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New study finds: Ancient Mycenaean civilization might have collapsed due to uprising or invasion
TornosNews.gr ^ | April 10, 2018 | unattributed

Posted on 04/15/2018 3:55:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

For many years, the prevailing theory on how the Mycenaean civilisation collapsed was that devastating earthquakes led to the destruction of its palaces in the Peloponnese, southern Greece around 1,200 BC. Nevertheless, new evidence suggests that some type of internal uprising or an external invasion might have brought about the downfall of the Mycenaean civilisation. From 2012, a team led by German archaeologist Joseph Maran of Heidelberg University and geophysicist Klaus-G. Hinzen has been conducting research in Tiryns and Midea. The findings of their research were published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. "Although some of the observations from the two investigated citadels could be explained by seismic loading, alternative nonseismic causes could equally explain most observed damage. In some cases, the structural damage was clearly not caused by earthquakes", they stressed in the study, adding that: "Our results indicate that the hypothesis of a destructive earthquake in Tiryns and Midea, which may have contributed to the end of the LBA Mycenaean palatial period, is unlikely".

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: anatolia; catastrophism; earthquake; earthquakes; godsgravesglyphs; greece; luwian; luwians; midea; mycenaean; mycenaeans; quake; quakes; scythians; tiryns; trojanwar
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To: dsc

Same thing. Virtually all historians are Leftists. This is just what they do in all the fields they dominate.


21 posted on 04/16/2018 4:13:33 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: blam
About the same size as previously believed, but 23,000 years ago, instead of 3400, 3500, or 3700 years ago.

22 posted on 04/17/2018 11:01:48 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: cranked
There was no super volcano explosion of There/Sandtorini, but that example can work as a sh*t passing for science these days.

23 posted on 04/17/2018 11:25:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Red Badger
Nah. And the alleged calibration of the RC dating, via dendrochronology, pushed the alleged eruption back almost a century, which means the supposedly super-duper eruption happened nearly two centuries before the Palatial period ended -- hard to explain if the eruption was so danged devastating. You should see some of the gymnastics people engage in to try to bail it out, even without the calibration. In fact, stick around this topic, you'll probably see some.

24 posted on 04/17/2018 11:34:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’ve seen biblical explanations that the volcano was responsible for some of the plagues of Egypt...................


25 posted on 04/17/2018 11:36:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: Red Badger
(KJV) In Genesis 10:14 the Philistim (presumably Philistines) are said to come from Casluhim, or possibly Pathrusim and Casluhim; in Deuteronomy 2:23 "the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor" destroyed Avims of Hazerim; in Jeremiah 47:4 the Philistines are described as "the remnant of the country of Caphtor"; in Amos 9:7 has "the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir".

Caphtor was Cyprus (and not Crete, as is so often claimed). Besides the similarity of the name, if Cyprus is not Caphtor, there is no Biblical reference to Cyprus, which is implausible, to say the least. In Egyptian texts, Cyprus/Caphtor is Keftiu (note the similarity), but again, some claim Keftiu was Crete.

26 posted on 04/17/2018 11:37:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: KC Burke
Yet, the Sea Peoples left no characteristic pottery, no geographic traces, no towns, no tombs, no distinctive burials, no characteristic armor, no characteristic weapons, no identifiable rulers (including conquerors of the lands they supposedly conquered) or king-lists, no written records in their own right, no coins, no homeland, and perhaps most significantly, no wrecks -- the last one being pretty damned peculiar for a massive group of seagoing conquerors. :')

The Sea Peoples are a modern invention, used to wave away problems created by continued uncritical acceptance of the conventional pseudochronology.

There are two references to them in Egyptian contemporary records, which are misdated by centuries anyway. There are otherwise no ancient references to them anywhere.

27 posted on 04/17/2018 11:40:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Red Badger
Quibble -- what you've seen are volcanic explanations for the Old Testament's Plagues of Egypt. :^) Pillar of smoke by day, pillar of fire by night -- and alas, no recent enough volcano can be found anywhere in the Sinai or Arabia. Bummer. :^)

28 posted on 04/17/2018 11:42:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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The Thera keyword (sorry for the delay, I'd intended to post this alongside the Mycenaeans keyword):.

29 posted on 04/17/2018 11:56:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

LOL. You have some strong feelings on that one.

We need to make that into its own thread.


30 posted on 04/17/2018 11:58:22 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: KC Burke
I've got the Kline (sp?) book around here, uh, somewhere. But as for a thread of its own, that's been done, and overall, been done to death around here. Bound to happen, since FR has a couple of million, or three or four million, threads. :^)

31 posted on 04/17/2018 12:44:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

While you may disagree with what was asserted, your claim that there was no super volcano Thera/Santorini eruption is utter idiocy and against historical fact.


32 posted on 04/17/2018 2:50:04 PM PDT by cranked
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On the timeline, the Mycenaeans were after the Yourcenaeans, and before the Theircenaeans.

Navarino Environmental Observatory: Drought ended Mycenaean era in ancient Greece
TornosNews.gr
15.05.2018 | 14:38
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/31297-navarino-environmental-observatory-drought-ended-mycenaean-era-in-ancient-greece.html


33 posted on 05/16/2018 8:20:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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Immanuel Velikovsky
The Dark Age of Greece

34 posted on 10/16/2019 1:10:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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New analysis on problems between archaeology and pharaonic chronology, based on radiocarbon dating
American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | June 17, 2010 | Unknown
Posted on 06/17/2010 1:57:51 PM PDT by decimon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2536818/posts


35 posted on 10/16/2019 1:14:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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36 posted on 08/24/2021 7:47:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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