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Looters May Have Destroyed Priceless Cuneiform Archive
The Washington Post ^
| April 18th, 2003
| Guy Gugliotta
Posted on 04/18/2003 2:10:35 AM PDT by wideminded
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Maybe they did, maybe they didn't. This article has some interesting description of a cuneiform library.
To: wideminded
Experts described the archive as the world's least-studied large collection of cuneiform -- the oldest known writing on Earth -- a record that covers every aspect of Mesopotamian life over more than 3,000 years. The texts resided in numbered boxes each containing as many as 400 3-inch-by-2-inch tablets. That's what cd burners are for. Scan em in, burn em, and if you lose the originals you still have memorex.
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posted on
04/18/2003 2:13:51 AM PDT
by
chance33_98
(www.hannahmore.com -- Shepherd Of Salisbury Plain is online, more to come! (my website))
To: wideminded
This is more than probably propaganda/lies.
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posted on
04/18/2003 2:15:48 AM PDT
by
nopardons
To: wideminded
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posted on
04/18/2003 2:21:25 AM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
To: wideminded
You mean to tell me that all this time no one has bothered to photograph or record the writing ?
Archeologists meet data storage and retrieval systems ..... data storage meet archeologists.
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posted on
04/18/2003 2:25:36 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
To: wideminded
Saadam's regime:
murdered people
raped women
imprisoned children
starved its own population
stole billions of dollars
But the media always says its the "looters" who destroyed the museums. It's as if the Bathe party had the right moral compass when it came to Art appreciation.
To: Centurion2000
Children brutalize, jailed and killed doesn't get some people nearly as outraged as a museum being looted. Of course I want to find the looted items that are genuine. But I'm more concerned about the people.
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posted on
04/18/2003 2:30:05 AM PDT
by
razorbak
To: Tripleplay
My parents went to Baghdad and all I got was this lousy 5000 yr old sumerian cuneiform tablet! LOL.
To: lindsay; mvonfr; Fifth Business
Pinging...
To: nopardons
This is more than probably propaganda/lies. ???
To: Theresa; Physicist; RadioAstronomer
Interesting article on cuneiform library. I think I finally figured out what, ping, bump, and bttt are.
To: wideminded
And just WHAT is it, about my post, which referred to the article, don't you understand ?
You desperately want to believe every " bad " article about what did or did not happen at the museum, yet, I see that you haven't bothered to post to the threads I pinged you to, which refute the extravigant falsehoods being told .
To: wideminded
FNC and others are reporting that a lot of these treasures (not nec. these tablets) are turning up in Paris.
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posted on
04/18/2003 2:41:44 AM PDT
by
Ed_in_NJ
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
04/18/2003 2:47:54 AM PDT
by
knuthom
To: nopardons
And just WHAT is it, about my post, which referred to the article, don't you understand ? It was ungrammatical. Read it over carefully. Based on what I know of your opinions from previous posts I think you left out a word.
I see that you haven't bothered to post to the threads I pinged you to
You only pinged me to one article. I had already read it. I think same article may have been posted to a another thread. I believed the article. Some of the looters must have had keys. Since I had no criticisms of the article there was no reason for me to post. I don't have time to post everywhere anyway.
BTW, note that I pointed out that it is not necessarily true that all these tablets have been destroyed. It's amazing that an intact library of such a great age was found. I am hoping that the tablets were at least photographed.
To: wideminded
One of the curators of one of the many libraries said that most of the libraries stored their exhibits before the war started, which is prudent since after the first gulf war, where there were no US troops, museums still got looted. So there is a lot of misinformation floating around. I am really suspect when a Clinton appointee quits before the truth as to what happened comes in. That is grand-standing and designed for only one purpose.
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posted on
04/18/2003 3:36:22 AM PDT
by
KeyWest
To: wideminded
Hmmmm....cuniform archives that are thousands of years old or Freedom of Millions upon Millions of innocent people?
Why do these idiots always try to associate some sort of cost to Human Dignity beyond the battle to free them?
Freedom was already paid for with the blood of our dearest. Now millions of Iraqis are freed from the evil perpauted upon them by an insanely evil dictator. Triuphant over their newfound liberty, they are jubilant and dancing in the streets while destroying any trace of the evil left behind.
Now some idiot crawls out from under a rock and says "Hey...you broke that!"
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posted on
04/18/2003 4:31:40 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: wideminded
I remember Cuneiforms. Those were those plastic stick-ons we used to play with as kids, right?
To: chance33_98
That's what cd burners are for. Scan em in, burn em, and if you lose the originals you still have memorex. The RIAA represents the copyright holder of the cuneiform writings and demands a royalty for each recording made.
To: Tripleplay
It's as if the Bathe party had the right moral compass when it came to Art appreciation.Almost, yes. Archaeology served Saddam's state purposes almost as well as nuclear physics served his or Stalin's. Saddam saw himself as the heir of Ashurbanipal, Hammurabi, and Nebuchadnezzar. Anything that bolstered the idea of Iraq's long and glorious past--and it was long and glorious--received the sanction of the Ba'athist regime.
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