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a bunch of news articles here from yahoo search, keywords 'copper weapons greece'
2 posted on 12/11/2008 9:49:21 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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To: NormsRevenge
I offer these statements to the scientists:

"This just goes to show that the populace was arming themselves for a massive conflict. They were not happy with Alexander the Great and these weapons were possibly to be used in an assault on the government. These Axe heads could have changed history and the entire direction cultures throughout the world. It is a significant find as the fate of history could have turned on this weapon cache. Significant funding is required for further analysis."

I hope that helps in some way ...

8 posted on 12/11/2008 9:56:16 AM PST by TexGuy (If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
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To: NormsRevenge
Said to be 500 miles from Athens in northern Greece...a village named Mesi is mentioned. I'm not sure where that is--there is a village of that name on the island of Naxos but that's not really northern Greece and not far enough away from Athens.

Anyway, 4500 years ago is before anyone speaking anything resembling Greek was in Greece. It would be the so-called Early Helladic Period--the Greek-speakers are thought to have invaded Greece about the end of that period (somewhere in the vicinity of 2000 B.C.). Depending on where Mesi is, it could be an area which didn't have a Greek-speaking population until later (first millennium B.C.).

16 posted on 12/11/2008 12:16:31 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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