Newberry Tablet
one of the three statues found with the tablets
newberry tablet (image search)
Posted on 12/26/2015 5:57:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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In November of 1896, near the town of Newberry, Michigan. In Michigan's Upper Peninsula two woodsmen clearing land on a farm uprooted a tree and discovered three statues, and a clay tablet.
The tablet was 19 by 26 inches in size. 140 small squares were cut into the stone. In each square a letter or character. The University of Michigan and the Smithsonian Institution were notified. Both of these institutions, at the time refused to look at the artifacts, they didn't believe they were real, and they didn't know how to translate the stone, because at that time, the "Hittite Empire" had not been found by any archeologist until 1905.
Photos of the Newberry Stone were taken in 1898 and sent to the Smithsonian. The Stone still existed in 1947, but it had never been heat treated, and it crumbled into dust. In 1947 some 50 years after finding the stone, a researcher heard about the stone, and asked the Smithsonian for the photos. The Smithsonian, said that they had lost the photos, and they tried to cover up the existence of the stone, for some reason.
In 1988 the photos of the Newberry Stone resurfaced, and were found in the Michigan Archives. Dr. Barry Fell President of the Epigraphic society deciphered the tablet he said the tablet was written in ancient Hittite-Minoan. He immediately compared it with the Phaistos Disk from Crete.
The tablet was written in magic quadrangles, to be read both vertically and horizontally. Therefore the text was read in a boustrophedon pattern. The tablet contained instructions for obtaining favorable omens from the Gods for good luck.
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Newberry Tablet
one of the three statues found with the tablets
newberry tablet (image search)
Well that is more than fascinating.
Smithsonian seems to be a little crooked in covering up things they don’t want out there for whatever reason.
Smithsonian Science, like many insufficient religious belief systems (there, fixed it), seems to be a little crooked in covering up things they don't want out there for whatever reason.
Not a real language. The Newberry Tablet is considered pseudoarcheology. It's a hoax.
My grandfather discovered a very large stone axe while helping dig holes for footers for an air raid watcher tower in Southern Maryland during WWII. He loaned the artifact to the Smithsonian for study. When he asked about it they claimed it had been ‘misplaced’. It hasn’t been seen since.
There are those who consider it pseudoarchaeology / hoax.
I’d read about the tablets for decades, today was the first time I recall reading about statues having been found with them.
For some reason Crete has always interested me.
I remember from Greek mythology, the ancient Greeks considered Crete to have been an ancient power even from their 2500 year old or even older tales.
The Smithsonian had a jackass named Alex Hrdlicka running it back in the first half of the 20th century (anyone reading this wanting to nitpick my not looking up exact dates or the exact name of the organization at that time get a preemptive GFY), during which period the Smithsonian loaded onto a barge a bunch of holdings that didn't fit the narrative, and dumped it into the Atlantic. Despite his treatment of precolumbian (and some post-columbian) human remains, he's been held up as some kind of hero for rejecting a priori any PreColumbian contact or transoceanic influence on North America.
At Bell, call your office.
Luwian was a Language related to Hittite.
To: ClearCase_guy:
As you say:
“Hittite-Minoan”
“Not a real language.”
Also:
“Dr. Barry Fell President of the Epigraphic society”
Wikipedia:
Barry Fell
“Barry Fell (born Howard Barraclough Fell) (June 6, 1917 – April 21, 1994) was a professor of invertebrate zoology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. While his primary professional research included starfish and sea urchins, Fell is most well known for his controversial work in New World epigraphy, arguing that various inscriptions in the Americas are best explained by extensive pre-Columbian contact with Old World civilizations. His writings on epigraphy and archaeology are generally rejected by those mainstream scholars who have considered them.”
” . . deciphered the tablet he said the tablet was written in ancient Hittite-Minoan. He immediately compared it with the Phaistos Disk from Crete.”
There is no similarity between the characters.
“The tablet was written in magic quadrangles, to be read both vertically and horizontally. Therefore the text was read in a boustrophedon pattern.”
That is not the definition of boustrophedon writing.
You’d think a journalist would know this before employing the arcane term, wouldn’t you?
There's some classical Greek legends regarding Daedalus and Icarus and their employer, King Minos; also there's references in the Iliad to Cretan participation in the Trojan War; I don't recall much of anything else. Cadmus from the eastern Med, legendarily introduced alphabetic writing a la the Phoenicians, but Linear A and Linear B had been in use in the Aegean basin for a long time prior to that introduction. AFAIK there is no cuneiform inscription in any Mycenaean context, but it is now becoming accepted (as well it should have been for the past 80 years or more, when it was first discovered) that Mycenaean Greek place and personal names are found in the Hittite archives. It wouldn't be surprising if cuneiform tablets show up in the sift, for example in the new digging going on at Sparta. Cuneiform started in Sumeria and continued in use to record many languages and conduct diplomatic business for 3000 years, about as long as alphabetic script has been in use.
Native American land claims are big business, and fit the left's goals. Can't have any Greeks mining copper here for their bronze.
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