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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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    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @01:02AM (#1014805)

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      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @11:17AM (#1014946)

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        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @11:20AM (#1014947)

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