It Began in Turkey – Church of God

(Copyright 2009) by Jonathan Gray (Thames, New Zealand)
A MOST STARTLING DISCOVERY ABOUT OUR ORIGINS You might call it very small and insignificant. SMALL? YES…BUT SO IMPORTANT!!! Here is an object that ended its days as a piece of rag – to enable someone to get a better grip on a handle. That happened one day 4,000 long years ago. But it survived – was dug up and saw daylight again recently. And would you believe, this has now turned out to be the world’s oldest known scrap of textile. It was found at Cayonu in S.E. Turkey. And that points up this amazing fact: Did you know, according to the evidence it is TURKEY, not South America, not Africa, not Iraq or Egypt, that civilization began? You’ll hear all sorts of theories. But I’m talking about the hard-core evidence, here. Does this surprise you? IT BEGAN IN TURKEY Yes, it’s in Turkey that we find the FIRST cultivation of plants and true CEREALS. It is in Turkey we find the FIRST DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS. It is in Turkey we find the FIRST woven TEXTILES. It is in Turkey that we find the FIRST POTTERY. It is in Turkey that we find the world’s FIRST metallurgical FACTORY. It’s in Turkey that we find the FIRST known USE OF METALLURGY. It is in Turkey that we find the FIRST known indications of CITIES built according to specific plans. And it is in Turkey that we find the ORIGINS of our LANGUAGE. SKEPTICAL REACTIONS And do you know, the findings of scientists involved in these discoveries have been greeted more with skepticism than any enthusiastic acceptance. Mesopotamia and Egypt “have to” be the cradle of civilization, they say. To accept Turkey as the origin of such things, goes against traditional thinking. Turkey should have hardly any civilization at all at that early time. But, nevertheless, the findings do show that the replanting of world civilization after the Great Global Disaster, was in Turkey! AND LANGUAGES TOO Are you ready for this? Here’s another bombshell. This news broke on December 1, 2003. And it left segments of the scientific world in shock. It was announced that the roots of our language had also been traced to Turkey! Auckland University researchers have stunned academics around the world by tracing the origins of the English language to Turkish farmers. Associate Professor Russell Gray and PhD student Quentin Atkinson published their research in the British journal Nature. Gray was encouraged that his research had been supported in the United States by Stanford University’s eminent geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza? Gray and Atkinson had analyzed thousands of words from 87 languages (past and present) to find out when the various branches of the Indo-European family tree started diverging. * We looked at words from different languages that were clearly related and grouped them in sets. The researchers then used sophisticated computer programs to do the analysis and build language trees. Gray said Hittite (an extinct Anatolian language) was the first major language group to branch from the Indo-European trunk. Over subsequent millennia the same trunk sprouted Tocharian, Armenian, Greek, Albanian, Iranian, Indic, Slavic, Baltic, Germanic, French/Iberian, Italic and Celtic language groups. Gray said the findings had wider implications than just language development. Languages, like genes, provided vital clues about human history, he said. Does that ring a bell? I recall reading somewhere in the book of Genesis that the sole survivors of the Great Flood landed in their vessel in the Ararat mountains of TURKEY, to begin a new world. Yes, TURKEY. So, there you are. Now that will throw a cat among the pigeons! ——————————————————————————————————–* See Jonathan Gray’s other articles at: Gray, Jonathan – Church of God, Bismarck (church-of-god-bismarck.org) Reprinted with permission from: Archaeology Answers http://www.beforeus.com/ ——————————————————————————————————–

A MOST STARTLING DISCOVERY ABOUT OUR ORIGINS
You might call it very small and insignificant.

SMALL? YES…BUT SO IMPORTANT!!!
Here is an object that ended its days as a piece of rag – to enable someone to get a better grip on a handle. That happened one day 4,000 long years ago. But it survived – was dug up and saw daylight again recently.

And would you believe, this has now turned out to be the world’s oldest known scrap of textile. It was found at Cayonu in S.E. Turkey.

And that points up this amazing fact:

Did you know, according to the evidence it is TURKEY, not South America, not Africa, not Iraq or Egypt, that civilization began?

You’ll hear all sorts of theories. But I’m talking about the hard-core evidence, here.

Does this surprise you?

IT BEGAN IN TURKEY
Yes, it’s in Turkey that we find the FIRST cultivation of plants and true CEREALS.

It is in Turkey we find the FIRST DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS.

It is in Turkey we find the FIRST woven TEXTILES.

It is in Turkey that we find the FIRST POTTERY.

It is in Turkey that we find the world’s FIRST metallurgical FACTORY.

It’s in Turkey that we find the FIRST known USE OF METALLURGY.

It is in Turkey that we find the FIRST known indications of CITIES built according to specific plans.

And it is in Turkey that we find the ORIGINS of our LANGUAGE.

SKEPTICAL REACTIONS
And do you know, the findings of scientists involved in these discoveries have been greeted more with skepticism than any enthusiastic acceptance. Mesopotamia and Egypt “have to” be the cradle of civilization, they say.

To accept Turkey as the origin of such things, goes against traditional thinking. Turkey should have hardly any civilization at all at that early time.

But, nevertheless, the findings do show that the replanting of world civilization after the Great Global Disaster, was in Turkey!

AND LANGUAGES TOO
Are you ready for this? Here’s another bombshell. This news broke on December 1, 2003. And it left segments of the scientific world in shock.

It was announced that the roots of our language had also been traced to Turkey!

Auckland University researchers have stunned academics around the world by tracing the origins of the English language to Turkish farmers.

Associate Professor Russell Gray and PhD student Quentin Atkinson published their research in the British journal Nature.

Gray was encouraged that his research had been supported in the United States by Stanford University’s eminent geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza?

Gray and Atkinson had analyzed thousands of words from 87 languages (past and present) to find out when the various branches of the Indo-European family tree started diverging.

* We looked at words from different languages that were clearly related and grouped them in sets.

*The researchers then used sophisticated computer programs to do the analysis and build language trees.

*Gray said Hittite (an extinct Anatolian language) was the first major language group to branch from the Indo-European trunk.

*Over subsequent millennia the same trunk sprouted Tocharian, Armenian, Greek, Albanian, Iranian, Indic, Slavic, Baltic, Germanic, French/Iberian, Italic and Celtic language groups.

*Gray said the findings had wider implications than just language development.

*Languages, like genes, provided vital clues about human history, he said.

Does that ring a bell? I recall reading somewhere in the book of Genesis that the sole survivors of the Great Flood landed in their vessel in the Ararat mountains of TURKEY, to begin a new world. Yes, TURKEY.

So, there you are. Now that will throw a cat among the pigeons!

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See Jonathan Gray’s other articles at:
Gray, Jonathan – Church of God, Bismarck (church-of-god-bismarck.org)

Reprinted with permission from: Archaeology Answers
http://www.beforeus.com/
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