Posted on 06/09/2006 8:29:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
In a lecture at the Canadian Institute of Archaeology in Cairo last month, Krzys Grzymski of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) described the use of modern technology to uncover the origins and topography, history and development of Meroe, an African kingdom which developed along the upper reaches of the Nile about 200km north of Khartoum between 800 BC and 350 AD... [Excavations have] produced a number of surprises which included errors in earlier published plans of various buildings, numerous unrecorded inscriptions, some graffiti, and many beautifully carved blocks. "Perhaps the most exciting discovery was a stone block bearing the name of King Anlamani (c. 620-600 BC), one of the earliest datable objects ever found at Meroe," Grzymski said... Domestic and industrial areas were unearthed, several iron-smelting furnaces discovered. Also located were temples dedicated to Isis and the Nubian lion-god Apedemak. Excavations revealed what appeared to be part of a processional avenue leading to a large temple. Also found was a prison, so-called because Herodotus, in the sixth century BC, alluded to prisoners kept in chains of gold.
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Was it in Spanish?
No, just the eyes were. They were sweet.
Really at best the mid-section of the river. If you look at the map, it isn't even halfway to the headwaters.
Interesting stuff.
Hopefully some of the "new inscriptions" will lead to a decipherment of Meroitic - one of the "mystery languages" of the ancient world.
Uncracked Ancient CodesAs longtime literary editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement in London, Andrew Robinson is well able to interpret the arcana of scientific discoveries for the general public. In Lost Languages, he explains the principles of three famous decipherments and applies the insights gained to an understanding of several undeciphered scripts—Linear A, the Etruscan alphabet, the Phaistos disc, and the Meroitic, Proto-Elamite, rongorongo, Zapotec, Isthmian and Indus scripts.
(Lost Languages reviewed)
by William C. West
Lost Languages:
The Enigma Of The World's Undeciphered Scripts
by Andrew Robinson
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