Thursday, March 21, 2024

Ancient Library

On 1843 Paul Emile Bota French consul to Mosul a town in Kurdish norther Irak set out to excavated an ancient source of clay tablets. The site name was Tell (Ancient mound). An English man A. Henry Lara took over three years later the two mounds proved to be an ancient Assyria capital Nineveh. Not counting Babylon the finds provided physical evidence corroborating the Bible about Nimrod and Assyria and it's major cities. Contained 25,000 cley tablets their inscribed texts all using cuneiform scripts ranged from royal annals and records of workers ratios to commercial contracts marriage and divorce documents, literacy texts, historical tales, astronomical data mathematical formulas word lists and geographical lists. There were rows of tablets with what the archeologists classified as mixological texts.

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