[SunkenCiv]

The problem was solved in 1945 --

• 170. The 59th year of some reckoning mentioned in a document written in [referring to] the days of Haremhab, is the 59th year of the era of Nabonassar, which started in 747 B. C.E.
• 185. The "Hittite" hieroglyphics are the Chaldean script.
• 186. The presumed "Hittite" art of the fourteenth-thirteenth centuries is the Chaldean art of the seventh-sixth centuries, and is coeval with and subsequent to late Phrygian art. The bas-relief of Yasilikaya dates from the time of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Greek sculptures with "Hittite" (Chaldean) signs present no problem, neither does the silence of Greek authors about the "Hittites" of the "post-Empire" period.
• 187. The "Hittite" stela in the palace of Nebukhadnezar in Babylon is a contemporary Chaldean document. The lead tablets from Asaur with "Hittite" hieroglyphics, date from the last centuries before the present era.
• 188. The succession of the kings of the Neo-Babylonian Empire was: Nabopolassar, Nergilissar, Labash-Marduk, Nebukhadnezar, Evil Marduk, Nabonides. Berosus, according to whom Nergilissar and his son followed Nebukhadnezar, is wrong.*
• 189. The treaties of Subliliumas with Azaru of Damascus, with a patricide prince of Mitanni, and with the widow of Tirhaka, make plausible his identity with Shamash Shum Ukin. This would signify also that Nabopolassar was a son of Shamash Shum Ukin.
• 190. The people and the kingdom of Mitanni did not "disappear" in the thirteenth century. Mitanni is another name for Medes; the northwest part of Medes retained this name as Matiane (Herodotus).

* Velikovsky later concluded that there were two Nergilissars, the second reigning after Evil Marduk.

[Quix]

hmmmm thx thx.

[PeterPrinciple]

Princess Ennigaldi and her father came up with an idea that is still relevant 25 centuries later. If it takes the death of your civilization’s future to realize that your past is worth celebrating, preserving, and (most importantly) organizing...well, I’ve heard of worse trade-offs.

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I guess we better get busy preserving............

[blueunicorn6]

I’m pretty sure that some of our carpet is at least 2,000 years old. Maybe it wasn’t a museum...it was just a cheapskate’s house.

[blueunicorn6]

I’m pretty sure that some of our carpet is at least 2,000 years old. Maybe it wasn’t a museum...it was just a cheapskate’s house.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Fascinating. At least they didn’t label the Princess a “hoarder”. Her life and times would make a fascinating novel (hint, hint).

[Sherman Logan]

Mitanni is another name for Medes; the northwest part of Medes retained this name as Matiane (Herodotus).

This is one theory, it is by no means proven fact.

The Mitanni Empire fell around 1300. The Medes emerged as a great power around 700.

Trying to connect two peoples 600+ years apart as "the same people" is pretty tough.

Mitanni was Hurrian in language, with initially an Aryan ruling class, but which apparently switched to Hurrian language before long.

The Medes were very much Aryan.

[worst-case scenario]

Thanks for this one. I love this post.