5,000-Year-Old Treasure Rediscovered In Library Storage Room (Valdosta, Ga)

Valdosta.edu/News ^ | 10-19-2005 | Charles Harmon

[ApplegateRanch]

Too much turntable rumble, as well as wow, to be able to separate the signal from the noise.

Not to mention the interference caused by his mild palsy...

[shuckmaster]

How much tranlation can you get off a 1.5 inch piece of cuneiform?

[Jackknife]

Interesting.......

[Dustbunny]

Have to check out that site and read the translations.

[Dustbunny]

The link did not work. Well, so much for that idea.

[Tax-chick]

My mother just left for Italy yesterday, and I think her tour includes Pompeii (again). That's such an amazing place. Romans wrote everything on the walls, just like people stick notices on the telephone poles around here :-).

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

I was at Pompeii and Ephesus this summer. I'm dreaming about going back. It was incredible.

[js1138]

The Babylonians bought them used at a garage sale.

[Tax-chick]

Mom's has been to Ephesus, when she did "Greece, the Islands, and Turkey." She said it was the neatest thing on that trip. Her current tour is Sicily and Corsica, with stops at Rome and Pompeii, just because they're close, I suppose.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

On this trip, Ephesus was my favorite with Pompeii being second. Athens and Corinth would have been third with Mykonos fourth.

[kalee]

ping

[R. Scott]

Caution. Some are quite bawdy.

Along the same line, I once came across a reference to the sandals worn by some prostitutes – they had advertising cut into the soles of their sandals that would leave their name and address in their footprints.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.ancientscripts.com/cuneiform.html

"The truth is that cuneiform denotes not one but several kinds of writing systems, including logo-syllabic, syllabic, and alphabetic scripts."

Ugaritic cuneiform appears to have been the only alphabetic cuneiform, and limited in geographic area (one site, Ras Shamra, on the Mediterranean coast). The rest are quite economical in the number of symbols needed to write a word, but extravagant in the number of symbols used overall. :')

[Tax-chick]

I just get to see the pictures!

[Hegemony Cricket]

Heh, heh, heh. That's reminds me of something I read many years ago, about a wall that was excavated, that was divided into squares for use as a sort of classified advertisement system. Each square had multiple layers of messages, such as cattle for sale, job postings, etc. Anyway, one layer of one square had a message that roughly translated: "I am amazed that this wall has not collapsed under the weight of all the crap that has been put on it."

[Hegemony Cricket]

THANK YOU! I was trying just the other day to recall the name of that story! FR strikes again!

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

I am so grateful I was able to make the trip. It brought the era of Paul into focus. It was amazing. One of my favorite photos of Ephesus was of a pile of clay tile that had been excavated. We could also see the clay tile in the ground. The tile served as their water system. They had running water in their homes, as well as indoor toilets.

There was a domed roof still standing. I think the mortar was superior because of the ash.

Nevertheless, it was a very prosperous, advanced civilization.

[Tax-chick]

My boys are very interested in Rome and Biblical history. They find all kinds of examples of advanced technology in their books.

I'm very happy for your opportunity to travel to the Mediterranean. Someday I'll be retired!

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

I've been to Rome twice. I love the flavor of Rome. Both times we've had great little hotels and have been able to walk many places.

I found the Vatican interesting and love the museums, etc. but if I find myself back in Rome someday, I'll pass on the Vatican.

It strikes me as somewhat claustrophic with all the people. It is also usually very hot.

[Tax-chick]

Mom said she'll take me to Rome when she's 75 (2013). We went to Amsterdam for a week when she was 65, which was cool.

My parents have spend a lot of time in Italy, and seen just about everything. My brother lived there 4 years, and now he's in his 6th year in England.