Brad Lepper comment on Serpent Mound section (Ancient Apocalypse) - 22 days ago

QuoteIn speaking about Poverty Point, Hancock says he does not claim the mounds weren’t built by indigenous Americans, but he refers to the knowledge used to build them as having been “inherited from earlier times.” And by “earlier times” he means the end of the last Ice Age, when there supposedly existed an unspecified “people” with “advanced surveying, geometrical, and astronomical skills, and

Jason Colavito Review of Ancient Apocalypse - Part IV: Bimini Road, the Bahamas - 23 days ago

Colavito explains that Ancient Apocalypse includes: Quote ... a discussion of old maps allegedly showing Antarctica (they were the hypothetical southern continents from Greco-Roman myth) in which Hancock repeats old lies about the mapmakers admitting to relying on Ice Age originals. They said no such thing. The most famous such map literally says the opposite: “Behold!” Oronteus Finaeus wrote in

Carl Feagans' Review of Ancient Apocalypse - 23 days ago

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Re: Jason Colavito Review of Ancient Apocalypse - 23 days ago

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Re: Thoughtful Reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ Threads about Graham Hancock - 23 days ago

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Re: Why The Great Sphinx Can't be Older than 3,500 BC - 23 days ago

Selection of HoM papers on the geology of the rocks of which the Great Sphinx is formed:

Prehistoric villages, castles, and towers of southwestern Colorado (Fewkes, 1919) - 24 days ago

Probably very outdated: but some interesting late 19th/early 20th cent. photography.

Re: It's amazing what can turn up during a good spring-clean ... - 24 days ago

We've been through the contents of our attic several times, and I can safely say that what's up there is nothing but jumble-sale rejects ... Wiki on the Corieltauvi (with whom I wasn't familiar): . Knaresborough, , where the ring was found, is further north than the Corieltauvi area. One can only speculate how the object came there.

Dimming Earth, mustard shortages: some of the effects of climate change - 24 days ago

As well as fuelling deadly floods and drought, rising temperatures are cited as a cause of spontaneous explosions of Siberian permafrost, mustard shortages and the planet becoming dimmer.

Re: Ritualistic Expedition of 25th dynasty - 24 days ago

Mihos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 14 years ago, there was a substantive discussion > on the 25th dynasty. , presumably.

It's amazing what can turn up during a good spring-clean ... - 25 days ago

Celtic ruler's 2,000-year-old ring kept in cupboard for 28 years

Chauvet Cave Paintings - 25 days ago

(Please note all the comments about copyright at the beginning of the document). An exceptional archeological discovery has been made public on January 17, 1995, by the Minister of Culture ... Mr. Jacques TOUBON. Discovered during December 1994 at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc (Ardeche, France), the cave, composed of several spacious galleries and dens, is adorned with some 300 paleolithical pai

Re: Could Odysseus have sailed the Atlantic Ocean to America and back guided by stars, 3000 years before Columbus? - 25 days ago

Roxana Cooper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Could he? Maybe. > Did he/ Hell No! Well ... I think by "Odysseus," the author of the article might have meant "any sailor from the region of ancient Greece." As for Odysseus himself, I doubt if there's any evidence that there ever was such an historical personage.

Re: Pre-dynastic Egypt - 25 days ago

I think Byrd might know more about this period than I do, so perhaps she'll be along in a while ... In the meantime, there are some mentions of "smiting" in Andelkovic, B. 2014. The Molding Power of Ideology: Political Transformations of Predynastic Egypt. Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology (Belgrade) n.s. 9/3: 713-722.

Re: Bottomless Pits and Spooky Geology with Sharon Hill - 25 days ago

Paul H. Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bottomless Pits and Spooky Geology with Sharon > Hill > > > Spooky Geology > Earth mysteries, weird locations, anomalous > phenomena > QuoteIvan T. Sanderson’s Vile Vortices The origin of paranormal vortex areas was not exactly scientific, but it was made to appear so. It was f

Response from Graham Hancock to the Society for American Archaeology - 25 days ago

QuoteI can only be grateful to the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), the professional association for the archaeology of the Americas, for devoting no less than 27 pages of the November issue of its journal, The SAA Archaeological Record, to an attack on my 2019 book, America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization. (G. Hancock) As referenced by Samira Minetti (one not known for

Re: The Secret of the Long heads of Peru’s Paracas Is Finally uncovered - 26 days ago

Archive threads -

The Secret of the Long heads of Peru’s Paracas Is Finally uncovered - 26 days ago

Finally, the DNA results are back ...

Put 'em on show - 26 days ago

Re: Ancient comb with 'full sentence' - 26 days ago

I really do think that the oldest pearl of written wisdom known to mankind might have been something a bit more resonant than "zap your fleas."

Ancient comb with 'full sentence' - 26 days ago

Israeli archaeologists say they have found an ancient comb dating back to Canaanite times and bearing what is likely the oldest known full sentence in an alphabetical script

Scholars: who are you? - 26 days ago

Who Are You? Preliminary Results of the Academic Genealogies of Near Eastern Scholars (AGNES) Project By Rachel Hallote, Diane Harris Cline, and Eric H. Cline Where do archaeologists and other scholars of the ancient Near East come from, intellectually speaking? A new project is collecting the genealogies of scholars present and past. Some of the results are unexpected.

Re: In a Similar Vein - 26 days ago

Hans_lune Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hermione Wrote: > > > > > QuoteMark Lehner and Richard H Wilkinson. > > Complete Pyramids: Solving the Ancient > Mysteries. > > Thames and Hudson > > Incorporated, 1997 [1, p. 34] > > > > Strangely, my 1997 edition of CP makes no > mention > > of Wi

Reinvestigating the Second Dynasty at Saqqara (Regulski, 2010) - 27 days ago

Saqqara was the main necropolis of the ancient Egyptian capital Memphis from ca. 3100 BC onwards. The founding of Memphis as the centre of the newa dministration must have been decisive in choosing Saqqara as the main northern necropolis but opinions differ with regard to its date of origin.

Re: new paper on the big void in the Great Pyramid - 28 days ago

The authors are scientists attached to reputable institutions. The problem is, their knowledge of the culture and context of AE, and the ancient world in general, seems rather limited.

Some notes on the title of ‘Vizier’ during the Old Kingdom (Dulikova, 2011) - 28 days ago

The Old Kingdom viziers bore the composite title tAyty TAty (n) zAb. Further hieroglyphic signs, such as the phallus-sign and the addition mAa, were appended in some cases to this title.

Re: In a Similar Vein - 28 days ago

Chiginn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A prospective article which hints at the > potential for further discoveries within the Great > Pyramid: > > > > Biondi & Malanga (?2022?), SYNTHETIC APERTURE > RADAR DOPPLER TOMOGRAPHY REVEALS DETAILS OF > UNDISCOVERED HIGH-RESOLUTION > INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE GREAT PYRAMID

Homer's secret Iliad : the epic of the night skies decoded - 29 days ago

This reminded me rather of this - - which I came across many years ago. I don't know if the Woods are referenced in this latest work.

Thersites, Vol. 15 (2022): There and Back Again: Tolkien and the Greco-Roman World - 29 days ago

Amongst the contents: There and Back Again: Tolkien and Greco-Roman Antiquity Maciej Paprocki, Alicia Matz The Fall of Two Cities: Troy and Gondolin Marco Cristini ... Platonic Tripartition and the Peoples of Middle-Earth Kevin Kambo Roman Heroes at Helm’s Deep? Livy, Macaulay, and Tolkien on the Horatius Cocles Episode Charles W. Oughton etc. etc.

St Michael's Mount: recent and future work - 29 days ago

(P. Herring) Summary of first modern survey and research into the archaeology of an iconic Cornish place, the Mount. From late prehistoric tin-trading port, through medieval castle, priory and harbour to early modern and recent stately home, ornamental landscape and working harbour.