>The object, unearthed during a dig in Austria, is allegedly a clay copy of a mobile phone with a Sumerian writing style known as cuneiform on the keys.
>YouTube channel Paranormal Crucible reported: "What is it? Is it evidence of an advanced civilisation or time travel?”
The tablet was dated to around the 13th century BCE. By that time, the Sumerian writing style – usually known as cuneiform - had already been around for a few thousand years.
>Editorial on the channel goes on to say: “Cuneiform tablets aren’t unusual – an estimated two million have been excavated. The language was a mystery until the 19th century when its code was deciphered."
>Cuneiform was one of the first systems of writing developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia around 3,500BC to 3,000 BC.
In the last thread we came discussed how Sumerian was deciphered with the help of Finnish and other Turanian languages and the lexical similarities between Finnish and Sumerian, like mother tongue; Su. eme-gi, Fi. emä kieli. Thoughts, /his/?
>http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/630034/archaeologists-discovery-800-year-old-mobile-phone-prove-time-travel-real
>http://users.cwnet.com/millenia/Sumerian-Parpola.htm
>>1325595
Why would a time-traveler be using an outdated, shitty nokia phone?
>>1325618
It was top tier technology at one point
>>1325618
Maybe he wanted to leave a proof of time travel and these old phones look far, far more recognizable as a phone than the new ones
What if it was Malcolm X and W.E.B. DuBois who had won over the Black Americans? How would things be different today?
More suicide bombings
>>1325509
>Martin Luther King
>Malcolm X
>W.E.B. DuBois
I'm not American but what the fuck was up with those ridiculous names?
>>1325523
The Black Americans were trying to make their own culture. With Malcolm, I think the "X" part was a nickname. With DuBois, his name was really fucking long, something like "William Edward Burnheart" If I remember correctly. And King Jr, well, Black parents can get a bit... creative sometimes.
Why did it happen? Who won? General discussion please.
>>1325345
ebin
>>1325345
>>1325345
That was the joke after the 1991 Gulf War: War's over, Iran won.
Why did he lose /his/?
>Have Han ancestry
>Have Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang
>Have Emperor Xian in his territory
>Have South
>Have benevolence
>>1324437
Jurchens >>>>>>> Han = Vietnamese and Southeast Asian natives/Koreans
Trained army > peasants
The only time I ever think about linking to tumblr is the histories of these three guys:
Liu Bei:
http://the-archlich.tumblr.com/post/97228936927
Guan Yu:
http://the-archlich.tumblr.com/post/101281134272
>TL;DR: It’s amazing that a man who was such a liability to his own army was deified as the God of War.
Zhuge Liang:
http://the-archlich.tumblr.com/post/92945620562
>TL;DR: Pretty much everything you’ve ever heard about him is a lie. Is it any wonder I detest him?
Is Wales a Roman successor state?
not in any way, at all, and i'm interested in seeing why you'd possibly think otherwise
>>1324164
Are you fucking shitting me?
What mental contortion do you have to engage in to even ask that question?
Although the medical definition of autism and Asperger were formulated recently, are there any historical figures who were believed to have had to characterized traits of the disorder.
More food for thought, how many people in the clergy in medieval/renaissance Europe or the Administrator class of society in China and Japan do you think may have had such a disorder.
Nobody, because 90% of mental disorders are made up.
Mozart loved scat
But then again, he was German/Austrian
>>1324173
Is anyone here a nihilist? It seems that many people on the other boards like /b/ and /pol/ are. Nietzsche was a nihilist too.
In case you don't know -
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nihilism
>>1324049
Shut up.
t. 17 year old
>>1324049
If /pol/ was nihlist they wouldn't care about nationallism and the survival of the white race
Tell me about ancient Indian civilizations
I hardly ever heard about them in class
It seems they were in a prime location
Between the Middle East and China yet it seems they never did much
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>>1322551
>Indian Civilizations developed sewer systems earlier than Western Ones
>>1322507
>It seems they were in a prime location
Not really. That was Central Asia. India was more a difficult branching path off that road
Could Eastern Roman Empire have survived after Manzikert? Could it have survived after the Fourth Crusade? Could it have survived to this day? Ottoman Empire survived until 1914 and got successfully successed by Turkey; why not Rome?
The bourgeoisie destroyed the ERE
>>1320955
With a little help from their retarded frankish/german friends, yeah... it could have survived.
Anatolia would have been eventally lost anyway, but there was no reason for them to loose the European part of their Empire.
instead of asking why East Rome fell, people really should be asking how it lived for so fucking long.
It's actually pretty amazing to think that a Roman state existed during the reign of Cyrus the Great in Persia, and was still around to see the Italian Renaissance start.
But as fro OP's statements, the Byzantines went on for 4 more centuries after Manzikert, and 2 centuries after the 4th crusade, it's nothing short of amazing that an empire literally torn apart and partitioned by Crusaders was put back together at all.
as for surviving to this day, the Byzantines just couldn't keep up with the times. Gunpowder made the once-invincible walls of Constantinople vulnerable, and new tactics and strategy just simply outclassed the Byzantine's increasingly antiquated military doctrine and couldn't reform to keep up.
What magic is this? Did Poles made a pact with the devil or what?
>>1318086
not even plague wants anything to do with that shithole
>>1318086
They caught on quick and quarantined their kingdom.
The plague was nominally spread along river tributaries at this time. Lucky for Poland they quarantined their only major one and we're thus relatively safe.
/his/
What was the most miserable place in human history?
The closest thing to hell in earth
>1307093
Andersonville GA
Any European town during the bubonic plague
>>1307093
I wish to look into becoming a Christian once again. I was one as a small child, however, I would be lying if I claimed to have had any understanding of the philosophy behind it, nor what being a Christian truly entailed. I recently came across Psalm 137:8-9, and I was utterly entranced by it. Would any kind soul be willing to assist this wanderer walk the path to meaning?
>>1330943
Should I have expected more from a shitposter?
>>1330929
8 The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the work of thy hands.
Sure, you just go to your nearest Church and get a spiritual director.
What race inhabited Mesopotamia?
>>1328643
Why does it matter?
Royal Afrikan Kangroids
Humans.
Was there ever such thing as colored armor like in MUH RPGs?
Short answer: Yes.
Lacquer provides a solid base for paint, allowing otherwise metal armours to show brilliant colours.
Late 16th century full plate harness could also have a few finishes - the steel could be "blued", "browned", or "russeted", leaving either a blue-black, brown, or crimson hue to the steel. This wouldn't be paint or dye, but a method of treating the steel to get a certain look.
A harness could be assembled of pieces with different treatments for aesthetic effect or parts of the harness might be gilded for contrast if you really wanted to show off your status.
There actually seems to have been comparably active Buddhist activity in the Eastern Mediterranean, especially in those areas such as Egypt, the Levant, Asia Minor, and Greece, at least during the 1st century BCE and beyond.
For example, there have been Buddhist gravestones from the Ptolemaic period found in Alexandria, adorned with the Dharma wheel. There are Roman accounts of an Indian ruler sending an embassy to Caesar Augustus, with this embassy being staffed by a number 'sramanas' (Buddhist ascetics and preachers), one of whom supposedly immolated himself in Athens to demonstrate his faith in a widely reported incident. There is also evidence of correspondence between Emperor Ashoka and Ptolemy II Philadelphus, and that the two sent embassies to each other's courts a number of times; correspondence between them points to the presence of Buddhist monks in Alexandria. Some historians speculate that there may have even been a Buddhist (Theravadan) monastic order in Alexandria in the first century CE.
The question is: how likely is it that Buddhist thought influenced Gnosticism? Or even Christianity?
>>1325580
Its pretty likely. For example, Barlaam and Josaphat is a story Christianity got from Mani. Mani is influenced by Buddhism, as he claims to be Buddha's reincarnate and traveled to india to learn buddhism, etc.
Most likely source of connection can be found from Buddhism -> Mani -> Christian influence.
Gnostics may have been influence. The so called "desert fathers", ascetics, monastics, prayers have some connection to Buddhists.
>>1325580
>Mani is influenced by Buddhism, as he claims to be Buddha's reincarnate
>as he claims to be [the guy who broke free from the cycle of rebirth]
Wew lad.