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Stolen Sumerian Tablets Come from the Lost City of Irisagrig
Live Science ^ | April 30, 2018 | Owen Jarus

Posted on 05/01/2018 6:27:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Not all scholars agree that the artifacts should be returned right away. "If these tablets are returned and if they are from Irisagrig, it will be a great tragedy for scholarship that they will not be published before they are returned," said David Owen, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. Owen has published a number of scientific papers describing tablets from Irisagrig, but has not worked with Hobby Lobby and has not studied the seized texts.

"Once they enter the bowels of the Iraq Museum, it is unlikely scholars will ever have acccess to them, nor are there any Iraqi scholars capable of publishing them given the many thousands of unpublished texts already in storage in the museum for generations and mostly inaccessible to scholars," Owen told Live Science.

Owen added, "Our goverment should, first and foremost, make sure all artifacts are recorded and published before repatriation. This would be of great benefit not only to scholarship but also to the Iraqis who do not have the resources to publish these texts. Anything less is a travesty."

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: cornelluniversity; cuneiform; davidowen; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; hobbylobby; iraq; irisagrig; site1056; stevegreen; sumeria; sumerian
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To: BenLurkin; Mastador1
I would take some time. With any luck, the Hobby Lobby guy had that done on the QT. Regardless, he did the world a service by smuggling them out of harm's way and safekeeping them for a time.

21 posted on 05/02/2018 9:01:52 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Monkey Face

The original chicken scratching! :^)


22 posted on 05/02/2018 9:23:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

Dear Sunk, do you have any other information concerning the lost city of Irisagrig?


23 posted on 05/02/2018 4:43:00 PM PDT by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus. He says absolutely amazing things, which few dare consider.)
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To: Pilsner

Wiseman: When you removed the book from the cradle, did you speak the words?

Ash: Yeah, basically.

Wiseman: Did you speak the exact words?

Ash: Look, maybe I didn’t say every single little tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah.


24 posted on 05/02/2018 5:15:09 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Bellflower
Nope, it's the first I'd heard of it. It was the first most people had heard of it. And of course, not counting the readers of the news story here on FR and elsewhere, 99% of Earth has never heard of it. :^) There are thousands of unpublished cuneiform tablets -- can't pay for that and buy chemical weapons and nukes at the same time -- and there are probably plenty of surprises there. The reason the cuneiform tablets survived in the first place is, the city was burned to the ground by one of their none-too-neighborly neighbors, and the heat baked them into little bricks.

25 posted on 05/03/2018 12:07:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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Ancient Lost City of Mardaman Uncovered in Iraq
By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | May 11, 2018 01:53pm ET
https://www.livescience.com/62545-lost-city-of-mardaman-discovered.html


26 posted on 05/16/2018 8:27:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv


27 posted on 05/16/2018 8:48:06 PM PDT by eldoradude (Walk a mile in a man's shoes and he'll never catch you.)
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To: eldoradude

Thanks!


28 posted on 05/16/2018 9:01:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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The possible site of the lost city:

Misplaced Metropolis of Irisagrig Involves Life in Historical Stolen Tablets

29 posted on 05/31/2018 11:30:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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