Pretty darned. :^)
Posted on 11/22/2017 12:16:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Baked clay tablets from ancient Assyria, dating back as much as 4,000 years, could reveal the locations of 11 'lost cities' in modern-day Turkey.
Harvard researchers analysed tablets found in the ancient city of Kanesh, the 12,000 cuneiform trade records include business transactions, accounts, seals and contracts.
The researchers used mathematical models based on the price of goods and how frequently goods travelled between trade hubs to track down the locations of the ancient cities.
Researchers reconstructed an economic network of trade goods such as wool, wine and precious metals across the Anatolian plateau in the 19th Century BC.
The researchers believe they've identified 15 cities which have already been found – and 11 which have not, according to IFLScience.
The merchants settled in Turkey 4,000 years ago, trading in tin and fabrics.
Records include recollections from traders, including one who wrote, 'I met with the king in Ninassa, but . . . he did not buy a single textile.'
The city of Sinahuttum is described as a 'market for donkeys' and a popular place to exchange wool
The records come from Kanesh, near the modern Turkish city of Kayseri.
(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...
Hmmm. Seems some smartass wrote “Make Assyria Greek’s, Alexander.”
Didn’t they find Troy by going where the story said it was located?
y = mx + b!
(There's got to be a Far Side cartoon covering this.)
Michael Wood did, years ago, in his Trojan War documentary, uhhhh, this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyKIlRqRb58
So glad to have you back:o)
Thanks for the kind remarks. I've often wondered why two ancient people would have such similar names ad be adjacent. There actually are ethnic Assyrians in Turkey, Syria, other M.E. countries, remarkably enough.
That’s funny.
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Thanks!
:>D
WRONG
The merchants settled in ARMENIA 4,000 years ago, trading in tin and fabrics.
How much less would we know about the ancient middle east if the Sumerian civilizations had not developed the process of writing on clay tablets and baking them.
>>my poor old machine wouldn’t load the Washington ComPost article because, gosh, my machine isn’t all modern-like.>>
Mine won’t load it because I won’t pay them $1 for the so called (white?) privilege.
WRONG — the name Armenia is no older than late Assyrian times or classical Persian times when under Persian rule. The older name from Assyrian times was Urartu, later a.k.a. the Hurrians. I know of at least one ethnic grocery store (tiny little thing) named Urartu (https://www.facebook.com/urartuinternational/ ).
If you check the map, you’ll see the sites are found all over what is now modern Turkey. For people who just flat-out hate the Turks, the term Anatolia might be preferred, although I’m stuck with the text of the article. And Armenia rule didn’t include all of Anatolia.
snip from "The Atrahasis Epic" adapted from the B.R. Foster translation
The outlook of the weather changed.
Adad the storm god began to roar in the clouds.
They heard his clamor.
Atrahasis brought pitch to seal his door.
By the time he had bolted his door
Adad was roaring in the clouds.
The winds were furious as he set forth,
He cut the mooring rope and released the boat.
[...]
... the storm
... were yoked
Anzu rent the sky with his talons,
He ... the land
and broke its clamor like a pot.
... the flood came forth.
Its power came upon the peoples like a battle
one person did not see another
they could not recognize each other in the catastrophe.
The deluge bellowed like a bull
The wind resounded like a screaming eagle. [also "Like a wild ass screaming, the winds howled"]
The darkness was dense, the sun was gone
[/snip]
Ancient Sumerian AAA map, more like...
I am fluent in cuneiform.
The tablet says “Removal of this tag will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law”.
;^)
The Turks took over half of the land of Armenia when they did their Armenian genocide in 1915.
I am sick of seeing what are ancient sites from ancient Armenia called “Turkey” by the modern clueless media.
I like to think I’m not part of the clueless media. As I said, ethnically Armenian lands are in eastern Anatolia, part of which is Turkey. The town of Batman (which is hilarious) is easternmost on the map graphic, and looks like it’s probably in a Kurdish area, rather than part of Armenia. The rest of the sites and probable lost city sites are squarely in Turkey. The Turks have ruled Anatolic since before 1492, which is itself over 140 years before my earliest immigrant ancestors got to North America.
The Turks wandered on in from Central Asia in the 11th century; ultimately the Byzantines held out for nearly three centuries. The Turks had already converted to Islam, but spread also into northern India. European kings were fighting to conquer or hold small parts of the Holy Land during the same period, and the Kurdish general Saladin worked all sides of the street (Fatimids, Seljuks, he himself was Sunni), part of the internecine warfare in the medieval muzzie world (a medieval period which hasn’t ended yet).
http://www.aina.org/images/20171115124503.jpg
Armenian
(audio sample a little corrupted, sounds like “push the button” in English didn’t get edited out)
https://www.omniglot.com/writing/armenian.htm
Kurdish
http://omniglot.com/writing/kurdish.htm
http://www.google.com/search?q=indo-european+language+tree&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&tbm=isch
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