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Why Were Hundreds of Dogs Buried at Ashkelon?
Biblical Archaeology Review ^ | July 2010 | Lawrence Stager

Posted on 07/01/2010 3:55:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Ancient Ashkelon, now quietly nestled beside the Mediterranean in the south of Israel, is shaped like a giant 150-acre bowl... Inside the bowl are buried at least 20 ancient cities, dating from about 3500 B.C. to 1500 A.D., a span of 5,000 years.... In 604 B.C., Philistine Ashkelon was destroyed by the neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadrezzar (neb-uh-kuh-DREZ-uhr; also called Nebuchadnezzar [neb-uh-kuhd-NEZ-uhr]), whose army soon thereafter (in 586 B.C.) destroyed Jerusalem, capital of the kingdom of Judah, together with its Temple. Thus began what is known in Israelite history as the Babylonian Exile. Less widely known is the fact that the Philistines too were exiled to Babylon... No record exists, however, as to what happened to the exiled Philistines. Those who may have remained in Ashkelon after Nebuchadrezzar's conquest apparently lost their ethnic identity. They simply disappear from history. Culturally, Ashkelon once again became Canaanite -- or, more precisely, Phoenician, as the coastal Canaanites are called at this time, having developed a culture of their own, supported by a far-flung commercial empire to the west.

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To: SunkenCiv

No ... YOU’RE the winner! ROFLMAO!!


41 posted on 07/02/2010 10:55:10 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (We'll remember in November!)
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To: Fast Moving Angel

:’D


42 posted on 07/03/2010 5:58:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Joe 6-pack

I think these researchers need to check the Canary Islands next.


43 posted on 07/03/2010 6:26:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: SunkenCiv

Please add me to the GGG ping list. Thanks!


44 posted on 07/04/2010 4:33:28 AM PDT by ChowChowFace
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To: USMCPOP
I seriesly belive that that things worked uyntil: 'The Cat' appearded on the scene. We can't talk too much 'bout this.
45 posted on 07/04/2010 4:39:55 AM PDT by raygun
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