Abstract:
The Egyptian state was formed prior to the existence of verifiable historical records. Conventional dates for its formation are based on the relative ordering of artefacts. This approach is no longer considered sufficient for cogent historical analysis. Here, we produce an absolute chronology for Early Egypt by combining radiocarbon and archaeological evidence within a Bayesian pa
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L Cooper Wrote:
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> Stecchini, unfortunately, was not one to leave an
> adequate breadcrumb trail of footnoted
> documentation so that one could view for
> themselves all of the specific base point sources
> that he used in his arguments. He did, however,
> shed a little bit more light on the Agatharchides
> issue
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Hermione Wrote:
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> I was rather shocked, on reading Part 2 of this
> article, to find that claims by Livio Catullo
> Stecchini, the writer on ancient metrology, that
> the Greek writer, Agatharchides, had written an
> ancient text about the dimensions of the GP
> supposedly symbolising the Earth, turned out to be
&
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Thanks Hermione!
I have put the second part of the English translation online: , mainly devoted to the ancient sources claimed by some pyramidologists.
Irna
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Martin Stower Wrote:
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> M.
It seems that I'm unable to subscribe, I can't see at all the captcha letters
Can someone with access to this item send me a copy?
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> Well the great wall of China is made out of long
> stretches of limestone.
Well, only small parts of the great wall are made of limestone, and usually not precisely adjusted stones
I do not doubt the fact that the pyramids were used as quarry, and that the scavengers are responsible for a great part of the
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If you look at the original article in "Structure" rather than "the Atlantic" one, you'll see that the question of "Why Egypt stopped building pyramids" is actually not the central question for the author. It's just an aparté, one sentence with a question mark at the end of the article. The hypothesis is interesting because it fits with the observations of
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cladking Wrote:
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> I can't find a thermal expansion for
> limestone as high as his either. The largest I
> can find is only about 75% his number.
The coefficient of thermal expansion for limestone varies from 1 to 8; I couldn't find a value for the Tura limestone, but the mean value for limestone is around 5.5 (5.5
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> I understand the worry about releasing the
> *location* of a new site. But artifacts found
> there?
> A general pic of part of a wall?
As far as I understand nobody has been there still. All they have is digital mapping made with LIDAR.
The "Ciudad Blanca" part of the story could be w
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Ancient History
Thank you Paul.
I had noticed that the author has quite a strange CV:
Another interesting thing: the same Russian IP added a link to the arXiv paper on May 1st on the English, French and probably other Wikipedia pages of the Tunguska event...
A case of self-promotion of quasi-science?
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See here:
The original paper is here:
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donald r raab Wrote:
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> Is this the SAME wadi as mentioned in this url?
> If not is it close by? Also have they found the
> same boat kits?
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>
No, it's not the same. According to the French article I linked above, there are three known port sites on the Red Sea : "Mersa Gaouasis" - the Wadi Gawasis o
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Hi,
an article in French about Wadi El-Jarf by Tallet's team:
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Jason Colavito makes a review of America Unearth every Friday:
episode 1:
episode 2:
episode 3:
episode 4:
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It seems that another place of interest to be in will be Rtanj, a mountain/pyramid in Serbia:
I wonder why the Bosnian pyramids supporters haven't tried to make Visoko a target for these believers? Weren't the excavations there supposed to help to "break the cloud of negative energy" coming to the Earth in December?
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Hi Paul,
it seems that the "influx of apocalypse believers" in Bugarach has been largely surestimated by the media:
To make it short, a writer and a director who spent the last few months in Bugarach have mostly seen crowds... of journalists
Irna
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Allan Shumaker Wrote:
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> Now something about the reporting of this
> discovery just doesn't add up! Neanderthals were
> supposedly extinct by about 30kya yet we have
> Neanderthals killing and butchering a mammoth near
> Paris 20kya?
According to INRAP (Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives),
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With a few improvements:
Song about Kitty Swan
I just listened to this song yesterday and I cry
Your pain is great Kitty Swan
To me you are a beautiful flower in my heart
To me you are a sad song Kitty Swan
For me your trembling voice means only life
And I do not know you Kitty Swan
And I sing of you for you are in my heart
To me you are a sad son Kitty Swan
One day there will
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In my friend Abacus is describing how an Italian team is "chasing the dragon" in Bosnia: a "multidisciplinary" team is trying to duplicate the famous Dragon Project (ultrasounds and various radiations around the Rollright Stones) in the "Bosnian valley of the pyramids", with far better instruments, but unfortunately far less caution and serious...
Cordially, Irna
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Hi Jammer,
as far as I know TL cannot be used for samples older than 700/800k years.
The Osmanagic team could have used it, not for the so-called wood on Pljesevica, but for dating the 'megaliths' in Ravne tunnel that they claim are ceramics: the TL dating would be able to confirm -or deny- without any doubt that the material have been heated 12,000 or 30,000 years ago. But, curious
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Ah! but when have pseudo-scientists ever been interested in actual history or archaeology?
Irna
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Greg Reeder Wrote:
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> One question that has been asked "couldn't they
> be natural hills that have been worked?."
That was, apparently, Aly Barakat's favourite theory: . But, even in the case of natural hills "reshaped" by man, one has to admit that 1) the workers made quite a sloppy work if their
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It comes from the cave of Mas d'Azil, in Ariège.
Cordially, Irna
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Paul H. Wrote:
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> While reading the story, I noted:
>
> "Right there, the metal detector of Egyptian
> geologist Aly Barakat of Cairo University
> located relics of ancient warfare: a bronze
> dagger and several arrow tips."
>
Barakat? Back to Cambyses' army after the Bosnian "pyramids&
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Maybe someone with an access could have a look at or
"Une nouvelle faune de vertébrés continentaux, associée à des artefacts dans le Pléistocène inférieur de l’Hérault (Sud de la France), vers 1,57 Ma
A new vertebrate fauna associated with lithic artefacts from the Early Pleistocene of the Hérault Valley (southern France) dated around 1.57 Ma"
The author, Jean-Yves Crochet, i
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For your information, I wrote a few comments about Dr. Swelim's report: . Dr. Swelim is the egyptologist who seems to support strongly Mr. Osmanagic, and was the president of this "international scientific conference" in Sarajevo.
Irna
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