Posted on 03/01/2009 6:39:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The Syrian National Expedition working at al-Mishrefa (Qatana) site in Homs governorate discovered Wednesday a cuneiform tablet dating back to1700 B.C. of the Bronze era. The tablet tells the story of Mrs. Khimar Ashkhara who buys a wall to separate between her house and the house of her neighbors Mr. Akhla Ashmieh and to fix the real-estate of her property in return for 25 grams of silver
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Placemarker for tomorrow.
Even then fences (walls) make good neighbors.
Now if we can just get Helen Thomas to tell us what she wrote on it.
Cool. There is so much neat archaeological stuff in Syria (and the whole Middle East), but unfortunately it’s hard to travel to the region thanks to the religion of pieces.
Translation: "Be It Ever So Humble, There's No Place Like Homs."
Sigh! I find it dissapointing that go back 4000 years and we are STILL arguing about property. The curse of humanity.
That’s probably within *range*...
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