Peter Pfälzner, Universität Tübingen
Posted on 03/30/2018 6:13:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
University of Tübingen archaeologists headed by Professor Peter Pfälzner have made sensational finds in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. The researchers from the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies found a cuneiform archive of 93 clay tablets dating from... the Middle Assyrian Empire. The tablets were found at the Bronze Age city site of Bassetki, which was only discovered in 2013... The researchers unearthed a layer from the little-known Mittani Kingdom (approx. 1550 - 1300) for the first time at this location. Two Mittani cuneiform tablets found in this level document intense trade conducted by the city's inhabitants around the middle of the second millennium BCE; business is likely to have flourished due to Bassetki's location along trade routes from Mesopotamia to Anatolia and Syria.
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Peter Pfälzner, Universität Tübingen
Significant Bronze Age city discovered in Northern Iraq
Science Daily | 11/7/2016 | University of Tübingen
Posted on 11/07/2016 7:32:42 AM PST by JimSEA
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I hope it can be excavated and any tablets/cylinders translated before the koranimals show up and destroy it.
Tax records....................
"somewhere in northern Iraq . . ."
I think they would really appreciate going tablet-less.
So true.
All the followers of Mad Mo know how to do is destroy.
Never invent or build, just destroy.
Yes, it's one of *those* topics.
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Wow, that was genuis. Psst, over here.
[snip] The fourth language written in cuneiform on the tablets of the Ras Shamra library is called Khar... It appears to have been the local language, the language of the government and of a large part of the population... Before the excavations of Ras Shamra, frequent mention of "Khr" had already been encountered... Akkadian texts speak of "Khurri," and in Egyptian documents a part of Syria is often called "Kharu"... it was found that one of the letters of the [Amarna] archives was written, apart from the introduction, in an unknown tongue. This letter, written by Tushratta, king of Mitanni, dealt in its six hundred lines with some matters interpreted with the help of other letters, and the language was deciphered. At first it was called Mitannian, but later changed to Subarean. Then in the state archives of Boghazkeui in eastern Anatolia letters were found in a similar tongue, and its name was given as Khri. The people who spoke this language were called Khr... and accordingly the people are called Hurrians or Hurrites. The language of these people has been studiied by linguists... but the historians know nothing of their history... not Semitic, but neither were they Indo-Iranian. Then the writings in alphabetic Khar of Ras Shamra came to light... the scribes who wrote in Khar were versed ina number of other languages as well, and wore themselves out in lexicographic study ("several rooms" in the libaray of Nikmed "contained only dictionaries and lexicons"). [/snip]
Immanuael Velikovsky, "Ages in Chaos", pp 196-198 (1952)
Oh, wow, I did ping the list on the first try. That happened at some point after my second face-to-keyboard dozing session. And the reply to VR? I was certain I’d sent that first. So, it was last.
What is that from?
Thanks for the ping. It will be interesting to learn what is on the tablets
They were wireless back then.
” what is on the tablets...”
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LOL
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