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They go back tomorrow.

1 posted on 05/01/2018 6:27:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

How hard could it be to take pictures of each one as they are being packed?


2 posted on 05/01/2018 6:37:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv
"If these tablets are returned and if they are from Irisagrig, it will be a great tragedy for scholarship that they will not be published before they are returned," said David Owen, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University... "nor are there any Iraqi scholars capable of publishing them..."

Sounds like an arrogant asshole.

3 posted on 05/01/2018 6:47:10 PM PDT by libertylover (If people come here legally, they're immigrants; if they come here illegally, they're invaders.)
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To: SunkenCiv
a few [of the Sumerian tablets] contain a form of magical spells called incantations, the statement said.

Has anyone alerted Ash Williams?


4 posted on 05/01/2018 6:51:42 PM PDT by Pilsner
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To: SunkenCiv
Muzzies seem to have a habit of destroying anything predating or in conflict with their own history. Artifacts are either demolished or looted and sold to the west. Historical sites have been dynamited or rebuilt for their own use, erasing the culture that built it originally.

They're right to be concerned, these artifacts won't last intact in Iran.

5 posted on 05/01/2018 6:51:46 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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“Owen has published a number of scientific papers describing tablets from Irisagrig, but has not worked with Hobby Lobby and has not studied the seized texts.”

Why is THAT reference in there?

I’m sure plenty of archaeologists could say they haven’t worked with many companies...

6 posted on 05/01/2018 7:13:24 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: SunkenCiv

A father of one of my students was stationed in Europe. It seemed he took everything that wasn’t nailed down. He had loads of stuff. Had a Nero coin he found at Pompeii, bits from Augustus’s tomb, a breastplate from the English Civil war and lots of Soviet stuff—he was in Europe about the time that the Soviet Union collapsed. And he had four cuneiform tablets that he bought at a “jumble sale” in England. They were white, about 10” x 4”. No doubt a souvenir of an Englishman in Mesopotamia back in the day.


7 posted on 05/01/2018 7:14:27 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: SunkenCiv
For the love of God, where is Indiana Jones when you really need him!
 
9 posted on 05/01/2018 7:37:16 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: SunkenCiv
the Lost City of Irisagrig

Now you're just making words up.

11 posted on 05/01/2018 11:36:28 PM PDT by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Irisagrig is a "Sumerian city never excavated before and whose location remains unknown"

No wonder. The Anunnaki's bases were destroyed when the Antarctic glaciers melted.

14 posted on 05/02/2018 5:13:35 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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27 posted on 05/16/2018 8:48:06 PM PDT by eldoradude (Walk a mile in a man's shoes and he'll never catch you.)
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