Image Credit : Julia Nador, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
Posted on 04/09/2022 10:15:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A team of archaeologists from the Iraqi German Mission of the State Board of Antiquities and the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute have excavated a 4000-year-old boat near the ancient city of Uruk.
Uruk, also known as Warka was an ancient city of Sumer (and later of Babylonia), situated on the dried-up ancient channel of the Euphrates River.
Uruk played a leading role in the early urbanisation of Sumer in the mid-4th millennium BC, emerging as a major population centre until it was abandoned shortly before or after the Islamic conquest of AD 633–638.
The boat was first discovered during a study of the Uruk-Warka environs in 2018, where it was photogrammetrically documented, however, the threat of road traffic near the site has led to a rescue excavation to preserve the remains.
Constructed from reed, palm leaves and wood, the boat was covered in bitumen, a substance produced through the distillation of crude oil that is known for its waterproofing and adhesive properties.
Measuring 7 metres in length and 1.4 metres wide, the archaeological context shows that the boat sank on the banks of a river around 4000-years-ago and became buried in layers of sediment.
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Not far from Abraham’s original stomping grounds.
Quick! Blow it up! There is nothing worth preserving that is older than Mohammed's undershorts--assuming he ever wore such things.
Nope. Abraham was from a different Ur.
or ever existed!
Yeah but I don’t think Ur was too far from Babylon. Anyway, close enough for 4000 years ago. Seems to validate the given general timeframe and area.
No, there was another Ur, hence the modifier, Ur of the Chaldees.
Can’t help, still working on my project boat. Low on energy and money.
I didn’t even know they had bass in Sumeria.
I often wonder what life was like for people in Sumer in say 3000 BC.
the population of the world was 25 million or so, smaller than many Asian megacities. And the big cities had populations in 10s of thousands. Most if the world was empty. Things didn’t change, or changed slowly over generations. How did people think?
How many miles apart is Uruk from Ur?
So was the city abandoned because of the ROP or because the river dried up?
“That should buff right out.”
Uruk is known as the Second City of Nimrod as well as other names.
Hopefully they will check under the boat for remains of ancient Freeper firearms.
How did people think?
***They were probably very frustrated that their uber app didn’t work, so they saddled up the next horse that came along.
Climate change got it ? LOL
“Hopefully they will check under the boat for remains of ancient Freeper firearms.”
Hilarious!!!
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