May 20, 2024, 3:26 pm UTC |
In: The Hall of Maat > Ancient History - Ancient History and Archaeology > Search - Ancient History and Archaeology |
Goto:  Forum List • Create A New Profile • Log In |
Bagoas? He should have looked like an Ancient Persian drag queen!by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
I'm afraid headlights was my first thought too - I dimly recall at least one case of 'lights' that turned out to be just that. So what does Mt. Davis observatory have to say about all this?? Has anybody ever tried going towards the lights while they're shining? And how good is the documentation for that supposed 1883 sighting? But most suspicious of all is the admby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
It is isn't it? It seems to me praising the movie for its truthful portrayal of Alexander's sexuality is every bit as bad as panning it for the same reason. The real problem seems to be bad writing.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
As it happens I believe there is some historical basis for both the Captivity and the Exodus - but that does *not* mean I accept every little thing in the Biblical account as factual. The ten plagues, (a suspiciously round number btw) are even more questionable than the parting of the Red Sea. And you're quite right, there certainly is far more debate and shades of opinion on the subjby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
"By the way, I wouldn't be surprised if Creationism turns out to be racism in another guise. On analysis, it negates the need for people to understand that we are all related," According to the Bible we're all descended from Adam and Eve - that's related.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
What gets me about evolution is how a minor variation perfectly suited to new conditions 'just happens' to appear over and over again in species after species.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
The religion of Akhenaton had been wiped out and his very name forgotten by Ramesses' time. Certainly there would have been no court party worshipping the Aten! And Israelite monotheism bears no resemblance to the religion of the Aten, the latter being very much the personal religion of Akhenaten who was the sole intermediary between men and the Aten.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
I'm not quite clear here. Is 'Intelligent Design' the idea that Evolution was/is guided by God and if so how do they equate this to a denial of evolution? Personally I 've always found the 'just happened' version of evolution pretty darn unconvincing and since neither version is provable.... Granted Evolution is a fact but does this mean we aren't alloweby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Auto-da-fe was the name given to the ceremony in which the infamous Spanish Inquisition would punish heretics, (dissenters from recieved Spanish Catholic doctrine) this included humiliating public penances as well as burnings. The Spanish Inquisition was at least as much an instrument of political repression as religious and was controlled by the Spanish Crown *not* the Pope in Rome. I'm nby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
I was speaking from the Christian pov, dispite not being one. People are now free to question Christianity and Judaism as much as they like, however it is still rather risky to raise questions about the third monotheistic faith.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Marduk was the son of Ea, (it was Ea wasn't it?) the way Cronos was the son of Uranus and Gaia. He was not God made Man as Jesus Christ is. Thus the parallel falls down. BTW I am not a Christian, born again or any other variety.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
That's more than a meter right? Anyway a three foot wide passage, (I'm American I can't do metric) strikes me as kind of narrow for getting a pharaoh's mummy and treasure down.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Don, the Orson Welles Martian scare was sixty-four years ago now. Time to give it a rest. People today might not be any smarter or more phlegmatic than their grandparents but they are considerably more sophisticated with some fifty years of SF movies and novels all predicting alien contacts of all kinds behind them. The UFO movement tells us people *want* to believe in aliens and would lovby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Yeah but those wings - if they existed - didn't crash on Bazel's ranch. Mind you I agree about the embarassing secrets. My guess is if they ever did open the doors to Area 51 we wouldn't find any aliens but lots of really stupid looking experimental craft that everybody would rather forget.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Given that the pre-industrial Indus valley civilization is usually described as 'advanced' we must qualify too.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Many 'Enviromentalists' fail to recognize that nature is a process not a static order and change is quite normal, even desirable.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
They haven't got a case. Every source agrees on the closeness of Alexander and Hephaestion's relationship, granted this doesn't necessarily mean it was sexual but given the mores of the day it's more than likely that it was - at least when they were boys. That quote about Alexander being defeated by Hephaestion's 'thighs' might be a slur implying A allowby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Doesn't it normally snow in England in the winter? Or is this unusually early in the season?by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Sounds more like climate change deniers have taken a hit. Climate change skeptics as a rule acknowledge there has been some warming but question whether it is Human influenced or even likely to prove catastrophic. The Earth has after all warmed and cooled frequently over the eons - and it's getting warmer on Mars too...darned Martian rovers!by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
I must agree with whoever it was who said slapping a 'gay' label on Alexander is inappropriate as the 'gay' identity didn't exist then. There is also in the story of Philip and Olympias importing a hetaira to show their son what was what a hint that exclusive homosexuality was *not* acceptable in a prince of Macedon, or maybe anywhere in the Greek world. It is alsby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Yeah, something happened at Roswell, a Project Mogul baloon and its equipment crashed. Very worrying to the authorities at the time since the Project was tippy top secret. Little did they know the worst was yet to come - thirty years later that is.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
The whole point is they haven't got any proof.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Right. I knew that - sort of Everything I know about physics and astronomy I learned from Science Fiction.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Apparently this particular governor was very big on increasing PR's tourist trade. A few ETs sunning themselves on the beach would definitely have gone a long way towards that end.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Don't Panic and always know where your towel is. Can't top that kind of advice.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
The unfashionable end of the western spiral arm.....by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
I find myself remembering a former governor of Puerto Rico who, when asked what he'd say to a delegation of extra-terrestrials answered he would welcome them to 'Puerto Rico, America's Carribean paradise,' and try to get a few pictures for promotional purposes. Makes sense to me.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
What evidence? To the best of my knowledge there is nothing but anedoctal accounts and some highly questionable photographs. Not one solid clue anywhere.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Actually I can see Aliens coming here, collecting a few samples, taking a few pictures and going away again - I mean isn't that pretty much what the Starship Enterprise did, (original show)? What I find difficult to believe is they'd repeat the *same* clumsy sampling techniques for twenty or thirty years. I mean we show more finess in catching and tagging wildlife! What tby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Little green men are passe - these days it's little gray men with big eyes and a weak grasp of standard medical sampling techniques. There is a huge, enormous gap between speculating there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe and assuming it is visiting us, much less abducting our compatriots. All ETs seem to do in classic UFO encounters is flash themselves and their ships,by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History