A 3400-year-old city emerges from the Tigris River

Uni-Tübingen ^ | May 30, 2022 | Press Release

[SunkenCiv]

Aerial view of the excavations at Kemune with Bronze Age architecture partly submerged in the lake

[SunkenCiv]

One of *those* topics.

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[Allegra]

Very cool. Such rich ancient history in that region.

I always wanted to see the library at Nineveh.

[butlerweave]

Did they get 8 years ?

[SunkenCiv]

The Archaeologica news page seems to do updates for the week all at once, loads of nice stuff coming this week.

The other GGG topics added since the previous digest ping, with some possible duplicates, chrono sort:

• Fifth-century graves in East Bohemia shed light on dark era of European history [06/02/2022]
• Someone put a Hole in this Coin - now it's worth Millions (the EID MAR aureus) [06/02/2022]
• Gloucestershire archaeologists make "phenomenal” find on dig's first day: Buried for some 3,000 years, a Bronze Age spearhead makes a point [06/02/2022]
• Czech scientists reveal striking look of a Bronze Age woman from Bohemia [06/02/2022]
• First Australians ate giant eggs of huge flightless birds, ancient proteins confirm [06/01/2022]
• Volunteer delighted to uncover very rude Ancient Roman graffiti at Vindolanda [06/01/2022]
• Colchester's Roman past unearthed in hospital excavation [06/01/2022]
• Over 100 ancient settlements discovered north of Hadrian’s Wall [06/01/2022]
• 2,100-year-old farmstead in Israel found 'frozen in time' after owners disappeared [05/29/2022]
• Look at this letter that Helagu Khan sent to the Mamluk Sultan in 1260! (History Vanity) [05/29/2022]
• Did FBI cover-up $400M Civil War gold find? Bureau dug for Pennsylvania loot after geophysicist said there was NINE TON fortune underground - as treasure hunters call for their fair share [05/29/2022]
• The MOST precisely made granite object of Ancient Egypt - and why it's NOT geopolymer! [05/29/2022]
• FBI records on search for fabled gold raise more questions [05/28/2022]
• Roman Pompeiian genome sequenced [05/27/2022]
• Judge Orders FBI to Produce Records on Civil War Gold Hunt [05/27/2022]
• Vikings Live: a tour from the British Museum [2020] [05/25/2022]
• Report: Xi Jinping Ordering Erasure of Genghis Khan from Chinese History [11/11/2020]
• Russia's Turn to its Asian Past [07/29/2018]
• Scientists say an ancient Mayan book called the Grolier Codex is the real deal [09/13/2016]

[M Kehoe]

Good morning Professor.

Mittani Empire

Did they precede the Caldeans? Or the Persians?

My Delorean is broke. Flux capacitor.

Thanks.

5.56mm

[texas booster]

Seven years of drought and famine.

Now where have I heard of that before?

[blam]

Broke a mirror?

[SunkenCiv]

The Chaldean language is a type of Aramaic; it used to be called Syriac, which figures, because Aramaic takes its name from Aram (Syria).

Due to some old biases, Mitanni was conjured up, but is really an anachronistic echo of the Medes. They first show up in Assyrian records from the 9th c BC, and in classical Greece, the term Medes was used interchangeably with Persians.

The Medes were more or less allied with the Babylonians, and the Scythians with the Assyrians. At some point the Scythians were persuaded to switch sides, and the three powers stormed Nineveh and brought an end to the Assyrian Empire, although there were minor Assyrian rulers thereafter, and they still exist as an ethnic group in the Middle East.

https://www.varchive.org/tac/end.htm

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4065042/posts?page=30#30

[Monkey Face]

“Global warming” is not necessarily a bad thing.

Thanks for this!

‘Face

;o]

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, I edited out their obligatory BS about how Iraq was one of the “countries” disproportionately impacted by that. Hey, I was about 17 words too long in the excerpt...

[SunkenCiv]

(from the earlier FR link)

https://www.varchive.org/ce/theses.htm (189, 190)

http://www.varchive.org/tac/hararch.htm

http://www.varchive.org/dag/trowar.htm

http://www.varchive.org/tac/dakhamun.htm

http://www.varchive.org/ce/baalbek/carchemish.htm

http://www.varchive.org/ce/baalbek/baw.htm

[BlackbirdSST]

Apparently, that area was suffering from extreme drought when they thought it a good idea to build there to begin with.

[M Kehoe]

Thank you.

5.56mm

[Cronos]

Wait. You’re saying the Mitanni were Medes? I thought they were related to the Hittites

[texas booster]

Actually I was thinking of the times of Joseph in Egypt, building the granaries.

Not sure that the date references work out.

[Monkey Face]

Well, since Iraq is essentially a desert country, droughts are common. This one is just a little longer than others, but it’s producing amazing things. The author is more concerned about taxing the global warming than looking for benefits in it. After all — we’re only stewards of the earth in the first place.

[Larry Lucido]

Atlantis?

[PIF]

... was conjured up

—
That, sadly, seems to pervade science these days.

[SunkenCiv]

The Hittltes weren't a single people, the their archive in the old capital showed two major languages were widely spoken. Also, the name is bogus, saddled on to make the "Forgotten Empire" fit with the OT. And their era is similarly out of joint.