Posted on 01/08/2004 9:41:32 AM PST by blam
Isn't the area of the present day Kurds the area where the Assyrians took the Northern Tribes...I think Mosul is the same as Nineveh(sp). Your ideas?
Nah, who-ever were the red-headed folks, they infiltrated the Vikings too.
"Modern-day Kurds themselves trace their origin to the Medes, an Indo-European tribe that descented from Central Asia into the Iranian plateau around 614 B.C. as one of the principal pre-isramic iranian dynasties."
Wasn't it around 614BC that the Assyrians took the Northern Tribes captive and moved them into this area?
It's the same general area. I haven't heard that Ninevah is Mosul, but I wouldn't be suprised.
The genetic connections between Kurds and Jews are strong-- but Kurdish bares no relation to Hebrew or Aramaic, and you don't find many cultural markers linking the two groups. So I personally think it's more likely that the genetic connection arises because Kurds originate from the same area as Abraham-- i.e. Abraham was likely a proto-Kurd before he became the first Hebrew.
Still, given the genetics, it's far more likely that the Kurds would be descended from the "lost" tribes than the Celts or any Europeans.
Yeah, about that time exactly.
So, where did you get your red-headed genes?
Maybe from some of the folks in the article below?
The Curse Of The Red-Headed Mummy
(They were all over Russia and Belarus in ancient times)Ref: Victor Mair, The Tarim Mummies.
"Why wasn't I pinged?"
LOL! Hey, we have delegated responsibilities around here. FReeper 'farmfriend' is in charge of the ping list. Please ask her to put you on the GGG ping list.
Consider yourself added. If you ever change your mind, or I get you on the wrong list, just let me know.
I don't think we have a red-headed ping list. Good-night.
Yup. I am presently completing it for the third time. Then, it's on to Victor Mair's, The Tarim Mummies, for the second time. The Tarim Mummies is the best. Victor invited Elizabeth Barber to become involved with his effort with these Caucasian mummies found in the Tarim Basin. Elizabeth is a textile specialist. The link in post #49 is about this subject. The Mummies of Urumchi is a good book too. (Victor Mair gives the whole story though)
Adiabene, Jewish Kingdom of Mesopotamia...two millennia ago this land sheltered the proud Jewish kingdom of Adiabene, with its capital at Arbela, nominally part of the Assyrian province of the Parthian Empire... Helena, Queen of Adiabene, ruled of an empire influenced by the sciences of the Hellenes and the arts of the Persians, in the old foothills of the northern Tigris, on the south shores of the Caspian Sea, ruled a land increasingly swayed by the policies of the Roman Empire of the east, even as memory of the old Alexandran customs had begun to evaporate from the hearts and minds of the residents. To her east lay the treacherous Parthians, to the north the unpredictable Saksa, Dane and affiliated horse-nomads.
by Jonah Gabriel LissnerBeyond the Mountains of Darkness
Historical Dictionary: Gozan
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