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Ritva you wrote "but Egyptologists like to be published...Those words should be carved in Jade and etched with gold. Actually it should be a caveat placed in every single Egyptological book. Here's one of their latest howlers...by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
HI Ritva: You wrote: "While I completely agree with you about Carter having basically massacred poor Tutankhamun's mummy (all of the joints are separated!!!)," That's the point that I've tried to make on this and other boards. The body was basically destroyed after it was heated with zinc plates and then ripped apart by carter. These were 3,500 year old bones that heby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
I hate to be the perrenial sceptic...HOwever now it appears that Tut died of a knee infection from a sword wound. In the past it was a hit in the back of the skull, then a blow to the face, then a fall off a chariot that apparently pulverized his rib cage, Hawass and company said it was gangrene that developed after breaking his thigh. Why doesn't somebody in the egyptological community jusby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
I love this "social outcast" theory gains strength. What pure baloney. He "might" have been sterile, maybe he didn't have children, there's a possibility that he was driven from his village. One wild assertion gives way to another but all we know for sure is that he died a violent death far from home and that's it. On the bright side they did some advanced DNby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
I use the word "king" provisionally. Amarna scholars seem to all over the map as to what to call theses rulers or just exactly what they're responsibilities were. Sometimes they're called "governors" sometimes "mayors" sometimes "chieftains" their exact relationship to each other in general and the levvant in particular is maddeningly difficultby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Actually it was a third "king" named "Yanhamu" that made the extortion demand to Miliklu which triggered his letter to Akhenaten. Whether he (Miliklu) complied with Yanhamu's demand and whether Akh. paid the extortion are as far as I can tell buried somewhere deep in the Amarna Tar Pits.by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
I've followed Dr. Silver's posts for years and I tend to agree strongly with him that there were coins in the ancient Levant. For instance in the Amarna letters (among others) Miliklu asks Akhenaten for 2000 shekels of silver. In addition to that he demands that that Miliklu also hand over his wife and sons. Or else he'll kill Miliklu. Anyhow I beleive that Moran considers a &quby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
I know what you mean. I stare guiltily at the pile of books that I have to read and then the books that I want to read. So many books so little time.by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Why don't you buy it then? "It takes time to restore chaos..." President George W. Bushby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
I don't know Ritva. I've looked at it several times and it looks just like a loop to hold the "shrine" with. But if you shift your viewpoint it does indeed look like an "ankh". I can't help but feel that this was deliberate and that the "ankh" is in fact there, but incorporated at part of the motif.by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Thanks Greg for the close up. I kind of thought it was a shrine of some kind. However what are the two objects inside it? They're apparently facing each other. I can't recall seeing anything like that before.by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
In the close up pix above just what are the two objects in the "basket" or "cage" I don't know how to describe it. They look like two little statues does anybody know what they are? Also what are the two "poles" made of?by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
I, for one, would like to know what the inscriptions on the wall say. If it says "Seti Justified" then he's dead. The fact that he's wearing a white shroud strongly suggests to me that he has "spread his wings and flown to the west".by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
And the answer to the question who said "What is the truth?" (since nobody answered it.) is (big drumroll) Pontius Pilate! Those were his last words on the subject after he condemned Jesus to death by crucifixion.by Rick Baudé - Humanities
Anthony wrote "First, I would create civil penalties for publishers who label fiction as fact or history." Really? Could you define when something ceases to be fact and becomes fiction? For instance Tom Clancy's work of fiction "The Hunt for Red October" had so many facts about submarine detection that the Pentagon almost blew a gasket when they read it. Ian Flemingby Rick Baudé - Humanities
Getting back to basics "The diagram itself is available but not one single measurement is available. Any ideas why ?" His question still hasn't been answered with any degree of rigor, or logic, anything that is supposed to be the hallmark of rational thought. However in addition to that I also see that virtually no data has been released (except for some extremely tightly conby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Principia wrote-If we are taught better the ways of science and its methods, then alternative ideas need not be attacked under the auspice of obtuse verve. Poeple would be better armed to see the errors for themselves. Well speaking as someone who has received some scientific training,and been around a lot of scientist, I can say that scientists aren't anymore objective or fairminded thaby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Oh please...Did you really think I didn't know that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All that proves is you have a dated envelope and NOTHING ELSE. (Banging head against the keyboard). Don't you ever watch those old movies where someone steams open the envelope takes out the genuine letter and replaces it with a phony one, or reads it and seals it up again? Guess not. Oh wait I guess you haby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Hi Don With all the internet lawyers proffering their advice you might go here. I think your work definitely falls under this area. If not there's others. Thirty american dollars will buy you a lot of peace of mind and this will give you GENUINE protection. Probably about the same amount as you would spend mailing it to yourself and getting a notary public. Good luck on your bby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Not sending it to one's self by registered mail and not seeing a notary are definitely not gonna help one. That triple negative kinda threw me...However. No and No....However taking your advice I just typed up Tom Clancy's latest novel substituting my dad's name for his and "sent" it to "himself" via "registered mail" that proves that my fatherby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Well, what do you know I never thought that I would agree with every single word that you wrote Anthony...But I agree with you 100%. On a personal note I was thinking of copyrighting the alphabet and suing everybody on the planet for copyright infringement. I will drop all suits if everybody pays me a one time licensing fee of $1.00 for their lifetime for the use of the alphabet. This will leaby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
C. Waybe Taylor wrote: Hello Rick, Are you a lawyer? Nope. Just an obsessive watcher of the absurd.by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
BTW don't use the word "monster" in your article or else go here to find out what will happen... (Edited only to fix a space in the url that made it unusable)by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
It took almost a decade but he eventually won it. Of course that was 10 years of irretrievably lost music and god only knows how much money.by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Don: All the advice about notary publics and mailing yourself a copy of your manuscript is not very accurate to put it delicately, the only thing that will happen is the Lawyers will have a hell of a good laugh and that's about it. I'm a copyright watcher and it's absolutely unbelievable the things that people have gotten sued over for infringement of copyright (Okay here'by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Thanks Bernard and Simon This clears it up somewhat. It reminds me of a sign I used to see in bars: "If you can't dazzle them with your, brilliance baffle them with your B.S." I love the way they toss around the words "ontological" and "epistemological" with such carefree and wreckless abandon.by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Personally I'm fed up with the "debunkers" they act like there's some kind of bright burning perrenial truth that burns for all eternity and never change and that that they alone possess it and that anybody that deviates from it is condemned to the lowest circle of hell. They seem to take such sadistic joy in proving everything is wrong, tearing up somebody's thesis andby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Can somebody define "postmodernism" in 20 to a hundred words or so, that make sense!!! I've heard it tossed around for years and I've never heard a good definition of just what the hell it is or what it represents. The only thing I can see about the "postmodernists" is that they seem incapable of writing a straightforward sentence that actually means something.by Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Anthony wrote: "Alchemy, Gnosticism and Hermeticism have their roots firmly planted in Greece... not Egypt. Even when one finds alchemy in Egypt," Perhaps this would be a good point to benchmark the findings so far. In no particular order 1) Gnosticism: I can find no evidence that Gnositicism is a greek religion. Generally speaking the earliest texts were written in Greek. Butby Rick Baudé - Ancient History
Anthony wrote "Independent development really does occur... in structures, technologies and philosophies.' True the development of pyramids all around the world in all different contexts is easy proof of that. HOWEVER, he cautions, stealing other peoples ideas, ignoring source material, or simply being ignorant of it also happens all the time! One culture coopts another cultures iby Rick Baudé - Ancient History