OT: On a Happier note, MGoArchaeology

Submitted by Croatian_Blue on

2,200-year-old coin found at a University of Michigan dig site in Israel.  Heaviest ever found.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100811/wl_mideast_afp/israelarchaeologycoin_20100811172637

Yes, the site is shared with that other U of M, but it just proves that after a rain storm, there is a rainbow, and at the end of that rainbow is a 27.71g gold coin.

Leaders on the field and out in the world.

strafe

August 11th, 2010 at 4:23 PM ^

For some reason I read this as trying to say that there was a University of Michigan located in Israel 2,200 years ago. Man, we don't joke about tradition, do we?

dnak438

August 11th, 2010 at 8:12 PM ^

the University of Minnesota contingent is headed by a professor (Andrea Berlin) who got her Ph.D. at Michigan under the supervision of the Michigan professor who co-directs the dig (Sharon Herbert).  I took a class with Sharon Herbert when I was at Michigan and she's a fantastic professor and a great person.