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Latest find in Turkey's Ayasuluk Hill links Hittites to Ephesus
Daily Sabah ^ | June 12, 2021 | Anadolu Agency

Posted on 07/09/2022 5:16:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

A 3,200-year-old Mycenaean statuette has been found in the ongoing excavations at Ayasuluk Hill in western Izmir province's Selçuk district. The statuette, which reveals a possible connection between Hittites and Mycenaean civilizations in the Ephesus region, could change the perspective on the history of civilization in Western Anatolia during the Bronze Age...

During the excavations carried out under the direction of associate professor Sinan Mimaroğlu of Hatay Mustafa Kemal University Art History Department, a Mycenaean figurine with a height and width of about 5 centimeters (1.97 inches), whose head and feet could not be found, was unearthed, as well as ceramics from the Bronze Age.

Twenty-five experts in different disciplines such as art history, anthropology and genetics agreed as a result of the preliminary study that the Mycenaean statuette is strong evidence of a Bronze Age settlement on Ayasuluk Hill.

The statuette also strengthened the idea that Apasa, the capital of the Arzawa – a kingdom affiliated with the Hittites – was founded in the Seljuk and Ephesus regions, and that there was an interaction between the Hittites and Mycenaean civilizations in many areas such as trade.

Speaking to Anadolu Agency (AA), the excavation head Mimaroğlu said that the figurines that are in a similar form to the Mycenaean statuette have been found in five centers in Western Anatolia to date. These centers were Troy, Limantepe, Kadıkalesi, Miletus and Iasos.

(Excerpt) Read more at arkeonews.net ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: anatolia; arzawa; arzawan; arzawans; ayasulukhill; bronzeage; catastrophism; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; greeks; hittite; hittites; mycenaeans; trojanwar; troy
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A 3,200-year-old Mycenaean statuette found at Ayasuluk Hill, Izmir, western Turkey, June 11, 2022.
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A 3,200-year-old Mycenaean statuette found at Ayasuluk Hill, Izmir, western Turkey, June 11, 2022. (AA Photo)

1 posted on 07/09/2022 5:16:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Immanuel Velikovsky
The Dark Age of Greece

2 posted on 07/09/2022 5:21:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqIz9vjjtDs

Good video on Hittites and Judges of Isreal.


3 posted on 07/09/2022 5:30:17 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I just finished watching the Rays, the descendants of the Popupites.


4 posted on 07/09/2022 5:30:24 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ok, I’ll be serious. This shouldn’t be a surprise, given the Mycenean-Hittite interaction that has left evidence found throughout most of my long and unillustrious life. What would be surprising would be the discovery of a third major civilization in the NE Mediterranean that would gum up the historical record.


5 posted on 07/09/2022 5:35:07 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: SunkenCiv
I'm not sure that's a figurine.

Whatever it is, might be related to an early Ozark civilization...


6 posted on 07/09/2022 5:48:47 PM PDT by nicollo (arbitrary law is not rule of law)
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To: SunkenCiv

Parent link to “The Dark Age of Greece”:
https://www.varchive.org/dag/index.htm


7 posted on 07/10/2022 7:20:38 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: chajin

Raids back and forth between rival civilizations would inevitably result in looted objects being found throughout the region.


8 posted on 07/10/2022 3:34:23 PM PDT by wildbill (The older I get, the less the term 'life in prison" scares me)
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To: PIF

thx.


9 posted on 07/10/2022 5:51:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
One of *those* topics.



10 posted on 07/10/2022 8:18:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: nicollo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1_Au79Pm2I


11 posted on 07/10/2022 8:32:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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the rest of the Trojan War and Arzawan keywords:

12 posted on 07/10/2022 8:46:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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the rest of the Hittite keywords, sorted:

13 posted on 07/10/2022 8:52:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s a headless statuette of Helen Thomas.


14 posted on 07/10/2022 8:58:30 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Crush, smash and obliterate the Liberal New World Order)
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To: Rebelbase

Not too sure, she was probably too old to pose for this.


15 posted on 07/10/2022 9:22:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Well, history tells us that at one time the whole of modern Turkey was ruled by the Hittites, and their influence was felt all over that area for about 500 years before their ultimate collapse.

They even made as far as Babylon when they sacked it. Now, that little excursion lasted a short time, but they were quite the power at one time.


16 posted on 07/10/2022 10:02:08 PM PDT by OneVike (Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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To: SunkenCiv

Also, some scholars believe that Troy was one of the cities that would come under constant attacks from the Hittites in their long ongoing battles for dominance in the region. Some expect to one day find archeological evidence of weapons and the like from the Hittite campaigns.

Interesting, for a vast kingdom that everyone claimed was made up story in the Bible up to the late 19th century, they sure have realized how powerful of an empire it was. They kept Egypt at bay by fighting a stalemate with Pharaoh Ramsey II.

I never hear the critics ever admit they were wrong when archeological evidence proves the accounts in the Bible are right. Amazing ain’t it? They just keep claiming the Bible is unreliable for history


17 posted on 07/10/2022 10:16:40 PM PDT by OneVike (Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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To: OneVike

Nope.


18 posted on 07/10/2022 10:18:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: OneVike
for a vast kingdom that everyone claimed was made up story in the Bible up to the late 19th century, they sure have realized how powerful of an empire it was.
The name "Hittites" was borrowed from the Bible, so what you're saying there doesn't make any sense.

19 posted on 07/10/2022 10:20:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

ROFL. You win!


20 posted on 07/11/2022 6:17:54 AM PDT by nicollo (arbitrary law is not rule of law)
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