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Hi Don I was wondering if you were the same "dironey" from Guardian's fame. Good to have you back.by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Don With all due respect to your time and energy that you've spend on this (15 years by your own estimate) what have you found? Frankly I don't know. You've been absolutely fixated on phi for as long as I can tell (I shouldn't throw stones after all it's a not very well kept secret that understanding the Amarna letters and Hittite treaties are my own secret passion.). Bby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Actually it was Erman who realized that Egyptian evolved over time just like any other language. He developed the classifications of Old E, Middle E or classical, Late E, demotic and Ptolemaic. For Budge Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespear, Twain, Bob Dylan and Tupac Shakur would all have the same grammar, syntacs and vocabulary. I may not be a linguist but I "borrowed" one of their tools oby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Sounds like a great idea. Haven't done any ARCE meetings but that's something to think about. Any suggestions.by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
That's why I live in California. San Diego right where the gulf of california is splitting in two... Isn't life greatby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
I agree with you wholeheartedly about Tut's tomb. You have to shift your viewpoint on it over and over and over again to really understand it. For isnstance it was clearly an Osirian burial with Ay performing the opening of the mouth ceremony. But there were clearly atenist elements still left in it. After all goddesses guarding his stone sarcophagus were almost a carbon copy of Akh'by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
thanks Katby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
It should make you nervous. I used to live in LA and went to the Page museum and looked at all the animals that stumbled into it and died there. Then I went outside and looked at that one fenced in tar pit that is always covered with water. And then I thought about Amarna and well one led to another. Don't forget as we both know and love LA is on an active fault zone, someday you might bby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Budge? Budge????? Oh, now, THAT IS GOING WAY TOO FAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now,now, calm down and place yourself in the hands of Dr. Rick (Hey if it works for Dr. Phil )I've had a tremendous amount of experience of dealing with Budgephobia ....Budge wrote some of the earliest work on Tut and included some of the first heiroglyphic renditions of the Akhs. Hymn to Aten and other amaby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
As founder and president of Amarnaholics Anonymous and the discoverer of the "Amarna Tar Pits" membership is automatically confered on anyone, anyplace, anytime who thinks they know what is "really" going on in Amarna and doesn't hestitate to set the world straight on it. There is no "ranking" system in "Amarnaholcs Anonymous" once you're in theby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
I'm very curious about the jars. I've never seen that kind of design before. Any ideas on them?by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
But Heron would have had the skilled technicians to create and manipulate whatever materials he wanted to use. It's the problem everyone in experimental archaeology has to deal with. They and you are trying to do what until recent times a technician were spend a decade or more learning as an apprentice. You're absolutely right! For instance consider Heron's most basic machine.by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Gotta get back to the Amarna tar pits... I was wondering where you went too...by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Don't dispare. Keep in mind Heron would have had the assistence of the very best and most skilled workmen with the various materials he was working with. This was major royal sponsorship. NASA in the early days of open funding. No, I'm not despairing at all . Just plugging along as I get the time. Indeed it was major royal sponsorship. After all you do not make devices to open anby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Actually I can't figure out what American schools are into at all. Or what American students want. I talk to American college graduates and they aren't any more interested in what's going on the "real world" than the non-graduates. A so called "liberal arts" education today is a euphemism for you're-an-idiot-and-couldn't-get-a-real-degree. Like an Mby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Your son should definitely have turned her on to Job. A fun read if there ever was one. Both of my boys tried to but it just confused her. She didn't even know how to pet our dog. She had never been around one! I love what your attempting with the Heron things. You probably know that has been a huge trend in archaeology for the last generation. To try to make what they made with tby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Just to stur the pot a little more: you are aware that most of christian and islamic theology is just neo-platonism in another guise! Actually I wasn't. But I'm not surprised. I've had a whole life time of You-know-who-has-a-wonderful-plan-for-your-life and the plan is pray,pray, pray or burn in hell for all eternity. Current Christianity seems to have successfully stripped awby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
John Darnell is just coming out with a book that argues that Akhenaten was very active militarily and that his regime was very much military based and supported. Bob: Do you know what his premise for this hypothesis is? I've been convinced for years that Akhenaten was far from passive militairly and that this "starry eyed dreamer" is a bunch of what I call "amarnabaloneby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
I kinda agree with you Bob. I'm not the least bit of a co-regencist (reread militantly opposed to it. It's nothing more than an excuse to cover up gaps in the historical record or explain away atypical artwork. Or prop up some lame theory. I'm going on one of my rants here so I'll stop.) However the skeletal remains that are preserved strongly suggest that possibility. Tutby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Hi Ritva I'm not a graecophile by any stretch of the imagination. They had their bright spot with Archimedes, Aristotle, Democritus, and Heron....I'm leaving Plato out because IMNSHO he is vastly overrated. A pompous bore who refuses to get off or be shoved off the stage of history. And then they retreated into inconsequetionality for the last bazillion years. Anyhow hereby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
I didn't know that for a fact but there was never any doubt in my mind that they were ghosted. I just didn't know who the lucky author was that wouldn't have to jump through all the publishing hoops to get a non-fiction book published and at the same time have virtually unlimited access to all the source material. The down side is that it's a "work-for-hire" and youby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he had already signed a book deal for this tomb Zahi Hawass Presents the Lost Relatives of Tut.by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
I was ROTFLMIAO when he talked about holding a statue being identical to holding his first born son for the first time.by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
It doesn't appear that Smenkhare's name was cut out of the sarcophagus because it was never there in the first place. Instead the prevalent theory AFAIK is Akhenatens and whoever the original owner of the coffin were the ones that were removed. Akhs because he was the heretic king and the original owners because they were superfluous. At that point they would have reinserted Smenkhare&by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
I'm glad to hear that. I too am almost cured. Of what turned out to be a, no joke, an incredibly expensive addiction. I was spending money like crazy on books, books, tapes, exhibits etc. Even dabbled briefly, very briefly (about 20 minutes to be exact) in HIttite in order to understand this era. But I too have gotten fed up with the same, old same old as the current wheeze goes. Between tby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Again who's name Akhenaten's or Smenkhare's or possibly Kiya's since it was more than likely her coffin or some other ladies sarcophagus.by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Yep frankly I think its him. But then the Egyptians really threw a lot into that tomb to throw us off the track. Kiya's canopic jars, her sarcophagus possibly, Tiye's funeral shrine, all 4 of Akhenaten's "bricks" with an early version of his name, and last but not least a bowl from King Unas who had died some 1500 years earlier?by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Thanks Don. Well I've got priority on this one. If it turns out to be right!by Rick Baudé - Ancient History