i see what you did there... 8^)
Posted on 11/18/2013 6:48:04 AM PST by BenLurkin
The ancient city of Gezer has been an important site since the Bronze Age, because it sat along the Way of the Sea, or the Via Maris, an ancient trade route that connected Egypt, Syria, Anatolia and Mesopotamia.
The city was ruled over many centuries by Canaanites, Egyptians and Assyrians, and Biblical accounts from roughly the 10th century describe an Egyptian pharaoh giving the city to King Solomon as a wedding gift after marrying his daughter.
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The site has been excavated for a century, and most of the excavations so far date to the the 10th through eighth centuries B.C.
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But earlier this summer, Ortiz and his colleague Samuel Wolff of the Israel Antiquities Authority noticed traces of an even more ancient city from centuries before King Solomon's time. Among the layers was a section that dated to about the 14th century B.C., containing a scarab, or beetle, amulet from King Amenhotep III, the grandfather of King Tut. They also found shards of Philistine pottery.
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Is Gezer an old city?
i see what you did there... 8^)
If they find marshmallows then they will know it was Gozer and not Gezer.
Ha ha! “Nimble little minx, isn’t she?”. Funniest move ever, or at least top 10.
The city was buried beneath the ashes of hundreds of tons of burned marshmallow.
He was an old geezer from Gezer....
http://www.varchive.org/ce/theses.htm
39. Thutmose I attacked Gezer of the Philistines and gave it to Solomon, his son-in-law.
http://www.varchive.org/schorr/extension.htm
[snip] It is therefore of interest to note that the three Greek tunnels seem so “astonishing,” precisely because they appeared suddenly and fully developed, and constitute such a novelty for the region. Hezekiah’s tunnel, on the other hand, was not only the successor to the earlier, less ambitious (and militarily disastrous) attempts by the Jebusites to channel spring water into Jerusalem, but also followed upon centuries of Istaelite improvements which produced completely concealed water tunnels, making spring water accessible to besieged cities throughout Palestine at places such as Gibeon, Gezer, Megiddo and Hazor.10
Of far greater importance in determining the date of the three contemporaneous Greek water systems is the fact that in the two excavations where the archaeologists did record their findings, the results correspond to Wace’s trench by the Lion Gate. The Tirynthian and Athenian cisterns both contained pottery of the late eighth-seventh century immediately above, and mixed together with pottery from the transition of LH III B-C; they contained no ware from the “intervening” centuries and no layer of sediment to mark the passage of the five centuries which the standard chronology places between LH III B/C and the eighth/seventh century.11 [/snip]
http://www.varchive.org/cor/rix/rv200177.htm
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The Egyptian pharaoh(s?) Sesostris had settlements along the east end of the Black Sea around 2,000 BC. There are apparently some people still living there with dark curly hair and/or? skin which might be descendents.
Herodotus refers to the people of Colchis as being Egyptian colonists, left behind when a pharaoh he (and probably Greeks in general) called Sesostris; the Wikipedia page on this is brief, but thorough and useful, although it doesn’t go far enough IHMO regarding the likely conflation of different eras and pharaohs. Herodotus is known to have been a faithful recorder of what he was told, so the fault lies either in translation or in the account itself.
Egyptians of all ancient periods appear to have had no more competence regarding prior eras than people anywhere did. They did however have some continuity due to monumental inscriptions and a long-lived system of hieroglyphic writing.
The Colchians — who are also said to have practiced circumcision — referred to there were probably either descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes exiled by the Assyrians (the Assyrians had a presence of some kind in the Crimea for example, and the exiles were scattered to the frontiers, including Central Asia, where three of Ashoka’s pillars are written in Aramaic) or less possibly descendants of Egyptian allies of the Trojans during the Trojan War.
Interesting.
Tut’s father was Akhenaten, his ancestry leads back to Iran, which means common, deep Indo-European ancestry.
Thanks!
The Edicts of King Ashoka
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1173637/posts
Beyond the Mountains of Darkness
http://www.varchive.org/ce/baalbek/khazars.htm
Cities of the Medes
http://www.varchive.org/ce/baalbek/citmedes.htm
Gozan
http://www.varchive.org/ce/baalbek/gozan.htm
The Allies of Priam
http://www.varchive.org/dag/trowar.htm
My double first cousins have Marfan's Syndrome.
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