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Re: An Egyptologist's Explanation of Why The Pyramids Are Where They Are - 16 years ago

creigs1707 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hermione: That was not necessarily historical > fact, of course... > > SC: But then it is not necessarily historical myth > either. Really? Even when compared with other examples in the ancient world?

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: An Egyptologist's Explanation of Why The Pyramids Are Where They Are - 16 years ago

Don Barone Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > why can't the design speak for itself ? > We know they were capable in the knowledge of the > math so what on earth is the problem with simply > saying there was a plan for Giza before the first > stone was turned. If all the geoemtry fits and > there is no other logical explantion for why

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: An Egyptologist's Explanation of Why The Pyramids Are Where They Are - 16 years ago

creigs1707 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Regarding other temples such as Edfu and Denderah > (with its astronomical clock): > > "They (the temples) were built according to an > architectural plan which was supposed to have been > revealed in a codex that fell from the heavens at > Saqqara in the days of Imhotep." &

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: Making The Sphinx Fit To Perfection Using Fractions: Prepare To Be Humbled - 16 years ago

Don Barone Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > For example 1412 + 1/4 / 7 = 201 + 3/4 > > > > 201 + 3/4s x 4 = 807 exactly ... while > > > > 201 + 3/4s x 3 = 605 + 1/4 ... while > > > 601.25 IS A TYPO !!!!!!!!! I think that was Lobo's original point ...

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: An Egyptologist's Explanation of Why The Pyramids Are Where They Are - 16 years ago

Don Barone Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This is directed specifically at Hermione, Greg > Reeder, Ronald and Katherine and anyone else who > refuses to accept that all the ratios and > distances and arcs and bi-sectioning of Giza has > nothing whatsoever to do with why the pyramids are > where they are I would like for the first time to

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: Ratios work best - 16 years ago

Clive Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Read Thadd's first line in response to my > request...that says it all. No idea which post you meant ... could you provide a link? > Tell me what numerical or mathematical ratio(s) > that I have posted that is incorrect and could not > be calculated by the builders of these monuments. ...if

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: Making The Sphinx Fit To Perfection Using Fractions: Prepare To Be Humbled - 16 years ago

Don Barone Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Hermione ... > > In the post he linked to this is what is found. > Quote: > Hi Clive ... > > Forgive me it is yours. > > I just blew it up and changed your E to W and > changed your 1412 to 1412 + 1/4 > > I have used your measurements of 807 cubits but > mod

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: A challenge for all - 16 years ago

Thadd Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you really don't know what Kat means by > support, I would really suggest the book she > contributed to. If you look at Kat's signature - for instance, here: , you'll find a link to "Archaeological Fantasies".

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: Making The Sphinx Fit To Perfection Using Fractions: Prepare To Be Humbled - 16 years ago

Don Barone Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Where do you see 601.5 ? You meant to say "Where do you see 601.25, I think, Don: However, the answer is: In this part of the relevant post - the end of the second line. >201 + 3/4s x 5 = 1008 + 3/4s which is the distance of a right angled triangle with sides 807 and 601 + 1/4 > >Isn't it

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: Tomb of King Herod discovered at Herodium by Hebrew University archaeologist - 16 years ago

I repeat: there is no point in going over and over material that has only recently been exhaustively discussed, unless new evidence or interpretations have come to light in the interim. Have they?

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: Ratios work best - 16 years ago

Clive Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thadd: > > Sorry...I just gave up on you. If you are a > university student then I think you should > consider majoring in Egyptology. Perhaps you might consider reading something on Egyptology one of these days, Clive? You never know: you might learn about some real aspects of AE thought and society

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: More Bloodline, Rennes-Le-Chateau - 16 years ago

Dave L Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is this some sort of joke or what??? Well, from one point of view it most certainly is ... From another, it's depressing that nonsense like this continues to generate income for those responsible for thinking it up.

by Hermione - Paper Lens

Re: Tomb of King Herod discovered at Herodium by Hebrew University archaeologist - 16 years ago

cicely Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Please, please, please, can we not do this again?

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: Kaidan? - 16 years ago

Martin Stower Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Try this one, then. > > Kaidan (or, if you want to be old-fashioned, > Kwaidan). I’m thinking of the filmic variant. > > Any idea what it was? I have to confess myself utterly lost here, Martin ... ... I didn't see any of the BBC2 series that you mention, I'm afraid ...

by Hermione - Paper Lens

Re: Tomb of King Herod discovered at Herodium by Hebrew University archaeologist - 16 years ago

One or two more photos ...

by Hermione - Ancient History

Glossary of scientific terms - 16 years ago

For anyone unfamiliar with the appropriate terminology ...

by Hermione - Coffee Shop

Re: A challenge for all - 16 years ago

Don Barone Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Everyone says I am wrong but there has not been > one question asking for an explanation of what I > have posted nor one legitimate challenge to the > geometry. Just curious what exactly is the problem > with it then ? Finding apparent geometrical relationships between structures planned and buil

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: Watch it Again, Sam - 16 years ago

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I love Kurasawa's work. > > Have any of you seen his version of Macbeth? > Stunning. "Throne of Blood"? We got some of the way through, and then something went wrong with the DVD ...

by Hermione - Paper Lens

Group threatens legal action over Tara - 16 years ago

An environmental group warned today it would begin new legal proceedings to have work on the M3 motorway halted if sufficient action was not taken to preserve the recently discovered monument at Lismullen in the Tara-Skryne valley. More info on Lismullen ... )

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: The Save Tara campaign - 16 years ago

Previous discussions here ... . (I'm not too sure if all the links mentioned would still be working).

by Hermione - Ancient History

Historicity of Jesus Christ - 16 years ago

Could I just say at this point that we have recently had several very long discussions on this general subject (they can easily be found in the archives). Unless anyone has some new evidence or interpretations to offer, of course, I really do wonder whether it is absolutely necessary to keep going over and over the same ground ...

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: Watch it Again, Sam - 16 years ago

Martin Stower Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Very much the chambara version. The real Musashi > might more properly be regarded as pathological. (Had to look up "chambara" ). So ... a sort of sword-ripping yarn, then ... ?? And the real Musashi was atypical, in that most samurai didn't go round writing stuff about the Void and th

by Hermione - Paper Lens

Plastic printer that offers a 3D glimpse of the future - 16 years ago

Forgotten your toothbrush? Never mind, just print out a new one.

by Hermione - Laboratory

Re: Tomb of King Herod discovered at Herodium by Hebrew University archaeologist - 16 years ago

Photographs ...

by Hermione - Ancient History

Re: The Master - 16 years ago

MikeS Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >... there isn't going to be a series 3 of > Life on Mars... While this is true, the good news is that Gene Hunt is not lost to us! He's coming back in a series entitled "Ashes to Ashes", set in London, 1981, where he's joined by a time-travelling lady police inspector whose daughter has be

by Hermione - Paper Lens

Re: The Master - 16 years ago

So John Simm as the Doctor, and Liz White as his new assistant ... definitely a winner! Alas ... not to be, though ...

by Hermione - Paper Lens

Re: Shooting the Past - 16 years ago

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Perhaps it had something to do with budget > constraints. Maybe ... IIRC, I think I found the ending a bit mournful; maybe I was hoping for something a bit more cheerful. If the photo-story montage had led to some amazing revelation ... but it didn't. The protagonist was living as a bag-lady somewhere in Lo

by Hermione - Paper Lens

Re: Watch it Again, Sam - 16 years ago

Martin Stower Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So, you’re watching the Japanese stuff for light > relief from the Polanski? Oh, yes - Toshiro Mifune wielding a samurai sword - terrific stuff! ("Pitfall", emphatically not a Toshiro Mifune film, was really rather odd - OK if you like magical realism combined with social criticism, I suppose ..

by Hermione - Paper Lens

Re: Watch it Again, Sam - 16 years ago

These are the last few I've watched ... Duel At Ganryu Island Pitfall Duel At Ichijoji Temple Rashomon Yojimbo High And Low Knife In The Water The Lady Of Musashino Sanjuro Repulsion

by Hermione - Paper Lens

Re: The Master - 16 years ago

Katherine Reece Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm going to have to watch that eppy again ... I > don't remember why Owen shot Jack. You should take up "The Archers" instead, Kat!

by Hermione - Paper Lens