Posted on 12/18/2005 10:56:55 AM PST by blam
Ancient Marib Discoveries Marvel of the World
By Zaid Al-Alaya’a
Dec 17, 2005 - Vol. VIII Issue 49
SANA’A- An ancient inscription shedding light on battles over 2300 years ago has been unearthed by a German archeological expedition at the temple of Al-Maqa in Surwah, Marib Governorate. The important archeological discovery reveals new information on the era of the King of Sheba, Yas’a Imar Watar bin Yakreb, and the military expedition he undertook.
The inscription shows that King Yas’a, who ruled Yemen in the 4th century BC, made several military expeditions, just as his predecessor King Kurb Ail Watur bin Thamar bin Ali had done before him. The inscription also revealed that King Yas’a launched wars on Qatban, Radman, Duhsem, Yaf’a and other areas of Al-Jowf, such as the cities of Kumna and Qutol. He killed and imprisoned many of those he defeated. The tablet is 7.24 meters long, 0.72m high and 0.51 cm thick.
The latest phase of the German expedition, led by Dr. Iris Gerlach, began in November and will last until the mid-January.
Dr. Gerlach, said that the discoveries confirmed that while the city was small it had played a tremendous role and had a great influence on the historical map of the region. Indeed, the city contains temple and palace sites no less important than the ancient and nearby city of Marib. The discovery is only the latest in a long line of important discoveries in the Marib region. Yemeni and foreign experts and interested people in archeology expected that the new discoveries in archeology in the ancient city could change the historical map of the Arabian Peninsula and the region. Experts, speaking to the Saba news agency, said that the new discoveries indicated the long period in which human civilizations have flourished in Yemen.
The finds also indicates that these civilizations reach a high level of civilization, turning the bare desert to orchards. Yemeni civilizations were also significant in the world economy, and played an important role alongside Egypt, Iraq, Greece, Babylonia and Rome. Marlin Felibs, Head of the American Corp. for Human Study, a team that has been working in Baliqs Temple since the middle of last century, and led by her brother Wendell Felibs, said that the Temple of Baliqs is significant discovery that nobody has seen before for thousand years. Those who study new archeological discoveries in Yemen can see the advanced level of the urban life of the kingdoms at the time. Prototypes of hydraulic engines working by water were discovered, which were used for agriculture.
These machines were in addition to Marib’s strong dams with its unique building style. Felibs added that the result of the current season for the American Team was the discovery of a complete city under sands, spreading across 700 yards and containing buildings and inscriptions dating back to the most ancient of times.
Similarly impressive discoveries were made at the Awam Temple, were finds helped provide new facts confirming that the temple was a national religious center for the whole Arabian Peninsula. The head of the Italian team working in Barqish said that the team had recently found new temple consisting of two floors besides Nakreh temple. The Italians are expecting to find a third temple, and hope to unearth many more secrets and wonders.
Dr.Abdulla Bawazir, head of the General Authority of Museums and Antiquities, said he had visited the sites recently to view the significant and important finds. He said that all the foreign expeditions were operating in cooperation with the museums authority. He said that the findings proved that there were many more things left to be discovered in the many archeological areas around Marib.
GGG Ping.
Pretty good size.
Perhaps centuries from now, they will unearth the Eiffel Tower and ask the same questions.
The glassified sand scattered about could offer a clue.
Qat got their tongues.
"You find yourself wondering just what happened to take them from such an advanced society to where they are today."
Climate Change!
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The rivers of Sinai are long gone, filling with water only after the rare downpour. Petra isn't near rivers, and the closest ones empty into the Dead Sea or into the Mediterranean. Herodotus' Erythraean sea is the Indian Ocean (including the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and gulfs of Aqaba and Suez), so it appears he refers here to the Marib dam, provided it wasn't a conflation of several stories. It seems more likely that Herodotus had heard of the story of the Arabian king who diverted water but never got the chance to see it for himself, whereas he probably had seen the Sinai watering stations for himself.The History: ThaliaI shall now mention a thing of which few of those who sail to Egypt are aware. Twice a year wine is brought into Egypt from every part of Greece, as well as from Phoenicia, in earthen jars; and yet in the whole country you will nowhere see, as I may say, a single jar. What then, every one will ask, becomes of the jars? This, too, I will clear up. The burgomaster of each town has to collect the wine-jars within his district, and to carry them to Memphis, where they are all filled with water by the Memphians, who then convey them to this desert tract of Syria. And so it comes to pass that all the jars which enter Egypt year by year, and are there put up to sale, find their way into Syria, whither all the old jars have gone before them.
by Herodotus
tr by George Rawlinson
This way of keeping the passage into Egypt fit for use by storing water there, was begun by the Persians so soon as they became masters of that country. As, however, at the time of which we speak the tract had not yet been so supplied, Cambyses... filled a number of camels' skins with water, and loading therewith all the live camels that he possessed, drove them into the desert, and awaited the coming of the army. This is the more likely of the two tales that are told. The other is an improbable story, but, as it is related, I think that I ought not to pass it by. There is a great river in Arabia, called the Corys, which empties itself into the Erythraean sea. The Arabian king, they say, made a pipe of the skins of oxen and other beasts, reaching from this river all the way to the desert, and so brought the water to certain cisterns which he had dug in the desert to receive it. It is a twelve days' journey from the river to this desert tract. And the water, they say, was brought through three different pipes to three separate places.
I don't believe everything I read, and I don't believe the Arabic language is that old:
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~imaging/negev/mainfs.html
Even Hebrew is not that old. Jesus did not speak Hebrew, he spoke Arameic.
Lots of dead animals.
Another great find.
Jesus didn't speak Hebrew? Maybe he could read it by wearing Urim and Thummim glasses?
When Jesus read the Torah in the synagogue, what language was he speaking?
"Jesus didn't speak Hebrew?" OI VEY! And, I suppose Charles Taze Russell could speak fluent Greek and Joseph Smith could translate Ancient Egyptian with Urim and Thummim glasses from behind a curtain. Right?
But what does that have to do with this article?
ibn ali 2700 years ago? I doubt it.
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