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4,000-year-old Canaanite warrior found in Sidon dig[Lebanon]
The Daily Star ^
| 05 Aug 2008
| Mohammed Zaatari
Posted on 08/07/2008 9:48:09 AM PDT by BGHater
SIDON: The British Museum's excavation team in Sidon have recently unearthed a new grave containing human skeletal remains belonging to a Canaanite warrior, archeology expert and field supervisor Claude Doumet Serhal told The Daily Star on Monday. According to Serhal, the delegation made the discovery at the "Freres" excavation site near Sidon's crusader castle.
"This is the 77th grave that we have discovered at this site since our digging activities has started ten years ago with Lebanese-British financing," she said.
According to Serhal, the remains go back to 2000 B.C., with a British archeologist saying the warrior had been buried at the age of 15 to 20 along with a spear and two stamps.
"We have discovered earlier this year a jar also belonging to the Canaanite period i.e. to 2,000 years B.C. where a skeleton for a newborn baby had been found," she added.
The archeologist said that Freres "is the first excavation site in old Sidon that is located on a land owned by the General Directorate of Antiquities."
"We can say that through the discoveries we have been making at this site, we will be able to draw a graph showing the history of this ancient Mediterranean merchant city since 3000 BC," she added.
Serhal said the British delegation would continue its work until the first of September "when we will announce the discoveries we have made."
"Among the institutions that have taken in charge the financing of our project, are the British Old House Institution, the Issam Fares Foundation, the National Cement Company, the Hariri Foundation and Sidon's school network in addition to Byblos Bank," she said.
Serhal had described Sidon as one of the most important metropolises of the Near East from the earliest of times.
"It is mentioned 38 times in the Old Testament and appears in Genesis as the oldest Canaanite city, 'the firstborn of Canaan,'" she said.
During those 10 years ago of excavation the discoveries were continuous: tombs and burial jars for children and adults, jugs, pieces of pottery with Phoenician inscription, bronze weapons for warriors in addition to jewelry.
"Last year, for example, we found tons of wheat going back to 3000 BC," Serhal added.
The British Museum launched earlier this year an archaeological documentary entitled "Sidon 5,000 years" with the aim of gaining a better understanding of the ancient history of the southern port city.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; canaanite; canaanites; genealogy; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; lebanon; letshavejerusalem; phoenicia; phoenician; phoenicians; sidon
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posted on
08/07/2008 9:48:12 AM PDT
by
BGHater
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/07/2008 9:48:36 AM PDT
by
BGHater
(Democracy is the road to socialism.)
To: BGHater
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posted on
08/07/2008 10:12:00 AM PDT
by
pabianice
To: BGHater
2 stamps?......Must have been insufficient postage or the first “Postal” incident..................
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posted on
08/07/2008 10:17:48 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
To: pabianice
well, of course...
Proverbs 8:8-9
Mark 13:31
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posted on
08/07/2008 10:19:16 AM PDT
by
wayne_b24
(every day in the Light is a good day ... John 8:12 & 14:6; Psalm 119:105; Joshua 24:15)
To: BGHater
Wow, a McCanaanite!
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posted on
08/07/2008 10:34:08 AM PDT
by
fish hawk
(a taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders)
To: BGHater; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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posted on
08/07/2008 10:52:39 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
To: BGHater
I hope they can do a DNA study so the mystery of exactly who the Caananites were can be discovered.
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posted on
08/07/2008 11:40:49 AM PDT
by
wildbill
To: wildbill
Mystery?
They are descendants of Ham. From Canaan naturally came the Canaanite clans - Sidon, Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites. (Genesis 10:15). According to the Bible account, "Later the Canaanite clans scattered and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha." (Genesis 10:19). It's in this described area that the conflict between the Israelites and the "peoples of the land" began, and has continued right to the present day.
To: BGHater
Canaan for the Canaanites! Out with the Lebanese!!!
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posted on
08/07/2008 12:01:52 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(Democrats complained that the war was for oil. Now they make war ON oil.)
To: wildbill
Ham was one of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. Biblically, we are all descendants of one of them, but most likely a mixture of all three and their wives. We can only assume they tried to bred out as much as was possible in order to prevent inbreeding problems.
To: Nathan Zachary
When I said mystery I meant their arrival in the Levant.
Their villages with distinctive archeological relics just start appearing in the ground records without any previously known evolution from a prior race or civilization.
I have no problem with the Biblical record since so many of the written tales are provable with archeology. But,If you believe they are the tribe of Ham, then where were they during those previous millenia?
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posted on
08/07/2008 1:44:20 PM PDT
by
wildbill
To: BGHater
Canaanite warrior It's unusual for modern anthropologists to come to the conclusion that our prehistoric ancestors were anything but peace loving hunter gathering hippies. They cling to the notion that human evolution was driven by better nutrition rather than tribal warfare.
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posted on
08/07/2008 2:17:06 PM PDT
by
Reeses
(Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
To: Reeses
If you read History, it seems that people like to kill people, for some reason or any reason.
The peace lovers, Marija Gumbatis (RIP) my favorite whipping Woman, have a flawed view on how the world works.
Just an update to the ping message.
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posted on
05/25/2015 5:15:44 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
This topic was posted , thanks BGHater.
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posted on
10/17/2023 7:36:37 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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