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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.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday July 01 2020, @01:12AM (2 children)
Haha we rented a VW bug in Playa del Carmen to drive to the ruins at Coba in the middle of the Yucatan. The wash griddle roads vibrated the poor vehicle so much that one by one the mirrors fell off, then the knobs on the radio, the window handle, the inner door handle on the passenger side. When we turned the car back in at the end of the day we handed them the keys with one hand and a bag of parts with the other.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Funny) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday July 01 2020, @02:11AM (1 child)
A car rental bloke in Peru had to try three for us before he could get one to start.
We thought, what's the worst that could happen? If it breaks down we'll just make Carl fix it.
It broke down and Carl fixed it before lunchtime. I think it was running better when we turned it in actually.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @03:12AM
A 60s-70s race circuit driver used to rent a car to get around while in town for a race. He always drove rentals in 1st gear only. One day the engine seized on a highway and ripped it along with the transmission out of the car. He was banned from rentals.