Posted on 12/12/2021 3:20:58 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A 1,600-year-old flute and bronze ring with a key have been unearthed during excavations in the 3,000-year-old Zerzevan Castle, located in the Çınar district of Diyarbakır and which served as the last garrison of the Roman Empire in the east...
The historical castle, which is home to the Mithras Temple, is located on an area of 60,000 square meters.
The historical castle has 12-15-meter-high and 1200-meter-long wall ruins, 21-meter-high watchtower and defense tower, church, administration building, residences, grain and weapon warehouses, underground sanctuary, shelters, rock tombs, water channels and 54 water cisterns. Its 1,800-year-old entrance has been unearthed, too...
Stating that the flute, which was identified to be 1,600 years old, and a ring with a special key were also unearthed during the latest excavations, Coçkun said that the flute, produced by making round holes in the bones of small cattle, is important as it reveals that the people living in the castle have an interest in art and music...
Coşkun noted that Zerzevan Castle was the military settlement of the Roman Empire and one of the best-preserved garrisons in the world.
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Flute? Very early Jethro Tull and/or Marshall Tucker Band?
Jethro Tull, I bet..Bouree
Wow, who ever would have thought a bunch of knuckle dragging cavemen would be interested in music?
Honestly, do archeologists realize what idiots they look like when they make these pronouncements as if they never expected them?
People who lived along ago weren’t stupid and illiterate. Who knew?
(insert Keith Richards joke here)
For tens of thousands of years, human brains have been about the same as they are now.
Zanfir
About 65% functioning, and the other 35% Democrats!?
As a flute player...would love to hear it played.
And even then, wise men didn’t know how it feels to be thick as a brick.
Those ancient humans archeologists constantly express surprise over were the ones who discovered or invented the very foundations of math and science that we build on today.
Some of their feats of architecture are amazing, and more so if they were as ignorant as archeologists make them out to be,
While great discoveries are still being made today, we are building on easily gained knowledge, which is an unfair advantage, in some respects. The men of great genius who laid these foundations were way beyond most of what we see today.
Am I wrong about this? But, I thought that the Denisovan Cave produced a sort of flute in the sediment layers of Denisovans and Neanderthals. Sort of a Holocene/Pleistocene Sirius.
Lyre!
Little did this simple flute player know that only a millennia or so later, there would be Cardi B…
This flute was used by a shepherd, in fact, the bone it was made from came from one of the fattest sheep he'd ever seen. I wool have done the same.
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