Now, I have noticed what I believe to be a new page on wikipedia concerning a previously overlooked bronze age people, the Khaldi. Certainly, I have never come across the Khaldi in several years of keeping an eye on this issue. I don't know much about wikipedia but the page was last modified (created?) on 10 May. I can't track down any further information on the page, possibly because it has never been modified - in which case a 10 May creation is indicated??
ETA: See screenshot in next post.
The two references which are the apparent basis for the Wiki entry are bogus, in that they do not support the existence of (or mention) the Khaldi people at all. Also they both relate to circa first century BCE geography and certainly not the bronze-age. Here are links to the refs and similar links showing no relationship between Roman empire Chaldaei and the mysterious 'bronze age' Khaldi:
Strabo
Strabo2
Encyclopedia Iranica
A main, unreferenced, source for the Chalubes (supposed neighbors of the Khaldis) is Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) which states:
Chalybes (Chalubes). A people of Pontus, in Asia Minor, who inhabited the whole coast from the Iasonium Promontorium to the vicinity of the river Thermodon, together with a portion of the inner country. They were celebrated in antiquity for the great iron mines and forges which existed in their country. See Metallum.
Basically, the Wikipedia entry is nonsense, but someone who might be surfing around looking for a candidate for Abraham's Chaldeans is likely to come across the mysterious Khaldi, and quite smugly assume they are way smarter than those silly critics
Edit: Chris has pointed out that this is the work of Kurdish Apologists! Subject changed to Red Herring.
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