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“Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to RULE from day one” Valerie Jarret co-chair of the Messiah's transition team.
Posted on 12/20/2008 2:32:23 PM PST by decimon
Damascus, Dec 19: A research team from Udine University in Italy has uncovered a vast, ancient necropolis near the Syrian oasis of Palmyra.
The team, headed by Daniele Morandi Bonacossi of Udine University, believes the burial site dates from the second half of the third millennium BC.
The necropolis comprises around least 30 large burial mounds near Palmyra, some 200km northeast of Damascus in Syria.
“This is the first evidence that an area of semi-desert outside the oasis was occupied during the early Bronze Age,” said Morandi Bonacossi. “Future excavations of the burial mounds will undoubtedly reveal information of crucial importance,” he added.
The team of archaeologists, topographers, physical anthropologists and geophysicists also discovered a stretch of an old Roman road, which once linked Palmyra with western Syria and was marked with at least 11 milestones along the way.
The stones all bear Latin inscriptions with the name of the Emperor Aurelius, who quashed a rebellion led by the Palmyran queen Zenobia in AD 272.
The archaeologists also unearthed a Roman staging post, or “mansio”.
The ancient building had been perfectly preserved over the course of the centuries by a heavy layer of desert sand.
The team from Udine University made their discoveries during their tenth annual excavation in central Syria, which wrapped up at the end of November.
The necropolis is the latest in a string of dazzling finds by the team.
Efforts have chiefly focused on the ancient Syrian capital of Qatna, northeast of modern-day Homs.
Since starting work there in 1999, the team has uncovered more than 1,500 square metres of the town’s acropolis dating back to the Middle and Late Bronze Age.
ANI
Necrophilia ping.
Cool.
ain’t many words the sorta rhyme with elvira
Palmyra brought her to mind, eh?
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“Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to RULE from day one” Valerie Jarret co-chair of the Messiah's transition team.
Hellmira, to Southrons.
quite the history for this place
they had some great names back then
Zenobia,
Aurelian
Baal was big there too
http://www.answers.com/topic/tadmor-syria
Palmyra, ancient city of central Syria. A small modern village known as Tudmur is on the site. An oasis N of the Syrian Desert, 130 mi (209 km) NE of Damascus, Palmyra was important in Syrian-Babylonian trade by the 1st cent. B.C. Palmyra became of true importance only after Roman control was established (c.A.D. 30). Local tribes vied for control, which fell to the Septimii by the 3d cent. A.D. Septimius Odenathus built Palmyra into a strong autonomous state that practically embraced the Eastern Empire, including Syria, NW Mesopotamia, and W Armenia. After his death his widow, Zenobia, briefly expanded the territory, but her ambition brought on (A.D. 272) an attack by Aurelian, who was victorious and partly destroyed (273) the city. In decline, Palmyra was taken by the Arabs and sacked by Timur. It fell into ruins, and even the ruins were forgotten until the 17th cent. The great temple dedicated to Baal and other remains show the ancient splendor of Palmyra at its prime.
Well that certainly narrows it down.
Down to one sixth.
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