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Título: WHO WERE THE CIMMERIANS AND WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?
Autor: GADE KRISTENSEN, ANNE KATRINE
Año: 1988
Género: HISTORIA Y MITOLOGÍA
Formato: PDF

According to Herodotus and Greek tradition as a whole, the original home of the Cimmerians was north of the Black Sea in what was then known as Scythia. In spite of persistent archaeological excavations, however, it has not been possible to determine the presence of Cimmerians in Scythia or elsewhere. The question of the origin of the Cimmerians, therefore, remains somewhat of a mystery.

The author of the present investigation wishes to show, with an analysis of all available contemporaneous evidence from the time of Sargon II and Esarhaddon (8th to 9th centuries B.C.), that the cimmerians were in fact identical with Israelites deported from Northern Israel after the fall of Samaria in 722 B. C. Large parts of these deportees were then posted or indeed settled in the Zagros area, under Assyrian supervision, and in garrisons along the frontier between Assyria and Urartu (Armenia), where we find them in 714.

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