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Ancient Tablets May Reveal What Destroyed Minoan Civilization
Haaretz ^ | Sep 10, 2019 | Philippe Bohstrom

Posted on 09/16/2019 4:21:23 PM PDT by Openurmind

The Minoans and their capital Knossos weren’t incinerated by volcanic blast from Thera or flattened by quake as thought, but tellingly: their writing system changed.

The mystery of what happened to the Minoan civilization has tormented archaeologists for over a century, and the tale has now taken a new twist. Nothing happened to them, say archaeologists who have been excavating the island of Crete for over thirty years. This extraordinary people, who produced palatial architecture unparalleled in the Aegean region at the time, were not immolated by the volcanic eruption of Thera as once thought, crushed by earthquake, or squashed by Mycenaean Greece as more recently supposed. Rather, the Minoans, who had for centuries wielded influence throughout the Aegean, did experience earthquakes that rattled them, were indeed badly weakened by the volcanic blast from Thera on the nearby island of Santorini, and did experience the unamiable attentions of the mainland Greeks.

But although the two cultures appear to have struggled, over time the elite elements of both became virtually indistinguishable, after 1450 B.C.E., if not earlier. Minoan influence as such would recede and the by-then-Mycenaeanised islanders would soldier on until the great collapse of civilization around the Mediterranean Basin, around 1,200 B.C.E.

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TOPICS: Education; History
KEYWORDS: aegean; catastrophism; crete; epigraphyandlanguage; fauxiantroll; fauxiantrolls; godsgravesglyphs; haaretz; knossos; minoans; mycenaeans; philippebohstrom; tarshish
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To: rovenstinez

Why did the Settler have to be Irish?


41 posted on 09/16/2019 6:06:16 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: SunkenCiv

I am neither ignorant nor a bigot. I am ignorant of certain things tho.

I will tell you what is really ignorant. Claiming that BCE and BC were Christian symbols then saying other religions use it because they aren’t Christians. Well you just said they were Christian symbols.

You can’t have it both ways.


42 posted on 09/16/2019 6:08:16 PM PDT by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: Openurmind
So:
Minoans:Myceneans::Brits:Americans

43 posted on 09/16/2019 6:12:51 PM PDT by Savage Beast (You'd think they'd learn from the Roadrunner Cartoons, but they just send off to Acme and try again.)
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To: yarddog

As far as being bigoted, I dislike Islam tho I am sure there would be some practitioners of that religion that I would like and would hope they like me.

As for Jews, I like them but I am sure there are some that I would not like.

I don’t consider either opinion bigoted.


44 posted on 09/16/2019 6:18:05 PM PDT by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog

I guess you are right, Like a whole collection of man made lithics should always be discredited and tossed out just because one geofact was found accidentally cataloged among them.

Pretty close minded concept isn’t it?


45 posted on 09/16/2019 6:38:32 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

Well maybe I am ignorant because I sure don’t know what you are saying.


46 posted on 09/16/2019 6:52:17 PM PDT by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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To: Poison Pill

I’m assuming he’s Christian and doesn’t appreciate the secularization BC to BCE.


47 posted on 09/16/2019 7:00:00 PM PDT by Levy78
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To: SunkenCiv

Somebody’s been triggered!


48 posted on 09/16/2019 7:21:33 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: yarddog

I’m just saying that sometimes it really is possible to toss the baby out with the bathwater on this stuff. I used to do that, until I found that I was throwing away a whole lot of great knowledge and discoveries because I was being hard headed and confining myself into a box and blinding myself.

I realized it was foolish to toss out a whole lithic collection just because of the one geofact. In other words while you may be right about the one point, it is foolish to discard all of it without reading and considering it. There just might be a few very good nuggets of knowledge well worth learning about.

By taking down the blind Christian firewall, I have found things in the most unlikely of articles that actually supported Christian arguments in other directions. But if I had not at least considered the whole of it with objectivity I would not have found these.


49 posted on 09/16/2019 7:27:09 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

Liberalism came to the Minoans, and it didn’t end well.


50 posted on 09/16/2019 7:42:24 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Openurmind

Ancient Tablets May Reveal What Destroyed Minoan Civilization
I think it was the lithium batteries caught fire. Look at the scorch marks on those tablets.


51 posted on 09/16/2019 8:03:09 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: rovenstinez; Openurmind; SunkenCiv; All

I doubt that homosexuality caused extinction by gender confusion. Plenty of so called gays are actually bisexual. The mass human sacrifices in Mexico City were not of Aztecs, but rather of neighboring tribes like the Tlaxcallans who lent vast numbers of soldier to Cortez for his conquest. An earlier Prime Minister promoted the policy of warfare to capture prisoners and then eat them. The Aztec word for tortilla is tlaxcalli. Guess why the angry enemy tribe was call Tlaxcallans. After the conquest there where major epidemics which killed hundreds of thousands and even millions of all tribal groups. Also after the conquest, and help from the Tlaxcallans, they were soon being tricked and robbed by the greedy Spaniards.


52 posted on 09/16/2019 11:36:45 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: SauronOfMordor; Openurmind; Larry Lucido; SunkenCiv; BenLurkin; All

I detect what appear to be mistakes in the article. I don’t think that anyone who examined a map believed that Crete was destroyed directly by what came out of Santorini’s volcano. My theory is that a very large tsunami wiped out Crete’s waterfront, most of the ship building facilities, and killed a lot of the skilled ship building workforce. Ships at sea were able to return and maintain a degree of civilization, but a lot of Crete’s power was gone as they could not build up their navy quickly after such devastation. This made them vulnerable to depredations from mainland Greece. Also, a lot of rich people living in the hills lost the income from ships and could not support the fine arts they once did. So the skilled Minoan artistic craftsmen left. I think some ended up in Amarna, the new city built by the monotheistic pharoah Iknatan. The art there has a naturalism and freedom new to Egyptian arts and crafts.


53 posted on 09/16/2019 11:55:45 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: rovenstinez

Well,there goes my deadly granny biker gangs thesis.

It was the homos and the jaguars!


54 posted on 09/17/2019 6:33:05 AM PDT by skepsel
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To: Openurmind

bttt


55 posted on 09/18/2019 1:23:35 PM PDT by wildbill
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