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Blessings to him for his work. I love petroglyphs and pictographs, but too often they're targets for casual vandalism.
I hate that. I really do.
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Byrd
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Ancient History
robin cook Wrote:
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> Well I suppose you are right. But I have examined
> Giza stonework in situ (for example in Khufu
> King's chamber and the jointing of pavements) but
> the joints inside the Bent blew me away (assuming
> the pictures are not fake). And the ability to
> achieve such near perfection in buildings
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
robin cook Wrote:
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> The building of a single pyramid supposedly only
> took 10 to 30 years according to modern estimates
> yet a common conceit is that, given sufficient
> time and patience, the Egyptians could have
> achieved such results using their
> non-sophisticated methods. There is something
> wrong with
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Kanga Wrote:
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> I am not sure what you are getting at here either.
> Are you referring to the dimensions of pyramids
> generally?
Yes. Sorry. Quite tired yesterday when I wrote that.
I did indeed wonder why he ended up with a length of 440 cubits for the Great Pyramid instead of 400. Do you know anything about how h
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Kanga Wrote:
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> > The height of the Queen's Chamber of
> > the Khufu is 10.9 cubits from floor to apex,
>
> No it's not. The height is 11 cubits 6 palms, not
> a decimal amount.
>
> > the dimensions of the passage from the
> Antechamber to
> > the King's Chamber were structur
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Hi Byrd, if I might.
>
> Apparently the oldest cubit rod found is from The
> New Kingdom. Now it is possible that all the
> others have been lost but I tend to not think so.
> So what could be another reason why no earlier
> cubit rods have been found ? Could it be that it
> was constantly
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
hrst1 Wrote:
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> Now you're claiming that, for the Royal Cubit, one
> has to add a 'fist' to the length of the forearm?
> The forearm length you claimed to equate to the
> Royal Cubit?
Yup. I was wrong. Folks here reminded me of it and I checked references. I don't have more than a passing interest
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
hrst1 Wrote:
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>
> So why would anybody here maintain that forearm
> length to BE the Royal cubit?
I believe the royal cubit is defined as seven palms, and is counted as a regular cubit plus the fist. Easy measurement to make.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Hi Pistol, nice post.
>
> However that is the problem. They, and I assume we
> mean Egyptologists, have moved on but they moved
> on having never examined the evidence that the
> measuring produced and that is what continues, and
> will continue to fuel theories and speculations.
>
The
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Pistol Wrote:
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> Size and location are predetermined, hence the
> architect's draftsman/scribe would task (verbally,
> by notes or on drawn plans) their surveying team
> to achieve the dimensions they want at the
> building site, the architect would only use "one
> royal cubit length" in his design... h
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> I thought there was two cubits.
I think it depends on the source. One source I had showed three variants of the cubit.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> I thought there was two cubits. A regular cubit of
> approximately 18 inches (17.72 will do) and The
> Royal Cubit of continuing debate (between
> apparently 20.5 and 20.67448 (mine for Meidum) and
> 20.70.
It would be likely that all projects under the supervision of the royal architect of that time
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Hermione Wrote:
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> The point is that the pyramids - in particular,
> Djoser's - are the first known constructions to
> have had the royal cubit measure used in their
> construction.
I suspect that they would probably do as they did for other royal workshop objects; send copies to the main workshops in major cities t
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Gosh Byrd I expected more from you.
>
> But when the wagons are being circled the best
> defence is a nonsense offence I guess.
Care to try rebutting my points with inscriptions and artifacts that are equal in age or older and are named and associated with the king? That was the point of my exercise
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Another observation ...
>
> The Longitude of Perihelion (... The longitude of
> the perihelion represents the angular position of
> the perihelion of the orbit from the vernal
> equinox. This angle gives the position of the
> Earth on its orbit at the spring equinox. Knowing
> the longitude
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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>
> Tompkins showed an image over the well at Syrene
> and explained how it showed the Tropic of Cancer.
> If you find fault with that great but don't try to
> muddy the waters. The only thing I haven't been
> able to verify is his statement of "an
> observatory" on Elephantin
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Bored? Irritated? Lonely? How do you react to people under those conditions?
Some engage in "malevolent creativity" - creating things (memes, song compilations, videos) to strike out at others.
"New research published in the Journal of Creative Behavior investigated the relationship between depressive symptoms and malevolent creativity. The findings indicate that when in
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Byrd
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Humanities
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Well here is a thought ... maybe it was known by a
> different name or different symbolism. Maybe every
> journey from noon to noon was a part of his
> stride, say 1/365th and after a year his stride
> was completed and he began another step. "You're"
> supposed to be coming up with t
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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>
> Just curious how would you explain the growing in
> length in inches of The Royal Cubit ?
Measuring a body part (head, forearm) of different rulers. Some might have wanted to honor their parent and kept it, others (for political reasons) might have wanted the measurement to be made on their own bodies.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
hrst1 Wrote:
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>
> Sun Wells were located under the Tropic's
> latitudes and built with interior circular
> staircases to the water level.
>
> I have already related all this in detail. If you
> are interested in the subject, I have made my work
> freely available.
Do you have a source for them being
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Hi Byrd ... I am very disappointed at the lack of
> input into this hrst1 theory.
In general (or on my part) it's because of the lack of supporting evidence from the Old Kingdom. What's offered is Ptolemaic era for the most part, and that's thousands of years after the first cubit rod shows up.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Byrd Wrote:
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> > Ahatmose Wrote:
>
> > > that Egypt could be 6000 years old in
> > > 2024.
> >
> > Depends on where you're looking. The Palermo
> > stone lists rulers going back much further than
>
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
hrst1 Wrote:
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> The two remaining, accessible Sun Wells in Egypt
> (I'm aware of) have not been explored or
> published.
> One was built on Elephantine Island and the other
> at the Temple of Kom Ombo.
>
> See pgs. 34 – 41 for Egyptian solar wells.
>
>
>
> For the chronological origin of
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Hermione Wrote:
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> hrst1 Wrote:
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>
> ...
>
> > You'll find reference to the 'Stride of Ra' in
> > Lehner's Complete Pyramids (1997:214) re.
> Pyramid
> > survey and alignment.
>
> Thanks for the citation.
>
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> I believe if your read hrst1's paper it will
> become clearer. It is within "the myth" the story
> is told and I believe these myths are as Egyptian
> as you can get.
No, it doesn't get clearer. I don't see a reference to "stride of Ra" or "sun well."
>
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Actually Byrd the "wells of the sun" large wells
> that perfectly reflect the sun when it (The Tropic
> of Cancer) is directly overhead mark The Tropic of
> Cancer and give proof to this knowledge. Even
> Peter Tomnpkins wrote about it in his first book.
> There were more than one well and
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
The paper that Don linked has the best photos.
It's ...a rather surprising area. Hadn't heard of it before.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Alas, I'm fresh out of peacock with tail.
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Byrd
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Coffee Shop
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> According to some amazing insights from hrst1 I
> have concluded (with a major input from hrst1)
> that the Royal Cubit was in fact derived from the
> movement of The Tropic of Cancer and have
> suggested (as hrst1 did) that 10 strides of Ra x
> 10 and divided by 12 gives us the length of The
>
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
The scant information that I found suggests that it was discovered by the ancient Greeks, so definitely not Egyptian. The Sumerians might have but there's no evidence for it there.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
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