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Tubingen archaeologists uncover cuneiform archive in Iraq's Kurdish region
Universitat Tubingen ^ | October 23, 2017 | Janna Eberhardt

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at uni-tuebingen.de ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: anatolia; assyria; assyrianempire; assyrians; bassetki; cuneiform; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; hanigalbat; hurrians; khanigalbat; kurdistan; mesopotamia; mitanni; mittani; naharin; peterpflzner; syria
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To: Sirius Lee

Probaably at least one will say:

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21 posted on 04/01/2018 3:52:24 PM PDT by wildbill (Quis Custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen?)
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