>Reuters is reporting that archaeologists have found the remains of a man and a woman in the ancient city of Troy in Turkey. According to the report, the couple probably died in 1,200 B.C., during the time of the Trojan War as reported by Homer.
The following is an excerpt from the article:
The discovery could add to evidence that Troy’s lower area was bigger in the late Bronze Age than previously thought, changing scholars’ perceptions about the city of the “Iliad.”
If the remains are confirmed to be from 1,200 B.C. it would coincide with the Trojan war period. These people were buried near a mote. We are conducting radiocarbon testing, but the finding is electrifying.”
Ancient Troy, located in the northwest of modern-day Turkey at the mouth of the Dardanelles not far south of Istanbul, was unearthed in the 1870s by Heinrich Schliemann, the German entrepreneur and pioneering archaeologist who discovered the steep and windy city described by Homer.
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Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary
Tags: Archaeology, Trojan War, Troy
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>Dr. MariottiniThis looks interesting.If the carbon date is around 800 instead of 1200 they'll just say they were buried later… if the carbon date is 1200 they'll say they were buried contemporaneously with 'classic' Troy. The pottery is already 'dated' to 1200 but not by a physical test…It's the ASH Correspondence all over again.Troy is the marker for the Greek Dark Ages [which did not happen]Homer writes too well of Trojan War technology and Mycenaean society to have been separated from it by this finctional centuries long Dark Age Gap. Odysseus returned to his home island of Ithaka – but the island he returned to is not the one that bears that name today. His home island, the ancient island of Ithaka, is now known as Paliki, and is connected now by a land bridge to its neighboring island to the east. The land bridge was formed by an earthquake in more recent time. Homer did say Ithaka was the westernmost of the group – Paliki indeed is. Ruins of pig farming infrastructure, including wells, and a fortress mound were discovered on Paliki. Also, a skeleton with the brooch so lovingly described as that of Odysseus has been found on Paliki.This is Odysseus. Of course, people with the wrong chronology will say that he is not…If anyone would be interested, I can try to find some links to this material – and we'll all keep watching with interest as this case proceedsJohnny C Godowski
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>Johnny,The lowering of Egyptian chronology is mostly based on Velikovsky's theories. Many Egyptian and Biblical scholars do not accept that Egyptian chronology should be lowered by hundred of years. Claude Mariottini
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>Dr MariottiniUnderstood – we have long articulated our respective differences regarding chronology- and these differences are indeed respected – with these differences acknowlegedto paraphrase Paul of the biblelet God be true … [and everyone else possibly perhaps a wee bit off… ]similarly for chronology – until physical tests are actually performed and published – so we might really know – in stead of continually wavering between conflicting opinions…in the mean timeHave you heard of Paliki? How would you account for the castle mound and the skeleton with the brooch that Homer so singularly described? As in the Lonely Widow and Merneptah parallel… singularly in all of human history we have Homer describing Odyusseus' broochand this singular skeleton with corresponding brooch on Palike/Ithakathere are simply no other corresponding references in all of human historyWherefore yet again, to honor the Lonely Widow Israel, by previous reference, and most especially here, to honor Odysseus himself, I affirm that these two parallel references to Odysseus – that of Homer and that of the Paliki/Ithaka noble skeleton with singular brooch – do indeed forever align togther chronologically in time, and in undeniable coidentity – commanding forever his rightful place in the indelible heart of all humanityJohnny C Godowski
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>To clarify for any who might be unfamiliar – http://www.mlahanas.de/Greece/Cities/PalikiHomersIthaca.htmlI believe the work of Bittlestone et al is as significant as that of Schliemann Particularly interesting is the confirmation of greek structures … Johnny C Godowski
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