Posted on 09/11/2017 12:08:04 PM PDT by ETL
Much better. Thanks.
Lol. That’s good.
After seeing the other pictures, I agree with you - not Chinese.
Welcome back.
The Muslim Brotherhood has suggest exactly that.
It might take a while, but it wold keep them occupied..............
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Good thinking. And they could be paid with all the water they could drink.
Throw in BLM and it would be a deal.
Wow! Did you already have all that in your head?
From looking at the map, Hazor was fairly close to Tyre, which even in the Old Kingdom was already established as a trading port and very closely tied economically to Egypt if it was not actually subservient to the Egyptians. It would come as no surprise the Egyptian influence spread into the surrounding cities.
You think the Egyptian emissaries would insist that Pharaoh’s head would have a place of honor in the royal court of Hazor, maybe looking down at the local king?
Yeah, that’s why I couldn’t remember it all. [blush]
The Burning of Hazor here at FR should have been my search link, too, btw. Whoops.
Thanks henkster!
Might be, the Nubian empire did conquer and ruled Egypt for about 200 years and marriage arranged for political and alliance purposes were common among all of the kingdoms of the time.
Glad to see you back SunkenCiv. Very much missed your posts.
Thanks!
not much diff in the results after all:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Burning+of+Hazor+sunkenciv+site:freerepublic.com
one result:
The Birth & Death of Biblical Minimalism
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2717503/posts
Archeologists find 3,300-year-old burnt wheat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2911965/posts
Unique Egyptian Sphinx Unearthed in North Israel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3040934/posts
Tel Gezer Water System Built by Canaanites?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3364069/posts
Carbon 14 — The Solution to Dating David and Solomon?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2305907/posts
The Battleground (Who Destroyed Megiddo? Was It David Or Shishak?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1006914/posts
http://www.google.com/search?q=dynasty+0+sunkenciv+site:freerepublic.com
don’t get me started on this sucker punch:
http://www.google.com/search?q=canaanite+dna+sidon+site:freerepublic.com
Great to see you posting! I have missed GGG very much. It was ones of my favorite parts of FR when I first signed up. Would love to see it return.
Hey - missed you! Welcome back - always enjoyed your thoughtful postings on antiquity.
Thanks for the kind remarks!
I like that closing sentence -- "future decision-making could be made based on scientific data and not on political expediency". I wouldn't count on it, but that would be great.Disaster that struck the ancientsProfessor Fekri Hassan, from University College London, UK, wanted to solve the mystery, by gathering together scientific clues. His inspiration was the little known tomb in southern Egypt of a regional governor, Ankhtifi. The hieroglyphs there reported "all of Upper Egypt was dying of hunger to such a degree that everyone had come to eating their children". Dismissed as exaggeration and fantasy by most other Egyptologists, Fekri was determined to prove the writings were true and accurate. He also had to find a culprit capable of producing such misery. He studied the meticulous records, kept since the 7th Century, of Nile floods. He was amazed to see that there was a huge variation in the size of the annual Nile floods - the floods that were vital for irrigating the land. But no records existed for 2,200BC. Then came a breakthrough - a new discovery in the hills of neighbouring Israel. Mira Bar-Matthews of the Geological Survey of Israel had found a unique record of past climates, locked in the stalactites and stalagmites of a cave near Tel Aviv. What they show is a sudden and dramatic drop in rainfall, by 20%. It is the largest climate event in 5,000 years. And the date? 2,200 BC.4,000-year-old planned community unearthed"'Evidently, the conception of what was urban in 2500 to 2000 B.C. was not all that different from what is considered urban today,' said Guillermo Algaze, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, who has been directing the excavation of Titris Hoyuk, a 125-acre walled urban site in the Euphrates River Basin in southeastern Turkey that flourished for a brief time in the third millennium Bronze Age. In its heyday, Titris had about 10,000 residents. Titris was a failure as a city and as a civilization, rising and falling within a 300 year period, never again to be reoccupied. But, said Algaze, Titrus's failure -- probably due to a shifting in trade routes -- is also the key to its appeal to modern archaeologists."
Oct 13 2000Tuba"The women in the tomb were highly ornamented. The ibex (goat above) was made of lapis lazuli which was available only in Afghanistan at the time. Evidence amassed thus far by Schwartz and Curvers indicates that Tubaarose as a political and economic center around 2500 BC, with a population of 5,000 to 7,500 people. The city, which was on a major east-west trade route that connected the Mediterranean coast with upper Mesopotamia, collapsed and was abandoned around 2100 BC possibly due to drought, only to resurrect itself as the primary urban center of the Jabbul plain until around 1200 BC."
Oct 13 2000Caves reveal clues to UK weatherAt Pooles Cavern in Derbyshire, it was discovered that the stalagmites grow faster in the winter months when it rains more. Alan Walker, who guides visitors through the caves, says the changes in rainfall are recorded in the stalactites and stalagmites like the growth rings in trees. Stalagmites from a number of caves have now been analysed by Dr Andy Baker at Newcastle University. After splitting and polishing the rock, he can measure its growth precisely and has built up a precipitation history going back thousands of years. His study suggests this autumn's rainfall is not at all unusual when looked at over such a timescale but is well within historic variations. He believes politicians find it expedient to blame a man-made change in our weather rather than addressing the complex scientific picture.
by Tom Heap
Saturday, December 2, 2000
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