Russian archaeologists find long-lost Jewish capital

AFP ^ | Sept. 3, 2008

[Fred Nerks]

from your excellent link:

An impressive display of Khazar art and artefacts appeared in the Archaeology Museum in Moscow, part of a special “Treasures of Kuban” exhibition at

http://www.khazaria.com/khazar-history.html

The Rus inherited most of the former Khazar lands in the late 10th century and early 11th century. One of the most devastating defeats came in 965, when Rus Prince Svyatoslav conquered the Khazar fortress of Sarkel. It is believed that he conquered Itil two years later...

KHAZARIA IMAGE GALLERY

http://www.khazaria.com/khazar-images.html

[Pelham]

“Koestler’s book is mostly racist BS, and forms the basis for the bogus claims of many anti-Semites that European Jews aren’t “real” Jews, but descendants of Khazars.”

Koestler himself was of Hungarian Jewish heritage. Ironically he believed that publishing his Khazar theory would reduce anti semitism.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fred.

[SunkenCiv]

Anyways, before the time of the Mohammadans, the "lost tribes" weren't really lost, they just left. They didn't just dissapear. They weren't small in numbers either, some of them numbered in the 100,s of thousands. It isn't beyond the possibility that many of these decendants formed part of these early Turkic people, and others that made it into eastern Europe.

The Turks came in from Central Asia, and they don't speak an Indo-European tongue, nor a Semitic tongue, the latter of which is what the Hebrews spoke. That's not to say of course that some modern Turks don't have non-Turkish ancestors.

The "lost tribes" were really lost, that's why they're called the lost tribes. The Assyrians rounded up ten of the tribes and marched them off into outlying parts of the Assyrian empire. From the 6th century Anatolia there are Israelite names in surviving cuneiform texts, then little or nothing, but those Israelites could easily have gone there on their own.

[SunkenCiv]

sidebar:

Ancient Jewish Cemetery Discovered In Armenia
March/April 2001
Ancient Jewish Cemetery Discovered In Armenia

A Jewish cemetery from the Middle Ages has been discovered by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers in Armenia, a country in which a Jewish community had not been known to exist prior to modern times... There is no contemporary Jewish community in the area of the cemetery. Among the gravestones found were 16 with inscriptions in Hebrew and Aramaic and Armenian-style decorations. The stones bore dates from the 13th and 14th centuries... [T]hough there are oral traditions which place Jews in Armenia in ancient times, until now there was no information of the existence of such a community much earlier than the 19th century... The work in Armenia has been supported by the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, the Biblical Archaeology Foundation, the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Armenian Church's Siwniq Diocese.

More Jewish plots. Get it? Jewish plots! I kill me.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

“Nathan Zachary has left for good.”

Good riddance.