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| Ancient Trojan war-era couple found in Turkey | |
| 2009-09-24 | |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Archaeologists in the ancient city of Troy in Turkey have found the remains of a man and a woman believed to have died in 1,200 B.C., the time of the legendary war chronicled by Homer, a leading German professor said on Tuesday. Ernst Pernicka, a University of Tubingen professor of archaeometry who is leading excavations on the site in northwestern Turkey, said the bodies were found near a defense line within the city built in the late Bronze age.
"If the remains are confirmed to be from 1,200 B.C. it would coincide with the Trojan war period. These people were buried near a moat. We are conducting radiocarbon testing, but the finding is electrifying," Pernicka told Reuters in a telephone interview. Ancient Troy, located in the northwest of modern-day Turkey at the mouth of the Dardanelles not far south of Istanbul, was unearthed in the 1870s by Heinrich Schliemann, the German entrepreneur and pioneering archaeologist who discovered the steep and windy city described by Homer. Pernicka said pottery found near the bodies, which had their lower parts missing, was confirmed to be from 1,200 BC, but added the couple could have been buried 400 years later in a burial site in what archaeologists call Troy VI or Troy VII, different layers of ruins at Troy. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 On WAFF.com + other MIL FORUMS > the TROJAN WAR NEVER ENDED. D *** NG IT, GREECE + TURKEY, ITS ONLY BEEN 3000 YEARS SO WHY STOP THE WAR NOW! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-09-24 23:50 |
| #5 I used to think I understood the Late Bronze Age, then a friend had me read this book which made a fairly conclusive argument that all the timelines are based off of insane, knotted logic-chains drawn with pottery associations and dubious Egyptian dynastic genealogies. There's a serious argument to be made that the Trojan war happened a century-and-a-half after the usual ~1200 BC dating. The short version is, there's a huge damned hole in the pottery records between about a half-century after the Trojan War and before the rise of the Archaic Greek polii, the so-called "Greek Dark Ages". All the claims that Solomonic/Davidian Israel didn't exist or was an abiblical hillbilly association are also based on a similar hole ripped in Palestinian archeology by related Egyptian-driven warps in the pottery record. So I have to wonder - which pottery dating scheme is Pernicka using - the traditional one, or one of the revisionist schemes? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-09-24 19:55 |
| #4 Paris has always been a source of trouble. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2009-09-24 19:31 |
| #3 Obviously, those need to be destroyed, at once! As they remind the world that all of turkey (and quite a bit of other territories over the course of turkish aggressions over the centuries) are stricly historically non-muslim lands that were grabbed by force, and then ethnically cleansed of any non-muslims and/or non-turk (last pogroms with muslim mobs forcing greek populations to fly for fear of rape, murder, looting, were... in the mid 1950, nice). Obviously, this slander can't be allowed. Let's focus on the european colonization, with, say, a special focus on the horrid way AmeriKKKa is actually a stolen land, that ultimately needs to be given back to its noble orginal inhabitants (chavez is working on that, starting with venezuela and south america). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-09-24 13:14 |
| #2 For those of you who do not get 3dc's literary allusion, look up "Achilles." |
| Posted by: mom 2009-09-24 09:28 |
| #1 waiting until they find a complete body with only the ankle rotted away... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2009-09-24 03:59 |