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First Toilet And Sewer System Of Prehistoric Period Found In Van
Turkish Press.com ^ | 8-22-2004

Posted on 08/24/2004 8:16:56 AM PDT by blam

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Thanks blam!

"I thought the Minoans on Crete had the first toilets"? That was claimed of course, but Evans wanted the Minoans to be just like Victorians. Wunderlich (a geologist I think) claims that the "toilets" were actually facilities for embalming (the drains got rid of the blood etc) and that the palaces were actually mortuaries and mausoleums for the upper crust of that time, analogous to the Egyptian practices.
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21 posted on 08/24/2004 8:29:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
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What a disappointment!

I was sure this was about Clinton's chickmobile. You know? The one with the Astroturf?

22 posted on 08/24/2004 8:32:34 AM PDT by Publius6961 (I don't do diplomacy either.)
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Their architects had used the most developed techniques of the prehistoric period.

764 B.C. is now "prehistoric?
??????????????

23 posted on 08/24/2004 8:34:11 AM PDT by Publius6961 (I don't do diplomacy either.)
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First Toilet And Sewer System Of Prehistoric Period Found In Van

Hmmm, not an SUV?

Seriously, what would have been the first priority upon leaving Noah's Ark?

24 posted on 08/24/2004 8:34:40 AM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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LOL! Nice!


25 posted on 08/24/2004 8:35:13 AM PDT by Mr.Atos
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Was the seat raised on the toilet when it was discovered?


26 posted on 08/24/2004 8:48:38 AM PDT by RXSalesman
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historic plumbing


27 posted on 08/24/2004 8:48:56 AM PDT by Tax-chick (The only thing we know about life is that we aren't going to get out of it alive.)
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they were grouped in a series of emirates known as Nairi,

Emirs have become rulers after the invasion by the Turks and establishment of Islam, which occurred 1300 years after the period described in the article. There were no "emirates" then.

28 posted on 08/24/2004 8:50:06 AM PDT by TopQuark
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764 B.C. is now "prehistoric?

I'm not surprised. Anything prior to disco is now considered "classical."

29 posted on 08/24/2004 8:50:47 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("This house is sho' gone crazy!")
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First Toilet And Sewer System Of Prehistoric Period Found In Van

Or "Prehistoric Life--Not So Crappy."
30 posted on 08/24/2004 8:53:06 AM PDT by aruanan
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Was the seat raised on the toilet when it was discovered?

Those toilets didn't have seats.

31 posted on 08/24/2004 9:12:45 AM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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Wonder if they found any bathroom graffiti. Hmmm, There once was a girl from Babylon, ...


32 posted on 08/24/2004 9:24:53 AM PDT by searchandrecovery (Socialist America - diseased and dysfunctional.)
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Thes folks had the first toilet in a VAN! Wow!


33 posted on 08/25/2004 4:13:59 PM PDT by Henchman (I Hench, therefore I am!)
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This is the Armenian territory (Urartu was the ancient name for Armenia). Unfortunately Turks purged the Van area from original Armenian population. Today Armenia represents the area under former Russian control.
34 posted on 08/25/2004 4:23:09 PM PDT by A. Pole (Madeleine Albright:"We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.")
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Thes folks had the first toilet in a VAN! Wow!

Yet nobody seems too impressed by the fact that they'd invented the Van in the first place.

35 posted on 08/25/2004 4:37:12 PM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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36 posted on 12/11/2009 4:13:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Other scientists disagree with such dating techniques. Clearly they lack understanding of erosion factor, at given erosion rate. It is not that old.


37 posted on 11/29/2013 9:20:24 AM PST by C.Klink
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Okay.

This post is so old that I forgot I posted it.

I thought you were pinging me to a new article, lol.

38 posted on 11/29/2013 11:03:56 AM PST by blam
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