Posted on 02/04/2020 1:46:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A Bronze Age painting on a Greek island shows a monkey from thousands of kilometres away in Asia. The finding suggests that ancient cultures separated by great distances were trading and exchanging ideas.
The artwork is one of several wall paintings in a building at Akrotiri on the Greek island of Thera (Santorini) in the Aegean Sea. Akrotiri was a settlement of the Minoan civilisation in Bronze Age Greece that was buried by ash from a volcanic eruption in around 1600 BC.
Many of the paintings show monkeys, yet there were no monkeys in Greece at the time. Most of the monkeys have been identified as Egyptian species like olive baboons. This makes sense because Egypt was in contact with the Minoan civilisation, which was spread across several Aegean islands. However, others were harder to identify.
Marie Nicole Pareja at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia teamed up with primatologists to re-examine the mystery monkey paintings. One stood out. "When they looked at this wall painting, they all straight away unambiguously said ëthat's a langur'," says Pareja.
The team has identified the monkey as a grey langur (Semnopithecus). As well as its distinctive fur, the monkey was depicted holding its tail in a characteristic S shape.
Grey langurs live in southern Asia in what is now Nepal, Bhutan and India -- and particularly in the Indus Valley. During the Bronze Age, the region was home to the Indus Valley Civilisation, one of the most important societies of that time. Although it was past its peak, the Indus Valley Civilisation was still advanced for its time, with large cities and elaborate water supply systems.
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I am familiar with Tarshish as well, but thought not to mention it (vs the scripture I qouted) because although Tarshish MUST be very far away (1.5 years fo sailing to get there) there is no definitive article on where it was. I suspect West Africa, India, etc. But that is speculation.
Like you, I love the ancient knowledge. We (as a race) are de-volving, not e-volving.
The mighty men of old, were indeed mighty in strength and intellect.
Can you imagine a man, as strong per pound as a chimpanzee, and more intelligent that Nickolai Tesla? This is the way we were originally created.
The three years pertains to the circumnavigation of Africa.
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