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| Subject: Fabled “Sea People” May Be Israel’s Biblical Arch-Nemesis “The Philistines” Sun Oct 22, 2017 6:34 am | |
| Fabled “Sea People” May Be Israel’s Biblical Arch-Nemesis “The Philistines”
October 22, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor
A 3,200-year-old text that lay undeciphered for 140 years has finally been translated, revealing details of the military campaign of the fabled Sea People and the downfall of the Hittites. Most importantly, it gives definitive clues about the true identity of Israel’s archnemesis, the Philistines. The remarkable story behind the story began in 1978 when villagers in the village of Beyköy discovered scattered pieces of a hieroglyphic inscription that, when assembled, was over 95 feet long. At the time, the inscriptions, Luwian hieroglyphics, were indecipherable, but French archaeologist Georges Perrot made detailed copies. But after local residents used the stones to build a mosque and Perrot’s copies disappeared, it seemed that the fabled inscription was gone forever. (READ MORE) |
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