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To: SunkenCiv
Agreed. I think the China road goes way, way back. Especially when you factor in those Caucasian mummies out in today's desert.

It's just odd that this thing only has excerpts from the Cylinder. Who knows, maybe it was a tourist souvenir the Persians made to sell to those arriving on the road???

15 posted on 08/05/2010 9:55:16 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

It’s probably analogous to “The Bible Code” — but in reverse — just the “skips” are skipped, in order to make these cuneiform characters appear to be from a famous text. I wonder how many of the characters are in this text; cuneiform was in use for over two thousand years, precisely because it could be used to express pretty much any language. Sumerian was agglutinative, Akkadian was not; and one of the Amarna archive tablets was in an unknown language, but it could be pronounced, because cuneiform is logographic. In what may have been the greatest single translation ever made, the message on that one unique table was cracked wide open and the ancient message was read.

What I’m getting at (now that I’m done showing off again) is, perhaps this is a cuneiform message containing some Asian language of that time.


16 posted on 08/05/2010 7:03:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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