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.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @01:02AM (9 children)
I thought the Woke just didn't want to be reminded that America used to be a great country.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @01:15AM (4 children)
When??? Haha.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @01:36AM (3 children)
2016-2019
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @01:42AM (1 child)
I laughed out loud, but then I had to ask myself, "Was he actually being serious?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @11:42AM
He? I think you mean they, you genderist pig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @01:46AM
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @02:33AM (2 children)
The vague opinions of White Supremacists are truly strange sounding until you figure out what they are.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @11:17AM (1 child)
The vague opinions of SJWs are truly strange sounding until you figure out what they are. Commies.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @11:20AM
>> Commies.
Nope. If you correlate the emergence of SJWs with the closing of state mental hospitals in the 50s and 60s, you'll figure out what they *really* are... nutcases off their medications.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @09:38PM
I'm not seeing how idolizing traitors fits that purpose?
And I mean actual traitors, as in "aiding the enemy" traitors, not "say bad things about our supreme leader... erm, president", traitors.