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Old 10-28-2008, 06:29 AM   #1
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Default Researchers may have found King Solomon's mines
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/...nes/index.html

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Researchers using carbon dating techniques at Khirbat en-Nahas in southern Jordan discovered that copper production took place there around the time King Solomon is said to have ruled the Israelites.

The research findings were reported in this week's issue of the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which came out Monday.
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Finding an old copper mine doesn't prove that a "Solomon" existed.
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Dude you take all the fun out of it!
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Finding an old copper mine doesn't prove that a "Solomon" existed.
Sure it does. Just as Schliemann finding Troy proves that Achilles, Hector, Helen and Aphrodite existed.
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Finding an old copper mine doesn't prove that a "Solomon" existed.
Sure it does. Just as Schliemann finding Troy proves that Achilles, Hector, Helen and Aphrodite existed.
Solomon was a mere man.
Aphrodite is a Goddess.
It is possible Hector and Solomon existed, but not Aphrodite.
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Oh my universe!
Patrick Swayze found King Solomon's mines!

Oh wait, that's just the photo.
Next thing you know they'll be a photograph of Inidiana Jones and the Ark of the Covenant on the cover of Christianity Today, Special Biblical Archaeology Edition.
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Who else could have done it? :huh:


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Anybody who needed copper?

As long as there is no sign there stating "This mine was made by order of Shlomo" or they can compare carbon dating with something belonging to someone in the period, (especially decrees or minted coins mentioning him), I'd say it's just a copper mine.
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Who else could have done it? :huh:


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Anybody who needed copper?
But that obviously could only be Solomon!


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Anybody who needed copper?
But that obviously could only be Solomon!


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Duh! How silly of me!
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