Names and numbers fill the back (pictured) of the tablet fragment, found last summer in Greece.
Photograph courtesy Christian Mundigler
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To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
03/31/2011 10:39:27 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(I've posted a total of 1,698 threads and 63,835 replies, as of 03-29-2011......)
To: Red Badger; SunkenCiv
I bet there was a lot of this stuff that ended up as sub-base on road projects through the ages.
3 posted on
03/31/2011 10:40:32 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
To: Red Badger
But the tablet, found last summer, is the biggest surprise of the multiyear project Was it an iPad or an Android tablet?
To: Red Badger
They had Ovaltine back then?
To: Red Badger
10 posted on
03/31/2011 10:48:00 AM PDT by
frogjerk
(I believe in unicorns, fairies and pro-life Democrats.)
To: Red Badger
I believe the fragment says:
“Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels—bring home for Emma.”
Jack
11 posted on
03/31/2011 10:50:01 AM PDT by
JackOfVA
To: Red Badger
I love this.
The Mycenaeansmade legendary in part by Homer's Iliad, which fictionalizes their war with Troydominated much of Greece from about 1600 B.C. to 1100 B.C...
At one time these self same "experts" were claiming that Troy didn't really exist, it too was a myth. Now they claim the Iliad "fictionalizes" the war. Maybe, or maybe something happened back then that they do not understand.
14 posted on
03/31/2011 10:55:42 AM PDT by
Robwin
To: Red Badger
What does it say? “Page intentionally left blank”?
15 posted on
03/31/2011 11:01:49 AM PDT by
GingisK
To: Red Badger
Names and numbers fill the back Ahhh, just as I suspected. Ancient pron with an attached phone book.
16 posted on
03/31/2011 11:03:59 AM PDT by
prisoner6
(Right Wing Nuts bolt The Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
To: Red Badger
While the Iklaina tablet is an example of the earliest writing system in Europe, other writing is much older, explained Classics professor Thomas Palaima, who wasn't involved in the study, which is to be published in the April issue of the journal Proceedings of the Athens Archaeological Society. For example, writings found in China, Mesopotamia, and Egypt are thought to date as far back as 3,000 B.C.
Oh, No, No, No! Its impossible for ancient White Europeans to be as advanced as those brown and yellow people of China, Mesopotamia and Egypt!
17 posted on
03/31/2011 11:04:00 AM PDT by
Cowboy Bob
(Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
To: Red Badger
....
and a surprisingly advanced drainage system...why "surprisingly"?
...people are people. There have been engineers, geeks, doctors, accountants, historians,..etc since the beginning of time. Just because they lacked advanced technology (which only comes with time) does not mean that these people were dumb or stupid or backward.
I for one, am not a bit "surprised" at anything that is found in antiquity. What is surprising to me is that someone is "surprised" at anything they find in the rubble.
As a matter of fact, I think that the deeper people dig, the more they are going to find. Every age builds on the top of the last age....
....the bottom layer is still down there.
18 posted on
03/31/2011 11:06:34 AM PDT by
B.O. Plenty
(Give war a chance...)
To: Red Badger
I believe this dates from right around the time of the Thera (Santorini) eruption.
To: Red Badger
It’s part of a discarded restaurant menu.
24 posted on
03/31/2011 11:17:47 AM PDT by
Rich21IE
To: Red Badger
Dit they have the dirty parts underlined - Or is that just how they lined up their letters?
To: Red Badger
I had no idea that the Palmer Penmanship method went back that far!!!
BTW: the tablet below says..."pick up some milk and eggs on your way home!"
Either that or...."WATCH OUT FOR THAT TYRANNOSAURUS RE...!!" (the rest is broken off down there at the bottom...see??)
To: Red Badger
"Dear Mr. Flintstone,
You may have already won "
36 posted on
03/31/2011 12:14:38 PM PDT by
Blogatron
(Brought to you by The American Frog Council; 'Frog - The other green meat')
To: Red Badger; SunkenCiv
Considered "magical or mysterious" in its time, the writing survives only because a trash heap caught fire some 3,500 years ago, according to researchers.
Was the offending scribe fined 10 drachmas for throwing it into the trash, rrather than the recycle bin?
That was perfectly good, reusable dried clay, until the idiot fired it. Did he think there was an inexhaustable supply of suitable clay, just for the digging?
Did he not realize that that such thoughtless waste, if all the scribes did the same, would cause the premature closing of the local landfill thus necessitating the hauling of trash (at increased expense) farther to a new location?
41 posted on
03/31/2011 1:25:43 PM PDT by
ApplegateRanch
(Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
To: Red Badger
I remember it like it was yesterday - I was interviewing king Nebuchadnezzar about those annoying Israelites when I dropped my notes.
44 posted on
03/31/2011 8:08:23 PM PDT by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: Red Badger
Obvious. 1. A man lying down on a pillow. 2. An oil well. 3. A tv antenna. It's about the increase in wealth in a country once they tap into their own natural resources!
47 posted on
04/01/2011 8:56:00 PM PDT by
Beowulf9
To: Red Badger
It says “MAGA”!!!! Vote Trump!!!!”
51 posted on
01/19/2018 9:44:09 AM PST by
ZULU
(DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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