World War Cthulhu: A Collection of Lovecraftian War Stories by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Dark Regions Press
Published: 2014-08-18T00:00:00+00:00

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Prior to military service and before I accepted an appointment as assistant superintendent at the Madras Government Museum, I worked briefly under the direction of D. G. Hogarth excavating outlying sites related to Carchemish in Southeastern Anatolia. The expedition catalogued significant remains of various ancient cultures, including temple complexes, fortresses, basalt statues and reliefs bearing hieroglyphic inscriptions.

Despite published material indicating otherwise, excavations at sites neighboring Carchemish reveal a civilization there extending back to about 3000 B.C.—and perhaps much earlier—which may not have been Hittite in its beginnings. Among the best-preserved artifacts recovered, I recall a small assortment of grotesque idols formed from some porraceous rock not common to the region. These icons depicted imaginative monstrosities of varying unpleasantness, including one with a winged anthropoid frame supporting an oversized head shaped something like a marine mollusk of the cephalopod family.

Mr. Lapham, an ingenious anthropologist from a noted university in Massachusetts, surveyed the objects found in tombs at these older sites and suggested the ancient stone statuettes—fetishes, teraphim, or whatever those abominations may have been—originated from some unknown Bronze Age civilization deeply obsessed with preternatural and occult knowledge.

I now know that civilization’s borders stretched at least as far as the Taurus Mountains.

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