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5,000-Year-Old Treasure Rediscovered In Library Storage Room (Valdosta, Ga)
Valdosta.edu/News ^
| 10-19-2005
| Charles Harmon
Posted on 10/19/2005 4:21:03 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
10/19/2005 4:21:13 PM PDT
by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/19/2005 4:21:55 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Great. Now I've gotta go read the translations...I can't help myself....and this was going to be a quick glance at FR before dinner. Ha!
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posted on
10/19/2005 4:23:24 PM PDT
by
I'm ALL Right!
(WWW.ENDOFTHESPEAR.COM - A True Story. In theaters Jan 20, 2006. Click my profile.)
To: blam; Physicist
collection of 5,000-year-old Babylonian cuneiform clay tablets, dating back from 2300 BC to 500 BC.5000?
How about 2500 - 4300 years instead.
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posted on
10/19/2005 4:24:15 PM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: blam
Early generation palm pilots./
To: blam
How could the tablets be 5000 yrs old when they date the oldest to 2300BC? 4300 yrs is respectable, true, but it is not early Sumer.
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posted on
10/19/2005 4:25:42 PM PDT
by
GSlob
To: blam
Just checking for the obligatory Helen Thomas photo.
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posted on
10/19/2005 4:26:02 PM PDT
by
GSWarrior
To: Jackknife
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posted on
10/19/2005 4:26:06 PM PDT
by
The Drowning Witch
(Sono La Voce della Nazione Selvaggia)
To: blam
NOOOOOOO! The links for the translations don't work. How frustrating!
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posted on
10/19/2005 4:26:20 PM PDT
by
I'm ALL Right!
(WWW.ENDOFTHESPEAR.COM - A True Story. In theaters Jan 20, 2006. Click my profile.)
To: I'm ALL Right!
and this was going to be a quick glance at FR before dinner. Ha!LOL. I had the same reaction, except I am so tired right now I think I'll just make this a bookmark and come back to it later. The time covered by these tablets just seems amazing to me.
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posted on
10/19/2005 4:26:57 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(This is a no Miers zone)
To: GSWarrior
You mean that these tablets are a part of her subpoenaed notebooks?
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posted on
10/19/2005 4:29:15 PM PDT
by
GSlob
To: I'm ALL Right!
quick glance at FR For me, there is no such a thing.
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posted on
10/19/2005 4:33:04 PM PDT
by
Socratic
(Liberal's motto: Capio ergo sum.)
To: I'm ALL Right!
Works for me. It's a pdf file so you will need Adobe installed to view it.
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posted on
10/19/2005 4:33:50 PM PDT
by
KillTime
(Western Civilization herself breathes a sigh of relief as President Bush wins 4 more years.)
To: I'm ALL Right!
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posted on
10/19/2005 4:37:44 PM PDT
by
TChad
(Neil Bush for Fed Chair!)
To: KillTime
I have adobe. I'll try again.
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posted on
10/19/2005 4:37:51 PM PDT
by
I'm ALL Right!
(WWW.ENDOFTHESPEAR.COM - A True Story. In theaters Jan 20, 2006. Click my profile.)
To: blam
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posted on
10/19/2005 4:39:29 PM PDT
by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America)
To: GSlob
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posted on
10/19/2005 4:40:34 PM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: I'm ALL Right!
"...NOOOOOOO! The links for the translations don't work. How frustrating!...
They work just fine for me. I'd copy and post them in the reply, but they're PDF files.
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posted on
10/19/2005 4:47:59 PM PDT
by
Renfield
(If Gene Tracy was the entertainment at your senior prom, YOU might be a redneck...)
To: Physicist; RadioAstronomer; Tax-chick; Xenalyte; MississippiMalcontent; tarzantheapeman
Bibliopath ping!A personal note: when Elmer Andersen, the former governor of Minnesota, passed away earlier this year, he bequeathed a huge book collection to the libraries, and I have the job of going through them and classifying them. Among the treasures I've found: a first printing of Henry George's Progress and Poverty, and an 1837 printing of Edmund Burke's Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful. Physicist, take note: one of the books he had in his collection was Leon Lederman's The God Particle, one of my all time favorite physics books.
To: RightWingAtheist
Cool! Iirc, a substantial amount of the Babylonian tablets found have been public-works accounting records. People are always the same ...
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posted on
10/19/2005 6:33:48 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last. ")
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