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New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed
(Acknowledgments to Ahatmose - )
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Please remember to include a link/citation when quoting; in this case,
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Ancient Egypt
Eratosthenes measured the angle of the shadow cast by a vertical pillar in Alexandria when the Sun was directly overhead in the Egyptian city of Syene, to the south of Alexandria, at noon on the summer solstice, He used this angle and the distance to calculate the Earth's circumference, and thence radius.
His calculation was given in stadia (the circumference was something over 39,000 s
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Ancient Egypt
The Medieval Murder Maps, assembled by Cambridge's Institute of Criminology, is a website plotting crimes based on 700-year-old coroners' inquests.
It launched in 2018 covering London, but has now expanded its reach to Oxford and York.
Professor Manuel Eisner said Oxford had a "deadly mix of conditions" which contributed to the high homicide rate.
He said the combinat
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Humanities
Hermione Wrote:
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> Holger Isenberg Wrote:
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> > I don't know about Lauer's definition, but 524
> mm
> > is correct. To be more precise, it is 4/3 * pi
> *
> > 1000/2^3 = 523.5987756, the number you get when
> > calculating the volume of a sphere with
> diameter
> > 1000 mm a
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Maybe I am looking for too simplistic an answer
> but the explosion on the island of Santorini
> (Thera) would have caused all of his list: the
> drought, the famine, force the people in the area
> to become "the invaders" and would have caused
> earthquakes.
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But the evidence d
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Ancient History
Holger Isenberg Wrote:
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> Because the meter was the original unit used by
> the investor or director of the Great Pyramid
> architecture project.
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Some discussion of similar proposals: (Fr., browser translator required).
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Byrd,
I couldn't get your link to the Abusir book in the previous post to work, but found this one:
Lost Pyramids, Forgotten Pharaohs, Abusir:
And, of course, how could we forget:
Waggy on Sahure -
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Ancient Egypt
Holger Isenberg Wrote:
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> Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> > Can anyone confirm that Lauer used a conversion
> of 524 millimetres per Egyptian royal cubit?
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> I don't know about Lauer's definition, but 524 mm
> is correct. To be more precise, it is 4/3 *
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Hermione
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Ancient Egypt
A PDF download (thanks to Paul H.):
"A new age myth – the Kaimanawa wall", Ritchie, N., 1996. Archaeology in New Zealand, Sep 1996; v.39, no.3, pp.175-183.
(Problems with accessing download:
try
search: "Kaimanawa"
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Hermione
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Ancient History
It's just landed - (not sure if non-UK residents will be able to see this).
Now they've got to get the capsule back to base ...
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Laboratory
... the excavations of this year yielded an unexpected surprise. Hidden in a cultic ritual text written in Hittite is a recitation in a hitherto unknown language. Prof. Daniel Schwemer (Wurzburg University, Germany), the excavation’s epigraphist, reports that the text designates this idiom as the language of the land Kalasma, an area on the northwestern edge of the Hittite heartland, probably in
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Ancient History
QuoteAnthropological research has been going on at the archaeological concession of the Czech Institute of
Egyptology in Abusir for nearly 60 years. The first burials dated to the Old Kingdom, more specifically to
the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties (2510–2365 BC), were found in 1976. Nevertheless, it has taken almost to the
present time to gather more than two hundred skeletons needed to carry o
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Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
Article for BAR Summer 2022 issue (Proof):
"As someone who has spent a career studying the ancient world, I believe the situation we face today has many similarities to 1177 B.C."
YT video (58:01) -
Cline 2022 JEMAHS 10 2 "Revisiting 1177 BC and the Late Bronze Age Collapse" (Second Proof with EHC minor edits -
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Ancient History
This subject came up in a recent email exchange:
QuoteThis site’s primary objective is to expose geology’s indisputably wrong “no worldwide flood, ever” paradigm.
QuoteMichael Jaye is an associate professor at the Naval
Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. An
applied mathematician, Jaye has published in a
variety of discipline including underwater sound
propagation, a
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Ancient History
Nasa's Osiris-Rex capsule will come screaming into Earth's atmosphere on Sunday at more than 15 times the speed of a rifle bullet.
It will make a fireball in the sky as it does so, but a heat shield and parachutes will slow the descent and bring it into a gentle touchdown in Utah's West Desert.
The capsule carries a precious cargo - a handful of dust grabbed from asteroid Ben
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Hermione
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Laboratory
On a related point, see also:
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Laboratory
The noted French archaeological diver Franck Goddio and his team have discovered ancient temples dedicated to the supreme Egyptian god Amun and Greek love goddess Aphrodite off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast.
The archaeologists have been exploring the site of the submerged port of Thonis-Heracleion since its discovery in 2000, but the two temples had remained lost in its southern reaches.
The
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Ancient Egypt
Thanks, Paul: I hadn't come across those particular archive posts.
It seems that the same things just keep coming up time after time ...
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Ancient History
After Jens Haaning's pure white canvases ... some (nearly) pure black ones:
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Paper Lens
Byrd Wrote:
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> > Unfortunately, it turns out that there's
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> > problem with Barbiero's equations.
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> > here).
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> I hate to do this, but he
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Ancient History
The discovery of ancient wooden logs in the banks of a river in Zambia has changed archaeologists' understanding of ancient human life.
Researchers found evidence the wood had been used to build a structure almost half a million years ago.
The findings, published in the journal Nature, suggest stone-age people built what may have been shelters.
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Paul H. Wrote:
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> > Ah, but how do you know that the Earth Crustal
> > Displacement wasn't caused by a comet?
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> Flavio Barbiero, an Italian naval engineer, has
> actually proposed this idea. (-:
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> On the Possibility of Instantaneous Shifts of the
> Poles
> Flav
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Ancient History
Yesterday, NASA released a report about UFOs and made plain that there was no evidence of space aliens. NASA administrator Bill Nelson said that he didn’t know what some UFOs were and that more investigation is necessary; however, the report agreed with the Pentagon’s AARO that nearly all of them are aerial junk, drones, optical illusions, etc.
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Some of the responses:
Quotet's a water tank for cattle. Cattle make numerous paths to the tank. You can find this all over the US and world, especially in deserts.
QuoteIt’s a central watertank paddock, the rays extending out are fencelines with maintenance roads for the pastures. The cattle are moved from pasture to pasture to keep them from overgrazing any one area. It’s cheaper
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Ancient History
A famous youtuber has posted a very interesting youtube video showing an ancient celestial map, with satellite pictures of Google Earth, somewhere in Hawaii.
He believes these Petroglyphs could be up to 150000 years old, making them the oldest Petroglyphs even discovered on Earth so far.
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Ancient History
UN cultural body Unesco has urged the government to make amendments to a controversial plan for a road tunnel near Stonehenge.
The World Heritage Site (WHS) is at risk of being placed on the danger list if changes are not made to the proposed tunnel scheme on the A303.
National Highways' plans were approved by the government in July.
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Ancient History
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