Don Barone Wrote:
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> ... To show that this was anything other than
> coincidence, you would, just to begin with, have
> to demonstrate that the AE had knowledge of the
> metric system (which didn't emerge until the late
> 18th cent AD).
>
> But, if they already had knowledge of a system
> that wasn't to be invented until about 3,300 years
> later, why would they be using cubits? ...
>
> Hi Hermione I agree that is seems not to make
> sense. How can they be using all three measuring
> systems ? Metric, feet and miles, cubits.
>
> I really am not sure how it all fits together.
The glue is your imagination.
> So they are linked but how they might have known
> this I do not know.
They didn't, from evidence at hand, know this. You are forcing it on them even when the evidence is screaming "no way in hell".
As usual.
Lobo-hotei
lobo
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