Posted on 06/29/2019 5:45:48 AM PDT by rdl6989
An ancient palace has emerged from an Iraqi reservoir after water levels dropped precipitously because of a drought.
A lack of rain and the release of water through the Mosul Dam to relieve dry conditions has led to the Mittani Empire site being revealed.
The site was flooded when the Mosul Dam was built in the mid-1980s before archaeologists were able to examine it.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
They got some tablets with inscriptions and saw some wall paintings.
Which when translated said “For a Good Time call ……”
They got some tablets with inscriptions and saw some wall paintings.
Which when translated said “For a Good Time call ……”
LOL!
Probably inventories, but you never know.
I am not certain that I agree with you. Almost nothing in America is over 300 years old. However, the opposite is true in the Middle East. When I was in Israel (many moons ago) I was discussing archaeology with an Israeli. The Israeli was an amateur archaeologist. He told me that in Israel the remains of civilizations were stacked on top of each other, so a big issue is what do you save, e.g. do you remove the remains of one society to get to an earlier civilization. Since the area has been inhabited for many thousands of years, it is really hard to get excited about anything.
For a people that consider electricity to be a luxury, flooding an old site is just a part of daily living.
Which when translated said “For a Good Time call Fatima 888-666-6969"
Thanks rdl6989. One of *those* topics.
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Thanks rdl6989.
The Hittites were in central Turkey.
[snip] With the discovery of the Tell el-Amarna archives in Egypt it was found that one of the letters of the archives was written, apart from the introduction, in an unknown tongue. This letter, written by Tushratta, king of Mitanni, dealt in its six hundred lines with some matters interpreted with the help of other letters, and the language was deciphered. At first it was called Mitannian, but later changed to Subarean.
Then in the state archives of Boghazkeui in eastern Anatolia letters were found in a similar tongue, and its name was given as Khri. The people who spoke this language were called Khr. Scholars read the word differently Khar and Khur but finally they decided on Khur as the acceptable name, and accordingly the people are called Hurrians or Hurrites...
With every new discovery it became increasingly obvious that the Hurrians exercised great influence on the civilization of the Near East. It was even stated that with the arrival of the Hurrians in this part of the world a new era in civilization had dawned. In a sense they became the leading power, and "the story of their enormous expanse, from Armenia down to southern Palestine, and from the shores of the Mediterranean up to the borders of Persia, constitutes one of the most amazing chapters in the ancient history of the Near East."
The language of this people has been studied by linguists in an endeavor to unriddle it, but the historians know nothing of their history. "Hurrian" seemed therefore to be a tongue without a people. Those who spoke it were not Semitic, but neither were they Indo-Iranian.
Then the writings in alphabetic Khar of Ras Shamra came to light Translations from other languages into Khar proved that at least a part of the population used Khar as their daily speech. Who, then, were these Khar that impressed their name on Syria, their tongue on Asia Minor and on Mitanni, occupied a fortress in Palestine, were everywhere and nowhere in particular, were neither Semitic nor Indo-Iranian?
It became apparent not only that Khar was expressible in writing, but that the scribes who wrote in Khar were versed in a number of other languages as well, and wore themselves out in lexicographic study ("several rooms" in the library of Nikmed "contained only dic- tionaries and lexicons"). Consequently the idea that the Khar were cave dwellers or troglodytes (the biblical Horites) appears wholly untenable.
Most probably the Hurrian people is but a creation of modern linguists. If we bring the scene five to six hundred years closer to our time we begin to wonder whether the Khar of the inscriptions are not the Carians often mentioned in classic literature. In Egyptian the Mediterranean Sea was called the Sea of Khar(u). Was it the sea of troglodytes or the sea of the Carians? [/snip]
[Immanuel Velikovsky, "Ages in Chaos", pp 198-199]
*gasp*
I am amazed. Those people have no idea what lies in old ruins, and most of them don’t care.
Thanks for the ping, SC.
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My pleasure.
189. The treaties of Subliliumas with Azaru of Damascus, with a patricide prince of Mitanni, and with the widow of Tirhaka, make plausible his identity with Shamash Shum Ukin. This would signify also that Nabopolassar was a son of Shamash Shum Ukin.
190. The people and the kingdom of Mitanni did not "disappear" in the thirteenth century. Mitanni is another name for Medes; the northwest part of Medes retained this name as Matiane (Herodotus).
Immanuel Velikovsky, "Theses for the Reconstruction of Ancient History", June 10, 1945
Understood, it may be a close call in this instance.
...do you remove the remains of one society to get to an earlier civilization[?]
IMO yes, unless the evidence of the earlier civilization renders it both likely there is nothing below the earlier civilization and it is probable there is little or no new knowledge of value to be gained by the effort. No doubt it is always a balancing act with cost being one of the heavy weights. Obviously any removal or disturbance should be carefully documented and filmed.
For a people that consider electricity to be a luxury... That seems key in this instance.
I like Velikovsky’s writings, but a lot of people think he’s out lost in the woods. He’s logical, if nothing else.
He's logical, and despite having been gone now for nearly 40 years, there's never been any new evidence to show his reconstruction incorrect -- in fact, new evidence in favor has emerged continually. :^) He may be lost in the woods, but it's The Wood Beyond the World.
Exactly. New evidence, indeed. I’ve always liked to read his books. Now I’m excited to read new evidence that says he’s been right all along.
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"Which when translated said “For a Good Time call ……” from njslim
Were there any sightings of "Bad Wolf" inscriptions?
How do they know it’s ancient? It looks like a lot of modern Iraq.
Wow that is VERY interesting.
Velikovsky is hated with a passion by the scientific and historical “establishment”.
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