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Science To Test (Jason) Argonaut Myth
Kathimerini | 2-9-2005
Posted on 02/09/2005 2:40:18 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1339663/posts
King Midas’ Modern Mourners
Science News | Nov. 4, 2000; Vol. 158, No. 19 , p. 296 | Jessica Gorman
Posted on 11/28/2004 9:23:26 PM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1290040/posts
Archaeologists Find Celts in Unlikely Spot: Central Turkey
NY Times | December 25, 2001 | John Noble Wilford
Posted on 12/27/2001 2:45:39 PM EST by Apollo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/597641/posts
So Who Is Buried in Midas’s Tomb?
NYT | 12/25/2001 | John Noble Wilford
Posted on 12/25/2001 1:12:01 AM EST by a_Turk
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/596541/posts
The Argonaut Epos and Bronze Age Economic History
Economics Department, City College of New York
Revised May 14, 1999 | Morris Silver
Posted on 08/25/2004 10:30:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1199756/posts
Origins and Ancient History of Wine
ed by Patrick McGovern,
Solomon Katz,
and Stuart Fleming
HardcoverAncient Wine:
The Search for the Origins of Viniculture
by Patrick McGovern
I have run into Colchis several times in the course of research.
In UNESCO’s “General History of Africa”, Herodotus (480-425 BC) is quoted as saying, “It is in fact manifest that the Colchidians are Egyptians by race...several Egyptians told me that in their opinion the Colchidians were descended from soldiers of Sesostris [1895 BC]. I had conjectured as much myself from two pointers. firstly because they have black skins and kinky hair and secondly and more reliably for the reason that alone among mankind the Egyptians and the Ethiopians have practiced circumcision since time immemorial. The Phoenicians and Syrians of Palestine themselves admit that they learnt the practice from the Egyptians....”
Colchis is a source of a type of crocus that is the source of colchicine (sp?), a valuable medicine for [gout?]. I was doing some research on the Thera eruption, and saw a wall painting which was at least 1645 BC, showing several goddesses in a field of crocuses, which I suspect were of that type. Did Jason travel by Thera and trade in colchicine?
