[blam]

I'm glad to see that more people are beginning to use tree rings (Dendrochronology) in their dating. They are very accurate when properly used.

[RadioAstronomer]

Thanks for posting this. Interesting read.

[RightWhale]

1100 BC is nearly current events for you. The gratuitous hit on air pollution was noted.

[grumpster-dumpster]

Shouldn't this be posted under "Breaking News?"

Sorry, a moment of mirth crept in...it won't happen again!

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[Moosilauke]

Has Benny Hinn weighed in yet on this issue?

[grumpster-dumpster]

Bump for "Breaking News." :)

[aristeides]

My recollection is that the Phrygian alphabet appears to be derived from the Greek. If that is true, and if the Phrygian use of the alphabet has to be dated earlier than it has been up to now, then so must the Greek alphabet be dated earlier.

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[mrsmith]

” 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.