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Capital City Of Ancient Superpower Discovered (Medes)
Independent (UK) ^
| 10-26-2002
| David Keys
Posted on 10/26/2002 12:56:48 PM PDT by blam
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Big find.
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posted on
10/26/2002 12:56:48 PM PDT
by
blam
To: LostTribe; RightWhale
Ping.
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posted on
10/26/2002 12:57:23 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
bump
To: blam
Capital City Of Ancient Superpower Discovered
Built by Aliens.....
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posted on
10/26/2002 1:05:17 PM PDT
by
El Sordo
To: RadioAstronomer; longshadow; PatrickHenry; Junior
Interesting archaeological discovery ping!
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posted on
10/26/2002 1:48:04 PM PDT
by
Aracelis
To: blam
>...flourished in the first half of the 6th century BC between the fall of the Assyrian empire and the rise of Persia.
Excellent find. I hope they find more evidence there like the
Assyrian Tablets in the British Museum which were so instrumental in finally nailing down the whereabouts of the Lost Tribes of Israel.
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posted on
10/26/2002 1:52:26 PM PDT
by
LostTribe
To: Piltdown_Woman
Interesting, yes. But I guess we'll just have to wait about 50 years until they dig up the place and find some written tablets to add to our stock of information.
To: LostTribe
Finally, finally, I received my copy yesterday.
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posted on
10/26/2002 4:23:33 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
>Finally, finally, I received my copy yesterday.
Hope you enjoy having your own copy. It's cheaper than a trip to the British Museum. (But not as much fun...)
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posted on
10/26/2002 4:46:31 PM PDT
by
LostTribe
To: LostTribe
"Hope you enjoy having your own copy. " Yup. It's a nice hard bound copy, not the 'cheap' one like in your photo. (smile)
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posted on
10/26/2002 4:54:49 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
WOW
To: blam
>Yup. It's a nice hard bound copy, not the 'cheap' one like in your photo. (smile)
I was wondering where all the money was these days... {ggg}.
To: LostTribe
"I was wondering where all the money was these days... {ggg}." LOL, it wasn't a month ago that you were implying that I was 'cheap' for checking it out of the library (twice), so....
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posted on
10/26/2002 5:29:02 PM PDT
by
blam
To: All
Anybody want to dumb this down for the Historically Challenged?
To: the-ironically-named-proverbs2
Tried to find Sorgun, Turkey on a map- it must be the equivalent of Springfield in the USA. Mapquest gave 12 different locations in Turkey.
To: Johnny Shear
I'll try.
The Assyrian war machine had terrorized the Levant for centuries. But one problem with creating a good war machine is that sooner or later your undestroyed enemies learn to copy your tactics. To the east the Assyrians shattered the Elamites, leaving a power vaccuum to be filled by a new people, the Medes. To the south a new people, the Chaldeans filled the power vaccum the Assyrians had made of Babylon. The Medes and Chaldeans formed an alliance and destroyed Assyria.
For a time the Chaldeans under their greatest king Nebuchadnezzar prospered. Then the Medes merged with a new people, the Persians, destroyed the Chaldeans, freed the Jews, and conquered the entire Middle East.
To: Tokhtamish
Then the Medes merged with a new people, the Persians, destroyed the Chaldeans, freed the Jews, and conquered the entire Middle East. For a while...until they in turn were destroyed by the Greeks under the incomparable young man named Alexander.
To: Tokhtamish
>... freed the Jews
Actually, freed the Northern Kingdom Israelites. The Southern Kingdom, remnants of which in another hundred years or so would become known as Jews, were still back in Canaan, awaiting their own capture and removal to Babylon and subsequent diapora.
To: LostTribe
>Actually, freed the Northern Kingdom Israelites.
To be even more accurate, the Northern Kingdom Israelites joined with the Medes and Persians to overthrow the Assyrians. They participated in their own freedom.
After the victory these Israelites "took counsel among themselves" and decided to NOT return to Canaan. Instead, they decided to get out of Dodge the only other way possible, to the North through the Caucasus Mountains (from which comes their name Caucasians) and West around the southern coast of the Black Sea.
This was a fortuitous decision, for if they had returned to join their Southern Kingdom cousins in Judea they probably would have been caught up in the Babylonian conquest and history would read a whole lot different. (They might even have been called Jews, like their cousins, since they would have come from Judea [or thereabouts]). {ggg}.
To: blam
The archaeologists, led by Dr Geoffrey Summers, found the Medes built their western capital, Pteria, on conquered land near the border of their empire. The metropolis was a huge citadel on a 5000ft mountain near what is now the Turkish town of Sorgun. It had four miles of massive stone walls and hundreds of defensive towers. Seven monumental gateways and hundreds of buildings, including an imperial palace, have been found. But not one hole has been excavated. Dr Summers' team used remote sensing and geophysical survey techniques to map the metropolis to an accuracy of 10 centimetres.
Stupid question #46:
If no actual excavation has been done, how do they know it was a Capital city of the Medes? It could be anyone without evidence gathered during excavation of the site.
Along the same lines, without digging, how do they know it is an imperial palace there?
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posted on
10/27/2002 9:53:11 AM PST
by
Mr_Magoo
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