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> in 719 B.C., only two years after the Israelite exile, Sargon says in his Annals that he invaded this district and deported many of the Mannai to the west.
If you skim through the following link, it describes how the Assyrians deported people. Essentially they broke up the populations of conquered people and moved them all over their kingdom in the attempt to create a homogeneous society. If they moved people from Samaria, there would be a gulf in the population, so they would move people from another area to fill that. These Mannai are on the east of Assyria near that Lake Urmia I circled. This is the location from which the Cimmerians attacked Urartu.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sargon/essentials/governors/massdeportation/
2 Esdras 13
>40 these are the ten tribes which were led away from their own land into captivity in the days of King Hoshe′a, whom Shalmane′ser the king of the Assyrians led captive; he took them across the river, and they were taken into another land. 41 But they formed this plan for themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the nations and go to a more distant region, where mankind had never lived, 42 that there at least they might keep their statutes which they had not kept in their own land. 43 And they went in by the narrow passages of the Euphra′tes river. 44 For at that time the Most High performed signs for them, and stopped the channels of the river until they had passed over. 45 Through that region there was a long way to go, a journey of a year and a half; and that country is called Arzareth.
There is a Siret river on the other side of the black sea. Whether this is what esdras talks about, I can't say for sure, but this passage seems to somewhat corroborate the narrative of the cimmerians.
>According to Greek historians, the Cimmerians made their first appearance in Asia Minor when they overthrew Midas, king of Phrygia. This was dated by Julius Africanus and Eusebius in the first quarter of the seventh century B.C. Archaeologists, excavating the ruins of Gordium, the Phrygian capital, have confirmed that the city was destroyed by fire about 700 B.C. or soon after.
Phrygia was in the meat of Asia Minor, on the other side of Urartu. The Cimmerians would of had to travel around Urartu, up towards the black sea and west along the southern coast of it to enter into Asia Minor to attack Phrygia, like 2 Esdras seems to imply.
After the Cimmerians were recorded to have attacked a nation in western Asia Minor, we have another inscription which says
>Esarhaddon, king of Assyria 681-669 B.C., who recorded a battle with the Cimmerians in the second year of his reign. 'Teushpa, the Gimira', he says, a barbarian who home was afar off, I cut down with the sword in the land of Hubushna, together with all his troops'. Hubushna, was the region in central Asia Minor north and west of the Euphrates gorge. After listing other people who dwelt in the mountains, he ends his account saying, 'On the rest of them who were not guilty of rebellion and insubordination, I imposed the heavy yoke of my sovereignty.'
The Gimira, or Cimmerians, were in rebellion against Assyria, suggesting they were under their rule. That is to say, the Gimira were a people Assyria had conquered and deported.
From 732BC to around 700BC, the Cimmerians are recorded as existing and attacking people from the middle of Asia minor, around the southern coast of the black sea and north of Urartu, and all the way to the east of Assyria and the border of Media (highlighted on the second image). Also where I circled the word Gamir (the academics believe they came south from Russia because of something Herodotus said. They did not) there was a kingdom that formed a few hundred years later called Iberia (3rd picture). The name Iberia, just like the name for the Spanish pennisula, derives from the word Iber, which described the Israelites (Iber, Eber, Hebrew. in the language of Hebrew, the word Israelite is spelled IVRI. The forth image is from the link to chabad, and it shows that the word Hebrew was written IVRI in the Phoenician alphabet, the main alphabet of the Israelites, and which the Phoenicians brought to the rest of Europe. It is the basis for our modern alphabet.
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3582435/jewish/What-Is-the-Authentic-Ancient-Hebrew-Alphabet.htm
This next link is a DNA sample of Scythian/Cimmerians. They are almost all R1b, that is, western European men.
https://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2018/10/cimmerians-scythians-and-sarmatians.html
If you skim through the following link, it describes how the Assyrians deported people. Essentially they broke up the populations of conquered people and moved them all over their kingdom in the attempt to create a homogeneous society. If they moved people from Samaria, there would be a gulf in the population, so they would move people from another area to fill that. These Mannai are on the east of Assyria near that Lake Urmia I circled. This is the location from which the Cimmerians attacked Urartu.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sargon/essentials/governors/massdeportation/
2 Esdras 13
>40 these are the ten tribes which were led away from their own land into captivity in the days of King Hoshe′a, whom Shalmane′ser the king of the Assyrians led captive; he took them across the river, and they were taken into another land. 41 But they formed this plan for themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the nations and go to a more distant region, where mankind had never lived, 42 that there at least they might keep their statutes which they had not kept in their own land. 43 And they went in by the narrow passages of the Euphra′tes river. 44 For at that time the Most High performed signs for them, and stopped the channels of the river until they had passed over. 45 Through that region there was a long way to go, a journey of a year and a half; and that country is called Arzareth.
There is a Siret river on the other side of the black sea. Whether this is what esdras talks about, I can't say for sure, but this passage seems to somewhat corroborate the narrative of the cimmerians.
>According to Greek historians, the Cimmerians made their first appearance in Asia Minor when they overthrew Midas, king of Phrygia. This was dated by Julius Africanus and Eusebius in the first quarter of the seventh century B.C. Archaeologists, excavating the ruins of Gordium, the Phrygian capital, have confirmed that the city was destroyed by fire about 700 B.C. or soon after.
Phrygia was in the meat of Asia Minor, on the other side of Urartu. The Cimmerians would of had to travel around Urartu, up towards the black sea and west along the southern coast of it to enter into Asia Minor to attack Phrygia, like 2 Esdras seems to imply.
After the Cimmerians were recorded to have attacked a nation in western Asia Minor, we have another inscription which says
>Esarhaddon, king of Assyria 681-669 B.C., who recorded a battle with the Cimmerians in the second year of his reign. 'Teushpa, the Gimira', he says, a barbarian who home was afar off, I cut down with the sword in the land of Hubushna, together with all his troops'. Hubushna, was the region in central Asia Minor north and west of the Euphrates gorge. After listing other people who dwelt in the mountains, he ends his account saying, 'On the rest of them who were not guilty of rebellion and insubordination, I imposed the heavy yoke of my sovereignty.'
The Gimira, or Cimmerians, were in rebellion against Assyria, suggesting they were under their rule. That is to say, the Gimira were a people Assyria had conquered and deported.
From 732BC to around 700BC, the Cimmerians are recorded as existing and attacking people from the middle of Asia minor, around the southern coast of the black sea and north of Urartu, and all the way to the east of Assyria and the border of Media (highlighted on the second image). Also where I circled the word Gamir (the academics believe they came south from Russia because of something Herodotus said. They did not) there was a kingdom that formed a few hundred years later called Iberia (3rd picture). The name Iberia, just like the name for the Spanish pennisula, derives from the word Iber, which described the Israelites (Iber, Eber, Hebrew. in the language of Hebrew, the word Israelite is spelled IVRI. The forth image is from the link to chabad, and it shows that the word Hebrew was written IVRI in the Phoenician alphabet, the main alphabet of the Israelites, and which the Phoenicians brought to the rest of Europe. It is the basis for our modern alphabet.
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3582435/jewish/What-Is-the-Authentic-Ancient-Hebrew-Alphabet.htm
This next link is a DNA sample of Scythian/Cimmerians. They are almost all R1b, that is, western European men.
https://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2018/10/cimmerians-scythians-and-sarmatians.html