Credit : Peter Fischer, Teresa Bürge
Posted on 12/05/2021 7:41:25 PM PST by SunkenCiv
One particularly important find is a cylinder-shaped seal made from the mineral hematite, with a cuneiform inscription from Mesopotamia (present day Iraq), which the archaeologists were able to decipher.
“The text consists of three lines and mentions three names. One is Amurru, a god worshiped in Mesopotamia. The other two are historical kings, father and son, who we recently succeeded in tracking down in other texts on clay tablets from the same period, i.e., the 18th century BC. We are currently trying to determine why the seal ended up in Cyprus more than 1000 kilometres from where it was made.”
Among the finds are the red gemstone carnelian from India, the blue gemstone lapis lazuli from Afghanistan and amber from around the Baltic Sea, which shows that the city had a central role for trade during the Bronze Age. The gold jewellery, along with scarabs (beetle-shaped amulets with hieroglyphs) and the remains of fish imported from the Nile Valley, tell the story of intensive trade with Egypt...
“The comparisons show that most of the objects are from the time of Nefertiti and her husband Echnaton around 1350 BC. Like a gold pendant we found: a lotus flower with inlaid gemstones. Nefertiti wore similar jewellery.”
...The next step will be DNA analysis of the skeletons.
“This will reveal how the different individuals are related with each other and if there are immigrants from other cultures, which isn’t unlikely considering the vast trade networks,” says Peter Fischer.
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
Everyone knows that Bronze Age tombs contain bronze artifacts. Gold artifacts are only found in Golden Age tombs. /sarc
One of *those* topics.
I wonder what they did at the ancient Olympics before silver and gold were discovered?
1st and second losers?
Pickles, twigs, and hardened balls of mud.
Oh wait, nevermind, those are various traditional anniversary gifts.
It always amazes me that they were capable of such craftsmanship so long ago.
Badminton shuttle?
I have some random silver stuff from back then, you can get cool coins on ebay pretty cheap.
Gold like this is not so inexpensive.
“Pickles, twigs, and hardened balls of mud” — an ancient-era country song.
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