[blam]

"Ur, near the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya, is cited in the Bible as the birthplace of the prophet Abraham ."

When Abraham lived in Ur, it was a seaside town. It is now about 100 miles in-land.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[thackney]

Iraq ping

[lexington minuteman 1775]

To Ur is human, to dig it up is divine! ;-)

[buwaya]

Interesting that its now safe enough for archaeology in the Iraqi south.

[Red Badger]

Do they tell where the WMDs are?..........

[topher]

And... They will be found to be part of the Da Vinci Code!!! (or is it the Da Vinci Hoax???) [ /sarcasm off]

[Red Badger]

When Abraham lived in Ur, it was a seaside town. It is now about 100 miles in-land.

Global warming will fix that...........

[Red Badger]

Perhaps the tablets say, "ACCORDING TO ALBERTIUS GORUS, GLOBAL COOLING TO DESTROY OUR CIVILIZATION!"

[Mikey_1962]

They translate to:

"Nebuchadnezzar lied, people died"

[umgud]

Very very interesting. THX for the post.

[Spirited]

Thanks, Blam....

[P-40]

It is now about 100 miles in-land.

That's cause global warming melted all the oceans...and they went away.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. Quibble -- coring done in the 1960s or 1970s found that Ur wasn't a seaside town. And IMV, this isn't the Ur where Abraham lived.

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[Zetman]

Chiodi said the tablets would probably occupy a prominent place in a new Virtual Museum of Iraq which Italy is building to show people what Baghdad's celebrated museum of antiquities looked like before it was looted in the wake of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq .

And of course, there is the obligatory snotty comment about the U.S. and it's "invasion" of Iraq. How pathetic.

With the "virtual museum" comment, he also manages to work a sanctimonious "we'll fix what those baboons in the U.S. broke" concept smoothly into the same sentence. Double score!!

[CobaltBlue]

It is now about 100 miles in-land.

If, indeed, the oceans are rising, might be seaside again?

[pblax8]

Someone help me out here what is 2,700 BCE mean. BCE??? I know what B.C. and A.D. are.

[Interesting Times]

Ping.

[BlueStateDepression]

Paging Dr. Jackson....Paging Dr. Jackson.....

[tutstar]

I see they are using BCE instead of BC.

[Ptarmigan]

Interesting find!