A Consummation Devoutly To Be Wished

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On July 19th 1799, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles east of Alexandria.  The stone will change history.
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  1. Perfesser BearJuly 16, 2020 at 8:40 PM

    And unfortunately, its name was coopted by a language training company.

    Today I learned that in 1948, Leonard Simmons, an English RAF airman who saw service in Egypt, brought home a cuneiform tablet. Recently the tablet was translated and found to be 3,700-year-old instructions for building the Ark -- and it's round.

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  2. Billy D BunnyJuly 17, 2020 at 11:23 AM

    I went post-haste to look at that. This flood story must have something behind it. Asimov said that it happened when the Med flooded the Black Sea area. There are buildings down there from thousands of years ago. Sort of a race memory, these flood stories. What we do know is that the water did not sweep over the mountains of Ararat in Turkey.

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    1. Perfesser BearJuly 17, 2020 at 10:14 PM

      That is very much what the documentary I watched said. The story may be as much as 10,000 years old, and influenced everything from Genesis to Plato's story of Atlantis. Fortunately, the buildings at the bottom of the Black Sea sit in anaerobic water; without oxygen, the wood decays much more slowly. We may yet learn something of the people who lived there.

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    2. Billy D BunnyJuly 17, 2020 at 10:45 PM

      Like the Pointer Sisters say, I'm So Excited!

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