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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, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday July 01 2020, @03:44AM
I did a similar Yucatan trip with a friend around 1986, the caves are cool - literally, good break if you're there in the summer like we were.
Unrelated: was in a rental van with a coworker and it started to stall out as we headed for the hotel from BFE just around sunset. Initiated the formal "call the company for help" protocol, but after about 2 minutes into waiting for the 90+ minute cavalry to arrive we decided to take a look under the hood - an apparently important intake hose had come loose, reattached and running as good as ever in less than 60 seconds under the hood.
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