Intact burial chamber discovered in Aswan, dating to the Late Period:
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No, I think it's too early, they were discovered only last year, and there are dozens of them!
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Irna
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Ancient Egypt
An excellent conference by Gregory Marouard about the new discoveries at Wadi el-Jarf:
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Irna
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Ancient Egypt
For the reader's information, Andrew Lawler is the young British archaeologist who worked for one year for Osmanagic, and desperately tried to impose some scientific organisation to the archaeological nonsense of the "pyramid" excavations. He left when Osmanagic heavily edited his reports which were not enough pro-pyramid in his taste...
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Ancient History
"When science and fear collide, a supernatural story thrives."
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Humanities
There is a short video here (in French) about the work of Laurent Lescop on Gavrinis.
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Unfortunately, it seems that "Popular Archaeology" is more and more often disseminating uncritically this kind of pseudoscience
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Yes, 8 years of Osmanagic's pseudoarchaeology condensed in one single text
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It seems that the analysis was made by Melba Ketchum, of dubious Bifoot reputation:
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Laboratory
Hi Paul, I can hardly wait for your paper on this!
Here are the websites of the two main members of the "international team" mentioned in the news about Ecuador:
- Bruce Fenton: (with a series of 5 articles about the "pyramid", beginning with "Lost Ancient City of Giants Reported To Be Discovered in Ecuadorian Jungle"
- Benoit Duverneuil: a much more sober web
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From the above link:
"On Graham Hancock's Message Board, Paul Heinrich is known as Xebec and his favourite bullying technique is dump down x number of links to lengthy academic geology papers that the poster cannot possibly have the time to read, let alone absorb and understand, before the thread moves on and rolls over the poster's argument."
That's probably the bigg
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Pas si nul que ça, Martin, visiblement
But if someone has an idea for a publisher who would be interested, I won't object to an English translation
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Ancient History
Hello Colette,
Stefan Erdmann was announced for the ICBP 2011 conference, but as far as I know he didn't actually attend the conference; at least he isn't listed among the speakers: , nor in this list of summaries: .
But he actually was, along with Jan Van Helsing, in Bosnia in July 2011:
As for Jock Doubleday, the man is beyond any word; he seems to believe in *every* conspirac
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Ancient History
Thanks Martin, I had read the thread in a hurry and didn't notice that
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A question, mainly to Frank or Martin or whoever has followed closely this story:
In this article , we have the Fresenius laboratory declare that "We are currently conducting mineralogical investigations of the samples that Erdmann brought us. Where they come from we do not know"
And here: or here: the "Produktmanager" of Fresenius, one Bernd Mehlich, declines any know
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Ancient Egypt
There is also this one:
Not very good either...
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Ancient Egypt
"CAIRO: Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim said on Friday that the three researchers believed to have stolen samples from King Khufu’s cartouche would be referred to the prosecutor general for investigation"
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I just received an answer by one of the Australian geologists I contacted, here it is:
"I'm afraid that I can't help you very much. The only thing I can do is speculate. The appearance of the "walls" reminds me of the Triassic-Jurassic and Cretaceous sequences of the Sydney-Hunter-Gunnedah Basins. So it could be anywhere in a 1,500km long band. There has been significa
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I must add that it's hard to say with so few pictures, but it gave me a slight feeling of déjà vu
We’re really beginning to get used to images of relatively parallelepiped sandstone blocks, aren’t we?
There are some features that, contrary to what the author says, might suggest a natural phenomenon; for example, that the blocks forming the base of the walls are all of the same height
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Ancient History
I have asked the opinion of Australian geologists. In the meanwhile, I would venture that we have a case of "talus caves" with "massive sandstone block separation along sub-parallel joint planes" as described in this article about some caves in NSW:
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Ancient History
Do we have other examples of such architecture, with inclined blocks, in that region? It seems to me that we haven't, and that every known pyramid is built with rows of horizontal blocks, isn't it?
I agree that it looks much more like jointed bedrock than like a pyramid...
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Ancient History
I do not think that this article has been mentioned:
It seems that the local navy will investigate, but they very much doubt the reality of the so-called pyramid, and want to know more about the device used to make the bathymetric readings:
And of course, the possibility of a submarine volcano is not to be excluded in that area.
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