Posted on 05/29/2004 5:45:23 PM PDT by blam
Syria - Archeological Findings
Palmyra- Syria 29-05 (SANA)-
The Finnish archeological team working in Bashir Mount in the desert area of Palmyra ( Tadmor ) has unearthed 46 archeological sites that date back to 80,000 years B.C.
Member of the team Prof. Margo Alstawt Watsing of Helsinki University said her group used sophisticated equipment to survey the mountain’s archeological traces that extend along the Euphrates River on the ancient famous Silk Road, some 180 KM east of Palmyra.
She added that clay, copper, bone and granite pieces were unearthed at the scene, an indication that man had very long ago settled there.
The archeologist said the aim of her expedition is to determine the connection between Mount Bashir and the world’s earliest civilizations of Ebla ( Tel Merdikh ) and Mari ( Tel Hariri ) as well as understanding stages of development of those peoples.
Tel Merdikh is 25 km south-east of Idleb. It is the site of important and recent archaeological discoveries. Excavations there had revealed a very old Syrian civilization, that of Ebla, which flourished in the 3rd and 2nd millenniums B.C. In the palace of this great kingdom, a library containing more than 17,000 clay tablets was uncovered. These tablets are the earliest written documents in Syria.
At Mari Site, numerous palaces, temples and murals reflecting advanced cultural and commercial activity were found. Also the kingdom of Ugarit (Ras Shamra) offered mankind its first alphabet.
Ahmad F. ZAHRA
Maybe 2,000 humans worldwide survived.
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"80,000 BCE? Isn't that 10 times to old to be possible?" -- ASA Vet
Since it's from may 2004, I'm not going to ping ASA Vet, but yeah, in the context mentioned in the article, 80,000 makes sense some of the time, but has nothing to do with Ebla and Mari, as the quote from the excavator seems to imply.
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