Jordan Valley -- cradle of civilisations?

Jordan Times ^ | May 28, 2010 | Taylor Luck

[SunkenCiv]

In Tabqat Fahel, 90 kilometres north of Amman, recent finds indicate that the ancient site of Pella, which spans across the earliest pre-historic times to the Mameluke era, may have been a part of the cradle of civilisations... the early Bronze Age period, 3600BC-2800BC, a time when humans went from smaller villages to larger towns and large-scale urban communities... Findings of a city wall and other structures, dating back to 3400BC and as early as 3600BC, show that Pella was a formidable city-state at the same time Sumerian Iraq was taking shape... With the unearthing of a fortified hilltop and large city walls on nearby Tal Husn, experts believe that the site of Pella was a formidable city around 3200-3400BC, 500 years earlier than previously expected for the area... Copper findings at Pella originating from Anatolia and Cyprus also indicate significant economic, social and political development at a time as early as Mesopotamia and predating the reign of Egyptian pharaohs, Bourke said. The discovery of Cypriot copper even led experts to believe that ancient Cyprus began exporting copper in 2500BC, 300 years earlier than previously thought... The similarities, however, end in 2800BC, when civilisation abruptly stopped in ancient Pella. Bourke theorised that a devastating earthquake combined with climate change may have contributed to slowing down development in the Jordan Valley, while nearby Egypt sped into the third dynasty.

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Experts believe that Pella, situated north of Amman, was a formidable city around 3200-3400BC (Photo by Taylor Luck)

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[bigheadfred]

This is interesting. And I do ok until he gets to here- devastating earthquake combined with climate change- and then the splitting headache and hot flashes kick in.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[bigheadfred]

I shouldn’t be so critical. Just sayin’

[JoeProBono]

The influence of Indo-European Nordic racial types on the Balkans is clear from this floor mosaic at the Macedonian capital of Pella, just north west of Salonika in northern Greece, circa 4th Century BC.

[Verginius Rufus]

Those are two tall dudes or one small deer.

The lettering on the mosaic says "Gnosis epoesen" = "Gnosis made this."

[Bellflower]

The white race may have sprung from the same fabric as Jacob's tribes. Many references to ruddy faces and Absalom had blond hair. In all the world apart from the early Jews and actual Nordics white seems to be an extreme minority.

Sgs 5:10 My beloved [is] white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

[Bellflower]

What is that in the upper right corner? Also, it kind of funny, why the capes?

[JoeProBono]

[colorado tanker]

In Greco-Roman times Pella was one of the Decapolis cities. Which for some strange reason according to most counts were actually 12.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Thanks, nice to know they didn’t have their kaka together any more than we do. ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

That’s an interesting rendition of a common Greek mythological scene. There’s another one in Pompeii, that one is actually captioned. :’)