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Ancient Tablets May Reveal What Destroyed Minoan Civilization
Haaretz ^ | Sep 10, 2019 | Philippe Bohstrom

Posted on 09/16/2019 4:21:23 PM PDT by Openurmind

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1 posted on 09/16/2019 4:21:23 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-ancient-tablets-may-reveal-what-destroyed-minoan-civilization-1.7809371


2 posted on 09/16/2019 4:21:37 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

They taxed themselves to death trying to prevent climate change.


3 posted on 09/16/2019 4:26:13 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Openurmind

For what it is worth, The Conquerors of Latin America wrote in their descriptions, that many in what is now Mexico City were what they called SODOMITES. They had some sort of Irish Settler that supposedly sniffed out the homosexual, and to be a GOOD priest on the pyramids, one needed to show no signs of sexual arousal about taking a heart out of a young naked maiden. When Cuahtemoc hurled the stone that was a fatal blow to his Uncle Montezuma, he cried out in Aztec language a word which today in English would have been translated QUEER. Archaelogists would do well, to consider that some of these civilizations may have gone extinct as the gender confusion was so overwhelming, they didn’t have enough Men and Women to make babies for Wars, Human Sacrifices and overcome disease and being killed by jaguars. One day in Mexico City there were 100,000 human sacrifices. The stack of skulls that is displayed today, verifies that these numbers were not exaggerated.


4 posted on 09/16/2019 4:26:38 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: SunkenCiv

Minoans ping.


5 posted on 09/16/2019 4:27:06 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Openurmind
"...until the great collapse of civilization around the Mediterranean Basin, around 1,200 B.C.E."

That must have been about the first time Bernie Sanders ran for office.

6 posted on 09/16/2019 4:32:02 PM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: Openurmind

Crete has always fascinated me but as soon as I see BCE, I quit reading.


7 posted on 09/16/2019 4:33:09 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Larry Lucido

lol, then the writing changed and became “new speak”.


8 posted on 09/16/2019 4:33:33 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Larry Lucido

Or, their Liberal Population Zero was extremely effective.


9 posted on 09/16/2019 4:33:38 PM PDT by TomGuy
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Immanuel Velikovsky
The Dark Age of Greece

10 posted on 09/16/2019 4:36:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Thanks colorado tanker. One of *those* topics.



11 posted on 09/16/2019 4:36:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: colorado tanker; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks colorado tanker, nice twofer!

12 posted on 09/16/2019 4:36:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Larry Lucido

I think they starved from running out of avocado toast.


13 posted on 09/16/2019 4:37:29 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Openurmind

Mohammad’s ancestors wiped them out because they wouldn’t accept the soon-to-be-invented dhimmi status and the upcoming jizya taxes. Mad Mo’s ancestors were paving the way.


14 posted on 09/16/2019 4:40:00 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Tarshish
by Immanuel Velikovsky
References to the ships of Tarshish and to a place of that name, in the Old Testament, beginning with the time of Solomon (10th century), to the time of the prophets of the 8th and 7th centuries, make me think that by this designation the Cretan navigators and Crete itself were meant. The Minoan civilization survived until the great catastrophes of the 8th century and it would be strange if it and its maritive activities remained unmentioned in the Old Testament.

The usual explanation puts Tarshish in Spain, though other identifications are offered, like Tarsus, in Asia Minor. One of the old names for Knossos sounds like Tarshish.
Caphtor
by Immanuel Velikovsky
The island Caphtor is named in the Scriptures. The usual identification is Crete, because the Keftiu bringing presents (vases) to Egyptian pharaohs are thought to be Cretans.

I prefer Cyprus as the biblical Caphtor and the Egyptian Keftiu.

If Caphtor is not Cyprus, then the Old Testament completely omits reference to this large island close to the Syrian coast. The phonetics of the name also point to Cyprus. Separately I show that Tarshish was the name of Crete.

It seems that the Philistines arrived in Palestine from Caphtor following the catastrophe that brought there the Israelites after their wandering in the Desert.
New Light On The Dark Age Of Greece, "Tarshish"
by Jan Sammer
...So far we have based our discussion of the identity of Tarshish on Biblical sources; but there also exists an allusion to that land in another source, a cuneiform text found about a hundred years ago at Assur on the Tigris. The text is part of the annals of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon, who ruled over Assyria from -681 to -669. It reads:
"All the kingdoms from (the islands) amidst the sea -- from the country of Iadanan and Jaman as far as Tarshishi bowed to my feet and I received heavy tribute."
The identities of the first two countries mentioned by Esarhaddon are known: Iadanan is Cyprus and Iaman is the Ionian coast of Asia Minor; the location of Tarshishi, however, became the subject of some debate, for this statement by Esarhaddon is the only time the name appears in any Assyrian text. It was noted that "Tarshishi" has the determinative mãt for "country" in front of it, as do Idanana, or Cyprus and Iaman, or Ionia. The only clue to its location was its being described as a kingdom "amidst the sea", apparently somewhat farther removed from Assyria than either Cyprus or Ionia.

When Esarhaddon's text was first published and transliterated the name was read as "Nu-shi-shi." At that time there were several conjectures as to the identification of this land. The city of Nysa in Caria was one suggestion; another was that the world refers to "nesos" for Peloponnesos. In 1914 D. D. Luckenbill ventured that "Knossos, for Crete, would fit better." Three years later B. Meissner made a fresh examination of the cuneiform tablet and found that the original transliteration of the name had been mistaken, and that "Tar-shi-shi" was the correct reading. The new reading took away Luckenbill's chief reason for his identification; yet he had the right solution, even if he reached it on wrong grounds. More recent scholarship identifies the land of Tarshishi mentioned by Esarhaddon with the city of Tarsus in Cilicia. Had Tarshishi been a city the name would have been preceded by the determinative URU; however, as mentioned above, it has mãt for "country". It is also difficult to see how a place in Cilicia would fit the description "from Iadanana and Iaman as far as Tarshishi." Clearly Tarsisi was farther west than either Cyprus or Ionia. These criteria are filled admirably by Crete.

15 posted on 09/16/2019 4:42:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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I’ve been to the Palace of Knossos on Crete. Beautiful place, laid out neatly on a small hill overlooking the countryside and coast with a 360 degree view. You look over massive, ancient olive tree groves and tilled fields that have been worked for thousands of years.

Some of the fresco colors are still vibrant even after 3000+ years.

Imagining what it looked like in its heyday... Must have been magnificent!


16 posted on 09/16/2019 4:56:00 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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Yes, and it was common for Minoan women to walk around bare-breasted. They were an advanced civilization in more ways than one.


17 posted on 09/16/2019 5:05:22 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Openurmind

I’m not saying it was aliens but.....


18 posted on 09/16/2019 5:05:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Openurmind

Thanks!


19 posted on 09/16/2019 5:06:48 PM PDT by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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Cool extra info Civ!


20 posted on 09/16/2019 5:13:19 PM PDT by Openurmind
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