The Jesus coin is only from the 11th century. It tells us nothing about the relationship of Christianity to ancient Tiberias.
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This is a novel interpretation, and could well be correct. The pyramid is called 'Khafre is Great' and, since the king is regarded as God, could be interpreted as 'God is Great', a term used by Arabs to this day.
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Lehner brings up the pyramid = king idea in his AfO article (Mark Lehner, "Giza, A Contextual Approach to the Pyramids," Archiv für Orientforschung, vol. 32, 1985, as a pdf file at .
Lehner points out that from a vantage point east of the sphinx temple, the sphinx, whom Lehner takes to represent Khafre, appears inside the silhouette of Khafre's pyramid, the implication being tha
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Thanks for that, John. I've just downloaded it, and I'll go through it later.
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According to Frank Doernenberg --
“Goedicke noticed that there seems to be a common constructional element at several necropolises: one corner of each structure is often on a straight line with the same corner of other structures in the necropolis. These alignments are found at Giza (south-east corners of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure), Abusir (north-west-corner of the pyramids of Sahure, Nef
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The circle is divided into 32 spokes. If this was intended you would expect that the circle would be divided into quarters, then each angle halved, then halved again, than halved again. That would be the mathematicians way of doing it. But on close examination of the petals, you can see that they are not the same width. It seems that the width of each petal has been drawn up in ad ad hoc fashion
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"The number 1080 is quite common at Giza and why wouldn't it be if it turns up in just about all ancient metrologies."
Hi G, In what context do you mean this? Do you mean "1080 cubits"?
When you say "quite common" this sounds as if it occurs at least three times, yet I haven't found this measure at all, and I do regard myself as a connoisseur of Giza.
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... and c) the Sphinx backs onto and protects the Khafre Pyramid, not the Khufu Pyramid. The Khafre Pyramid is the Sun (Re) while Khufu and Menkaure's Pyramids are the two horizons.
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The white limestone, being the upper part of the pyramid, represents the White Crown of Upper Egypt, while the red granite base represents the Red Crown of Lower Egypt. This applies to both the Khafre and Menkaure Pyramids.
The red granite portion is two cubits high in the Khafre Pyramid.
Butler, Cook and Priskin have sought geometric explanations for the height of the line in the Khafre Py
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"Atlantis has been 'sighted' at the top of volcanos and the bottom of seas; off the coast of Bolivia..."
Bolivia doesn't have a coastline. It is the only land-locked country in South Amrica.
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Whishaw's work was around Cadiz, the same area as Kuehne's.
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Certainly an "Atlantis" in Spain fulfils the part about "beyond the pillars of Hercules".
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All up, I submitted 271 websites. You could probably discard 20-30% of these as skeptical sites, link sites, and such sites as those that merely mention Bolivia (mostly) as amongst the various location theories. So, over 200.
A lot of the negative comments came from sites that promulgated Sarmast's theory of Atlantis near Cyprus.
The largest category concerned Jim Allen's theory o
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"E.M. Whishaw in her important 1930 work Atlantis in Andalucia uses excavated evidence of neolithic and possibly even palaeolithic sea-ports, sea-walls, cyclopean ruins and hydraulic works around the towns of Niebla and Huelva on the Andalucian coast to demonstrate the reality not only of Tartessus’s lost kingdom, but also the existence of Plato’s Atlantis."
from
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I found this website during the recent scavenger hunt concerning Atlantis in South America.
This website stands out amognst the many I found because of it's one glaring mistake. Can you spot it?
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Hi everyone. I'm new to this site and I'm wondering if anyone can help me.
I'm doing an assignment for school on swords, and we have to find the location of a Rixheim-Monza sword. I've googled and found a sword from the Rixheim tumulus, dated to approx. 1500 BC, and a Monza sword from the Middle Ages, but nothing from both Rixheim and Monza.
Does anyone know of the conne
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Yes a new handle.
Somebody else on this site has my old handle.
Thanks Kat for the competition. It was great fun, and it has inspired me to join this forum. Y'all can expect some "alternative" input here soon.
Cheers, Kanga.
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Thankyou, thankyou.
I choose ... How the GP was Built.
... those of you in the back seats can rattle yer jewelry.
Kanga.
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