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Thanks for finding that! I'm greatly interested in Native American rock art!by Byrd - Ancient History
Wow... that was a GREAT piece of film! I seldom watch online vids, but I loved this one! Found a Wikipedia article about them... never heard of them before. Neat!by Byrd - Coffee Shop
Perhaps split "theories" into a separate area and leave AE and archaeo combined? I like a general "news" topic and I learn a lot from the questions. But I'd vote for theories being tossed into a different arena.by Byrd - Coffee Shop
Joe_S Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Either post yout ideas for us to read, or don't, > but please don't make such drama out of it. > I agree. If you want to wait, then wait... and don't give us an update every day on what your status is.by Byrd - Ancient History
Actually, it would by default reproduce the "accuracy of the cardinal alignment seen at Giza". The "cardinal alignment" is simply an artifact of the Earth's rotation. It will always give true rotational north no matter what the stars say or how they shift. Another interesting thought is that they might be aligned to the rising sun at a certain date... perhaps an impoby Byrd - Ancient History
How do you know they're aligned north-south? In fact, they could be aligned east-west (which makes more sense in the cultural context.) There are many examples of tombs and temples aligned to the rising sun on a specific date. It's extremely easy to get a north-south-east-west alignment: On the morning of the equinox (or as close as you like or use the date you prefer), take a sby Byrd - Ancient History
Would you care to elaborate? I don't see those other structures taken into account in anything. Clive Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Byrd: > > Excellent point...the complete site must "knit" > together...and it does ! > > Best. > Cliveby Byrd - Ancient History
I'm speechless... with hysterical laughter.by Byrd - Ancient History
Except that your plan (as I've complained to other theorists) doesn't actually account for the plateau. It gives an unsubstantiated account of 3 pyramids at most. There are nine. Plus the sphynx. Plus an avenue of sphynxes. Plus major temples. Plus the solar barges.by Byrd - Ancient History
How does the rest of the Giza plateau fit into this schema? it seems as though the theorists pretend it's a barren plain with only the sphynx and 3 lone pyramids amid the sand instead of a large city area across from a major city, with nine pyramids in it.by Byrd - Ancient History
Dave -- I have the same problem, and my poor husband is having a lot of sleep issues lately. I wonder if there's a simple way to do this kind of magnetic stimulation? I hate thinking "ooo! magnetic bracelets" but....by Byrd - Laboratory
I'm curious why you think a bunch of scholars couldn't do this. I *can*, if I'm persuaded to do so, calculate a Forier transform or run T-tests in statistics by hand. I've had to on occasion. Just because I'm not motivated to answer your elementary questions doesn't mean I can't do so. You may be making some bad assumptions about the people here and some wby Byrd - Ancient History
Whose cubits are those, anyway? Royal? Standard? Remember the old saying "lies, damned lies, and statistics?" Using math, you can eventually come up with any formula you like. for instance, I could draw you or my cat on that same grid and come up with the same numbers if I use the measurements carefully and if I adjust the scale (he didn't measure those numbers EXACTLY... toby Byrd - Ancient History
Jaq White Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was going to take it a little further and put > together an article for the Superbly Gullible, > entitled - Moses: The Solar Powered Pharaoh, > claiming that Akhenaten's window of appearances > was lit by solar power, his knowledge of which as > evidenced by the inscriptions showing the Atenby Byrd - Ancient History
Thanks for all the interesting (and diverting) information. And the Hathor temple dating to Roman times makes perfect sense.by Byrd - Ancient History
arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......glug. Yes. I'm convinced (halleleujah!) But what I want to know about is the name... I didn't find it anywhere as an Egyptian deity, and it seems to be a Roman name. I can't seem to find a picture of the hieroglyphics in question anywhere (not that I read AE with any degree of proficiency, but I can stumble through a few signs). So I wanteby Byrd - Ancient History
Harsomtus is Graeco-Egyptian? Does this mean that the text was created long after the rooms were built? (the "us" ending doesn't seem right for Greek names but I'm hardly an expert here.)by Byrd - Ancient History
In debating the Dendara light bulbs with someone (yes, that again) I was shown the text about "Resomtus" and tracked down this translation. Catchpenny and at least one other site seem to indicate this is the correct translation -- but Resomtus isn't an Egyptian name. It's Roman! Or am I missing something here?by Byrd - Ancient History
While these claims are certainly interesting, you seem to forget that there are mathematical papyri from AE. So far, you haven't proven that these calculations are shown and derived on any of these manuscripts. Can you link your ideas to the WRITTEN MANUSCRIPTS of the time? If not, you're just making things up.by Byrd - Ancient History
I've got a problem with the evidence... as far as I know, the Vikings of that era did not make accurate maps of the Norweigan coastlines. So the idea that they could have created a pentagram (I notice the proportions are a bit off) based on a map isn't very likely. There's also the issue that "if you place something EXACTLY blah-blah from another location, there's notby Byrd - Ancient History
I'd like to see some doubleblind tests on this. Seriously.by Byrd - Ancient History
Paleontologists have known for some time that T Rex and chickens were related. The one I work for spent part of an afternoon showing me how the bones are very similar to those of a turkey. Kentucky fried dino anyone?by Byrd - Ancient History
Hysterically funny! The paper is a weekly (not a daily), which would explain the early publication of this April Fool's joke.by Byrd - Ancient History
Ronald Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do you exclude the possibility that these grooves > could be the remnants of structures that made it > possible to haul up building-blocks ? And do you > exclude the possibility that the flanks of the > pyramid could have been used as 'ramps' ? I think the possibility that the flanks were usby Byrd - Ancient History
The Eisenbaum "do it yourself" kit was hysterical! Thanks for all the good links.by Byrd - Ancient History
Ooo! I'll have to tell that to the museum next week when I go to work on my Alamosaurus vertebra. I did have to chuckle at the 15 tons or more of material.... they probably didn't get it all. And I spared a grin of sympathy for my fellow preparators -- whoever it is working on that material. Hopefully the substrate isn't too nasty (like the Big Bend limestone.)by Byrd - Ancient History
Thanks for the review! You confirmed what I'd suspected from reading various pages about her and from the lack of citations about her in most of the scholarly works. In any case, she had a complicated (and I think in some respects a rather unhappy) life. I believe that her soul-tales of reincarnation gave her emotional comfort and pleasure -- no fault in that -- but I dismissed the ideaby Byrd - Ancient History
The carving in stone is authentic, as are other things. The petroglyphs are NOT authentic, however. I'm an anthropologist, and one of my focuses is petroglyphs and pictographs. These are fakes. The "ochre" is plain old sidewalk chalk.by Byrd - Coffee Shop
She's also a pox goddess and rain goddess. I don't see any Israeli connection and after reading her story, don't see any Biblical crossovers.by Byrd - Humanities
Those are two different phenomina... the "chirping pyramid" and the "grand acoustic chamber." So they're really not related nor was there knowledge transmission.by Byrd - Ancient History