representing about fifteen hundred years. They analyze these shells using a type of biomolecular analysis known as we think zoo ms or zooms. It's spelled zoo and then a capital MS at the end, and they concluded that the chickens were widespread in Central Asia from four hundred BCE to one thousand CE, and that they were spread followed the Silk Road. One reason that archaeologists believed these shells were from domesticated chickens rather than wild birds that had been imported into the area is that red jungle fowl only nest once a year, and they lay about six eggs at a time, But there were just way too many eggshells present for them to have come from this once a year laying cycle. It's really likely that this year round access to eggs was a big part of the spread of domesticated chickens. In February of twenty seventeen, we did a two part podcast on Executive Order ninety sixty six and the incarceration of Japanese immigrants to the US and their citizen children during World War Two, and in one of our Unearthed installments in twenty twenty two, we talked about the creation of a massive book called the Erecho, which compiled the names of one hundred twenty five five thousand, two hundred and eighty four people who were imprisoned at these camps. The names contained in the book were also included on a website. The nonprofit organization. ERA Project is dedicated to preserving the memory of these people through the book, an online archive of its contents that was launched in February, and light sculptures that are currently being created. Those are expected to be unveiled in twenty twenty six. In April, it was announced that the ERA Project was also working with ancestry dot com to make this information available on their platform in a section that's freely accessible to the public. Some of the reporting around this made it sound like the ancestry dot Com partnership was like the first time this information had been made publicly available, but the website with the names that was already included that was something that we had talked about on the show before. This though, makes it a lot easier for people to cross reference the information from the ERA Project with other information that's available at ancestry dot com. This past December, we did an episode on the Stone of Destiny also called the Stone of scun and its removal from Westminster Abbey in nineteen fifty four. In March, the stone was moved from Edinburgh Castle to its new home at Perth Museum, and, according to analysis done ahead of that move, before it became part of the installation of the Kings of Scotland. The stone may have been part of a doorstep or a threshold. This work was conducted by Historic Environments Scotland, and this basic conclusion comes from the fact that there's just too much wear on the surface of this stone for that where to have come only from Kings standing or putting a foot onto it during installation ceremonies. If the stone was something that was regularly stepped on or stood on, we don't yet know for sure exactly why that was. We did an episode on Stonehenge in December of twenty fourteen and it has made many appearances on On Earth since then. This time, UNESCO has recommended adding Stonehenge to its World Heritage in Danger List, something that will be voted on in July. This comes after a highly controversial decision to build a tunnel as part of the A three oh three road improvement scheme. The A three O three is a major road that's part of a connection from London to Cornwall and it gets a lot of traffic which currently runs right past Stonehenge. I've never personally been to Stonehenge, but photos of it are framed to not show that there's a highway like right there. So National Highways and UK Heritage Charities have argued that this tunnel will be an improvement because the part of the road that runs so close to Stonehenge will no longer be visible from the surface, it will be underground. But critics have argued that this tunnel should actually be a lot longer, so that the entry and exit for it are farther away from the monument and more of the road is underground. There are also people who are concerned that the tunnel construction itself could destroy as yet unidentified archaeological sites or cause other damage. This is not even a surface overview of this debate. Really, this like how to handle this road debates and discussions over it have been going on for years and years at this point.

Instead, research published in the journal Social History of Medicine builds a hypothesis that this manuscript might be a work devoted to women's health, particularly sexual health, and that it was inciphered as an act of self censorship. This draws from the work of fifteenth century doctor Johannes Hartlib, who called for the use of quote secret letters to hide recipes for preparations meant to prevent or end pregnancies from common people, sex workers, and children. In an article originally published in The Conversation, author Keegan Brewer points out that the Voyage Manuscript is full of depictions of naked women, many of them holding objects near their genitals or pointing those objects toward their genitals. This paper also hypothesizes that the rosettes that are found in one part of the manuscript are a coded representation of conception and development. Moving on, we've talked about the domestication of chickens a few times on the show. We talked in the most detail about that in our episode on The Chicken of Tomorrow on May seventeenth, twenty twenty three. Chickens were probably domesticated from red jungle fowl, which are native to Southeast Asia. That happened possibly as far back as sixteen fifty BCE. Research published in the journal Nature Communications in April looks at the question of where and when domesticated chickens were introduced after that. This can be tricky to study because it is often hard to distinguish the bones of wild birds from the bones of domesticated chickens that look a lot like them, and also the bones themselves tend to be very brittle and not preserved very well in the archaeological record. This team was working with eggshell fragments in Central Asia, collecting them from twelve archaeological sites representing about fifteen hundred years. They analyze these shells using a type of biomolecular analysis known as we think zoo ms or zooms. It's spelled zoo and then a capital MS at the end, and they concluded that the chickens were widespread in Central Asia from four hundred BCE to one thousand CE, and that they were spread followed the Silk Road. One reason that archaeologists believed these shells were from domesticated chickens rather than wild birds that had been imported into the area is that red jungle fowl only nest once a year, and they lay about six eggs at a time, But there were just way too many eggshells present for them to have come from this once a year laying cycle. It's really likely that this year round access to eggs was a big part of the spread of domesticated chickens. In February of twenty seventeen, we did a two part podcast on Executive Order ninety sixty six and the incarceration of Japanese immigrants to the US and their citizen children during World War Two, and in one of our Unearthed installments in twenty twenty two, we talked about the creation of a massive book called the Erecho, which compiled the names of one hundred twenty five five thousand, two hundred and eighty four people who were imprisoned at these camps. The names contained in the book were also included on a website. The nonprofit organization. ERA Project is dedicated to preserving the memory of these people through the book, an online archive of its contents that was launched in February, and light sculptures that are currently being created. Those are expected to be unveiled in twenty twenty six. In April, it was announced that the ERA Project was also working with ancestry dot com to make this information available on their platform in a section that's freely accessible to the public. Some of the reporting around this made it sound like the ancestry dot Com partnership was like the first time this information had been made publicly available, but the website with the names that was already included that was something that we had talked about on the show before. This though, makes it a lot easier for people to cross reference the information from the ERA Project with other information that's available at ancestry dot com. This past December, we did an episode on the Stone of Destiny also called the Stone of scun and its removal from Westminster Abbey in nineteen fifty four. In March, the stone was moved from Edinburgh Castle to its new home at Perth Museum, and, according to analysis done ahead of that move, before it became part of the installation of the Kings of Scotland. The stone may have been part of a doorstep or a threshold. This work was conducted by Historic Environments Scotland, and this basic conclusion comes from the fact that there's just too much wear on the surface of this stone for that where to have come only from Kings standing or putting a foot onto it during installation ceremonies. If the stone was something that was regularly stepped on or stood on, we don't yet know for sure exactly why that was. We did an episode on Stonehenge in December of twenty fourteen and it has made many appearances on On Earth since then. This time, UNESCO has recommended adding Stonehenge to its World Heritage in Danger List, something that will be voted on in July. This comes after a highly controversial decision to build a tunnel as part of the A three oh three road improvement scheme. The A three O three is a major road that's part of a connection from London to Cornwall and it gets a lot of traffic which currently runs right past Stonehenge. I've never personally been to Stonehenge, but photos of it are framed to not show that there's a highway like right there. So National Highways and UK Heritage Charities have argued that this tunnel will be an improvement because the part of the road that runs so close to Stonehenge will no longer be visible from the surface, it will be underground. But critics have argued that this tunnel should actually be a lot longer, so that the entry and exit for it are farther away from the monument and more of the road is underground. There are also people who are concerned that the tunnel construction itself could destroy as yet unidentified archaeological sites or cause other damage. This is not even a surface overview of this debate. Really, this like how to handle this road debates and discussions over it have been going on for years and years at this point.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we're going to end our update section with a work of art from an artist we've covered on the show, Lavinia Fontana, who we'd covered in September of twenty twenty two. Her painting portrait of Bianca daily Utili Macelli and her children, which she created around sixteen oh four, has been acquired by the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. You'll see that listed as famsf This painting was in private collections for about four cents trees, and its display at the museum is the first time that it's been publicly available. We will get to some other works of Arn't after a sponsor break. Okay, we are back with some more art. Archaeologists working on the coast of South Africa believe an unusually symmetrical rock found there might actually be a sand sculpture of a blue sting ray made around one hundred and thirty thousand years ago. This age estimate is based on optically stimulated luminescence studies of rocks in the same area, because the team did not want to destroy part of this rock in an effort to date it, so the paper itself and some of the authors writing about it acknowledges that a lot of this is speculative. This is really one interpretation of what this rock could be. But if it is a sculpture of a stingray, that's someone made. That's the oldest known example of a human making a representation of another creature. And it is definitely shaped a lot like a stingray, and one side of it has faint markings that resemble the shape of a StingRay's back. There's also an area on one corner that looks like there may have been a tail at some point, but that tail is no longer there. If someone intentionally made this, it's possible that they started by tracing a recently caught stingray into the sand with a finger or a tool. Other possibilities involved scooping out the surrounding sand until a stingray shape remained, or packing sand onto another surface to create this sculpture. Next, researchers from the University of Rockoth in Poland believe a juvenile bare bone might be the oldest known piece of decorative art ever found in Eurasia. Uh this is art that was made by a Neanderthal. This bone was originally believed to be a rib, but it was identified as a leg bone after some closer study. The team has since created a three D digital model of this bone using three D microscopy and X ray computed tomography, and this allowed them to get a much better look at seventeen markings on the bone. These are markings that are very parallel and organized. They seemed too intentional to have been the results of something like butchering an animal or using the bone as some kind of a tool. This research also involved some attempts to recreate the markings using a range of tools and techniques, and they concluded that the marks were likely made quickly in one sitting using a flint knife. It's possible that similar marks on other bones were also meant to serve some kind of artistic purpose. In another ancient find, etchings on rocks along the Orinocre River in Colombia and Venezuela may have been meant as territory markers. Some of these engravings are really huge, like snake engravings that are more than forty meters long. Many of these sites were known to archaeologists and anthropologists prior to now, but this work is part of the first really comprehensive project to try to map all of these sites, and researchers during this process found some engravings that they had not previously known were there. In addition to the snakes, these engravings also include other human and animal motifs, including animals that have a religious significance to the indigenous peoples who live in this part of South America, and because of their size and placement, it's believed that they were meant to be seen very easily from far away. The team worked with local guides to get to these sites, and they are also working with indigenous groups who live in these areas to keep the sites protected. And Lastly, geologist and scholar of the Italian Renaissance and Pizzeruso has announced that she believes she's determined the location shown in the background of the Mona Lisa. She believes that it depicts Leko in northern Italy. That's a conclusion that she made after visiting this area. Specifically, she argues that the bridge that shown in the background of the painting is the fourteenth century Ponte Aizona Visconti. This is, of course, not the first speculation about the location shown in that background. Pizzeruso has argued that other conclusions are incorrect because they do not match up with the geology that is also evident in the backgrounds, specifically the presence of what Pizzeruso identifies as limestone formations that are apparent in the background. Moving on to some books and letters, the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico ORNAH has acquired the sixteenth and early seventeenth century as tech documents known as the San Andres Teteplico Codices. These documents had been in a private collection where they were passed down through a family through several generations, but an assortment of sponsors and companies raised nine point five million pesos or about five hundred and seventy thousand dollars to purchase them from this family. This was a year's long effort. Authorities had learned of the manuscript's existence back in two thousand and nine. It was legal under Mexican law for them to remain in private hands as long as they remained in Mexico, and it seemed like the family who had them saw themselves as stewards and protectors of these documents. So there are about five hundred known Mesoamerican codices, and about two hundred of them are now in Mexico's National Library of Anthropology and History. These newly acquired codices involved the history of Tenochtieplun, something that's not covered in many of these other codeses. There are some plans now to publish these both physically and digitally so people can have easier access to them. Next up, archaeologists excavating a pet cemetery in southern Egypt have unearthed the collection of letters written by Roman centurions who were stationed nearby. These letters were written on papyrus by officers who were in command of Roman legions in Berenice during the time of Emperor Nero. Some of the letters include pretty mundane information, like the price of various goods, which helps shed some light into what it was like in Bearnice roughly nineteen hundred years ago. If you're thinking why were these letters in a pet cemetery, the team said that it was likely that they had been in a nearby office that was destroyed, and that when the office was destroyed, the letters were scattered into the cemetery. This particular description did not say specifically how or why the office was destroy and I did not look deeper into it. Lastly, for the books and letters, the Jane Austen's House Museum has been working with volunteers to transcribe a memoir written by her brother, Admiral Sir Francis Austen, whose handwriting is reportedly challenging. The memoir is seventy eight pages long, handwritten, and on page sixty eight this handwriting changes. That's presumably because Austin had kind of put this document aside and then came back to it much later after developing arthritis in his hands. The museum acquired the memoir just last year, and they know that it covers his early life in Chotten, along with his naval career and later life, so it's possible that it will yield some new information about his famous sister as well. The museum put out a call for volunteers in April and was immediately inundated with more than two thousand and applications to participate. They have allocated these pages to the volunteers who are working from high resolution photos, and the goal is to have the full memoir eventually published on the museum's website. I am I have a very hard time reading a lot of old handwriting, even old handwriting that is not described as difficult to read in particular, so good on you, volunteers. I hope everyone's having a fun time. We will have another sponsor break and then talk about some edibles and potables. In late June of this year, we started getting notes from listeners about the discovery of intact bottles containing preserved cherries at George Washington's Mount Vernon, and I had a whole moment of questioning my own memory because I was like, didn't we already talk about this? I felt absolutely sure that not only had I heard about the cherries at Mount Vernon, but I had also put them into an installment of Unearthed quite recently. It was particularly memorable because it did not feel like it had been that long ago.

So we're going to end our update section with a work of art from an artist we've covered on the show, Lavinia Fontana, who we'd covered in September of twenty twenty two. Her painting portrait of Bianca daily Utili Macelli and her children, which she created around sixteen oh four, has been acquired by the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. You'll see that listed as famsf This painting was in private collections for about four cents trees, and its display at the museum is the first time that it's been publicly available. We will get to some other works of Arn't after a sponsor break. Okay, we are back with some more art. Archaeologists working on the coast of South Africa believe an unusually symmetrical rock found there might actually be a sand sculpture of a blue sting ray made around one hundred and thirty thousand years ago. This age estimate is based on optically stimulated luminescence studies of rocks in the same area, because the team did not want to destroy part of this rock in an effort to date it, so the paper itself and some of the authors writing about it acknowledges that a lot of this is speculative. This is really one interpretation of what this rock could be. But if it is a sculpture of a stingray, that's someone made. That's the oldest known example of a human making a representation of another creature. And it is definitely shaped a lot like a stingray, and one side of it has faint markings that resemble the shape of a StingRay's back. There's also an area on one corner that looks like there may have been a tail at some point, but that tail is no longer there. If someone intentionally made this, it's possible that they started by tracing a recently caught stingray into the sand with a finger or a tool. Other possibilities involved scooping out the surrounding sand until a stingray shape remained, or packing sand onto another surface to create this sculpture. Next, researchers from the University of Rockoth in Poland believe a juvenile bare bone might be the oldest known piece of decorative art ever found in Eurasia. Uh this is art that was made by a Neanderthal. This bone was originally believed to be a rib, but it was identified as a leg bone after some closer study. The team has since created a three D digital model of this bone using three D microscopy and X ray computed tomography, and this allowed them to get a much better look at seventeen markings on the bone. These are markings that are very parallel and organized. They seemed too intentional to have been the results of something like butchering an animal or using the bone as some kind of a tool. This research also involved some attempts to recreate the markings using a range of tools and techniques, and they concluded that the marks were likely made quickly in one sitting using a flint knife. It's possible that similar marks on other bones were also meant to serve some kind of artistic purpose. In another ancient find, etchings on rocks along the Orinocre River in Colombia and Venezuela may have been meant as territory markers. Some of these engravings are really huge, like snake engravings that are more than forty meters long. Many of these sites were known to archaeologists and anthropologists prior to now, but this work is part of the first really comprehensive project to try to map all of these sites, and researchers during this process found some engravings that they had not previously known were there. In addition to the snakes, these engravings also include other human and animal motifs, including animals that have a religious significance to the indigenous peoples who live in this part of South America, and because of their size and placement, it's believed that they were meant to be seen very easily from far away. The team worked with local guides to get to these sites, and they are also working with indigenous groups who live in these areas to keep the sites protected. And Lastly, geologist and scholar of the Italian Renaissance and Pizzeruso has announced that she believes she's determined the location shown in the background of the Mona Lisa. She believes that it depicts Leko in northern Italy. That's a conclusion that she made after visiting this area. Specifically, she argues that the bridge that shown in the background of the painting is the fourteenth century Ponte Aizona Visconti. This is, of course, not the first speculation about the location shown in that background. Pizzeruso has argued that other conclusions are incorrect because they do not match up with the geology that is also evident in the backgrounds, specifically the presence of what Pizzeruso identifies as limestone formations that are apparent in the background. Moving on to some books and letters, the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico ORNAH has acquired the sixteenth and early seventeenth century as tech documents known as the San Andres Teteplico Codices. These documents had been in a private collection where they were passed down through a family through several generations, but an assortment of sponsors and companies raised nine point five million pesos or about five hundred and seventy thousand dollars to purchase them from this family. This was a year's long effort. Authorities had learned of the manuscript's existence back in two thousand and nine. It was legal under Mexican law for them to remain in private hands as long as they remained in Mexico, and it seemed like the family who had them saw themselves as stewards and protectors of these documents. So there are about five hundred known Mesoamerican codices, and about two hundred of them are now in Mexico's National Library of Anthropology and History. These newly acquired codices involved the history of Tenochtieplun, something that's not covered in many of these other codeses. There are some plans now to publish these both physically and digitally so people can have easier access to them. Next up, archaeologists excavating a pet cemetery in southern Egypt have unearthed the collection of letters written by Roman centurions who were stationed nearby. These letters were written on papyrus by officers who were in command of Roman legions in Berenice during the time of Emperor Nero. Some of the letters include pretty mundane information, like the price of various goods, which helps shed some light into what it was like in Bearnice roughly nineteen hundred years ago. If you're thinking why were these letters in a pet cemetery, the team said that it was likely that they had been in a nearby office that was destroyed, and that when the office was destroyed, the letters were scattered into the cemetery. This particular description did not say specifically how or why the office was destroy and I did not look deeper into it. Lastly, for the books and letters, the Jane Austen's House Museum has been working with volunteers to transcribe a memoir written by her brother, Admiral Sir Francis Austen, whose handwriting is reportedly challenging. The memoir is seventy eight pages long, handwritten, and on page sixty eight this handwriting changes. That's presumably because Austin had kind of put this document aside and then came back to it much later after developing arthritis in his hands. The museum acquired the memoir just last year, and they know that it covers his early life in Chotten, along with his naval career and later life, so it's possible that it will yield some new information about his famous sister as well. The museum put out a call for volunteers in April and was immediately inundated with more than two thousand and applications to participate. They have allocated these pages to the volunteers who are working from high resolution photos, and the goal is to have the full memoir eventually published on the museum's website. I am I have a very hard time reading a lot of old handwriting, even old handwriting that is not described as difficult to read in particular, so good on you, volunteers. I hope everyone's having a fun time. We will have another sponsor break and then talk about some edibles and potables. In late June of this year, we started getting notes from listeners about the discovery of intact bottles containing preserved cherries at George Washington's Mount Vernon, and I had a whole moment of questioning my own memory because I was like, didn't we already talk about this? I felt absolutely sure that not only had I heard about the cherries at Mount Vernon, but I had also put them into an installment of Unearthed quite recently. It was particularly memorable because it did not feel like it had been that long ago.

And also I.

And also I.

Remembered seemingly every article on the subject having some kind of reference to the myth of George Washington shopping down a cherry tree and then saying he could not tell a lie.

Remembered seemingly every article on the subject having some kind of reference to the myth of George Washington shopping down a cherry tree and then saying he could not tell a lie.

Uh.

Uh.

But then I looked back at old outlines to try to point people in the direction of which Unearthed episode we had discussed this on, and I found no such thing. It was when I actually started working on this installment of on Earth that I realized what had happened, which is that I did not hear about these cherries long enough ago to have previously put them in Unearthed. I heard about them in April, and in April, archaeologists at Mount Vernon announced the discovery of two intact glass bottles still containing liquid that were unearthed during the privately funded mansion revitalization project. That's currently going on there. These bottles were taken to the archaeology lab at Mount Vernon, where the liquid inside was removed in an effort to help stabilize the glass. In the words of a Mount Vernon press release quote, cherries including stems and tits, were preserved within the liquid contents, which still bore the characteristic scent of cherry blossoms familiar to residents of the region during the spring season. Then in June, archaeologists that Mount Vernon announced the discovery of thirty five more glass bottles found in the Mansions cellar as part of this same forty million dollar mansion revitalization project. Twenty nine of these bottles were still intact, and most of them still contained cherries, which are technically a stone fruit, or berries such as gooseberries or currence. Most of the cherry fruit is pulp at this point, but there are still some intact stems and pits, and as of when the press release was issued on this, researchers were working to see whether any of those cherry pits might be able to germinate.

But then I looked back at old outlines to try to point people in the direction of which Unearthed episode we had discussed this on, and I found no such thing. It was when I actually started working on this installment of on Earth that I realized what had happened, which is that I did not hear about these cherries long enough ago to have previously put them in Unearthed. I heard about them in April, and in April, archaeologists at Mount Vernon announced the discovery of two intact glass bottles still containing liquid that were unearthed during the privately funded mansion revitalization project. That's currently going on there. These bottles were taken to the archaeology lab at Mount Vernon, where the liquid inside was removed in an effort to help stabilize the glass. In the words of a Mount Vernon press release quote, cherries including stems and tits, were preserved within the liquid contents, which still bore the characteristic scent of cherry blossoms familiar to residents of the region during the spring season. Then in June, archaeologists that Mount Vernon announced the discovery of thirty five more glass bottles found in the Mansions cellar as part of this same forty million dollar mansion revitalization project. Twenty nine of these bottles were still intact, and most of them still contained cherries, which are technically a stone fruit, or berries such as gooseberries or currence. Most of the cherry fruit is pulp at this point, but there are still some intact stems and pits, and as of when the press release was issued on this, researchers were working to see whether any of those cherry pits might be able to germinate.

That's exciting I have.

That's exciting I have.

The Mount Vernon's press release on this second discovery quoted its President and CEO Doug Bradburn is saying, quote, we were ecstatic last month to uncover two fully intact eighteenth century bottles containing biological matter. Now we know those bottles were just the beginning of this blockbuster discovery. To our knowledge, this is an unprecedented fine and nothing of this scale and significance has ever been excavated in North America. Principal archaeologist Jason Burrows also noted that these discoveries add to the knowledge of the enslaved people who managed virtually everything about food production, preparation, and preservation at Mount vere In when the Washingtons lived there. The revitalization project that has led to both of these discoveries is an effort to repair, preserve, and stabilize the mansion at Mount Vernon. Since it was built in the eighteenth century as a private residence, but has seen more than ninety six million visitors since it was first opened to the public in eighteen sixty, that is a lot of wear and tear. This work has also given archaeologists a chance to study parts of the property that have not been accessible to them in the past. It's how we're suddenly finding a whole lot of bottles that still have stuff in them. Next, researchers in Morocco have concluded that prior to the development of agriculture, hunter gatherer peoples living there had a largely plant based diet. This research involved isotopic analysis of the bones and teeth of people buried at Tafour, aalt cave in northeastern Morocco. These people were intentionally buried in the cave about fifteen thousand years ago, which makes it one of the oldest cemeteries in Northern Africa, if not the oldest. These people did hunt barbary sheep and other animals that lived in the area, but they ate a lot of wild plants. Edible plant foods from the area include acorns, pine nuts, oats, beans, and pistachios. This research also showed that babies were fed a plant based food, possibly prepared as a porridge or a soup, as they were being weaned from breast milk. Researchers in Syria have drawn some similar conclusions about people living there from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, or from about twenty six hundred BCE to about three hundred thirty three BCE. Isotopic analysis showed that particularly during the Middle Bronze Age, people living in this region ate a diet that was really rich in grains and olives, while the remains of sheep, goats, and cattle also suggest that they sometimes ate meat or use these animals for dairy. A lot of writeups of this research that were meant for a more general audience drew parallels to the quote Mediterranean diet of plant based foods and healthy fats that's touted for its health benefits. Some of them made it sound like this was somehow unexpected. However, Syria is on the Mediterranean Sea, so it really should not be surprising that the people who were living there were eating a quote Mediterranean diet. Wouldn't it by definition be a Mediterranean diet no matter what they ate. I saw, like, I have these an RSS reader that just collates all of these things, and suddenly there were all of these headlines that were like people in ancient Syria ad a Mediterranean diet, And I was.

The Mount Vernon's press release on this second discovery quoted its President and CEO Doug Bradburn is saying, quote, we were ecstatic last month to uncover two fully intact eighteenth century bottles containing biological matter. Now we know those bottles were just the beginning of this blockbuster discovery. To our knowledge, this is an unprecedented fine and nothing of this scale and significance has ever been excavated in North America. Principal archaeologist Jason Burrows also noted that these discoveries add to the knowledge of the enslaved people who managed virtually everything about food production, preparation, and preservation at Mount vere In when the Washingtons lived there. The revitalization project that has led to both of these discoveries is an effort to repair, preserve, and stabilize the mansion at Mount Vernon. Since it was built in the eighteenth century as a private residence, but has seen more than ninety six million visitors since it was first opened to the public in eighteen sixty, that is a lot of wear and tear. This work has also given archaeologists a chance to study parts of the property that have not been accessible to them in the past. It's how we're suddenly finding a whole lot of bottles that still have stuff in them. Next, researchers in Morocco have concluded that prior to the development of agriculture, hunter gatherer peoples living there had a largely plant based diet. This research involved isotopic analysis of the bones and teeth of people buried at Tafour, aalt cave in northeastern Morocco. These people were intentionally buried in the cave about fifteen thousand years ago, which makes it one of the oldest cemeteries in Northern Africa, if not the oldest. These people did hunt barbary sheep and other animals that lived in the area, but they ate a lot of wild plants. Edible plant foods from the area include acorns, pine nuts, oats, beans, and pistachios. This research also showed that babies were fed a plant based food, possibly prepared as a porridge or a soup, as they were being weaned from breast milk. Researchers in Syria have drawn some similar conclusions about people living there from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, or from about twenty six hundred BCE to about three hundred thirty three BCE. Isotopic analysis showed that particularly during the Middle Bronze Age, people living in this region ate a diet that was really rich in grains and olives, while the remains of sheep, goats, and cattle also suggest that they sometimes ate meat or use these animals for dairy. A lot of writeups of this research that were meant for a more general audience drew parallels to the quote Mediterranean diet of plant based foods and healthy fats that's touted for its health benefits. Some of them made it sound like this was somehow unexpected. However, Syria is on the Mediterranean Sea, so it really should not be surprising that the people who were living there were eating a quote Mediterranean diet. Wouldn't it by definition be a Mediterranean diet no matter what they ate. I saw, like, I have these an RSS reader that just collates all of these things, and suddenly there were all of these headlines that were like people in ancient Syria ad a Mediterranean diet, And I was.

Like, have you looked at a map?

Like, have you looked at a map?

Recently, no speaking of plants, though, researchers in Oregon, working with the approval of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Rond Historic Preservation Office, have been studying the indigenous stewardship of the camus plant. This plant produces edible bulbs that have a flavor somewhat like sweet potato when they've been baked for two or three days. That's something that historically was usually done in underground ovens using heated rocks. Researchers studied the remains of some of these ovens and camas bulbs dating back about eight thousand years, and they concluded that around thirty five hundred years ago, indigenous people in the area started intentionally harvesting these bulbs in a way to allow the plants to be the most productive and sustainable over time, and then they continued these harvesting practices over centuries. This involved the participation of the whole community to replant immature bulbs during the harvest and leave them in the ground until they reached sexual maturity. Lead author Molly Carney described seeing indigenous people today doing the same during their harvests, and Greg Archiletta, cultural policy analyst for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Rond, also described this research as reinforcing the knowledge of tribes in the Willamette Valley. In addition to these harvesting practices. This research also found evidence of periodic controlled burns to keep areas where these plants were growing healthy. Camus is an ecological and cultural keystone, so these practices also affected the overall ecosystem and the human communities that relied on them. Next, researchers in the Pyrenees Mountains have found the earliest direct evidence of the consumption and processing of dairy there thanks to residues from pottery fragments. Researchers examined fragments from two different settlements dating back seventy five hundred years and found evidence of dairy use at both of them. It had previously been believed that dairy consumption had started at these higher altitudes a lot later. They had found earlier evidence on in places along the coastline, but like not up in the mountains. This research also discovered some residues from pigs and vegetables. Moving on, archaeologists excavating a Roman tomb in Spain have found the oldest ever wine still in its liquid form. This was in an urn and is described as a white sherry like wine, although over the two thousand years since it was put in the container it has turned a reddish brown this wine was not meant to be drunk, though at least not by a living person. This urn was a funerary urn and also contained cremated remains. Also in the urn was a gold ring decorated with the Roman god Janus. One of the researchers in that story reportedly tasted some of that wine for some reason, no thank you, I know, I was like, why, hmm, Cremaine's delicious in your cuptails. Beyond you know, tasting that seems ill advised to me. We don't get to talk about actually podable potables that often on Unearthed, so we will end with one this time. Dylan McDonald, a homebrewer from Utah, has created what he called Sinai Sour using three thousand year old yeast and a beer recipe from the Ebers Papyrus. He was apparently inspired by Seamus Blackley's baking of bread using forty five hundred year old yeast, which we talked about on Unearthed in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty. With the help of a friend who was doing research in Egypt, McDonald sourced some sycamore figs that were included as part of the recipe. His grains were purple Egyptian barley and emmer wheat, and then the yeasts that he used came from a company called Primer's Yeast. It's a strain called Pta nine hundred BCE. According to a write up in Smithsonian Magazine, the resulting beer was similar to a German style called goza, which is tart and a little salty, and since there are no hops, it's closer to a cighter or a meed. You can actually get this recipe by putting your name an email address into a form at the Primer's Yeast website.

Recently, no speaking of plants, though, researchers in Oregon, working with the approval of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Rond Historic Preservation Office, have been studying the indigenous stewardship of the camus plant. This plant produces edible bulbs that have a flavor somewhat like sweet potato when they've been baked for two or three days. That's something that historically was usually done in underground ovens using heated rocks. Researchers studied the remains of some of these ovens and camas bulbs dating back about eight thousand years, and they concluded that around thirty five hundred years ago, indigenous people in the area started intentionally harvesting these bulbs in a way to allow the plants to be the most productive and sustainable over time, and then they continued these harvesting practices over centuries. This involved the participation of the whole community to replant immature bulbs during the harvest and leave them in the ground until they reached sexual maturity. Lead author Molly Carney described seeing indigenous people today doing the same during their harvests, and Greg Archiletta, cultural policy analyst for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Rond, also described this research as reinforcing the knowledge of tribes in the Willamette Valley. In addition to these harvesting practices. This research also found evidence of periodic controlled burns to keep areas where these plants were growing healthy. Camus is an ecological and cultural keystone, so these practices also affected the overall ecosystem and the human communities that relied on them. Next, researchers in the Pyrenees Mountains have found the earliest direct evidence of the consumption and processing of dairy there thanks to residues from pottery fragments. Researchers examined fragments from two different settlements dating back seventy five hundred years and found evidence of dairy use at both of them. It had previously been believed that dairy consumption had started at these higher altitudes a lot later. They had found earlier evidence on in places along the coastline, but like not up in the mountains. This research also discovered some residues from pigs and vegetables. Moving on, archaeologists excavating a Roman tomb in Spain have found the oldest ever wine still in its liquid form. This was in an urn and is described as a white sherry like wine, although over the two thousand years since it was put in the container it has turned a reddish brown this wine was not meant to be drunk, though at least not by a living person. This urn was a funerary urn and also contained cremated remains. Also in the urn was a gold ring decorated with the Roman god Janus. One of the researchers in that story reportedly tasted some of that wine for some reason, no thank you, I know, I was like, why, hmm, Cremaine's delicious in your cuptails. Beyond you know, tasting that seems ill advised to me. We don't get to talk about actually podable potables that often on Unearthed, so we will end with one this time. Dylan McDonald, a homebrewer from Utah, has created what he called Sinai Sour using three thousand year old yeast and a beer recipe from the Ebers Papyrus. He was apparently inspired by Seamus Blackley's baking of bread using forty five hundred year old yeast, which we talked about on Unearthed in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty. With the help of a friend who was doing research in Egypt, McDonald sourced some sycamore figs that were included as part of the recipe. His grains were purple Egyptian barley and emmer wheat, and then the yeasts that he used came from a company called Primer's Yeast. It's a strain called Pta nine hundred BCE. According to a write up in Smithsonian Magazine, the resulting beer was similar to a German style called goza, which is tart and a little salty, and since there are no hops, it's closer to a cighter or a meed. You can actually get this recipe by putting your name an email address into a form at the Primer's Yeast website.

We will have.

We will have.

More unearthed things on Wednesday. You have listener mail in the meantime. Yeah, rather than reading one specific message, we have gotten notes from three people on the same subject. They are Paul, Stephen, and Heather, who all wrote about the behind the scenes discussion that we had regarding the Google Street View images that are inside the Franklin Institute Museum in Philadelphia, and we talked about that in our behind the scenes in our episode on Francisco de Miranda.

More unearthed things on Wednesday. You have listener mail in the meantime. Yeah, rather than reading one specific message, we have gotten notes from three people on the same subject. They are Paul, Stephen, and Heather, who all wrote about the behind the scenes discussion that we had regarding the Google Street View images that are inside the Franklin Institute Museum in Philadelphia, and we talked about that in our behind the scenes in our episode on Francisco de Miranda.

I first wanted to clarify.

I first wanted to clarify.

One of these people I misunderstood, but another person I feel like maybe I did not misunderstand. I was not being serious when I said, did they drive a car a street view car through the Franklin Institute, Like that was.

One of these people I misunderstood, but another person I feel like maybe I did not misunderstand. I was not being serious when I said, did they drive a car a street view car through the Franklin Institute, Like that was.

Did you say that? Or did I?

Did you say that? Or did I?

That sounds like some off the cuff, very foolish thing. I would say, I think I said it, but I didn't go back and re listen. But I like that was not a serious question, Like that was sort of a rhetorical joke question. Having been inside that museum, there are places that you could get to with the car, but like some of the paths that are shown like this, it was not a serious question, right, that was sort of a joke question. The question was like, uh, what's up with these images? Where did they come from? All three of these folks wrote to talk about Google having a thing called street view Trekker, and the street view Treker was possibly still is kind of a backpack mounted thing that can serve the purpose of the StreetView car and go to places that cars are not accessible. And the first public mention I found of Google talking about the StreetView Treker where in June of twenty twelve. These Franklin Institute images are from August of that year. So if this was something that was like officially done through Google with their street View treker. This like this would have been a very early use of that. Google didn't start a pilot program to allow third parties to borrow the trekker until twenty thirteen. I can't remember if I said this when we were talking about it, because I again I did not go back and re listen to it. And it's an extemporaneous conversation in our behind the scenes episodes, so who knows what I said.

That sounds like some off the cuff, very foolish thing. I would say, I think I said it, but I didn't go back and re listen. But I like that was not a serious question, Like that was sort of a rhetorical joke question. Having been inside that museum, there are places that you could get to with the car, but like some of the paths that are shown like this, it was not a serious question, right, that was sort of a joke question. The question was like, uh, what's up with these images? Where did they come from? All three of these folks wrote to talk about Google having a thing called street view Trekker, and the street view Treker was possibly still is kind of a backpack mounted thing that can serve the purpose of the StreetView car and go to places that cars are not accessible. And the first public mention I found of Google talking about the StreetView Treker where in June of twenty twelve. These Franklin Institute images are from August of that year. So if this was something that was like officially done through Google with their street View treker. This like this would have been a very early use of that. Google didn't start a pilot program to allow third parties to borrow the trekker until twenty thirteen. I can't remember if I said this when we were talking about it, because I again I did not go back and re listen to it. And it's an extemporaneous conversation in our behind the scenes episodes, so who knows what I said.

The museum, though.

The museum, though.

Was obviously closed. There aren't guests in the museum when this was happening. There is one person who mostly seems to be awkwardly trying to stay out of the way but not successful all the time, probably the person that they have tasked with. Will you be on hand for this project? You keep an eye on this person. So again I did not go call up the Franklin Institute to be like, what's the deal with this. I have seen other things that were obviously done with some kind of non car Google street View image capture. These have mostly been outdoor spaces like beaches and parks, like areas of neighborhoods that are sort of like plazas that are pedestrian only. And not for cars. So like, these are things that I sort of knew existed. Currently, I don't know if like the official street view Trekker thing is still being used. There is now a whole thing at Google where people can record their own three sixty degree images with something like a GoPro that has three sixty capability and like upload.

Was obviously closed. There aren't guests in the museum when this was happening. There is one person who mostly seems to be awkwardly trying to stay out of the way but not successful all the time, probably the person that they have tasked with. Will you be on hand for this project? You keep an eye on this person. So again I did not go call up the Franklin Institute to be like, what's the deal with this. I have seen other things that were obviously done with some kind of non car Google street View image capture. These have mostly been outdoor spaces like beaches and parks, like areas of neighborhoods that are sort of like plazas that are pedestrian only. And not for cars. So like, these are things that I sort of knew existed. Currently, I don't know if like the official street view Trekker thing is still being used. There is now a whole thing at Google where people can record their own three sixty degree images with something like a GoPro that has three sixty capability and like upload.

That to the Google website.

That to the Google website.

Like the forms that used to exist, like officially request the use of the StreetView Trekker, like that now redirects to the more general page from Google that's about like here's how you do this, and here's how you upload your own imagery.

Like the forms that used to exist, like officially request the use of the StreetView Trekker, like that now redirects to the more general page from Google that's about like here's how you do this, and here's how you upload your own imagery.

On the map.

On the map.

The view of the street view within the Franklin Institute is still hilarious to me because it really looks like somebody scribbled all over the museum with StreetView.

The view of the street view within the Franklin Institute is still hilarious to me because it really looks like somebody scribbled all over the museum with StreetView.

While a lot of the paths.

While a lot of the paths.

That I've seen that are like there's one I think of Revere Beach that's clearly like somebody went down the beach one direction and back the other direction. It is not nearly as wandering as the path within the Franklin Institute. So anyway, I wanted to thank to everyone who has sent email about the StreetView Treker and also clarify yes, I was joking when I said, did that we take a car through there? And I spent way too much time down a rabbit hole of like looking at StreetView images in like parks and national monuments and whatnot while reviewing the emails that these folks sent over. So if you want to send us an email about what's been unearthed some cool stuff you saw on Google street View, don't send us violence being enacted on Google StreetView. I would like politely request. Sometimes people will I don't need to see that, But you know, find a cool bird on Google street View, feel free to share it with us. We're at History Podcasts at iHeartRadio dot com and you can subscribe to the show on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you like to get your podcasts. Stuff you missed in History Class is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

That I've seen that are like there's one I think of Revere Beach that's clearly like somebody went down the beach one direction and back the other direction. It is not nearly as wandering as the path within the Franklin Institute. So anyway, I wanted to thank to everyone who has sent email about the StreetView Treker and also clarify yes, I was joking when I said, did that we take a car through there? And I spent way too much time down a rabbit hole of like looking at StreetView images in like parks and national monuments and whatnot while reviewing the emails that these folks sent over. So if you want to send us an email about what's been unearthed some cool stuff you saw on Google street View, don't send us violence being enacted on Google StreetView. I would like politely request. Sometimes people will I don't need to see that, But you know, find a cool bird on Google street View, feel free to share it with us. We're at History Podcasts at iHeartRadio dot com and you can subscribe to the show on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you like to get your podcasts. Stuff you missed in History Class is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.