Posted on 02/09/2005 11:40:18 AM PST by blam
Science to test Argonaut myth
Gold jewelry found last year in an unplundered Mycenaean royal tomb on the outskirts of Volos will be tested for links with one of the most enduring ancient Greek myths, the Argonauts expedition, an archaeologist said yesterday.
The 14th century BC treasure gold beads from necklaces and jewelry made of gold and semiprecious stones was found with vases and other offerings in four pits inside the tholos tomb, a beehive-like subterranean structure usually associated with Late Bronze Age royal burials.
According to local antiquities director Vassiliki Adrimi-Sismani, the Culture Ministry has approved tests, to be conducted by June with Louvre Museum experts, to determine the golds provenance. We want to investigate to what extent our area had contacts with the Black Sea, that is to what extent the myth of the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece has to do with the gold we found, she said. The myth tells how King Jason of Iolkos, near Volos, led an expedition to Colchis, in modern Georgia, to steal a golden rams skin. This may allude to trade deals with the gold-rich region.
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The last I read todays Ukrainians, Georgians and Iranians are the descendants of the Scythians.
I would think not -- the Iranis are members of the the Indo-Irani branch of the Aryan family while the Ukrainians are members of the Slavic branch of the Aryan family and the Georgians are not Aryanic at all.
After a couple thousand years of mixing, I doubt any of the ancient races are intact. I was going by the areas in which they were living at the time.
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