There are more images in the overview from, 'Archeology in Bulgaria.'
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Louvre Exhibition of Thracian Art Treasures from modern Bulgaria.
by fulltimestudent inthracian kings epic.
archaeological discoveries in bulgaria.
if you're anywhere near the louvre museum in the next few weeks, you may find this exhibition of archaeological treasures from bulgaria exciting.. its bulgaria's first ever exhibition in the louvre museum in frances capital paris which will showcase the most impressive treasures of ancient thrace, and the way of life of the little known internationally odrysian kingdom, the most powerful state of the ancient thracians.. .
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Louvre Exhibition of Thracian Art Treasures from modern Bulgaria.
by fulltimestudent inthracian kings epic.
archaeological discoveries in bulgaria.
if you're anywhere near the louvre museum in the next few weeks, you may find this exhibition of archaeological treasures from bulgaria exciting.. its bulgaria's first ever exhibition in the louvre museum in frances capital paris which will showcase the most impressive treasures of ancient thrace, and the way of life of the little known internationally odrysian kingdom, the most powerful state of the ancient thracians.. .
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If the historical background interests you, some historical notes are included below:
1.The Ancient Thracians were an ethno-cultural group of Indo-European tribes inhabiting much ofSoutheast Europe from about the middle of the second millennium BC to about the 6th century AD on the territory of modern-day Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Greece, Turkey, Macedonia, Serbia.
2.The Odrysian Kingdom is a union of Thracian tribes dominated by the tribe of the Odrysians (also known as Odrysea or Odrusai bearing the name of a mythical ruler, Odryses or Odrisis, (ca. 715 – ca. 650 AD), was the most powerful state of the Ancient Thracians. It existed from the unification of many Thracian tribes by a single ruler, King Teres, in the 5th century BC till its conquest by theRomans in 46 AD on the territory of most of modern-day Bulgaria, Northern Greece, Southeastern Romania, and Northwestern Turkey.
3.The Getae or Gets were Thracian tribes inhabiting the regions on both sides of the Lower Danube in today’s Northern Bulgaria and Southern Romania.
4.T he Triballi were a Thracian tribe inhabiting the region of modern-day Western Bulgaria and Southern Serbia.
5. Teres I (r. ca. 475 – ca. 445 BC) was the first king of the Odrysian Kingdom uniting about 40 Thracian tribes. He was succeeded consecutively by his sons, Sparatocos (r. ca. 445-ca. 431 BC) and Sitalces (r. ca. 431 – ca. 424 BC).
6. Seuthes III was a king of the Odrysian kingdom of Thrace from ca. 331 BC to ca. 300 BC, at first tributary to Alexander the Great of Macedon. In 2004, as part an expedition dubbed TEMP, lateBulgarian archaeologist Georgi Kitov discovered Seuthes III’s tomb on the Golyama Kosmatka Moundnear his capital Seuthopolis (close to today’s towns of Kazanlak and Shipka), part of the Valley of Thracian Kings. The impressive finds included the famous lifelike bronze head of Seuthes III, hisgolden laurel wreath, golden kylix (ancient drinking cup), among others. Some of these finds (except for the ruler’s bronze head) are to be shown in the upcoming exhibit of Bulgaria’s Ancient Thracian treasures in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, “Ancient Thrace. The Odrysian Kingdom”, between April 15 and July 20, 2015.
7. The Panagyurishte Treasure, also known as the Panagyurishte Gold Treasure, was found in 1949 by three brothers – Pavel, Petko and Michail Deikovi, who worked together at the region of Merul tile factory near the town of Panagyurishte, Bulgaria. It consists of a phial, an amphora and seven rhyta with total weight of 6.164 kg of 23-karat gold. All of the objects are richly and skilfully decorated with scenes from Thracian mythology, customs and life. It is dated to the 4th-3rd centuries BC, and is thought to have been used as a royal ceremonial set by the Thracian king Seuthes III.
8. The Rogozen Treasure was discovered by chance in 1985 by a tractor driver digging a well in his garden in the Bulgarian village of Rogozen. It consists of 165 receptacles, including 108 phiales, 55 jugs and 3 goblets. The objects are silver with golden gilt on some of them with total weight of more than 20 kg. The treasure is an invaluable source of information for the life of the Thracians due to the variety of motifs in the richly decorated objects. It is dated back to the 5th-4th centuries B.O.T.
9.The Borovo Treasure, also known as the Borovo Silver Treasure, consists of five silver-gilt decorated vessels found in 1974 while ploughing a field in Borovo, Northeastern Bulgaria. The set has a bowl, a rhyta jug, and three rhyta, the largest of them with a figure of a sphynx and an inscription reading:“[Belongs to] Cotys from [the town of] Beos.”, as well as the name of the craftsman, Etbeos, leading to speculations that the treasure may have been a gift to a local Getic ruler from Odrysian King Cotys I(r. 382-359 BC).
10. The Letnitsa Treasure is dated back to the 4th century BC. It was found by accident in 1963 during a dig near the town of Letnitsa in Central Bulgaria in a bronze vessel. It consists of a large number ofsmall decorated silver items as well as a Thracian warrior’s decorated horse ammunition found nearby.
11. The Mogilanska Mound Treasure, also known as the Vratsa Gold Treasure, was found duringexcavations of a mound (which turned out to hold three tombs) in the downtown of Northwestern Bulgarian city of Vratsa in 1965-1966. The treasure found with the skeletons of people and horses, and chariots, consists of a golden crown of laurels, 47 gold appliqués, 2 golden earrings, 4 silver phialai, a silver jug, a rhyton-shaped amphora, and 50 clay figures. The Mogilanska Mound is believed to be aroyal tomb connected with the dynasty of the Tribali tribe.
12. The Zlatinitsa Mound Treasure consists of a golden wreath with appliqués, a seal ring, a greave, and two silver rhyta. It was found in 2005 near the town of Zlatinitsa in Southeastern Bulgaria by the team of archaeologist Daniela Agre in the tomb of a Thracian ruler dated back to the middle of 4th century BC.
13. The Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari is located near the town of Sveshtari, Northeastern Bulgaria. It is aGetic tomb with unique caryatids and murals dating back to the 3rd century BC, and was found in 1982. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
14. The Sboryanovo Archaeological Complex is an archaeological preserve located near the town ofSveshtari including over 140 archaeological and cultural monuments – from prehistoric and Thracian necropolises to medieval and modern-day Christian and Muslim shrines. It includes the Sveshtari Tomb and the ruins of the Ancient Thracian city of Helis, capital of the Getae. In October 2014,Bulgarian archaeologist Diana Gergova discovered a rich necropolis of a Getic ruler (including more than 180 gold items) during excavations at the Sboryanovo Archaeological Complex.
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Louvre Exhibition of Thracian Art Treasures from modern Bulgaria.
by fulltimestudent inthracian kings epic.
archaeological discoveries in bulgaria.
if you're anywhere near the louvre museum in the next few weeks, you may find this exhibition of archaeological treasures from bulgaria exciting.. its bulgaria's first ever exhibition in the louvre museum in frances capital paris which will showcase the most impressive treasures of ancient thrace, and the way of life of the little known internationally odrysian kingdom, the most powerful state of the ancient thracians.. .
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“Thracian Kings’ Epic. Archaeological Discoveries in Bulgaria”
If you're anywhere near the Louvre Museum in the next few weeks, you may find this Exhibition of archaeological treasures from Bulgaria exciting.
Its Bulgaria's first ever exhibition in the Louvre Museum in France’s capital Paris which will showcase the most impressive treasures of Ancient Thrace, and the way of life of the little known internationally Odrysian Kingdom, the most powerful state of the Ancient Thracians.
A deer head-shaped gold-coated silver rhyton from the Ancient Thracian treasure of Zlatinitsa-Malomirovo dated to the first half of the 4th century BC is one of the 1629 archaeological items to be displayed in the exhibition “Thracian Kings’ Epic. Archaeological Discoveries in Bulgaria” in the Louvre. This item is part of the collection of Bulgaria’s National Museum of History. Photo: Todor Dimitrov, Bulgaria’s Ministry of Culture
This golden amphora-rhyton is from the Panagyurishte Gold Treasure, the most impressive of all Thracian treasures. It is dated to the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 3rd century BC, and is part of the collection of the Plovdiv Museum of Archaeology. Photo: Plovdiv Museum of Archaeology
More items from-The Panagyurishte Gold Treasure, the most impressive Ancient Thracian treasure to date. Photo by Plovdiv Museum of Archaeology
The lifelike bronze head of Ancient Thracian Odryssian King Seuthes III was discovered in 2004 in his tomb near his capital Seuthopolis, near Bulgaria’s Kazanlak. Photo by kazanlak.com
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Polytheism in the Book of Daniel, a late second temple religious document
by fulltimestudent inas jehovah's witnesses we committed ourselves to a blind belief in a monotheistic judaism that was automatically transmitted to a new religious organisation, started (we were taught) by jesus.. that's the premise which this thread will discuss.
i suggest that sufficient evidence is available to throw doubt on both those beliefs.
so this thread will argue (over about a week-hopefully) that:.
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TTTE: Rereading your first few posts, and, now the last few on this page, I get the feeling that the idea you started this thread was to try to discredited JWs for their stance that there is only one Almighty God and that Jesus is also “God”.
You totally misunderstand the usage of monotheism and polytheism. You seem to understand that both words relate to worship of God(s)1. This thread honored a promise I made late last year, when Doug Mason (as I recall) mentioned Boyarin's book. I found the book in Sydney University's library and said I would attempt to follow Boyarin's argument and comment ... thus this thread.
His argument, as a recognised scholar* deserves, at least to be listened to. Yes, I believe his argument challenges the J.witness world view, but who is going to accuse the JW's of deep scholarship (grin).
2. You charge that I misunderstand the meanings of polytheism and monotheism, inferring that YOU understand, but you do so without definitions.(Boyarin, in your view, wouldn't understand either, would he?)
3. You keep telling us we must go back to the original understandings of the Hebrew words for 'god,' but rely for YOUR understanding on the seventeenth century understandings of the KJV translation and the nineteenth century definitions of the Strong's contributors.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2013/05/3159/
* The University of California, Berkeley was in the top 10 in last years world rankings. Note his publication list: http://nes.berkeley.edu/Web_Boyarin/boyarin_cv.html#publications
This is not an argument that what Boyarin** wrote is right, because he's a scholar (as another anti-intellectualist charged). It's simpler than that. To most minds the Jews were the premier monotheists in the world. When that view is challenged, (and remember that he is not talking about Judaism in general, he's talking about the document we know as the "Book of Daniel.") What was the author of this document imagining as he wrote down his visions? How did it relate to the world he lived in?
As, I've commented previously, I suggest we are seeing the influence of Hellenic thinking creeping into Judaism. That's only natural, The Jews were constantly influenced by the people around them, including:
A. Egyptian thought - Remember Moses:
"Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians." Acts 7:22 NIV
B. Semitic thought (Babylonian) - the flood stories. A Law Code. (i.e. Similar to Hammurabi's)
C. Iranian thought. 'Dualism' as evident in the Dead Sea Scrolls and some Christian groups. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2013/05/3159/
From your posts it seems, that you've locked your mind into the imagined witness concept that there is a 'pure line' of truth, held by faithful witnesses that stretches from the contemporary world scene, right back to Adam.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. As east-west trade developed along the so-called Silk Roads, so did the 'trade' in ideas, as human influenced human.
** Note that The University of California, Berkeley was in the top 10 in last years world rankings. Boyarin did not get the job he has there because he was a second class thinker.
Also note his publication list: http://nes.berkeley.edu/Web_Boyarin/boyarin_cv.html#publications
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1975 failed prediction?
by Garrett inheyo,.
your favorite garrett here.
so, i'm about to have an elder tell me allll about the failed 1975 doctrine.
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I have posted this previously, but it's worth repeating. It's my memories of living through a failed prophecy:
In Sydney (Australia) at least, by the time we got to mid 1975, many brothers who believed the WTS talk about 1975, were looking at the supposed list of things to happen during the time of the end, and wondering how they could all happen in the next six months. I was not particularly perturbed, at the time, because I knew that calculating time periods was fraught with difficulties.
But apparently in Brooklyn, some were wondering the same because about August 1975, Nathan Knorr and Freddy Franz turn up at the Australian Branch, and a talk was arranged at the (then) Greenacre Assembly Hall.
Nathan gets up and talks first, I cant recall much of most of his talk, but its very clear in my mind, that he got to a certain point, and said the same thing that I've highlighted above.Nathan put it something like this:
"As it is now August, it does not seem that (and he turned to face Freddy Franz) all the things that Bro. Franz, says must happen before Armageddon, can happen in the next few months."
I interpreted his body language as saying that he was more than bit pissed off by all this.
It's a rather open understanding that the Knorr/Franz duopoly allowed each man to follow his basic interests. Fred looked after Bible research and study. Nathan looked after the engineering (printing/building) and organisation.
I felt a bit sorry ( a feeling that soon faded) for Nathan that night. It was clear that he had relied on Freddy's bible knowledge and viewpoint, and now the rug had been pulled out from under his feet. He'd had an operation for cancer and died a couple of years later, maybe wondering where it had all gone wrong.
The following year, they sent a Canadian brother* out to tell us that Armageddon was way off into the future, maybe as long as (quote), eighteen years (unquote) away.
That's when I started thinking .....
*A former Aussie Branch overseer named Doug. Held.
Doug had been one of gay Percy Chapman's handsome glamour boys in the Canadian Branch, and had survived the purge when Nathan demoted Percy Chapman from Branch Overseer to cleaner.
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First Clear Evidence of Pre-Columbian trading between Alaskans and East Asians,1000 years ago
by fulltimestudent inexciting find, something definite to indicate east-asian and alaskan trade approximately 1000 years ago.
three east-asian areas are mentioned.
china, korea and yakutia, in present day siberia.
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Exciting find, something definite to indicate East-Asian and Alaskan Trade approximately 1000 years ago. Three East-Asian areas are mentioned. China, Korea and Yakutia, in present day Siberia. Some of the evidence includes obsidian artifacts with a chemical signature that that indicates an origin in Anadyr River Valley in Siberia.
Another item of evidence is the design similarity of armour fabricated from overlapping plates.
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The Treasures of Nimrud
by fulltimestudent inin happier days, the discovery of these treasures could delight the eye.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxcfxv7jo04.
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Morpheusa day agoWhat about the raising of over 6,000 monistaries in tibet by china...?
Yes, you're quite right. The Red Guards were vandals too, and how interesting that many were young Tibetans (mainly from the lower socio-economic groups). I'm not so sure about the figure of 6000 monasteries. No-one knows for sure how many Tibetans there were in 1960, I suggest maybe 2,000,000. On the count of 6000 monasteries "razed," that would mean one large or small monastery for every 330 people. Most were re-built after Mao died. I counted 87, on this Wikipedia list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tibetan_monasteries
But I believe there were/are many more than that.
BTW, we have descriptions of certain aspects of Tibetan life, that were provided by the British invasion force of 1904. Peter Fleming, in his book "Bayonets to Lhasa," includes some of these descriptions P.232,233 -edition published by Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961).
"The Potala, Fleming writes (citing Candler), was surrounded by a nauseous squalor ... it was in fact, an insanitary slum. ... The houses were mean and filthy ..." Younghusband (the British Supervisor of the invasion), described the monks, as "lazy and sensual and effete."
How much those sort of conditions, likely unchanged in 60 years, led to the actions of young Tibetan Red Guards, is hard to judge.
And, of course, throughout China, the Red Guards vandalised many antiquities, in their campaign to destroy the four "olds" (customs, culture, habits, ideas).
This graphic, captures (I think) the attitude of the Red Guards across China:
Or the huge loss of historical and cutural history by the peoples liberation army of china...?
That's a harder general question for me to answer, as I don't know what you're referring to. US General Joe Stillwell judged the PLA troops as better disciplined and organised than those of the KMT (Chiang's).
I'm sure that in a civil war things can and do, getout of hand. But if you could be more specific, I can discuss your claim.
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How a Gay Jewish Boy from New England Came to Be and Leave the JWs (and what he did next)
by CalebInFloroda inborn in cambridge, ma to a liberal couple that escaped the conservative south, my parents raised me better than to become a jehovahs witness.
funny thing was they got mixed up in it first.. while that is a story for another time, i myself had to go along as the third of five children in my family.
dads job transferred him to texas and my mom worked fulltime herself, but eventually we found ourselves drinking the kool-aid of ambiguity intolerance and full-fledge belief that the bible was literal fact and that salvation was found only by those who were smart enough to enter the confines of the watchtower.. its weird how many people claim they fear children raised by two gay parents will grow up to be gay.
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The Treasures of Nimrud
by fulltimestudent inin happier days, the discovery of these treasures could delight the eye.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxcfxv7jo04.
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The Biblical Archeology Society has assembled an overview of their previous reports on Nimrud. The link is:
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The Treasures of Nimrud
by fulltimestudent inin happier days, the discovery of these treasures could delight the eye.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxcfxv7jo04.
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The above destruction in the view of the Biblical Archeology Review:
Assyriologist Echart Frahn, said in Yale News that, 'any major destruction at Nimrud or other ancient Assyrian cities in Iraq “would be one of the worst cultural heritage disasters of all times.”'
The building destroyed was, the "ninth-century North-West Palace of King Ashurnasirpal II at the ancient Assyrian site of Nimrud." It survived for near 3000 years only to vanish in the cultural wars of the twentyfirst century.
The overview continued:
The ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud (known in antiquity as Kalhu) lies in the Nineveh plains on the northeast bank of the Tigris River, 20 miles from Mosul in northern Iraq. When King Ashurnasirpal II ascended to the throne (r. 883–859 B.C.E.), he relocated the royal court from Assur to Nimrud, establishing it as the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and rebuilding it completely, with lavish temples and a palace funded by his successful conquests. Many of the reliefs and statues excavated from Ashurnasirpal II’s Nimrud palace are now on display in the British Museum and elsewhere in the world.
I suggest that this loss, to our knowledge of the past, can only be compared to the crazed destruction of Graeco-Roman temples by the crazed Christians of the fourth century CE.