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posted by martyb on Tuesday June 30 2020, @11:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the Who-knew-The-Italian-Stallion-could-translate-ancient-texts?-"Stele!" dept.

Archaeologists in Turkey Have Uncovered a Mysterious Ancient Kingdom Lost in History:

Last year, archaeologists were investigating an ancient mound site in central Turkey called Türkmen-Karahöyük. The greater region, the Konya Plain, abounds with lost metropolises, but even so, researchers couldn't have been prepared for what they were about to find.

[...] With the aid of translators, the researchers found that the hieroglyphs on this ancient stone block – called a stele – boasted of a military victory. And not just any military victory, but the defeat of Phrygia, a kingdom of Anatolia that existed roughly 3,000 years ago.

The royal house of Phrygia was ruled by a few different men called Midas, but dating of the stele, based on linguistic analysis, suggests the block's hieroglyphics could be referring to the King Midas – he of the famous 'golden touch' myth.

The stone markings also contained a special hieroglyphic symbolising that the victory message came from another king, a man called Hartapu. The hieroglyphs suggest Midas was captured by Hartapu's forces.

[...] What's significant about this is that almost nothing is known about King Hartapu, nor about the kingdom he ruled. Nonetheless, the stele suggests the giant mound of Türkmen-Karahöyük may have been Hartapu's capital city, spanning some 300 acres in its heyday, the heart of the ancient conquest of Midas and Phrygia.

See also: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/oriental-institute-archaeologists-help-discover-lost-kingdom-ancient-turkey


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Username on Wednesday July 01 2020, @12:15AM (3 children)

    by Username (4557) on Wednesday July 01 2020, @12:15AM (#1014788)

    Aegeus ruled Athens
    Tyndareus ruled Sparta
    Ramesses II ruled Egypt
    Exodus of the Jews

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @12:59AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @12:59AM (#1014804)

    Aristarchus got his first computer, an antikythera mechanism, and tried to make his first snarky posting.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by aristarchus on Wednesday July 01 2020, @01:43AM (1 child)

      by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday July 01 2020, @01:43AM (#1014831) Journal

      I was born in 310 BC, so you are off by a millennium. Not bad, for a millennial. The antikythera was made about 87BC, which makes you off by more than a millennial. But, we had earlier models, that ran Multics.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday July 01 2020, @07:39AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 01 2020, @07:39AM (#1014905) Journal

        Those were the times! I heard even at young ages you were keen on inequality.

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