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Archaeologists unlock 3,000-year-old secrets about creation of universe and monsters after deciphering oldest known map of the world
Daily Mail ^ | 0-11-2024 | Nikki Main

Posted on 09/12/2024 3:31:38 AM PDT by Adder

Researchers have finally decoded a Babylonian tablet thought to be the oldest map of the world.

Created between 2,600 and 2,900 years ago, the Imago Mundi provided researchers with a unique glimpse into the beliefs and practices of the ancient civilization.

The Babylonian tablet has a circular map with pieces of text written in cuneiform - an ancient writing system that used wedge-shaped symbols - which describes the early creation of the world.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: babylon; babylonia; babylonian; babylonians; cuneiform; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; imagomundi; map; nikkimain
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To: TexasFreeper2009

lol...


21 posted on 09/12/2024 5:49:59 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: PIF

If advanced genetic splicing were available, then these were real creatures.


22 posted on 09/12/2024 5:52:05 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I survived the WKRP turkey drop contest.)
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To: Openurmind

It is also my long-standing belief that the “sea people” who ravaged the middle east and basically ended the bronze age, were the Jews and or the people the Jews drove from their historic lands when they invaded the promised land.

I think people are thinking of sea people in the wrong way. They are thinking people who attacked by sea, when instead it is the people that crossed the red sea when Moses split it.


23 posted on 09/12/2024 5:52:20 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009

It is also my opinion that the lost tribes of Israel are simply those tribes who choose to interbreed with other pagan slaves freed at the same time as the other Jews. These tribes who were already an ethnic mix then intermarried with the remains of the pre-existing peoples in the parts of the promised land they occupied until eventually they were basically “lost”


24 posted on 09/12/2024 6:04:09 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Sea peoples were the Phoenicians and Levant tribes that proceeded them like the pre-bronze Ghassulian were probably seafaring also. But yes they were originally from around the Levant.


25 posted on 09/12/2024 6:22:43 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind

I have just found it interesting my entire life that this mysterious “sea people” that no one knows where they came from exactly suddenly invaded the lavant displacing all the native peoples and then they just as suddenly disappear from history.

All all of this occurs almost exactly when it is estimated that the Jews fled Egypt and entered the promised land.. the entire bible then goes on to tell how the Jews then invaded the promised land and conquered and/or killed everyone they encountered.

Those two stories which happen at the same time sound to me at least like the same story from different perspectives.

And if you were a non jews how would you refer to these people who suddenly appeared from no where and started invading and raiding? well.. they say they came when their God split the Red Sea to let them enter. So .. maybe we call them Sea People..

Just my personal belief


26 posted on 09/12/2024 6:29:17 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Flag_This

If the Jews knew about them, they didn’t know about the land of Israel?


27 posted on 09/12/2024 6:42:10 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Adder; SunkenCiv
I wonder if ancient cartographers including fanciful creatures to their maps were a form of lurid advertising, to pique the interests of the monarchs to whom explorers had to go to for ships and financing.

ancient

28 posted on 09/12/2024 6:44:35 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Our ignorance fills an ocean; our knowledge a thimble. The trick is knowing their bounderies.)
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To: RoosterRedux

[[Who is Einhorn?]]

He was known as the “Unicorn Killer”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Einhorn


29 posted on 09/12/2024 6:53:59 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Here is the thing. It goes back further to the neolithic age. The cultures found at Mount Carmel in the Judean mountains spread and split into other tribes, that split into even more other tribes. Just like sects of religions do. And even though they were all from the same origin they have now developed their own unique cultures. Then they naturally start conquering each other for resources even though they had the same parents and grandparents. Just like families do for wealth inheritance when someone passes. They didn’t begin as all separate tribes like we subconsciously assume. The sea people came from the levant in the first place and then returned back to the levant to invade it later.


30 posted on 09/12/2024 6:57:08 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind

I like your theory


31 posted on 09/12/2024 7:19:07 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009

It was all sibling rivalry... :)


32 posted on 09/12/2024 7:32:41 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: BipolarBob

If advanced genetic splicing were available, then these were real creatures.


Ancient Alien theorists say yes.

Notice they never say no?


33 posted on 09/12/2024 8:08:01 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Adder

An early edition of the Babylon Bee!


34 posted on 09/12/2024 8:53:25 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Bookshelf
”If the Jews knew about them, they didn’t know about the land of Israel?”

My comment was in reference to the statement in the article that the map purportedly shows the known Babylonian world, despite several other civilizations in the area at that time.

35 posted on 09/12/2024 9:31:25 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: PIF
Notice they never say no?

Why say no with all of the evidence?

36 posted on 09/12/2024 11:47:20 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I survived the WKRP turkey drop contest.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I, for one, withhold judgement on such matters until it’s been Finkeled.


37 posted on 09/12/2024 4:16:46 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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