Names and numbers fill the back (pictured) of the tablet fragment, found last summer in Greece.
Photograph courtesy Christian Mundigler
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Posted on 03/31/2011 10:38:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
Names and numbers fill the back (pictured) of the tablet fragment, found last summer in Greece.
Photograph courtesy Christian Mundigler
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GGG Ping!............
I bet there was a lot of this stuff that ended up as sub-base on road projects through the ages.
Was it an iPad or an Android tablet?
I bet it was a tax record.
Most of the Sumerian Cuneiform clay tablets found are tax records............
I guess they will just have to rethink...again.
It has an “A” on it so, it must be Android...............
They had Ovaltine back then?
No, it says:
Hello,
I am Ronald Mutabo from Nigeria..............
I believe the fragment says:
“Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels—bring home for Emma.”
Jack
This is from Greece.
Pound of Gyro Meat, a bottle of Ouzo and some Baklava............
Things never change, do they? Parasites.
The Mycenaeans—made legendary in part by Homer's Iliad, which fictionalizes their war with Troy—dominated much of Greece from about 1600 B.C. to 1100 B.C...
At one time these self same "experts" were claiming that Troy didn't really exist, it too was a myth. Now they claim the Iliad "fictionalizes" the war. Maybe, or maybe something happened back then that they do not understand.
What does it say? “Page intentionally left blank”?
Ahhh, just as I suspected. Ancient pron with an attached phone book.
For example, writings found in China, Mesopotamia, and Egypt are thought to date as far back as 3,000 B.C.
Oh, No, No, No! Its impossible for ancient White Europeans to be as advanced as those brown and yellow people of China, Mesopotamia and Egypt!
...why "surprisingly"?
...people are people. There have been engineers, geeks, doctors, accountants, historians,..etc since the beginning of time. Just because they lacked advanced technology (which only comes with time) does not mean that these people were dumb or stupid or backward.
I for one, am not a bit "surprised" at anything that is found in antiquity. What is surprising to me is that someone is "surprised" at anything they find in the rubble.
As a matter of fact, I think that the deeper people dig, the more they are going to find. Every age builds on the top of the last age....
....the bottom layer is still down there.
I believe this dates from right around the time of the Thera (Santorini) eruption.
The Romans were a lot more advanced than we give them credit for.
Had they not fallen, we may have had global warming a few centuries earlier than expected.........;^)
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