Posted on 12/11/2009 4:28:20 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Meticulous ancient notetakers have given archaeologists a glimpse of what life was like 3,000 years ago in the Assyrian Empire, which controlled much of the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. Clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform, an ancient script once common in the Middle East, were unearthed in summer 2009 in an ancient palace in present-day southeastern Turkey... A team led by University of Akron archaeologist Timothy Matney has been excavating the massive mud brick palace, once inhabited by the governor of the empire's Tushhan Province, for more than a decade. The palace is located in Ziyaret Tepe, one of three fortified cities that the Assyrians built in the northern reach of their empire on the banks of the Tigris River... So far, the team has deciphered lists of names of 144 women on the tablets who were likely employed by the palace as agricultural workers or laborers at its granary. Yet while the tablets were written in the Late Assyrian language, the women's names are not Assyrian, Matney said. That means the women may have been from local indigenous populations, or part of a mass relocation of people conquered by the Assyrians in another part of the empire, Matney said... When Matney and colleagues return to Ziyaret Tepe in 2010 to look for more tablets, they'll be racing against the clock: A planned hydroelectric dam project will swamp the region as early as 2013.
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Ah. I see. You need Tecate to properly massage the data. Because it has caracter. =)
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=111056
Mexican Cerveza brand Tecate wants to give its cans and bottles "caracter." The brand's first redesign since 2005 includes packaging pegged to evince boldness and masculinity, which align with Tecate's "con caracter" ad campaign showing Mexican-American men working, taking care of family and playing.
The palace is located in Ziyaret Tepe, one of three fortified cities that the Assyrians built in the northern reach of their empire on the banks of the Tigris River... So far, the team has deciphered lists of names of 144 women on the tablets who were likely employed by the palace as agricultural workers or laborers at its granary. Yet while the tablets were written in the Late Assyrian language, the women's names are not Assyrian, Matney said. That means the women may have been from local indigenous populations, or part of a mass relocation of people conquered by the Assyrians in another part of the empire, Matney said... When Matney and colleagues return to Ziyaret Tepe in 2010 to look for more tablets, they'll be racing against the clock: A planned hydroelectric dam project will swamp the region as early as 2013.
Unknown Ancient Language Found on Clay Tablet
Sci-News | Fri, May 11th, 2012 | Enrico de Lazaro
Posted on 05/12/2012 11:32:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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