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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 10:54 AM Original message |
World's oldest wall painting unearthed in Syria |
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Hand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
1. "Kilroy was here." nt |
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Roland99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:02 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Signed by Osama. |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:07 AM Response to Reply #1 |
11. beat me. |
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SyntaxError (378 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:56 AM Response to Reply #1 |
21. hah :D |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-12-07 12:07 PM Response to Reply #1 |
39. King Ashurnasirpal rules, OK |
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Hand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-12-07 03:22 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Ashurnasirpal SUX! Ashubanirpal RULES! |
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TheDebbieDee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
2. But....but... the world is only 6,000 years old! |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 10:58 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. 4,500... |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 10:59 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. both wrong. 7,019 as of last month. GET IT RIGHT, or ELSE! |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:08 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. I was excluding the 'Flintstonian Epoch'... |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
3. Very interesting. |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
5. Beware the US airforce. |
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monktonman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:37 AM Response to Reply #5 |
17. Yeah, I thought that was odd as well. |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-12-07 11:45 AM Response to Reply #17 |
38. The Neocons wanted to destroy Iraqi culture. |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
7. "It looks like a modernist painting." |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:03 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. . |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
10. Oldest found so far. |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:11 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Yeah, that bugged me a mite too... |
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Whoa_Nelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
14. It looks like a tally of some kind |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:34 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. A calendar? Interestng to see a checkerboard. I wasn't expecting that! |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:38 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Exit poll! |
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Whoa_Nelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:45 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I like your point of view..as always! |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:48 AM Response to Reply #14 |
20. nope. the # of ET contacts in the last month. |
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Whoa_Nelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:18 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. It's the Master StarChart! |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 02:29 PM Response to Reply #14 |
31. Perhaps a very early hard drive |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 03:47 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Or maybe it's PRON and they pixellated it |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 03:54 PM Response to Reply #14 |
34. Matrix screen saver |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-12-07 10:44 AM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Actually, it looks a lot like the screen when you defrag a hard drive |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 01:12 PM Response to Reply #35 |
41. Defrag, that something I don't have to do. My OS defrags on the fly. |
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blogslut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 08:00 PM Response to Reply #14 |
43. I was thinking it might be a map |
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Duncan (498 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
16. oldest?! |
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Gamey (421 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:29 PM Response to Reply #16 |
26. Oldest "WALL" painting...always watch for play on words |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
22. beautiful painting -- whether it's the oldest or not. |
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SyntaxError (378 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
23. I'd love to go back in time and impress those people with the power of the internets. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
24. I hope they keep it under guard so Islamists don't paint over it |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
27. "...wall painting in red, black and white" |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
28. I see a dark figure (face) with a crown like Inanna (Ishtar's) on both paintings. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 03:53 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. Don't assume those were the only original colors |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
29. I bet the decorator found it to be very tacky! |
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enlightenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
30. Fantastic painting, but I have to admit I liked this |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-12-07 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
36. Who here thinks the unexcavated painting is going to turn out to be "Dogs Playing Poker"? n/t |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-12-07 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
37. wonderful |
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David Zephyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
42. Thanks for this story, Lone_Star_Dem |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 08:16 PM Response to Original message |
44. Imagine how many ancient objects have been destroyed in Iraq. |
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ozone_man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-13-07 08:20 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. The cradle of civilization. |
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