Hi Hans. With the burning of The Library of Alexandria and the throwing in the river of the entire "Library of Baghdad" by the Mongol hoards I am curious what percentage of ancient knowledge do you believe has survived ?

If there had been a worldwide cataclysm what do you think would have survived and what evidence do you think we might find ?

And we always have that curious passage where Solon is quoted as saying to the Greeks that they are like children for they only think about one catastrophe when there has been many. I wonder where he might have got that idea ? Just a fertile imagination ?

And now that a carved bone at Gobekli Tepe shows a representation of itself can we be so sure of anything any longer ?




db

"There is nothing as impenetrable as a closed mind"
and ..." if everything is a coincidence what is the point of studying or measuring or analyzing anything ?" db