Cladking wrote: "Someone either understands how the results of an excavation demonstrates what once stood on the site or one doesn't understand. If you understand then all you have to do is put that understanding into words and type it in response. I don't even really need references. If you understand something you don't need details and references. Yes, it could be established fact even if no one here understands it and is capable of putting it in words. But if this is the case I probably won't understand it either so reading the books is a waste of time."

So you want to know about the results but you can't be bothered to do the research yourself.
Why do you think people keep telling you to do your own homework? You asked Warwick (again) to do it for you en you don't even want to know where he got the information! When someone gives information it is a simple matter of respect towards the original author to give a reference.

You wrote: "I don't want to be drawn off subject here. I don't expect anyone to be interested in my opinions..." Huh? Why do you post them on this MB then?
"...but ideas are supposed to be independent of their source." Are they? IMHO it's just the opposite, ideas are formed in the mind of a person, how on earth can they be independent?
"It's not supposed to matter whether a mere stone hauler comes up with an idea or it comes from Imhotep himself." Well apparantly it does matter since Imhotep was worshipped like a saint afterwards, not the stone hauler...unless we assume that Imhotep stole his ideas from a stone hauler ;-)

"This was much of the power of words, I believe.
There are so many words today and so many perspectives that words seem to have lost much of their meaning and most of their power."
No idea what you mean by all that, sounds like New Age gibberrish to me.

Since you are not willling to understand archaeology / egyptology and you don't expect anyone to be interested in your opinions why on earth do you post so much on this MB about ancient egypt??? This defies all logic, I give up, back to lurking mode I guess...