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		Meluhha refers to one of ancient Sumer's prominent trading partners, but precisely which one remains an open question.
		Sargon of Akkad was said to have "dismantled the cities, as far as the shore of the sea.
		Later texts from the 1st millennium BC suggest that "Meluhha" and "Magan" were kingdoms adjacent to Egypt.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Meluhha (644 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Meluhha
		Meluhha refers to one of ancient Sumer's prominent trading partners, but precisely which one remains an open question.
		Meluhha refers to one of ancient Sumeria's prominent trading partners, but precisely which one remains an open question.
		He further claims that Meluhha is the origin of the Sanskrit Mleccha, "barbarian", because the people of Sindh/Meluhha were considered barbarian by the people of the Ganga-Yamuna doab.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Meluhha (1564 words)

	Meluhha at AllExperts
		Asko Parpola, a Finnish scholar, derives Meluhha from earlier Sumerian documents with the alternative value "Me-lah-ha", which he identifies with the Dravidian Met-akam "high abode/country".
		Meluhha may have also been derived from the Sanskrit word Mela, which means gathering place.
		Hence Meluhha may refer to a port, town or region where trade is conducted; such as the Indus Valley.
	en.allexperts.com /e/m/me/meluhha.htm (765 words)

	Indo-European Sanskrit the language of the Indus Valley civilization
		Meluhha traded Ivory, Lapis the minerial mined in Afganistan by the Harappan culture, Pecocks and Indus Beads that were found from Mesopotamia to Ireland.
		Meluhha was mentioned in the early Sanskrit writings as Melukha, as in Krishna Melukha, comentary stated they spoke the same language thus Sanskrit's substrate languages are proto-versions of Tamil, Austric, Munda, these languages had to have effected the major language thru time.
		The general identification of Meluhhu as Baloch region is concordant with early Amri-Nal culture in the Makran coast (south of Karachi).
	www.indoeurohome.com /Meluhha-Dilmun.html (1194 words)

	voiprotocol
		Asko and Simo Parpola, both Finnish scholars, derive Meluhha from earlier Sumerian documents with the alternative value "Me-lah-ha", which they identify with the Dravidian Met-akam "high abode/country".
		Sergei V. Rjabchikov, a Russian scholar, reads an archaic form of Meluhha as a Proto-Indo-Aryan word ("solar beam"; "to die"), and he compares it, in particular, with the name of the mountain Meru in the Old Indian mythology.
		Copper ingots, certainly, bitumen, which occurred naturally in Mesopotamia, may have been exchanged for cotton textiles and chickens, major products of the Indus region that are not native to Mesopotamia â” all these have been instanced.
	www.voiprotocol.net /articleresources/?title=Meluhha (687 words)

	The Mesopotamians applied the term Meluhha to ancient Kush and Punt, the countries below and east of Egypt according to ...
		Since the Sumerians were called the “fl headed” people, the reference to Meluhha as the land of the fl man probably refers to Kush-Punt as the original homeland of the Sumerians.
		The first mention of the Meluhha in Egyptian texts were written during the rule of Ramses II letter to the Hittites (KUB III 52) where he mentions that he was ending men of Meluhha to the Hittite royal court.
		Meluhha would correspond to the ancient African nations the Egyptians called Kush-Punt.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Bay/7051/Meluhha_Punt.htm (529 words)

	dictionary - Meluhha
		Certain texts from the early 3rd millennium BC suggest Meluhha was a kingdom adjacent to Magan/Egypt.
		King Assurbanipal of Sumeria writes about his first march against Egypt, "In my first campaign I marched against Magan, Meluhha, Tarka, king of Egypt and Ethiopia, whom Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, the father who begot me, had defeated, and whose land he brought under his way...".
		2200 BC) seem to indicate that Meluhha is to the east, which suggests either the Indus valley or India.
	www.medicalrace.com /dictionary/Meluhha (489 words)

	Indus Valley Civilization - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) was discovered in the 1920s and is known only from archaeological excavations, except, possibly, for Sumerian references to Meluhha, which has been proposed to correspond to the IVC.
		An alternative term for the culture is Saraswati-Sindhu Civilization, based on the popular identification of the Ghaggar-Hakra River with the Sarasvati River.
		Meluhha - the name used in Mesopotamia to refer to the Indus Civilisation
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Indus_Valley_Civilization (4480 words)

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		There are many references to "magan" and "meluhha" in Sumerian literature the identity of which is still in dispute.
		I also propose that Meluhha is in fact Meru-aka, a land mass in SEAsian region and from which the Sumerians themselves might have migrated.
		Thus it may be possible that meluhha is a variant of meru-aka, meeru-aka meaning a land of volcanic hills or simply that of blazing sun.
	arutkural.tripod.com /sumstudies/melluha.html (548 words)

	Meluhha - Antwoorden.org
		Meluhha is de naam die de inwoners van Sumer en Akkad gaven aan een land waarmee zij handelscontacten onderhielden.
		Het is waarschijnlijk te plaatsen op de westkust van het huidige India.
		In later tijden werd de naam Meluhha mogelijk eerder met Afrika verbonden dan met India.
	www.antwoorden.org /Meluhha (224 words)

	Bronze Age (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dilmun is associated with the island of Bahrain and the adjacent areas of Saudi Arabia, whilst the “Copper mountains of Magan” is recognized as being the area of Southeast Arabia which corresponds with the UAE and Oman.
		The third place, Meluhha, is generally identified with the area of the Indus Valley.
		The renewed contacts with Mesopotamia are clearly noted in the archaeological record dating to the 4th millennium BC in the UAE and Oman.
	www.archaeology.gov.ae /bronze.html (597 words)

	[b-hebrew] Ark of the Covenant
		You must admit that the end of the Hyksos, and the term is clearly defined for Manetho by his Hyksos dynasty, came with Ahmose, and the rest is only projection onto Tuthmosis (similar name like Dedumose/Tutimaeos, etc).
		Who the Hyksos have been is also quite clear in the mean-while: known from Assyro-Babylonian sources Meluhha, and from biblical one´s Amalek.
		The stretch of the land of Meluhha is of 120 Beru (since Asarhaddon walks along in the Negeb) thus north-south, through the desert from Zeugma till Negeb.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/b-hebrew/2004-August/020380.html (502 words)

	Gregory Possehl's Home Page
		It appears that there was no significant climatic change in either the second or third millennium in the Subcontinent which might run counter to events in other parts of Asia.
		This long paper discusses the South Asian data, presents a large number of radiocarbon dates for the transition between the Mature Harappan and the Post-urban Phase, which is now dated to 1900 B.C. Meluhha.
		With the deep involvement of my late colleague Herman Behrens, it presents an authoritative presentation of all of the cuneiform textual references to Meluhha prior to the reign of Hammurabi.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~gpossehl (807 words)

	Orientalthane.com - Institude for Oriental Sttudy, Thane
		There is a depiction of a Meluhha trader accompanied by a woman carrying a kamandalu.
		Third is an Akkadian cylinder seal attesting to Meluhha as a language of bronze-age traders (sea-faring merchants); 3.
		Fourth is a cylinder seal from Ur showing tabaernamonta flower (used as hair-fragrance) which is read in Meluhha as tagaraka, rebus: tagara `tin'.
	www.orientalthane.com /archaeology/news_2006_04_05.htm (735 words)

	MELUHHA Articles Meluhha refers to one of ancient Su
		Meluhha refers to one of ancient Sumer's prominent trading partners, but precisely which one remains an open question.
		A number of scholars suggest that "Meluhha" was the Sumerian name for western India or the Indus valley civilization.
		Sergei V. Rjabchikov, a Russian scholar, reads an archaic form of Meluhha as a Proto-Indo-Aryan word ("solar beam"; "to die"), and he compares it, in particular, with the name of the mountain Meru in the Old Indian mythology.
	www.amazines.com /Meluhha_related.html (467 words)

	۞ Meluhha - Infos und Erklärungen auf www.technikToday.de (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Meluhha (auch Meluha, Melucha oder Meluchcha) ist der Name eines legendären Landes in der mesopotamischen Literatur.
		Schon zu sumerischer Zeit scheint Meluhha ein legendäres Land gewesen zu sein, mit dem sich Vorstellungen von Reichtum und Frieden verbanden.
		Neuerdings wird von einigen Forschern vermutet, dass sich Meluhha doch nicht so weit entfernt von Mesopotamien befand und dass es sich um ein Gebiet an der Nordküste des Persischen Golfes handelt.
	www.techniktoday.de /Meluhha (409 words)

	info: Meluhha (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ancient Indus Saraswati CivilizationMeluhha A ncient Mesopotamian texts speak of trading with at least two seafaring civilizations - Magan and Meluhha - in the neighborhood of South Asia in the third millennium B.C. From Sumer to MeluhhaHarappan Civilization by Gregory Possehl...
		The Harappan TraditionParpola and Brunswig have located several references to people with Meluhha as a part of their name.
		During the Akkadian Period, Meluhha trade enclaves were located...
	www.napoli-pizza.net /Meluhha.html (1010 words)

	The Ptolemy III Chronicle (BCHP 11)
		The king of Meluhha is the king of Egypt.
		The geographical name Meluhha represents the tendency in chronicles and diaries to use ancient and vague geographical names.
		Meluhha was traditionally the term for a people on the Indian Ocean, later it represented Nubia (cf.
	www.livius.org /cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-ptolemy_iii/bchp_ptolemy_iii_04.html (1428 words)

	Lot's wife
		Musri and Kush" is probably to be understood as an attempt to distinguish between Meluhha and Meluhha which is also known (vulgo) as Musri.
		This is most probably the road we historically now know as the Kings´road (in fact in original biblical tradition of giving road names according to the regions they lead to or they passed through, probably better to be understood the road of Amalek).
		Of course Meluhha is not always meaning the political Amalek, but it always owes something to Amalekite heritage.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/b-hebrew/2000-October/008778.html (709 words)

	Meluhha
		Mlecchita Vikalpa (Cryptography: Vatsyayana, Mahabharata); Meluhha – Baloch
		The language of Baloch is cognate with Mleccha (Meluhha) which was the ancient spoken dialect of the region.
		Meluhha lay to the east of Magan and linked wit carnelian and ivory.
	meluhha.blogspot.com (6932 words)

	Contact between east and west
		The lands of "Dilmun", "Magan" and "Meluhha" that are mentioned in Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets are believed to be Bahrain, Oman and the Indus Civilization, respectively.
		The various goods traded from east to west, as well as from west to east, surely spread beliefs and philosophies along with material goods.
		The name presumably reflects the fact that the original founders or inhabitants of the village came from Meluhha.
	pubweb.cc.u-tokai.ac.jp /indus/english/2_5_02.html (200 words)

	Ancient Indus Saraswati Civilization
		Along its now dry bed, archaeologists are discovering a whole new set of ancient towns and cities.
		ncient Mesopotamian texts speak of trading with at least two seafaring civilizations - Magan and Meluhha - in the neighborhood of South Asia in the third millennium B.C. This trade was conducted with real financial sophistication in amounts that could involve tons of copper.
		The Mesopotamians speak of Meluhha as a land of exotic commodities.
	www.harappa.com /har/har1.html (746 words)

	Quasi-Bilingual Sources for the Decipherment of the Indus Script
		The lands of Meluhha, Magan and Dilmun are mentioned in the Sumerian poem “Enki and the World Order” (Kramer and Maier 1989).
		Usually Meluhha (Melaha) is equated with the Old India.
		Then, the names of Magan, Meluhha, Gubi and Dilmun are mentioned together in a list as the sources from which wood of many kinds was brought to Lagash (Sumer) (Price 1923: 45).
	www.anthroglobe.info /docs/rjabchikovs_protoindian2_061022.html (7320 words)

	Mleccha and Mlecchita Vikalpa (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There is a cylinder seal found in Mesopotamia which depicts a Meluhha (carrying an antelope) together with an interpreter.
		This glyptic message shows that Meluhha was a language which was different from Akkadian or Sumerian.
		There is archaeological evidence to show that the system of weights used in Meluhha (Sarasvati Civilization) was used in the Persian Gulf countries (Dilmun and Magan).
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/vikalpa1.htm (1496 words)

	Meluhha
		Meluhha may be derived from the sanskrit word Mela,which means gathering place.Hence Meluhha may refer to a port, town or region where trade is conducted ;such as the Indus Valley.
		, positing that these peoples migrated from there, and suggesting that Meluhha first referred to Ethiopia, and later to the Indus Valley.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/me/Meluhha.htm (658 words)

	Sailing In From The Past
		Circa 2500 B.C. "Land Ahoy!" the lookout screamed even as Eabani the mariner rubbed the sleep from his eyes to join in the exultation onboard.
		After the cargo of copper ingots, dates and fish oil for the city dwellers of Meluhha had been offloaded, it would be a week's shore leave sampling the pleasures of the city with the immaculate streets and baths.
		Four thousand five hundred years later after this hypothetical scenario, the names may have changed-Magan (pronounced Majaan) is now Oman, and Meluhha, the ancient name of the spectacular Indus Valley Civilisation, is now India.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0905/45.html (1120 words)

	Two Systems of Symbolic Writing
		According to a Sumerian myth Meluhha is under the rule of the god of wisdom, Ea.
		Meluhha has survived by Persian intermediary (Parpola 1994; 162) in the name of Baluchistan, now the south-western province of Pakistan.
		The appellation Meluhha is also inscribed on the square seal 9000 found in Ur (for a fine illustration cf.
	www-user.uni-bremen.de /~ushanas (22272 words)

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