Posted on 07/06/2009 1:44:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Iran's most intact jar burial, which dates back to the Elamite era, was transferred to the Haft-Tappeh Museum last week.
Containing a skeleton in fetal position, the jar was discovered during the latest excavation carried out several months ago at Haft-Tappeh, a major Elamite site near Susa in Khuzestan Province, the Persian service of CHN reported on Tuesday.
"This is the first time such an intact jar burial has been unearthed," director of the Restoration Department of the Haft-Tappeh and Chogha Zanbil Center Kazem Borhani said.
"Urgent actions were taken to preserve the artefact in situ in order to safely transfer it to the centre for restoration," he stated.
A piece of the jar has been removed to enable visitors to see the skeleton inside it, Borhani explained.
An anthropologist has begun a series of studies to determine the gender of the skeleton, which is believed to date back to the Middle Elamite period (c. 1500-1100 BCE).
(Excerpt) Read more at cais-soas.com ...
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The coffin is ajar...
But why did he put himself in such a position??
*shrugs* - lost a bet, maybe? :-)
No just a bad beat in a card game gone bad!!
Cannibalism, eh... probably the LBC originated the timeless dish, spaghetti and pete’s balls.
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I don’t know if Blam posted it years ago, I will post a link. As you must know, after all of these years, I have a problem with the Garden of Eden.
My favorite topic mans love of man.
You’re still smarting because, unlike Adam, the first LB was never allowed inside in the first place.
Dogpile
The Testimony of the MonumentsThe fourteenth chapter of Genesis relates that "In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim (nations), they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Bersha, king of Gomorrah, and Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar)." ...This story, told with so many details that its refutation would be easy if it were not true to the facts and if there were contemporary records with which to compare it, has been a special butt for the ridicule of the Higher Critics of the Wellhausen school, Professor Nöldeke confidently declaring as late as 1869 that criticism had forever disproved its claim to be historical... Hammurabi is now known to have had his capital at Babylon at the time of Abraham. Until recently this chronology was disputed, so that the editors and contributors of the New Schaff-Herzog Cyclopedia dogmatically asserted that as Abraham lived nearly 300 years later than Hammurabi, the biblical story must be unhistorical... Chedorlaomer is pretty certainly identified as Kudur-Lagamar (servant of Lagamar, one of the principal Elamite gods). Kudur-Lagamar was king of Elam, and was either the father or the brother of Kudur-Mabug, whose son, Eri-Aku (Arioch), reigned over Larsa and Ur, and other cities of southern Babylonia. He speaks of Kudur-Mabug "as the father of the land of the Amorites," i. e., of Palestine and Syria. Tidal, "king of nations," was supposed by Dr. Pinches to be referred to on a late tablet in connection with Chedorlaomer and Arioch under the name Tudghula, who are said, together, to have "attacked and spoiled Babylon."
to the Truth of the Scriptures
by Professor George Frederick Wright,
D. D., LL. D., Oberlin College
(Volume 1 ch. XVI)
Many years ago I read an essay on history that refuted the communally held premise that Kings and Wars don't matter, they do matter.
Because I have read history for Fifty years I have come to a realization that people like to do violence and in lean times a piece of long pork is as good as the other white meat. I do not think that we deviate from that pattern.
:’) My guess for years has been that is what is behind the prohibition on eating pork in Judaism (and it was plagiarized for Islam).
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