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[RING][Trailhead] Find the Lost Ring
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MrToasty
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 		From the Eli link:
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Q: What do you think was the greatest archaeological find of the past 100 years?
A: Many historians would say Tutankhamen's tomb, or Machu Picchu, or the Dead Sea Scrolls. Indeed, these are all amazing discoveries that have completely changed our understanding of the ancient world.

But I have a hunch that in the past century, a far more important artifact has been uncovered but not yet fully understood. Its true value and meaning is still unknown, but I am hoping that new evidence will reveal the object's true significance.


Quote:

Q: How do I find the lost ring?
A: For the last time, I have no idea what you're talking about.


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These Terms and Conditions of Use (the "Terms of Use") apply to the site located at thelostgames.com. The Site is the property of Eli Hunt and its licensors. By using the site, you agree to these terms of use; if you do not agree, do not use this site.

Eli Hunt reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of these Terms of Use, at any time. It is your responsibility to check these Terms of Use periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes will mean that you accept and agree to the changes. As long as you comply with these Terms of Use, Eli Hunt grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited privilege to enter and use the Site.

If you're reading this fine print, then you obviously have a sharp eye for detail and want to know all the facts. I can always use a few more careful investigators like you to help analyze new evidence. If you're interested, send me an email at thelostgamesSPLATgmail.com


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ouroboros
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 		Mr. Eli Hunt
How do we figure out the age of that website?

It had 2 diggs when I looked about 5min ago.

Only one podcast listed. "Lost Sport of Olympia"
Second podcast available on dotSUB http://dotsub.com/films/thelostsportofolympia/index.php

Can anyone pull the transcription of Eli Hunt's podcasts off dotSUB and post them here?

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kosmopol
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 		The comments to podcast are from 4th March 2008

Is it HIM?

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Deadman0309
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 		I believe that we finally found him

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MrToasty
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 		http://whois.domaintools.com/thelostgames.com
Created Feb 2nd

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 		And check out http://www.thelostgames.com/quiz1.html.

The right-hand quiz is all about blindfolds.
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Weezel
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 		The podcast talks about the lost game of the olympics, in which the participants were blindfolded. He also discuss a foudn tablet which indicates memory and orientation.

It was regarded as the most important game, yet at the same time, the podcast seems to indicate that the Ancient Greeks tried to hide the fact that it existed, and that clues may still exist to learn more about it.

.W.

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 		I've started putting conversations that have been posted into the wiki Timeline, but eventually I'm thinking they should be separated to their own pages so they can be linked to externally and included on various pages in the wiki where necessary.

A page name convention something like Email/Character/Datetime. That way original text can be put on the page along with its translation, then anything that links to it can just put a short paraphrased summary of it on the source page, instead of quoting the entire text and translation.

Will have to get to that soon
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Weezel
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 		This is at the bottom of the FAQ:

Q: How do I find the lost ring?
A: For the last time, I have no idea what you're talking about.

.W.

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MrToasty
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 		Check the related images under the podcast there as well - need to translate the tablet?

http://www.thelostgames.com/_res/img/gallery/episode1/Demetros-Plaque.jpg
http://www.thelostgames.com/_res/img/gallery/episode1/Corinthian-Tablet.jpg

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FMG
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 		Ok, wrote an email to Mr Eli Hunt, we'll see what happens.

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danteIL
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 		The Lost Games stuff is very cool! Lots of possibilities...

But in the meantime, I sent an email (in both English and Googleized Chinese) to Meihui asking her if Wushu seemed familiar:

I wrote:
Meihui!
Hello I want to help you. I don't know Chinese,
though. I will use an online translator. If you are
an athlete, maybe you practice wushu, which will be a
demonstration sport in Beijing. You can read about it
here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wushu_%28sport%29

Does anything here look familiar?

Good luck!

Dante

美慧！

你好，我想帮助你。我不知道中国人，虽然。我将利用一个在线翻译。如果你是一个运动员，也许你练武术，将是一个示范赛在北京举行。你可以看一下这里：

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wushu_%28sport%29

做了任何这里眼熟？

祝您好运！

但丁


And the short answer is 'No' Smile

Meihui wrote:

Hi Dante!

Thank you very much! you are great! You try talk to me and I am grateful!

I do not know the website sport. I can't remember things. But I like exercise!

你住在哪里呀？我现在人在中国。我实在很想知道到底发生了什么事情。其实不只是只有我个人有这样的奇遇，另外在世界上很多个角落也有像我一样的人呢。

不过我还是什么都想不起来...

美惠


With Googleized translation of the last part:
Google wrote:

Where do you live, ah? I am now in China. I really would like to know what has happened in the end. In fact, I am the only individuals not only have the Archipelago, and in many corners of the world like I have the same people who are.

But what I want to do things ...

Meihui


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Deadman0309
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 		We need to translate the Tablet of Demetrio and the Corinthian ones!

Any greek? lol

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Shad0
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 		The Lost Games
100% guaranteed definitely in-game
MrToasty wrote:
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These Terms and Conditions of Use (the "Terms of Use") apply to the site located at thelostgames.com.

Following the "Terms and Conditions of Use" link...

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
...begins with "The Lost Ring (the 'Game') is..."

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chippy
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 		transcript of podcast (english). Worth noting that the podcast has subtitles in many different languages also.
Quote:
The Lost Sport of Ancient Olympia with Historian Eli Hunt
Most of you listening to this podcast will not believe the story Im about to tell you. How is it possible you will ask that the greatest sport of all time has been forgotten for almost 2 000 years. Our story begins with the discovery of Pyrons Shard a piece of broken clay found in 1873 in the tombof an ancient Athenian merchant named Pyron. Historians dont know much about Pyron except that he was a patron of athletics who attended a number of the earliest recorded Olympic games. The painted shard which dates to 740 BC shows a footrace with the Olympic stadium in the background. It's a common image from the era and there would be nothing remarkable about it except for one very strange detail. On Pyron's Shard the Olympic runners are blindfolded.To the team of German archaeologists who find the shard this detail is both exciting and confounding. There's no record of a blindfolded sport at any time during the ancient Olympics. But before the team can convince historians of the shard
dazzling archaeological finding captures the world's attention. Just three days after Pyron's shard is discovered the great archeologist Heinrich Schliemann unearths Priam's treasure at Troy. Compared to the majestic Jewels of Helen the humble shard goes almost completely unnoticed. In fact in the frenzy over Priam's treasure the shard is quietly sold to a private collector and today its whereabouts are unknown. Although lost the shard is not completely forgotten. In 1908 a young Austrian archaeologist named Mortiz Wach stumbles upon the journals of the German team that found the shard. Inspired by the possibility of an unknown Olympic sport he goes to the site of an ancient gymnasium in Corinth to look for more evidence. After spending two months searching the ruins Wach finally uncovers a clue. One of the stones used in the wall of the wrestling room is actually a reversed tablet
with the written side hidden and the blank side facing out. The tablet appears to be a training guide for an ancient Olympic sport that in addition to basic physical conditioning also prescribes complex exercises in memory and orienteering. Strangely all sections that name the sport or that describe it in detail have been defaced. Wach is convinced that this sport is the same one depicted on Pyron's Shard.But why would someone want to destroy all reference to it. Following a hunch Wach travels to the island of Antikythera where a few years earlier several prominent archaeological discoveries had been made.
On the island he unearths a plaque commemorating the victory of an ancient Olympian named Demetros in a sport that is referred to only as paignia aletheia megas -- the most important game The plaque is dated the first year of the 153rd Olympiad or 164 BC a year for which historians have thorough documentation of the winners. Nowhere in any of our records is an athlete named Demetros ever mentioned. Wach is therefore certain that this athlete is connected to the mysterious blindfolded sport. He presents his research to the archeological community but they accuse him of fabricating his findings to further his career.

He is shamed into an early retirement and the pieces of the story of the lost sport fade into obscurity. Until now. Over the last ten years I've been researching Wach's discoveries and I believe them to be genuine. Using luminescence dating I've determined that the Corinthian tablet was defaced during the time of ancient Greece. Were the Greeks
responsible for destroying their own sacred documents" Why would they do that" The shard the tablet and the mysterious athlete all point to a sport that the Greeks revered above all others. Why isn't it documented anywhere Maybe it is. I have a theory that the evidence for the lost sport of Olympia has been hiding in plain sight for millennia. Diadoumenoi are Greek sculptures that show athletes binding their heads with a piece of cloth. They occur throughout ancient history and we've long believed that the cloth represents victory. Maybe so but isn't it possible that the cloth is something else Could it for example be a blindfold? If so the athletes of the lost sport were among the most honored in all of ancient
Greece. But if my theory is correct this only deepens the mystery of Wach's tablet. Why would the Greeks turn their backs on the most honored sport of all We do know of other ancient Olympic sports that were abandoned over the centuries ... for example the hoplitodromos a sprint in which the runners wore full-body armour and the pankration an extremely violent martial art that often resulted in the death of one of the competitors. But even after they ceased to play these sports the Greeks never attempted to hide the fact that they once existed. And they never tried to prevent others from finding out exactly how they were
played. And so we are left today with many more questions than answers. Was there really ever a lost sport? If so how was it played And why was it considered the most important of all ancient games? If the lost sport indeed existed we can only assume that the ancient Greeks themselves conspired to hide it from the rest of the world. But what would make them go to such lengths to conceal it Even with my new research it's much easier to say that Mortiz Wach was mistaken than it is to accept that everything we think we know about the ancient Olympics may be wrong. But if Wach is right if the Greeks did hide the truth then perhaps there are more clues out there for those of us who look closely enough.www.TheLostGames.com

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