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Receding waters in Lake Van reveal rock-cut Urartian port
Arkeonews ^
| 22 September 2022
| Leman Altuntaş
Posted on 10/01/2022 9:33:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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10/01/2022 9:33:03 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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10/01/2022 9:33:46 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/01/2022 9:34:12 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/01/2022 9:36:58 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
Fred Flintstone caused the last climate change.
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posted on
10/01/2022 9:44:34 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Who was Ashli Babbitt?)
To: SunkenCiv
Gee, and they didn’t have taxes or Greta to stop that climate change back then, eh?
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posted on
10/01/2022 9:49:36 AM PDT
by
OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
To: SunkenCiv
So the lake was lower before it rose then back down again?
I blame all those horse drawn chariots!
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posted on
10/01/2022 9:53:03 AM PDT
by
RedMonqey
To: SunkenCiv
Does one berth make a port?
That could work on a placid lake but no bueno for the sea.
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posted on
10/01/2022 10:02:54 AM PDT
by
JustaTech
(A mind is a terrible thing)
To: SunkenCiv
Oh that is really cool to look at!
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posted on
10/01/2022 10:17:27 AM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: SunkenCiv
Oh, so you mean the water level of all lakes, bays, seas, and oceans has not been fixed since the creation of Earth until 1970?
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posted on
10/01/2022 10:19:27 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(And manly hearts to guard the fair)
To: SunkenCiv
But that would mean the water level was lower in the past so they could MAKE the steps, wouldn’t it?
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posted on
10/01/2022 10:21:19 AM PDT
by
ro_dreaming
(Joe Biden is the dementia riddled, no-filter grifter he's always been - just now, we get to see it.)
To: ro_dreaming
Yeah. The Urartians lived in a river down by The Van.
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posted on
10/01/2022 10:26:31 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
To: JustaTech
The steps could be carved during low tide, so that a little getaway berth would indeed work on the sea. But yeah, it’s a port. Ancient seafarers crossed the seas (and oceans) aboard watercraft I wouldn’t use to cross a creek. ;^)
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10/01/2022 10:29:55 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Big Red Badger
The Urartians left cultural traces all over the region. By contrast, the Meerations did not, as they were victims of cannibalism.
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posted on
10/01/2022 10:31:03 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
So UART ports have been around for 2500 years?
Oh. Never mind.
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/01/2022 10:37:29 AM PDT
by
married21
(As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
To: RedMonqey
In all seriousness, the Greek Dark Age cooling period (roughly 1100-300 BC) lowered sea levels some, before the Roman Warm Period (300 BC - AD 300) rose sea levels some, but not quite back up to where they had been at the end of the Minoan Warm Period.
Then the Dark Age cooling period (AD 300 - 900) lowered the sea levels more (cooler than the Greek Dark Age) only for sea levels to rise back up some with the Medieval Warm Period (AD 900-1300), but again not as high as the Roman Warm Period.
Then the Little Ice Age (AD 1300-1800's) lowered the sea levels a lot more until the Modern Warm Period rose the sea levels back up some (probably not as much as was in the Medieval Warm Period, but we're not sure).
You can see it graphically here. The numbers at the bottom are in thousands of years ago. So the hump above the 2 is 2,000 years ago (Roman Warm Period), etc.
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posted on
10/01/2022 10:48:01 AM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Tell It Right
Very interesting. Water goes up, caste goes down.
Nature laughs at us Puny humans!
To: SunkenCiv
So, the level of the lake used to be much LOWER than it was in modern times. Things ebb and flow.
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