Posted on 06/05/2007 2:46:29 PM PDT by blam
Sixth Salt Man Discovered in Chehr-Abad Mine
04 June 2007
Chehr Abad Saltman No. 2.
LONDON, (CAIS) -- The sixth salt man was discovered in Chehr-Ābād Mine in Zanjan City. It is likely that a large number of salt men were buried in Chehr-Ābād Salt Mine, said Farhang Farokhi head of Zanjan Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ZCHTO).
Five previous discovered salt men are being kept in Washhouse Museum , he added.
Based on previous reports, Chehr-Ābād Mine had been used from the Achaemenid dynastic era (550-330 BCE) up to the early of the Sassanid dynasty (224-651 CE).
The first salt man was discovered in Zanjān’s Chehr-Ābād salt mine by accident by the miners in 1993. More than a decade later in November 2004, the body of the second salt man was discovered in the same salt mine. The year 2005 was the year of salt men discoveries and bodies of the third, fourth, and fifth salt mummies were unearthed in January, March, and December 2005.
These salt men are among rare mummies discovered around the world that are mummified as a result of natural conditions. Since the salt men have been buried in salt for centuries, most of their tissues are well preserved. Special conditions of the salt mine which prevented the activities of micro-organisms caused the excellent preservation of organic and inorganic materials in the mine.
Tests carried out by Oxford University Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU) on the remains and clothing of first and second saltmen, C14 assigned date to the late Parthian dynastic era (1745 BP). The remains of other three saltmen known by numbers 3, 4 and 5, which were also victims of collapsed tunnels C14 testing have placed them in post-Achaemenid period (2245 BP).
GGG Ping.
What is “BP?”
Paardon my stupidity but what country is this.
Before present?
Iran or Azerbaijan.
Thanks!
British Petroleum
Post #8
Before Present.
For when “BCE”, “Before the Common Era” just isn’t politically correct enough...
Who said salt is bad for you ;)
Blood Pressure -- and with all that sodium, I bet theirs is through the roof!
Persia
It saves a whole letter over "ago."
I like to tell people BCE stands for "Before the Christian Era." ;-)
I kinda thought that....but, well, just couldn’t believe they would go THAT far! Course, I look at BCE and see Before Christian Era....LOL....
Lot's wife.
Missing the 'UR' from the middle.
I’m sure folks using a different arbitrary dating system are impressed.
Dating things from a world influencing geological event would make more sense.
The Toba eruption comes to mind.
The DNA results would be interesting .
Touché
The link in post #8 might be of interest.
“The remains of other three saltmen known by numbers 3, 4 and 5, which were also victims of collapsed tunnels C14 testing have placed them in post-Achaemenid period (2245 BP).”
So, if they were found in 2005, are they now 2247 BP? ;)
And the salt mummies aren’t my fault.
Before Pepper.....??
:)
Are they still dead?
He also appears to be a blonde...nah I won’t go there!
I thought he was taller.
Worst case is that the DNA would still be okay inside his teeth...under the enamel.
Here are some other calendar systems.
I believe it's Northern China.
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“Blood Pressure” - that’s what these guys died of - High Blood Pressure...
Blond Attic(?)slave in the salt mines.
Leave ‘em where they drop.
Nothing is more irritating that the switch to BCE and CE instead of BC and AD.
That’s probably why they want to go to “BP” and “BPE”.
I believe that BP should only be used when radio-carbon dating and or thermoluminecent testing. As an archaeologist, while BCE and BP are polite, we are the only ones who use them and other cultures use their own anyways so ho are we trying not to offend with using BC and AD?
But PC is PC. And when it is publish or perish, you toe the line.
Trust me as a grad student at one of the most liberal state schools i prefer to heel the line!
New Studies Show Fourth Salt Man Is 2000 Years Old
Mehr News | 12-23-2005
Posted on 12/23/2005 1:31:43 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1546130/posts
Yummy. Very nice eye candy. Sure beats a 2000 year old dead guy.
This guy has blond hair? Was that his original color do you think?
It’s not your stupidity, it’s a badly written article.
In the era of gynecological time lines, science typically divides modern times and old times into two. The old days are those when women were not considered trophies and were actually somewhat smarter than depicted in pop culture horror movies. These women of old typically did not have artificial breasts or modified hair color. They generally married only once in their lifetime and actually had a modicum of respect for the man whose name they took as their own in the ceremony once known as a wedding. This ceremony generally took place at some point during the females’ fertile years and she was actually bound by the vows she took in this ceremony to conceive children only by the man she was wed to in said ceremony. This vow was supposedly to last for the woman’s lifetime.
After Paris, the rules were changed. The standards for women’s intelligence were greatly reduced. Women were no longer expected to adhere to their wedding vows. Women were only respected for their appearance regardless of the authenticity of their biological reproductive attributes. A whole medical industry sprang up that specialized in the artificial augmentation of female secondary reproductive health attributes. These being primarily breasts, lips, hips, and hair. Children were suddenly secondary in importance to the woman’s physical attributes as just described. In fact, since child bearing is actually destructive to a woman’s secondary reproductive health attributes, they(children) became a liability to a woman’s long term financial success in a post Paris world. In this post Paris world, females discovered that is was to their best interest to get pregnant very early in life by as many males as possible so as to qualify for state aid in child rearing. Then, when the children were of age to fend for themselves, the females would distance themselves from their offspring and begin their personal lives anew by way of government assistance, alimony, pell grants, and the like and build up an impressive resume of scholastic achievement via social assistance. The children that these women abandoned were taught from an early age that their fathers were meaningless and socially irrelevant, thus perpetuating the cycle of post Paris female false aggrandizement and degradation.
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