Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

This will be one to follow.
1 posted on 03/29/2016 5:41:03 PM PDT by JimSEA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: SunkenCiv

For your interest. You’ve likely already got this.


2 posted on 03/29/2016 5:42:08 PM PDT by JimSEA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA

I’m betting the Etruscans loved their Ovaltine.


3 posted on 03/29/2016 5:42:56 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I don't know what Claire Wolfe is thinking, but I know what I'm thinking.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA

They were texting? How ‘bout Tweeting?


4 posted on 03/29/2016 5:46:11 PM PDT by Disestablishmentarian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA

Let me guess - Gozer worship.


8 posted on 03/29/2016 5:57:59 PM PDT by Ken H
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA

Make Etruria Great Again!


10 posted on 03/29/2016 5:59:28 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA

Trumpus Maximus?


11 posted on 03/29/2016 6:00:07 PM PDT by kaehurowing
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA

Seventy legible letters? How much wealth of detail can the experts torture out of that? That’s shorter than this post.


13 posted on 03/29/2016 6:04:19 PM PDT by sphinx
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA
...may be a rare sacred text in the Etruscan language that is likely to yield rich details about Etruscan worship of a god or goddess.

"Rich details" from 70 characters?

14 posted on 03/29/2016 6:06:36 PM PDT by TChad
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA

Question for someone in the know: How likely is it this will ever be translated?


15 posted on 03/29/2016 6:06:39 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (uff said.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-text-lost-language-reveal-god.html
here are some more viewd of it.


16 posted on 03/29/2016 6:12:39 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA

“STELE!!”
:Stanley Kowalski


17 posted on 03/29/2016 6:14:15 PM PDT by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA
"The stele has at least 70 legible letters and punctuation marks, likely with new words never seen before."

*Never* seen before? Even by those who wrote (chiseled) it?
18 posted on 03/29/2016 6:21:25 PM PDT by chrisser
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA

“Eat at Joes”


19 posted on 03/29/2016 6:21:29 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA

Thought the Etruscans worshipped the Earth Mother goddess?


24 posted on 03/29/2016 6:55:58 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA
Etruscan language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_language

25 posted on 03/29/2016 6:57:38 PM PDT by TChad
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA

Holy Priceless Collection of Etruscan Snoods Batman!


26 posted on 03/29/2016 7:06:34 PM PDT by xp38
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA

It could be the menu for McEtruscans. You know, 5 million served.


30 posted on 03/29/2016 8:21:08 PM PDT by Redcitizen
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA; SunkenCiv

Back in the day when I was studying ancient history at Columbia, one of the professors had a course on the Etruscans. Her father was a famous academician and archaeologist who worked on some of the earliest digs of Etruscan tombs and cities.

I remember that there was no translation of the Etruscan language and the aricle refers to it as a lost language still. Apparently no Rosetta stone has been found?


38 posted on 03/30/2016 3:47:52 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: JimSEA; SunkenCiv

Back in the day when I was studying ancient history at Columbia, one of the professors had a course on the Etruscans. Her father was a famous academician and archaeologist who worked on some of the earliest digs of Etruscan tombs and cities.

I remember that there was no translation of the Etruscan language and the aricle refers to it as a lost language still. Apparently no Rosetta stone has been found?


39 posted on 03/30/2016 3:47:52 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson