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Posted on 08/03/2020 7:24:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The remarkable find was made at Penn Museum in Philadelphia, in the basement of the building where other archaeological artefacts are displayed. The skeleton had been left in the basement for 85 years before being rediscovered and represents a rare find. While the museum has other remains from ancient Ur, about 10 miles (16 km) from Nassiriya in southern Iraq, "Noah" - as the skeleton was named - is about 2,000 years older than any remains uncovered during the excavation at the site. The museum said the discovery had important implications for current research.
Scientific techniques that were not available at the time of the expedition could give scholars new insights into diet, ancestral origins, trauma, stress and disease from the time period, which the museum says is poorly understood.
The museum said it had lost track of all documentation for the skeleton which dates to roughly 4500 BC.
But the paperwork turned up in 2014, as part of a project to digitise old records from a 1922-1934 joint expedition by the British Museum and the Penn Museum to modern-day Iraq.
Researchers were able to determine that the skeleton was unearthed around 1930 as part of an excavation into the Royal Cemetery of Ur led by Sir Leonard Woolley.
Woolley's records indicated that he had shipped a skeleton over, and the team digitizing his records had uncovered pictures of the excavation, which showed the skeleton being removed from its grave. A researcher on the digitization project, William Hafford, mentioned the records to Janet Monge, the museum' chief curator.
Woolley's team uncovered the remains 40 feet (12 meters) below the ground, beneath the remains from the cemetery itself, which dates to 2500 BC.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
The silt layer at Ur was found to be a fan-shaped deposit caused by a failure of a nearby levee. IOW, don't start.
Interesting
So.... Why is it “chilling”?
Another one of the fresh young faces of today’s hip and with-it Democrat Party!
Because it had COVID.
(Just kidding.)
When the Levee Breaks
Led Zeppelin
Produced by Jimmy Page
Album Led Zeppelin IV
[Verse 1]
If it keeps on raining, levee’s going to break
If it keeps on raining, the levee’s going to break
When the levee breaks, we’ll have no place to stay
[Verse 2]
Mean old levee, taught me to weep and moan, oh
Mean old levee, taught me to weep and moan
It’s got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home
Oh well, oh well, oh well
Ooh
[Bridge]
Oh, don’t it make you feel bad
When you’re trying to find your way home
You don’t know which way to go
If you’re going down south, they got no work to do
If you’re going north to Chicago
Ah, ah, ah, hey
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
Crying won’t help you, praying won’t do you no good
No, crying won’t help you, praying won’t do you no good
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move, ooh
[Verse 4]
All last night I sat on the levee and moaned
All last night, sat on the levee and moaned
Thinking about my baby and my happy home
Oh-ho
[Bridge]
Ah, ah, ah, ah-ah
Ah, ah, ah, ah-ah
Oh, oh
[Outro]
Going
I’m going to Chicago
Going to Chicago
Sorry, but I can’t take you, ah
Going down, going down now
Going down, I’m going down now
Going down, going down
Going down, going down
Oh
Going down, going down now
Going down, going down now
Going down, going down now
Going down, going, dow- dow- dow- dow- down now
Ooh, ooh
That museum is kept cold.
Because they had lost it for 85 years?
These people are less organized than I am!!!!!
4200 years ago....................
“...documentation for the skeleton which dates to roughly 4500 BC.”
That’s a lot of paperwork.
Pre-flood or post flood?
Heh.
Punctuation problems.
Let’s eat grandma.
Let’s eat, grandma.
Depends on whose calendar you are using..................
“The museum said it had lost track of all documentation for the skeleton”
The “lost track” of THE SKELETON for 85 YEARS!
I think he is from the “stone” age. /s
” a massive flood.
4200 years ago....................”
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Express UK can't pull off "chillin'", as in, "the skeleton was in the basement, just chillin'." ;^)
4500 BC. Even older.
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