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Ancient Tablets Decoded; Shed Light on Assyrian Empire
National Geographic News ^
| December 9, 2009
| Brian Handwerk
Posted on 12/11/2009 4:28:20 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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Ancient clay tablets (such as the one pictured) inscribed with cuneiform script, a type of ancient writing once common in the Middle East, have been found in southeastern Turkey, archaeologists announced in October 2009. [Photograph courtesy University of Akron]
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12/11/2009 4:28:21 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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12/11/2009 4:31:33 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
So, what was the climate like then? Any data in the records?
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12/11/2009 4:32:38 AM PST
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Paladin2
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12/11/2009 4:33:34 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: Paladin2
There’s an FR topic, perhaps search for Urartu or Urartians, that may help.
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12/11/2009 4:34:32 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: Paladin2
Ancient tabloids review additional tarts professing affairs with Tiger.
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12/11/2009 4:36:00 AM PST
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Dem Guard
To: Dem Guard
Ancient tabloids review additional tarts professing affairs with Tiger. Tiger. Tigris River. Coincidence?
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12/11/2009 5:03:07 AM PST
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6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd: ON)
To: Elsie; greyfoxx39; colorcountry; reaganaut
search for Urartu or Urartians, that may helpAlso search for Joey's Myth with his Urim & Thummim.
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12/11/2009 5:16:54 AM PST
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Utah Binger
(Southern Utah, where the World comes to see America)
To: SunkenCiv
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12/11/2009 5:19:03 AM PST
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Skooz
(Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: SunkenCiv
Did they have paragraphs. ;-)
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12/11/2009 5:59:24 AM PST
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decimon
To: 6SJ7
“Tiger. Tigris River. Coincidence?”
Dirty River = Dirty Dog?
To: Paladin2
Unfortunately those tablets were dropped from an unusually high spot and shattered.
It was a lot cooler than now though...trust me.
CRU
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12/11/2009 6:42:23 AM PST
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perez24
(Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.)
To: SunkenCiv
"It will be very interesting to see what the role of women in this economy was Party girls for Tiglath's VIP party room. Assyrian for Tiger. Or not.
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12/11/2009 11:56:45 AM PST
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colorado tanker
(What's it all about, Barrrrry? Is it just for the power, you live?)
To: decimon
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12/11/2009 4:02:29 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: colorado tanker
It’s probably a good thing Tiglath-Pileser’s website hasn’t been preserved.
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12/11/2009 4:03:42 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: Paladin2
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12/11/2009 4:11:20 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Thanks.
I think the paleo-climatologists should be unfunded for a generation and the $$ be spent on Archeology, History and Ancient Languages to develop a qualitative climate history of all global areas where data exist or can be found to compare to the present day conditions in the same locales.
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12/11/2009 4:56:55 PM PST
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Paladin2
To: Paladin2
As you can see from the photo, the data records were also hacked into. (pieces)
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12/11/2009 7:00:47 PM PST
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Redcitizen
(Zartan for President 2012)
To: Redcitizen
As you can see from the photo, the data records were also hacked into. (pieces)
Sometimes ya just gotta massage the data!
These "Caractors" are the only tangible evidence in existence related to Smith's story.
No gold plates, no brass plates, no peep stones, no Urim and Thummim... only these "Caractors," not a single one of which is in the purported languages.
Smith's translation of the Caractors. According to Martin Harris (Joseph Smith - History, 1:64), "I went to the city of New York, and presented the characters which had been translated, with the translation thereof, to Professor Charles Anthon, a gentleman celebrated for his literary attainments. Professor Anthon stated that the translation was correct, more so than any he had before seen translated from the Egyptian. I then showed him those which were not yet translated,* and he said they were Egyptian, Chaldaic, Assyriac, and Arabic; and he said they were true characters."
Speak right up now in all truthfulness. Isn't it revealing how Smith started out making a stab at creating believable "caractors" but quckly gave up and produced nothing but squiggles, ending up wih a series of nothing more than crude little scribbles? Yet Professor Anthon supposedly translated them!
*Harris must have had two or three pieces of paper with himone with characters and a translation of them (on the same paper or a separate one) and one with untranslated charactersquite likely the "Caractors." Some Mormon "scholars" have gone out on a limb, sawed it off, and knocked themselves out trying to translate from these true Egyptian, Chaldaic, Assyriac, and Arabic characters a segment that would correspond with a verse from 1 Nephi.
Modern-day experts in Egyptian, Chaldaic, Assyriac, and Arabic. In 1829, any knowledge of these languages possessed by U.S. scholars would have been rudimentary at best. Expertise in them has vastly improved since then. So go ahead, do it. Get any modern expert in these languages to identify which of these "Caractors" are Egyptian, Chaldaic, Assyriac and Arabic. Better still, accept the claim of Mormon apologists that Anthon did indeed so testify and that his appraisal of the Caractors was correct. (Op. cit, pp. 73-75)
Save your money! Samples of Assyriac/Aramaic and Arabic writing:
What say you? Which of Smith's "Caractors" resemble the Assyriac and Arabic ones? No need to pay experts for their analysis. A child could accurately check this out. These writing systems have remained constant for well over 3000 years.
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12/12/2009 3:54:20 AM PST
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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