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I don't believe the "no expert has discounted this" statement. I know a geologist who has used SAR, and he's HIGHLY critical of it.
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Ancient Egypt
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Scientific Reports will retract a controversial paper claiming to present evidence an ancient city in the Middle East was destroyed by an exploding celestial body – an event the authors suggested could have inspired the Biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah.
The decision comes two years after Scientific Reports, a Springer Nature title, published an editor’s
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Ancient History
There's so much wrong there that it's hard to know where to begin...
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Ancient Egypt
As I suspected, it's a scene from the Book of the Earth:
QUOTING FROM THAT SOURCE:
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There are four fish headed deities: from left to right: Hssy (Khesesy) "the fish shaped",
Nary "the silure headed";
Qdy (Qady), late spelling of Iddy ".
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Spiros Wrote:
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> Pyramid. The height of the pyramid in royal cubits
> defines the length of a human pregnancy 280 days.
...which isn't correct, by the way. That's like saying "the height of a human being is 170 cm (5 ft 7 in).
-- I feel confident that almost everyone reading this is NOT 5'7"tall.
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Byrd
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Why do they expect to find the mummy of Thutmose II? It's already been located and is in the British Museum:
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
I'm looking forward to photos of this one.
The tomb has been damaged by floods (possibly the reason his mummy was moved) -- there's only a few photos of the interior and it looks a right mess.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
That's sort of what they predicted on the skeptics group on Facebook.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Whuf...
There's bad, and then there's this (which, beyond the very poor translation is simply full of errors.)
Quote:
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2) Egyptologists have never found
hieroglyphics painted or engraved on the walls
inside the Great Pyramid of Giza. This is another
important detail, because, as noted, in all the
Ancie
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
The "hey it's a bunch of rocks and not an ancient pyramid" isn't as exciting as 'ANCIENT UNKNOWN PYRAMID!!!'
(sarcasm on)...because, of course, pyramids are mystical and strange and hard to make (sarcasm off)
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Byrd
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Ancient History
Jammer Wrote:
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> Interesting how the 18th Dynasty went back to
> their roots, from some 350 years earlier.
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> Jammer
They do that several times in ancient Egypt (and Akhenaten did that in part as well) -- reverting to the idea that the Old Days were Golden Days, so to speak.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
I don't see the hieroglyph for the sky in that image. I see the hieroglyphs for "lord of all" but nothing about the sky.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Let's hope this is a better year.
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Byrd
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Coffee Shop
Moeties can become really really complex, particularly if there's some sort of weird strategy (like marrying outside your group.) Often children are considered to be part of the mother's clan... but this does not usually confer power on the women of the group.
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Byrd
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Ancient History
I thought that this had been confirmed much earlier by the modified cartouches -- Nicholas Reeve (2015) was the article I was thinking of (pierced ears evidence there, too)
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Hermione Wrote:
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> I've just been re-watching that well-known
> authority on Ancient Egyptian culture, "Dr. Who:
> The Pyramids of Mars," with Sutekh as the
> anti-hero plotting to take over the universe
> (although he gets his come-uppance in the end).
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> Might there be a case for Sutekh/Seth as
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Apocalypse
I did find a paper by J.F. Quack (and checked to see that yes, he's a genuine Egyptologist) which said this in part:
Venus is normally called either “the phoenix bird” or “the heron bird” and linked with the god Osiris. All these beings are also attested in other contexts. Only in the Late Period is the name “the morning star” applied to her with certainty (but see “Possible Attestations
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Byrd
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Apocalypse
Gad, I've missed that site. I'll have to toss a donation to them... needed to find a book and of course the only place that had a copy was Wayback.
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Byrd
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Coffee Shop
Hermione Wrote:
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> More bibliographical materials -
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> J. M. Serrano Delgado: The tekenu in Egyptian
> Funerary Ritual -
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> The Role and the Identity of the tknu
> in the Ancient Egyptian Funerals1
> Mohamed Ali Zienelabdein Ahmed
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> QuoteThe only evidence for the appearance of
&g
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Hans_lune Wrote:
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> I was trying to find support evidence that the
> stairs were cleaned of caked on material
I don't think they were, unless the temple was once buried and stayed that way for a long time.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Do we have something other than a video?
...and like the rest of you, I see a staircase worn by human feet and not a "melted" structure.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
I was VERY annoyed at NPR that they featured this story today. Started my morning off growling at the radio.
Wrote them a letter about it, too, suggesting that next time someone has a "wonderful discovery" that they talk to Tyldesley and Snape about it (if they can't find someone else to talk about it.)
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Just curious. Why would it need to be purified ?
> Does it lift stones better ? Just asking.
>
> regards
> db
Well, mud would gum up the works, for one thing. So it would need to have a settling pond.
Settling ponds leave LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of evidence. Tons of evidence. Literally. Ther
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
(sigh)
I kind of wish for some gatekeeping on these sites.
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Laboratory
(from the abstract) "Finally, we identified that the Step Pyramid’s internal architecture is consistent with a hydraulic elevation mechanism never reported before."
...yeah. There's a reason for that.
(are any of the authors actual civil engineers with actual hydrology experience? I don't see CV's on a quick eyeballing of the authors list.)
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
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