Naaah, I don't thumb my nose at anything, Wiki articles are very helpful, As an "introduction" to a subject, NOT for drawing hardline conclusions, If you are serious about learning the facts of a matter, you must consult some primary sources, There are no short cuts to the process, The true arrogant one is the person who gets some basic info and assumes he can then pass judgement l
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Ok. Wasted my time. You can't take a few lumps of coal from wiki (of all places) in order to draw such diamond specific conclusions. There is a reason Doctors are required to go to medical school, rather than just consult Web MD articles.The info you are grabbing from the Web is general guestimates at best, yet you treat them as if they are the Holy Grail passed down from the Prophets.
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You are asking questions that require loads of info to be analyzed as if you are sticking a dollar into a vending machine to get a snack out. The true situation is a lot more complicated than that, There are no simple answers, just some scenarios that are far more likely than others, based on the existing evidence. Anyways, for example, how can you say the AE acquired the shen ring from Sumeria
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It's actual history, not paint by numbers high school social studies.
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Not without knowing what the Sumerian ring actually signifies. Or even what it is called phonetically. Note the 2 reversed recumbent lions below the goddess-are we to assume they are early Akeru? Again, details are needed before relationships can be imagined.
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Buried beneath a Michigan farmer’s soy field were the butchered remains of a woolly mammoth. Paleontologists think that the skull, tusks, jaws and other parts that they uncovered on Thursday were stored there by early humans in a primitive fridge more than 10,000 years ago.
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Ancient History
A study published last week in the journal Science reported that the ancestors of the Inuit evolved unique genetic adaptations for metabolizing omega-3s and other fatty acids. Those gene variants had drastic effects on Inuit bodies, reducing their heights and weights.
Rasmus Nielsen, a geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, and an author of the new study, said that the discovery
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NEWSER) – Until recently, the Netflix description for the 1995 animated Disney film Pocahontas read like the back cover of a Harlequin novel — and was sexist and racist to boot, a Native American writer asserts, per the Guardian.
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Paper Lens
The fossils' age is unknown, but they could be more than 2.5 million years old. Or they could be relatively recent - in the grand scheme of things. Homo sapiens emerged in Africa roughly 200,000 years ago, so the bones are at least that old.
What's more, the bodies may have been deliberately placed in the cave, suggesting that long-ago human relatives were engaged in ritual disposals
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Now, armed with better tech, scientists turned to one of the world's most advanced accelerated mass spectrometry labs in Germany to put the issue to rest, and are announcing that Shigir Idol is indeed ancient—in fact, at 11,000 years of age it's actually 1,500 years older than first thought, reports the Siberian Times.
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Critics accuse her of pushing Ms. Lee, known as Nelle, into publishing “Watchman.” They believe she encouraged Ms. Lee to sue the museum. They chafe at the dwindling guest list she maintains that designates who gets in to see Ms. Lee at the assisted living facility here. They suspect she had some role in the county commission’s decision this year to fire the Monroe County Heritage Museum’s execut
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On July 30 and 31 off the coast of Vero Beach, Brisben, who is captain of the S/V Capitana, and his crew recovered 350 gold coins.
Nine of the coins found are known as Royals and valued at $300,000 apiece; these were specially made for King of Spain Phillip V in the early 1700s.
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Before the king of Damascus destroyed it in 830 BCE, Gath was the largest city in the land for hundreds of years, reports the Jerusalem Post.
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Thanks for the link. As stated above, on the serekh of Khasekhemuy Seth and Horus are a duo. Balance between order and chaos does not necessarily invoke conflict. Sometimes it's just a contest.
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L Cooper Wrote:
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> Wondering if you could tell me where this comes
> from. Thanks.
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Byrd Wrote:
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> That pronunciation is the Egyptologists'
> pronunciation... not the Egyptians' pronunciation.
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> -- Byrd
> Moderator, Hall of Ma'at
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The Harper Lee ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Fraud
So perhaps it’s not too late after all to point out that the publication of “Go Set a Watchman” constitutes one of the epic money grabs in the modern history of American publishing.
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Paper Lens
I found the triad paper by Velde somewhat redundant and not very insightful. The pdf on Seth I thought quite interesting. He states the word khenenu (confusion) is determined with the Seth animal. khenenu as opposed to maet (order). This is remarkable, as Seth occupies the 8th position in the pantheon while Horus is placed 10th. Khenenu is very close to Khemannu, AE for 8th, while met, AE for num
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Melungeons, the mysterious dark-skinned mountaineers of eastern Tennessee and southwest Virginia and into Kentucky, have sparked myths and theories over the past century. They were whispered to be descendants of shipwrecked Portuguese sailors, or gypsies now known as Roma. Some have speculated on connections with the Lumbee Indians in Robeson County or the Lost Colonists of the Outer Banks.
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Humanities
If I had my copy of Athena and notes I could go into specifics. Unfortunately I do not have them available. The bottom line is that there is always a grey area. Few things are as black and white as we would like to believe.
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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So glad he he did this work. Fascinating though it was, I was much more interested in the raw material and sources. I always found the classics rather "boring" until Bernal came along with a different perspective. It would seem that most things depend upon one's perspective.
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The study says there are at least 55 diseases that are significantly dependent on birth month. Video provided by Newsy Newslook
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Laboratory
I am confused by positions 16 and 22, which appear almost the same. Could anyone point out the distinction between gods 16- Sopd, and 22- Sopedou?
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If Vassalli did not discover the tomb/painting, then that negates Tiradretti's argument as to why Vassalli "never talked about the discovery". You have to follow the evidence, not supposition. Still interested to see how it finally plays out.
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While conducting recent excavations before the construction of new office buildings on Hamasger Street in downtown Tel Aviv, archaeologists discovered 17 ancient pits used to store agricultural produce during the early Bronze Age, between 3500 and 3000 B.C. When they looked inside these pits, they found pottery typical of the local tradition at the time, but they also uncovered something quite di
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It means the researcher knows more about art history than he does about linguistics. Not really surprising. He doesn't base his doubts primarily on the geese or the letters, but on the art itself. It certainly worth the effort to take a deeper look.
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Would have to be...a 4 to 5000 year old painting utilizing unique paint/style? I go with it being a fake, as I have never believed in coincidence.
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