[SunkenCiv]

Image: Penn Museum

[Alas Babylon!]

So.... Why is it “chilling”?

[blueunicorn6]

Another one of the fresh young faces of today’s hip and with-it Democrat Party!

[PLMerite]

“...documentation for the skeleton which dates to roughly 4500 BC.”

That’s a lot of paperwork.

[faucetman]

“The museum said it had lost track of all documentation for the skeleton”

The “lost track” of THE SKELETON for 85 YEARS!

[faucetman]

I think he is from the “stone” age. /s

[BenLurkin]

“The skeleton, she said, likely belonged to a male, 50 years or older, who would have stood somewhere between 5 feet 8 inches (173 centimeters) to 5 feet 10 inches (178 cm) tall.”

Tall, for an ancient, yes?

[subterfuge]

“extremely rare,” like a reasonable democrat

[imardmd1]

Wooley misidentified his "Ur" of the lower Euphrates (not far from Kuwait) as being the home area of Biblical Abraham. and popularized it as such through the support of enthusiastic but misled European and American Christ-believers, most probably to enlist their financial support..

Many church members still believe this, although later and better archaeological and historical findings disrupt and disprove Wooley's theory.

One extrapolating some supposition based on his premises should not succumb to forming conclusions resting on the same error.

Abraham's and Sarah's location of birth, the "Ur of the Chaldees^(mountains)" (from whence the Euphrates flows west) is SanliUrfa/Harran (click here), which lies in the portion of Turkey (=Anatolia) just above the portion of eastern Syria that is now in great distress, an area hundreds of miles northwest of Wooley's "Ur" excavations (click here).

Near Sanlurfa the river takes a wide 270 degree bend that causes it to flow easterly through Iraq. Wooley's "Ur" is built near the far eastern delta of the Euphrates where it exits through Iraq (click here) into the Persian Gulf Between Kuwait and Iran.

The largely Kurdish population of Sanli^(glorious)Urfa are in no doubt that their city is Abraham's birthplace, with Harran (named so by his father Terah in honor of his dead son Haran, the place being about 25 miles southwest of Ur, only a few miles on Abram's movement toward Canaan, interrupted by Terah until his death there); being the ultimate residence of Abraham's brother Nahor (father of Bethuel and Rebecca, and grandfather of Laban, the father of Jacob's wives).

The Ur of the Chaldean mountains (the Ar(Ur)menian uplands) Was NOT the Ur of the Akkadians of southern Mesopotamia, which Wooley nisidentified the Ur of the Chaldean people as being the Ur of the Bible, located in Padan-Aram, not the one Wooley found and named.

[minnesota_bound]

The skeletons in my basement are not that old.
My aunts serve tea to visitors....

[central_va]

Democrat voter.

[Magnum44]