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Tango0109 Jun 2018 12:34 p.m. PST

… of Lost Ancient City of Mardama.

"A team of archaeologists and philologists from the Universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg, Germany, has identified the location of the ancient royal city of Mardama thanks to 3,250-year-old cuneiform tablets…."
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Cacique Caribe09 Jun 2018 1:24 p.m. PST

Okay, who keeps losing all these cities???

Someone needs to be fired!

Wow, I just got a flashback from my childhood (5-6 years old?) in Puerto Rico, of my uncle* trying to teach me Sumerian and syllabic Ugaritic cuneiform using actual clay tablets and reed stilus. Weird how the brain stores so many memories.

Dan
* I think his JB Pritchard Near Eastern Texts is in one of my Hurricane Harvey storage boxes.

Roderick Robertson Fezian10 Jun 2018 8:45 a.m. PST

It is Lost because it is contains That Which Should Not Be Known.

Finding it is contra-indicated.

Personal logo Condotta Supporting Member of TMP10 Jun 2018 12:34 p.m. PST

It wasn't lost…it always knew where it was. It thought everything else was lost, and has yet to find proof otherwise. 😃

Tango0110 Jun 2018 3:54 p.m. PST

(smile)

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