Archaeologists Rewrite Timeline Of Bronze And Iron Ages, Alphabet

Cornell University ^ | 12-19-2001 | Blaine P. Friedlander Jr.

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Yeah, that’s right, 19 years ago... and it’s now going to become one of *those* topics.

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Note: this topic is from 12/24/2001. Thanks again blam.

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Note: this topic is from 12/24/2001. Thanks again blam.

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One of *those* topics.

The sixth city of Troy is conventionally placed in the fourteenth-thirteenth centuries before the present era, a dating which ultimately depends on Egyptian chronology. Here an observation by Rodney Young, the excavator of the Phrygian capital Gordion, needs to be cited:

"In their batter as well as their masonry construction the walls of the Phrygian Gate at Gordion find their closest parallel in the wall of the sixth city at Troy." But a gulf of time separates these two constructions in the conventional timetable.

"Though separated in time by five hundred years or thereabouts, the two fortifications may well represent a common tradition of construction in north-western Anatolia; if so, intermediate examples have yet to be found."

Still today no intermediate examples have been found. As to the date of the Phrygian Gate and wall of Gordion, Young wrote:

"The Phrygian Kingdom was . . . at the apex of its power toward the end of the eighth century, when it apparently extended as far to the southeast as the Taurus and was in contact with Assyria. This period of power was apparently the time of the adornment and fortification of its capital city."

This points to the eighth century for the erection of the city wall and gate. Eighth-century Gordion is similar to thirteenth-century Troy, yet intermediate examples of the peculiar way of building the gate and the wall beg to be found.

The Dark Age Of Greece by Immanuel Velikovsky
Chapter II: Mute Witnesses: Troy and Gordion

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...The Dark Age Of Greece by Immanuel Velikovsky Chapter II: Mute Witnesses: Troy and Gordion

Another book by Velikovsky that I need to get. So many books. So little time.

'Face

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It'll be easier for ya, it is only available online. Generally, browsers and OSes today will use speech synthesis to read the pages to you, if you ask nice. :^)

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” With the new chronology, the bowl now is independently dated circa 740 B.C., making its inscription as old as the oldest known artifacts on which the Greek alphabet appears: “

Placing it in Herodotus’s realm.
I trust Herodotus to tell us what was known at that time.

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Oh, pretty please? With sugar on it? And chocolate?

‘Face

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