http://thesyndrome.com News and Politics from a Progressive Perspective Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:58:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en http://io9.com/5092103/2900+year+old-gravestone-reveals-ancient-belief-system http://io9.com/5092103/2900+year+old-gravestone-reveals-ancient-belief-system#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:43:12 +0000 admin tag:www.paranormalnews.com://d7c4084c0e352326056e8243e9d9a023 http://io9.com/5092103/2900+year+old-gravestone-reveals-ancient-belief-system/feed/ http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/2008_11_01_archaeologyeu_archive.html#1807187334330176570 http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/2008_11_01_archaeologyeu_archive.html#1807187334330176570#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:47:00 +0000 admin tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6185618.post-1807187334330176570 Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from the body.

University of Chicago researchers will describe the discovery, a testimony created by an Iron Age official that includes an incised image of the man, on Nov. 22-23 at conferences of biblical and Middle Eastern archaeological scholars in Boston.

The Neubauer Expedition of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago found the 800-pound basalt stele, 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide, at Zincirli (pronounced "Zin-jeer-lee"), the site of the ancient city of Sam'al. Once the capital of a prosperous kingdom, it is now one of the most important Iron Age sites under excavation.

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