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Lost Civilization Discovered in Sahara Desert
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| November 08, 2011
| LiveScience
Posted on 11/08/2011 5:37:12 PM PST by Pan_Yan
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There are some interesting pictures at the source.
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posted on
11/08/2011 5:37:14 PM PST
by
Pan_Yan
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/08/2011 5:37:44 PM PST
by
Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
...Roman accounts that the Garamantes consisted of barbaric nomads and troublemakers... Spin, the third oldest profession.
Thank you for posting this--very interesting.
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posted on
11/08/2011 5:53:13 PM PST
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: Pan_Yan
The Garamantes may be "little known" to most, but are well known to the GGG'ers.
Interesting stuff. Thanks for the post.
To: Pan_Yan
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posted on
11/08/2011 6:04:29 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
To: skr; colorado tanker
Thank you for posting this--very interesting. You're very welcome.
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posted on
11/08/2011 6:06:35 PM PST
by
Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
OH, I saw this on TV a few weeks ago! She who must be obeyed!!!
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posted on
11/08/2011 6:07:52 PM PST
by
Squeeky
("Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. " Emily Dickinson)
To: skr
Nomads and troublemakers? Ancestors of the Occupy crowd.
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posted on
11/08/2011 6:08:44 PM PST
by
bleach
(If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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posted on
11/08/2011 6:15:18 PM PST
by
TheOldLady
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To: skr
It's ironic that the Romans referred to many others as "barbarians" when they themselves fed Christians to the lions or crucified them on crosses, but I guess they must have thought of themselves as most civilized.
To: Pan_Yan
Oh...crap!
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posted on
11/08/2011 6:37:47 PM PST
by
Caipirabob
( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: I Drive Too Fast
>>>It’s ironic that the Romans referred to many others as “barbarians”
Didn’t the Greeks invent the word “barbarians” ?
To: Hop A Long Cassidy
Nope, the Romans coined it referring to the jibberish that the Romans heard when the Germanic tribes spoke, “bar, bar, bar, bar.”
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posted on
11/08/2011 6:55:42 PM PST
by
DryFly
To: Pan_Yan
The fall of the regime has opened up Libya to more exploration by archaeologists of its pre-Islamic heritage.
Rare-earth minerals cache. God, I’m cynical these days.
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posted on
11/08/2011 6:56:31 PM PST
by
txhurl
To: DryFly
It's already in Greek sources that predate any of our Roman sources. (Of course the Greeks regarded Latin as a barbarian language.)
Homer doesn't have the word barbaros but he does have barbarophonos, "speaking a foreign language," applied to the Carians, in Iliad 2.867. The earliest authors to have the word barbaros are the philosopher Heraclitus and the poet Aeschylus (in his play The Persians dated to 472 B.C.).
Herodotus mentions the Garamantes briefly a couple of times in his account of Libya:
4.174-175: Further inland, to the south of this region, in the part of Libya that is teeming with wild animals, are the Garamantes, who shun all human intercourse and contact. They have no weapons of war and no knowledge of ways to defend themselves. The Garamantes are the neighbors of the Nasamontes inland...
4.183-184: Another ten days' journey after Augila there is a third hill of salt, with water and a great many fruit-bearing palm-trees...A very large tribe called the Garamantes lives here. They put a layer of soil on top of the salt and so have land to cultivate...The Garamantes use four-horse chariots to hunt the cave-dwelling Ethiopians, because the cave-dwelling Ethiopians are the fastest people of any of whom we have been brought a report....Another ten days' journey further on from the Garamantes is another hill and water, again with people living in the vicinity. This is a tribe called the Atrarantes...
(Translation by Robin Waterfield, in the Oxford World's Classics edition.)
To: Hop A Long Cassidy
The Latin part of the origin is “barbarus,” but it came from the Greek “barbaros,” which means “foreign.”
To: DryFly
Nope, the Romans coined it referring to the jibberish that the Romans heard when the Germanic tribes spoke, bar, bar, bar, bar. Then why weren't they called bierbarians?
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posted on
11/09/2011 1:19:50 AM PST
by
Ezekiel
(The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
To: Hop A Long Cassidy; DryFly
Barbarian essentialy is Greek for someone who is not a member of a Greek city state
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posted on
11/09/2011 3:00:51 AM PST
by
Cronos
To: Ezekiel; DryFly
incidently the Polish word for Germans is Niemcy, derived from the word for “mumblers” as to the ancient Polanians it probably sounded like the germans were mumbling.
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posted on
11/09/2011 3:05:15 AM PST
by
Cronos
To: Verginius Rufus
They have no weapons of war and no knowledge of ways to defend themselves.And for some reason they didn't thrive and spread over the earth?
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posted on
11/09/2011 6:05:33 AM PST
by
Pan_Yan
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