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Archaeologists Find Celts in Unlikely Spot: Central Turkey
NYT ^
| 12/25/2001
| JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Posted on 12/24/2001 10:20:40 PM PST by a_Turk
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posted on
07/20/2006 8:35:13 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Thank you for the ping. I agree with others that the news isn't surprising. Many civilizations were adventurers and driven by curiosity to see what's over the next hill; others followed their religious drives.
To: SunkenCiv
Wow, it took me awhile to notice the ancient status of this thread. :)
To: SunkenCiv
Didn't Gauls/Celts come from the region? Progeny of Esau?
To: a_Turk
The archaeologists knew the findings were celt because they were surrounded by really bad food (mushy peas...shudder).
65
posted on
07/20/2006 9:16:26 AM PDT
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: ValerieUSA
Galatia resulted from a Celtic invasion, 4th c BC I think. Centuries earlier the Phrygians arrived in Anatolia from the same direction (across the strait).
66
posted on
07/20/2006 9:27:20 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: a_Turk
I agree. I've known about Celts in Turkey for many years. What is surprising?
Given Turkey's history and geography, it would be surprising to find that any group of people had NOT been there at some point!
67
posted on
07/20/2006 9:32:57 AM PDT
by
Renfield
(If Gene Tracy was the entertainment at your senior prom, YOU might be a redneck...)
To: TomSmedley
The melungeons don't look Turkish. They look Portugese.
68
posted on
07/20/2006 9:35:18 AM PDT
by
Renfield
(If Gene Tracy was the entertainment at your senior prom, YOU might be a redneck...)
To: Verginius Rufus
There's also a Galicia region of Spain (Northwest). Yes, it's Celtic.
69
posted on
07/20/2006 9:39:12 AM PDT
by
Renfield
(If Gene Tracy was the entertainment at your senior prom, YOU might be a redneck...)
To: a_Turk
An old Israeli Rabbi has spent most of his life researching genealogy of the people in that middle eastern region. His website
HERE shows why he believes that Celtic tribes were living in that region thousands of years ago, and later migrated westward into most of Europe. He identifies the nomadic people known as Cimmerians who roamed over what is now Turkey thousands of years ago as being Celtic tribes. he believes those tribes migrated westward into Europe and were part of the barbarian tribes known collectively as Gauls who Julius Caesar conquered later on.
I have no idea whether he's right or wrong, but his site is interesting to me because I have an interest in the migration patterns of ancient tribes and racial groups. Yeah I know before anyone says it, I have too much time on my hands.
70
posted on
07/20/2006 9:43:19 AM PDT
by
epow
(.Psalm 122:6 , Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.)
To: SunkenCiv
"So Who Is Buried in Midas's Tomb?"
NOBODY, they'd be entombed not buried!
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha ; )
To: weikel
I thought the Turks were more closely related to the mongols
They are mongols...Turks are latecomers to the region...celts have nothing to do with the tribal Turks who first arrived in Asia Minor around 1000 AD.
72
posted on
07/20/2006 12:12:45 PM PDT
by
eleni121
(General Draza Mihailovich: We will never forget you - the hero of World War Two)
To: waxhaw
And it was the Galatians with whom Paul had such 'trouble'.
[a willful lot, those Celts].....;D
73
posted on
07/20/2006 1:57:50 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent)
To: a_Turk
I guess to the editors at the New York Times this is news.
74
posted on
07/20/2006 2:02:05 PM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: Straight Vermonter
To: Pharmboy
76
posted on
07/20/2006 2:36:45 PM PDT
by
stands2reason
(ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
To: Pharmboy
Disregard, didn't see the date.
MAJOR thread resurrection from '01
77
posted on
07/20/2006 2:40:22 PM PDT
by
stands2reason
(ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
To: epow
The Cimmerians left very little trace of themselves; after they sacked Gordion, they pillaged a bit more, then were destroyed by (if memory serves) the Scythians. IOW, there's no way to know much about the Cimmerians, what language they spoke, what they wore, etc.
78
posted on
07/20/2006 4:39:57 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Isn't Conan a Cimmerian !
:)
79
posted on
07/20/2006 4:51:34 PM PDT
by
Reily
To: a_Turk
I have known about Celtics in present day Turkey. That would explain why some Turks look more Caucasian than Mongoloid.
80
posted on
07/20/2006 9:26:58 PM PDT
by
Ptarmigan
(Ptarmigans will rise again!)
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