Well, since Assyrians are Germans, the Lost Tribes must be Celts.
Incidentally, this also proves another link between Hussein and Hitler.
Posted on 11/26/2002 7:57:18 AM PST by blam
Archaeologists announce discovery of underwater man-made wall
2002/11/26
The China Post staff
Underwater archaeologists yesterday announced the discovery of a man-made wall submerged under the waters of the Pescadores Islands that could be at least six and seven thousand years old.
Steve Shieh, the head of the planning committee for the Taiwan Underwater Archaeology Institute, said the wall was discovered to the northwest of Tong-chi Island in the Pescadores towards the end of September.
The stone wall, with an average height of one meter and a width of 50 centimeters, covers a distance of over 100 meters, Hsieh said.
The wall ran along the ocean floor at depths of between 25 and 30 meters, he added.
Shieh said that divers found several places along the wall where holes were apparently filled up with pebbles, possibly in an attempt to block winds.(Maybe to keep out the rising water?)
The wall was located by a team of divers working in cooperation with the National Museum of History and the Department of Environmental Sciences at the National Sun Yat-sen University.
In August, researchers scanning waters in the area with sonar discovered what appeared to be the remnants of four to five man-made walls running along the bottom of the sea.
Please see WALL on page(I could not find a map, if you can, please post it.)
Despite difficult diving conditions, Shieh said that a team of more than ten specialists was able to ascertain the positions of at least three of the wall sections.
The proximity of the wall to a similar structure found in 1976 suggests that it may be further evidence of a pre-historical civilization.
A three meter high underwater wall was discovered by amateur divers in waters off the nearby Hu-ching (Tiger Well) Island.
British archaeologists examined the find and proclaimed that the wall was probably made between 7,000 and 12,000 years ago.
The current find stands a mere 100 meters from the site of that discovery.
Six years ago, evidence of a sunken city in the area was found when amateur divers found the remains of what appear to be city walls taking the shape of a cross on the ocean floor.
Further examination suggested the ruins were made between seven and ten thousand years ago as well, although Japanese researchers put the walls construction at between 10,000 and 80,000 years ago.
Taken together, the discoveries have helped to overturn the established notion that Taiwan's earliest aboriginal inhabitants made their way here from mainland China some 6,000 years ago.(There goes the giant hynea theory, huh?)
The underwater finds are part of a growing body of evidence suggesting the existence of civilizations older than anything previously imagined.(suprise, suprise, suprise--Gomer Pyle voice)
On this theory, entire cities ended up underwater after sea levels rose towards the end of the last Ice Age, a date cited by Plato as being some 9,600 years ago.
One of the most dramatic examples of evidence of civilizations found on ocean beds has been megalithic structures off the coast of Yonaguni-jima in Japan that have been interpreted in some circles as being built for sacrificial rites. According to Shieh, a similar structure has been located off of the shores of Taiwan's Pingtung County .
Shieh said that he and his association have plans to explore that location as well as what appears to be a man-made path on the ocean floor off of Taitung County sometime next year.
Hebrew ESHIf you're going to recognize Indoeuropean as an early ancestor language of the sort I'm talking about, you've just punted. Game, set, match. Indoeuropean (AKA proto-Indoeuropean) is what Hebrew isn't: the last solidly identifiable common ancestral tongue of the languages in that group. So what is a citation of *as doing in there?
is similar to Indo-European *as- "to burn, glow"
and Latvian UG-uns "fire"
What your writer ignores is the Latvian UG-uns looking a lot more like ignis/agni/ogon'/..., the Indoeuropean "fire" cluster, than it does like the Hebrew. Why is that, I wonder?
The Euphrates goes from almost the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf so it's anywhere from the Caucusus to the steppes.
The steppe country around the Ukraine may be the best farmland in Europe. Far better than the forests of Germany, for sure. But, if you read Caesar on the Germans, the Germans didn't give a damn about farming.
Well, since Assyrians are Germans, the Lost Tribes must be Celts.
Incidentally, this also proves another link between Hussein and Hitler.
Are you sure these aren't Kenites?
Fine. Phoenician ships and then Danite ships. So now we have ~3900 years. Thanks for helping me make my pint.
I understand the Ukraine is quite a breadbasket, and it's smack-dab North of the Black Sea.
Nevertheless, the movements you suggest are plausible on their face.
The problem is, nothing you've cited from Pliny thus far supports your contentions that Germans were Assyrians or that any Assyrians ever went to Germany, or any of the Celtic Lost Tribe stuff.
I haven't read Pliny, so maybe there's some better evidence there for you. What you've posted from so far, though, falls short by a fair distance.
Put the pint down and step away!
LOL An immense multitude needs a little more room than a riverbank. What is on the other side of the Euphrates? The Cauacusus and the steppes.
You wanted relic words, I gave you relic words. You say "esh" and "ash" isn't really a match and is just a coincidence like I predicted you would.
Then why did the Soviet Union import wheat from us?
Far better than the forests of Germany, for sure. But, if you read Caesar on the Germans, the Germans didn't give a damn about farming.
How much wheat do we export to Germany?
"The Lost Tribes continued their Eastward trek East of the Euphrates, until they arrived at the Uttermost East. Then they boarded some Danite ships in Danang, and sailed to the Northeast through the Arctic, then Southeast East to Hibernia."
~Sum Dang Gy
Afghanistan, the Kasmir, and all the rest of Asia.
Not a speck of Europe, and precious few Celts. Certainly not Ireland.
The migrations across Europe took a thousand years and it was when the main force of the migrations reached central Europe that caused Rome to be sacked. You seem to have this vision that it took a year and was some kind of holiday trip.
They were Communists. Good land + bad plan = empty pantries anyway.
We have a mantra!
I and others show where your writer is jumping about cherry-picking words from as far afield as necessary to paint a false picture. You chant a mantra.
As has been cited often enough by your side, people about 200 years ago thought they saw some relatedness between Celtic and Hebrew. There were some misleading clues available to them--a thing which happens all too often in linguistics--and they were very enthusiastic about the idea of being descended from Lost Tribes. The idea has had a more than fair hearing as far as linguistics goes.
It just didn't work out as much fuller scholarhip was done over the next 200 years. The language families pretty much are what they are. There's little to debate. The known languages have been punched in and the computers have crunched.
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