Posted on 05/11/2010 5:28:12 AM PDT by SJackson
New finds from dig shed light on 11th, 12th Century BC dynasty.
The great kingdom of 'Palestine' once existed within Syrian and Turkish boundaries, Professor J.P Dessel of the University of Tennessee claimed in a statement released on Tuesday.
The professor, who is a member of the Tell Tayinat archeological digs in Turkey, who presided at the Haifa University Ancient East Research Conference, asserted that the commonwealth was located between the cities of Aleppo, Hama and Antakya and the Turkish-Syrian border in the 12th and 11th Centuries BC.
The significance of this find, which was being discussed in a special meeting, is that the ancient Philistine empire was not limited to the lands of Canaan.
Following the collapse of the Hittite dynasty in the 13th Century BC, smaller states sprung up in areas that were previously under Hittite rule, one of which was Palestine. In his lecture, Dessel explained that this was concluded from new-found evidence which was unearthed in the Tell Tayinat excavations.
Hittite hieroglyphics were found on the Antakya site reading "Palestine." Similar hieroglyphics were found in the cities of Aleppo and Hama
This is a significant discovery which shows that the Philistines did not just hold land in Israel, but in Syria as well," Haifa University's Professor Gershon Glil, the conference coordinator, said.
So your belief is that DNA does not allow distinguishing between Semitic and non-Semitic peoples?
How in heck did you arrive at that from what I wrote?..............
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University of Toronto archaeologists find...cuneiform tablets in 2,700-year old Turkish temple
University of Toronto | August 7, 2009 | Unknown
Posted on 08/10/2009 9:49:19 AM PDT by decimon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2312618/posts
[snip] Partially uncovered in 2008 at Tell Tayinat, capital of the Neo-Hittite Kingdom of Palastin, the structure of the building where the tablets were found preserves the classic plan of a Neo-Hittite temple. It formed part of a sacred precinct that once included monumental stelae carved in Luwian (an extinct Anatolian language once spoken in Turkey) hieroglyphic script, but which were found by the expedition smashed into tiny shard-like fragments. [/snip]
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