They have too much time on their hands. I don't think anyone who has ever seen a flare before would be fooled by that, plus the slow movement and static nature of the lights is also a bit of a give-away. Still, there's no end of gullible people who would still call it a true UFO sighting. They were taking a risk: it's illegal to set off distress flares in most places if you are not
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Does this mean all of my books on Egyptian religion will become useless overnight? Bummer.
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That's fascinating: if it really is the same pattern and built at teh same time, then you could argue they were probably built by the same people.
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If you do go, try and stay in Granada at least one night. It's a beautiful city, surrounded by the Sierra Nevada mountains which also takes pride its food: I had some great meals there. They strictly control the number of visitors a day to the Alhambra and tickets can sell out a couple of weeks in advance, so it's highly recommended to get them before you go. You can get a spectacular v
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Lawrence Schiffman is a highly regarded scholar and expert on the Dead sea Scrolls and is largely responsible for breaking the political deadlock that was preventing them from being available to a wider academic audience and the public. I find it a little shocking that the Father is not condemning his son's actions in impersonating Schiffman and seeking to destroy his credibility. Instead, h
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It's worth remembering that all of the accounts we have of Templar practices and ritual were extracted under the tender mercies of the Spanish Inquisition and so are highly likely to be made up and/or given to the poor wretch being tortured to repeat in order to end their misery.
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I'm lucky enough to have been there twice now. It is the most beautiful building I have ever been to and requires few words. It is a poem in stone.
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The Tunguska event did not cause any long-lasting effects on the local fauna, so why are we supposed to believe that similar events, even if there were multiple ones, caused the Clovis mass-extinction? There may well be evidence of Tunguska-like events at the time (nano-diamonds etc.), but there is still no cause and effect proven between cosmic impacts and mass extinctions, other than what might
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The historical context is heavily in favor of it being a Human-headed Sphinx and not Anubis. We have the Sphinx found in Djedefre's pyramid as strong evidence of the association between the Sphinx and Royal tombs at the same time that the Sphinx is supposed to have been carved. If the Dyn IV AEs were already carving human-headed Lions as representations of the divine nature of their Pharaohs
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It's quite possible her perfume was extremely valuable. The Romans had some perfumes that in modern money would be the equivalent of $100,000s for a small vial and their makers were as famous and wealthy as today's top designers of cosmetics.
Don't get me started on ancient fashion
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I'm wondering if "combat serpent" could actually be a reference to a Moray Eel? Morays were respected in ancient times (as now) for their ferocity and I don't know if the AEs would have distinguished between an eel and a water snake? Water serpents figure prominently in the Pyramid Texts and in tomb paintings and most of the ones I remember have snake markings, but could some
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The belief in the Magical power of the skull is a truly Ancient one: plastered and painted skulls were buried under the floors and found in niches in houses at Catalahuyuk.
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It's obvious that your efforts are going to be more diligent and complete than Google's more general approach, so I hope you will continue. I'm interested in seeing more of the early photographic plates of Giza done justice on the web with more High-Res scans made available.
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There's no telling for sure where the Flood story originated, but the account in the Epic of Gilgamesh came from the Sumerians and is most likely the source of the Biblical flood story. The Sumerians are generally thought to have moved down to Southern Iraq from the North, so if you are going to look for the Biblical flood, Northern Iraq/Southern Turkey is probably where you should be lookin
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The link is bad for that paper (I'll try again later). I can buy the lines being scan lines, but would like to know why they are only prominent in this one area: was it the equipment they were using?
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Well that's always the thing, isn't it? They seek to impose far more stringent criteria on others than they would ever enforce on themselves.
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A couple of thousand years of sand-blasting will do little for anyone's features! What's frustrating about this find are the lack of features and inscriptions. I wonder if we will ever know who it is? Hopefully forensic analysis will yield up some clues.
Also frustrating is the thought that there must be other IVth and Vth dynasty relics lying buried there that won't be discove
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Thanks for posting that Anthony
QuoteEgyptian literature about the Afterlife is replete with references to divine mounds. The oldest of all, the Pyramid Texts, refer to the Creator, Atum, rising as a mound in the enclosure of Heliopolis. In a sense, every Egyptian temple of later times was the primeval mound situated in the middle of its own defined sacred place. p. 74
Atum in Egyptian crea
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I suggest you go back and read the original thread. Anthony gave more references, but I don't have time to go hunting for them now, maybe later.
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Hi Don,
I don't know if you are aware of this, but C-14 dating on samples of wood taken from all over the Great Pyramid in 1984 did date the GP to about 300 years earlier than is usually given. Given the margin of error for C-14 dating, that's still in the ball park and the discrepancy may be due to old trees being burned to make the Gypsum that was tested. A second, more extensive C
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A 30 foot increase in water level would still cause massive flooding if it happened quickly. You wouldn't want to be in front of a tidal bore that high. but it's not nearly as devastating as one three times as high would be.
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Ah, but the sheer size of the area (the size of Wales in the UK) means it would take one ship at least a couple of days to map it out, so I don't think the presence of all the "trails" can be explained by a difference in temperature layers that remained constant over a couple of days, could it? I would expect a fair number of broken or incomplete lines as the temperature patterns c
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Looks like thay had enough space on that side to do it. Is there any evidence of AE surveying techniques from that time? Is this something they are likely to have done (I may have to buy John's book to get the answers to these)?
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Chris,
the PT quotes and reference are in the first part of this post:
I hope Anthony will drop by and provide any missing references.
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I agree on one point: I don't think it's unusual that both cultures gave water a central role in their mythology and religion as water was as vitally important to the Sumerians as it was to the Egyptians. It's remarkable that both civilizations flourished as they did, given their quite precarious location and complete dependence on their central waterways for survival. I could go i
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I'll try to hang out here and contribute a bit more than I have of late.
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There are definitely artifacts in the scans that they use, but that explanation doesn't say why this particular area has so many "Scan lines".
Also, if you look at this view you can see more "scan lines" and what looks like a large undersea pipeline between Madeira and a sunken Island. Why would anyone put such a pipeline in , I wonder?
Pipeline to nowhere
My gue
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I wrote a while back that I'd post something about Sumerian creation myths and their belief in a Cosmic Sea and "primordial Mound" as they seem strikingly similar to the beliefs (as suggested by Anthony and the sources he has cited) of the Ancient Egyptians around the period the GP was built.
Unfortunately, demands on my time meant I had to take a bit of break from Ma'at
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The Ancient Romans used long sticks that had a tar-like substance applied to the end to catch birds: they (or more usually their slaves) would swat flying birds with them or throw them at birds in the hope that the stick would, well stick, and bring the bird down with it.
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Romer may be "out there" on some things, but he knows his onions. I'm not sure what to make of his interior plan suggestion, but the idea that they had a 1:1 plan of the GP drawn up next to it is at least plausible. Are there any co-ordinates or a map of the survey holes on the plain that they were looking at in the video?
Joe.
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