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Hi teacup, > You write 25.4 mm. Not to put too fine a point on > this but the claim at that other board is for an > Egyptian inch of 63/64ths of a British inch. I > know this doesn't change the substance of your > objection to the claim. Just thought I would > mention it to be fair. Thanks ... you're right: I don't think I did take that properly into aby Hermione - Ancient History
Hi Ritva, > >Nevertheless, although fractions could be > expressed by different parts of the HE, I can't > >find anything that specifically states that > the EH was symbolized by the RC. > > > Are you saying that you can't find anything by > comparing a Royal Cubit rod and the Eye, and what > they denote and symbolize, as far as measuresby Hermione - Ancient History
lobo-hotei Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The fractional aspect is what is the important > thing and not so much the unit in question. Yes - that was the impression I got, too!by Hermione - Ancient History
Hi Ritva, > Oh man, I had a hard time finding this posting > again.... but here I am. A gold star for trying, then! > I'd venture to claim that all the measures > the humans use today, are one way or another > related to the human body. After all, that must > have been the easiest way to measure things during > the time, when the measuring sticks etc.by Hermione - Ancient History
Chris O-H Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The 21st of June not only marks the summer > solstice but also the 50th anniversary of my > birthday. I'm now > ancient :-) Nonsense! A mere babe-in-arms ... (Happy Birthday!)by Hermione - Coffee Shop
Hi Ritva, what is the Rc? According to Dilke (1987: 23), the royal cubit was based on the forearm. (He adds that shorter and longer cubits found in AE "appear to be non-Egyptian"). And why it would be so > meaningful to building for afterlife, and > especially afterlife? What other unit were they going to use? > > > You have not understood one word I haby Hermione - Ancient History
Hi Ritva who said that the Eye > > of Horus was anything to do with units of > length? > Are you trying to be funny? ?? > In case not, let me explain this way: the Eye of > Horus represents fractions i.e. 1/2, 1/4 etc all > the way to 1/64. Two to the power of 6. These fractions, as far as I > know, are tools to calculate. Right? Yes ...by Hermione - Ancient History
Ritva Kurittu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > >But, as I understand it, the Eye of Horus > symbolizes fractions, not units of length. > > Say that again? Who says 1/64 can't be a part of a > length? No one said that! But ... who said that the Eye of Horus was anything to do with units of length? > > > >Now, iby Hermione - Ancient History
Hi Ritva, > What I meant is, that the AEs did have a > measure that is equal in length to the measure we > now know by the name of "inch". > > >I looked at arguments for the existence of > such a unit on another board, and found them > unconvincing. > > Well, what can I say. One thing convinces me and > another convinces you. Those thingsby Hermione - Ancient History
Ritva Kurittu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I take back my above postings. I have just been > shown (on another board) very convincingly, that > the measure we today call "inch" did exist in > ancient Egypt. I think this might depend on what precisely is meant by "inch" and "exist", Ritva! I looked at argumenby Hermione - Ancient History
Thanks, Mike ... Yes, the consensus in our household is that Billie Piper was very good, so it's nice to know she'll be in the next series. It's just David Tennant I feel half-hearted about ...by Hermione - Paper Lens
Well: we've just seen the last episode (and, no, I didn't look at the spoiler, so I didn't know what was going to happen). My husband said he thought it was excellent. We both think it's a shame that Ecclestone and Piper are leaving. When's the next series due to appear, BTW?by Hermione - Paper Lens
Lee Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I'm not sure what you saw > as "distasteful" about the Gosnold exhumation. > Could you explain? Well, I think I was more concerned for the fabric of the church than for the corpse itself; to judge from the TV pictures, they had to dig up the floor and tiles in order to reach the corpse. In principle,by Hermione - Humanities
MikeS Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So who or what do you think the bad wolf is > Hermione? Something dreamed up by the production team and the scriptwriter during brainstorming sessions over innumerable cups of coffee in order to inject a bit of heat into the viewing figures ...by Hermione - Paper Lens
It really does depend precisely what is meant by the term "tie" or "necktie", doesn't it ...by Hermione - Humanities
The verdict in our household is that the new series is OK (ish) ... but it was more fun in the old days when you could see the stagehands' feet behind the scenery in the background as they fought to keep the props from falling over ...by Hermione - Paper Lens
C. Loggy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How can these ruins be classified as the remains > of an ancient civilization when they've found no > writing. Isn't that a prerequisite for > civilization? Am I misunderstanding something > here? Well: at one time in the late 1960), it was suggested (by Kuhn) that, to meet the criteria ofby Hermione - Ancient History
bernard Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I looked at your wikipedia article and there > are some serious errors in it. Yes - it's just this sort of thing that makes me very unwilling to use Wikipedia.by Hermione - Coffee Shop
Pete Clarke Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I still think it's outrageous to exhume bodies > simply to get at the data (and thaqt holds true > for all archaeological excavations, not just > recent Christian ones). > > Sometimes bodies have to be exhumed to protect > them for development, etc. but this is beyond the > pale. Itby Hermione - Humanities
Anthony wrote: >The overall impact of fundamentalism is declining Are you quite sure about this, Ant?! Despite the wireless-waves graph, it doesn't look much like it from this side of the pond ...by Hermione - Ancient History
Anthony wrote: >Any ideas on who this "King of Bling" could be? Apparently his name might have been "Sabert" ... (http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/2005_bling_king.html).by Hermione - Ancient History
RickB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Nobody could figure > out how the walls were built, since the technology > was long lost and forgotten. So they said a long > lost race of giants had built the walls, the giant > race in particular was the one eyed Cyclops, from > which we get the term "Cyclopean walls". This has some more iby Hermione - Ancient History
Doug Weller Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't think many archaeologists would accept > that definition. > I think you need a class structure, for a start, > cities (public buildings etc are needed here). Not > necessarily writing. Well, I first came across the definition about fifteen years ago, in an archaeology class. However,by Hermione - Ancient History
Doug Weller Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > civilization, a word which I would > guess has been inserted into the story by a > reporter. It just is not evidence of a > civilization, anymore than Çatalhöyük is. Well, the word appears several times in the two articles under David Keys' and Cahal Milmo's by-lines ... unless they wrote sby Hermione - Ancient History
John Wall Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A good - and entertaining - book I'd recommend is > Steven Mithen's "After the Ice". This guy's an > academic but he can really tell a good story I've been meaning to read that for ages ... (Is your copy signed, BTW ?!)by Hermione - Ancient History
John Wall Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I wonder if he got it ? Yes - Prema's post said that he did, "because he was so honest and funny"! (Although he's probably wasted on McDonald's ... )by Hermione - Coffee Shop
barry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You can ridicule and marginalize Messrs. Hancock > and Bauval to your heart's content. Er - my (admittedly very sketchy) summary mentioned nothing that doesn't appear in the two authors' books! I purposely refrained from making any statement that could be defined as an opinion. > > Hoby Hermione - Ancient History
M.J.Thomas Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I belong to the > school of thought that a variety of civilisations > (probably never much more than large and > sophisticated farming communities type of thing) > came and went (victims of severe climate changes?) > before the last ice age. Well, it's usually claimed that evidence of the fiby Hermione - Ancient History
Stephen Tonkin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Grace > Slick's incredible voice -- "One pill makes you > larger...." That was a wonderful track. Apparently she's still around ...by Hermione - Coffee Shop