Posted on 07/27/2010 6:20:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The paving over of a 3,000-year-old tumulus, a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave, in the eastern city of Van has prompted an outcry from the Provincial Culture and Tourism Directorate.
Stating that the road was unnecessarily built, officials said: "We have halted the work on the road. The road and asphalt will be removed and the tumulus will be rehabilitated."
Before the road was built by the municipality, the directorate had planned to start archaeological work in the historical tumulus, which dates from the Urartu period, along with work in the historical Van Castle.
"A road was built and paved over the tumulus without permission. Municipalities are as responsible as the Culture and Tourism Ministry for historical areas," said Provincial Culture and Tourism Director Salih Tatlï.
Tatlï said the area the road was built on was a first-degree protected area.
"The road building was halted upon complaints. But unfortunately, it was too late. We are very sorry about it; no one asked us for permission. The municipality should not have done it," he said.
"From now on, we will act according to the decisions of experts. Most probably, the tumulus will be rehabilitated, because this area has the ministry's permission for archaeological excavations," Tatlï added. "These works were planned to start this year because the Van tumulus is very important to us. The things that will be excavated here have significance in terms of the city's history."
Residents asked for the road
The municipality's construction director, Orhan Senkaya, said the area was already open to vehicle traffic and was paved upon the request of neighborhood residents. He said work on the road was halted once officials from the Provincial Culture and Tourism Directorate gave the order to do so.
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Greed and Stupidity know no countries boundaries.
and from a book (I wonder if it is online yet?):In Search of Hurrian UrkeshThe thousands of mid-second-millennium B.C. documents unearthed at Boghazkoy, Turkey, the site of the Hittite capital of Hattusha, include several collections of myths dealing with ancient heroes and gods. In the most important group of these myths, however, the heroes and gods are not Hittite; they are Hurrian, and their stories are set not in Anatolia but in Syro-Mesopotamia, where Hurrian-speaking people lived. These myths, the so-called Kumarbi Cycle, are Hittite translations of Hurrian stories. Some of them are even inscribed on bilingual tablets in both Hittite and Hurrian.
by Giorgio Buccellati
and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
In inscriptions of the Assyrian King Shalmaneser I (1280-1261 B.C.) we find the first occurrence of the term Uruatri... eight countries, collectively referred to as Uruatri, situated in a mountainous region to the southeast of Lake Van... the Assyrian name of Uruatri had no ethnic significance... (perhaps meaning 'the mountainous country')... In Assyrian inscriptions of the 11th century B.C., we again find the term Uruatri, and from the second quarter of the 9th century, in the reign of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), it is of common occurrence, in the form Urartu, being used concurrently with the name of Nairi... (Boris B. Piotrovsky, Urartu pp 43-45)wow, a link from a file, and the link still works. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
Somewhere on FR there’s a topic about the construction of some posh new mansion, again in Turkey, that used a *legally protected* ancient tomb as a part of its foundation, as well as support for its inground pool. Can’t find it.
Most pre Turk and non muslim sites are gone disappeared kaput. Destroyed, ashes, burnt...looted.
Churches, temples, villages, towns, millions of human beings...all gone.
This is the legacy of the monster Turks.
Are you back from your trip?
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