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Traces Of An Ancient Settlement Found On Dry Botton Of Aral (Sea)
Kasinform ^ | 11-5-2004

Posted on 11/05/2004 2:26:18 PM PST by blam

Traces of an ancient settlement found on the dry bottom of the Aral

Kyzylorda. November 5. KAZINFORM. The scientists of the Institute of Archeology named after Alkey Margulan found some traces of an ancient town on the dry bottom of the Aral Sea. The area of the town amounts to about 6 ha and goes back to the 13-14 centuries, i.e. the epoch of the Golden Horde.

As a result of archeological researches there have also been found the relics of different workshops, windmills and storehouses for ceramic articles and the burial ground where the noble representatives of that period had been buried.

The excavations of the ancient town are planned to start next year.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ancient; aral; archaeology; bottom; dry; found; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history; kyoto; sea; settlement; traces
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1 posted on 11/05/2004 2:26:19 PM PST by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

GGG Ping.


2 posted on 11/05/2004 2:28:32 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

BTTT.


3 posted on 11/05/2004 2:29:37 PM PST by StoneColdGOP (She calls me *Mini-Merc*)
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To: blam
And here everybody thought that Sea/Lake had been drained only recently because of thoughtless irrigation projects and the dread "Global Warming".

Ghengis Khan must have had a fleet of SUVs, right?!

4 posted on 11/05/2004 2:57:29 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: blam; SunkenCiv; StoneColdGOP

Since as of this posting you all are the only responders I can assume you are all interested in archaeology, yes? I get these newsletters from Johnathan Gray, a Brit archaeologist. His website is http://www.beforeus.com/ I`ve gotten a bunch of his newsletters over the past few months all dealing with things we thought we knew like this article and others, like how the oldest known textiles were found in Turkey not Africa or Egypt and the erosion of the Sphinx being caused by water. If any one is interested I can send some of the newsletters by freepmail, if you`ve heard of this already sorry I`m preaching to the choir.


5 posted on 11/05/2004 3:03:18 PM PST by infidel29 (America is GREAT because she is GOOD, the moment she ceases to be GOOD, she ceases to be GREAT- B.F.)
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To: muawiyah

sorry I didn`t include you, I started typing before you posted. I type pretty slow;) See post#5


6 posted on 11/05/2004 3:05:04 PM PST by infidel29 (America is GREAT because she is GOOD, the moment she ceases to be GOOD, she ceases to be GREAT- B.F.)
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To: infidel29

This is extremely interesting. Please share newsletters, etc..


7 posted on 11/05/2004 3:05:32 PM PST by hershey
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To: muawiyah
Ghengis Khan must have had a fleet of SUVs, right?!

Jenjis Khan. Jen-Jis.

8 posted on 11/05/2004 3:46:29 PM PST by Spirochete
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To: muawiyah
"And here everybody thought that Sea/Lake had been drained only recently because of thoughtless irrigation projects and the dread "Global Warming"."

Must have gotten terribly dry in that region for quite a while some time back.

9 posted on 11/05/2004 4:30:26 PM PST by blam
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To: muawiyah

Heh... well done! A similar emergence took place on the western shore of the Caspian a few years back. When I get home I'll try to dig out that info. :')


10 posted on 11/05/2004 7:41:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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To: infidel29

bttt


11 posted on 11/05/2004 8:16:07 PM PST by Chani
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To: blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach; SunkenCiv; 24Karet; 2Jedismom; 3AngelaD; ...
thanks blam for the ping.
Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest
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12 posted on 11/05/2004 10:08:09 PM PST by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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To: muawiyah
Pipeline to the Past Is a Gift From Oil to Archaeology
by Douglas Frantz
September 19, 2001
Shirvan Steppe Journal
The site, about 70 miles south of Baku, the capital, appears to be the remains of a village from the 11th or 12th century. It is where the Kura meandered its way to the Caspian Sea a millennium ago, and its discovery heartened the team trying to redraw history's greatest trade route, the Silk Road.

Cave dwellings dating to 12,000 B.C. have been discovered in Azerbaijan and its earliest inhabitants are credited with domesticating grapes, cherries and apples. Some believe that horses were domesticated here 5,000 years ago. But much of the region's ancient history has been unexplored.

Azerbaijani archaeologists and a few others from outside the country think that the country had a thriving civilization in the Bronze Age, dating to about 2,500 B.C., and that its traders and herdsmen eventually migrated to Mesopotamia and beyond.

13 posted on 11/05/2004 10:10:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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To: Carry_Okie

ping


14 posted on 11/05/2004 10:10:45 PM PST by farmfriend ( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.)
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To: blam
"Traces Of An Ancient Settlement Found...". The translation was the EDWARDS destroyed the medical malpractice insurance industry in ... ooops, different kind of settlement.
15 posted on 11/06/2004 4:28:41 AM PST by Henchman (Now let Kerry benefit the country. What is his PLAN?)
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To: infidel29

I'd be happy to receive some of this information. Archaeology is of great interest to me.

Thanks!


16 posted on 11/06/2004 10:22:36 AM PST by StoneColdGOP (She calls me *Mini-Merc*)
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To: blam
The area of the town amounts to about 6 ha and goes back to the 13-14 centuries

Wow, this is pretty recent. Have there been any other articles on changes in sea level in that general area around this period?

17 posted on 11/06/2004 10:46:50 AM PST by Fedora
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"Wow, this is pretty recent. Have there been any other articles on changes in sea level in that general area around this period?"

No. It's a suprise to me to.

18 posted on 11/06/2004 12:11:46 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

It seems like I remember within the last year seeing an article on the water level around the Venice area and thereabouts changing in historic times, but I can't remember the date and I can't find the article at the moment--not sure if it'd be related or not. If I find it I'll post it.


19 posted on 11/06/2004 1:00:39 PM PST by Fedora
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To: muawiyah
well, the great Khan did have birds of Prey and phasers and other Klingon technology, so why not?













oh, wait --- ;-P
20 posted on 11/09/2004 11:01:52 PM PST by Cronos (W2K4)
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