Kat said: I take it you've seen the book Garrett Fagan edited?
It's on my list to get, when I can afford it.
I used Feder's Frauds, Myths and Mysteries, of course, and Ancient Mysteries by James and Thorpe, plus a shelf-ful of James Randi, Martin Gardner, Carl Sagan, Michael Shermer, Bruce Trigger, Skeptic magazine, etc. etc, apart from straight works of archaeology. I al
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Interesting question, Hans. Iām developing a continuing-education course on Alternative Archaeology for the local university (first taught last term, two more sections this term) and had to grapple with the categories when deciding how to organize my lectures. Here are the broad categories I used:
Ancient Astronauts ā eg, Matest Agrest, Von Daniken, Sitchin
Lost Civilizations ā Atlantis, Mu
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This sounds like no more than a variant of the threadbare "they laughed at Galileo" fallacy. If you're talking about John Harrison of longitude fame, his problems with the board were pretty much political, he otherwise had lots of support at the highest levels (including financial support) and the case is totally irrelevant to your argument. The case of J Harlen Bretz involved a
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My pleasure, Don.
And yes, more recent books will certainly reflect current thinking. Part of scholarly training involves learning about the history of the discipline, including what areas of theory have been superseded, and WHY they were superseded. The value of many of those earlier excavation reports lies not in the interpretation, but in the factual-descriptive element. BTW, this is on
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Dr. Douglas Derry was an anatomist working in Egypt in the 1930s and 1940s, who did a lot of work with Reisner and Carter and other excavators of that period. His interpretation reflects theories of physical anthropology and anthropometrics that were current at that time, but which have long since been abandoned, like those of Grafton Elliot Smith.
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"...a narrative on AE that was laid out in the Victorian age and which has since become congealed in orthodox dogma and dried out to the point where it seems set in stone..."
Sorry, but that's a remarkably ill-informed statement. Do you have any idea what the Victorian narrative about Ancient Egypt actually was, or how profoundly it's changed over the last 150 years? In fa
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Very cool, guys. My day has been brightened.
Found another nifty link at . I gather Area 51 is full of such things:
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That sounds intriguing, Dave. Do you have any links to similar configurations?
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They look more like the town hieroglyph to me. (At work, so I can't check the Gardiner signlist for the number - think the transliteration is niwt?)
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Too late, Kat. Scott has already published the alternative-pyramid-mystery book:
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> Why can't arguments be made on what is on the
> table?
I agree. Not all of us have the time to wade through forty-five pages of dense argument at the moment, but would be interested in knowing Creigs' answers to the very good questions already asked in this thread. Creigs, if you're interested in disseminating your idea, it would be considerate of you to post a sort
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Quote"The work to construct the Pyramids is very advanced. They are made of granite, which can only be carved with steel.
"It has been accepted previously that these Pyramids were built 3,000 years before Christ, using flint, which could not have happened.
"They were built around 800BC when people had access to steel. That is a big reduction in the chronology."
One has
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Verdi, I think. At least, much of it sounded like an adaptation of the Triumphal March from Aida. Though maybe it's mixed up with something else? Great fun, anyway.
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No, no, it can't possibly be that simple, no matter what Dave says. I left the dimensions in cm, added them up, and multiplied the sum by BOTH pi and the golden mean: Box 1 came near-as-dammit to 1260, which (as everyone knows) is the number of days of the Tribulation, as recorded in Rev.12:6. Surely encoding a Biblical prophecy should - er - trump a silly deck of cards?
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Hang on, I have an awful feeling I know where this is going. We're not going to end up talking about Moses and the Ark of the Covenant, are we?
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It's Ramses - maybe the 4th or thereabouts? Is there another cartouche on the other side?
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Wow. This is a new one on me. I went over and had a good peruse of the homepage - very reminiscent of Anatoly Fomenko, lots of obsessive fun'n'games with texts, and totally removed from Planet Earth. Unfalsifiable, because any objections can just be countered with the excuse of "copying errors". Didn't find any debunkers yet, but I'm not sure anyone would bother.
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Also a very strange picture, Chris. I wonder if it's anything to do with the zinc refinery? The big site of Cajamarquilla was apparently a major Huari centre, though there may be a pre-Huari occupation as well. Anyway, it's now being excavated, partly with funds from the zinc refinery bunch.
I did a bit of digging around (hoho), and I think the "anomalies" article linked
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Very weird. But the smaller holes in the grid pattern look like they're in sand/earth, not rock, and they resemble (dead) plantations I've seen in the Sudan. If you look closely at the farthest two rows, close to the vehicle, there are even what looks like (dead) stalks sticking out of some of them. As for the larger holes, they seem very irregular, and not much like the array in the p
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Okay, guys, please don't roast me, but is it certain these are archaeological features? Are there quarry marks in the holes, for example?
The overall effect reminds me of a bubble stream - rather, what you'd get if you froze a bubble stream and then sliced the top off: lots of little holes, arrayed fairly regularly. I'm not a geologist, or a physicist, so I have no idea if su
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Duhh - yes, you're right, my typo. I shouldn't try to post early in the morning while frenziedly getting ready for work. Thanks for the correction.
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<Correct, but not technically precise: - 'Seked' is not really an algorithm, just a way of marking a unique slope on a sliding scale from horizontal to vertical, based on the cubit rule.>
Read my text properly. I defined seked correctly, and said there was an algorithm for finding it.
As for the rest of your comment, the choice of seked was not completely free. A cubit was
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Have you heard of the seked principle? The Egyptians' way of calculating slope did not involve measuring an angle, but rather measuring the horizontal distance you'd have to go to achieve a rise of one cubit, defined as the seked. An algorithm for working it out appears in the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. Using their own algorithm, the base measurement expected for a height of 280 cub
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Does your theory apply only to this pendant and this pyramid?
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I don't know that "predetermined" exactly fits. There seems to be a fair amount of variability in the placement of the internal chambers across all the major pyramids. You're right, the Red's upper chamber is somewhat elevated, a little more so than in the Bent; but Khufu's is the only one that raises major internal structures so ambitiously high in the body, and I
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Okay, at some cost to my failing eyesight, I've read through this entire thread, and the one it superseded. I'm left with:
(a) an image. Petrie in a tutu. Or at least a pair of pink longjohns. Mmmm.
(b) some confusion. Why does the pyramid need to be "solved"? What does that mean? Goldcalf, aren't you begging the question? From all I've ever read, the GP a
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Yeah, I looked up the original airdate: 4 February '97. So it looks like Cayce's predictions didn't come true. Gee whiz.
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Yup, I'm giggling, but bitterly. Didn't we already have all this in the 19th century, with John Taylor and Piazzi Smyth? Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
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For comparative purposes (and for fun), here's a link to the magic mushrooms in Kuwait.
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