Posted on 03/28/2006 10:59:23 AM PST by blam
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Something that I aways find striking about rich and powerful historic figures is their level of wealth compared to today.
Yes, that the Trojans were a Hittite outpost and that the Hittites were the ancestors of the Armenians. Note that the Hittite language WAS an Indo-European language.
Herman L. Hoeh?
AP whack at it.. :(')
Archaeologist Links Ancient Palace, Ajax ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1605822/posts
King Ajax's Palace and Ramses IIHieroglyphs spelling the name of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II appear at the bottom of a bronze piece from an ancient mail shirt, in this undated handout picture provided by archaeologist Yiannis Lolos . The find came from a 3,200-year-old palace on the island of Salamis, near Athens, Greece, which belonged to the mythical King Ajax, Lolos said on Wednesday, March 29, 2006. The hilltop site overlooks a small natural harbor. (AP Photo)
AP - Wed Mar 29, 10:48 AM ET
What with that?
A synchronism.
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"We established that there was a population exodus from Salamis, which was completely abandoned shortly after 1200 B.C. ... They must first have gone to Enkomi on Cyprus, which was already an established center." Salamis was founded around 1100 B.C., when Enkomi -- some 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) away -- was abandoned. "It was probably the refugees' children that moved there," Lolos said. The emigration theory would explain why almost no high-value artifacts were found at the Greek site, which bore no signs of destruction or enemy occupation. "The emigrants, who would have been the city's ruling class, took a lot with them, including nearly all the valuables," Lolos said. The rest of the population moved to a new settlement further inland that offered better protection from seaborne raids... Finds include pottery, stone tools, a sealstone and copper implements. Lolos is particularly pleased with a piece of a copper mail shirt stamped with the name of Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt from 1279-1213 B.C."This is a unique find, which may have belonged to a Mycenaean mercenary soldier serving with the Egyptians," he said. "It could have been a souvenir, a mark of honor or even some kind of a medal."
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