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Ronald Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > From the blog's introduction ; > > > "Simultaneoulsy, the director of the Pyramid > Project, Mr. Semir Osmanagic, recently tells a > Croatian newspaper that his project costs 50.000 > euros per month. These costs are largely met by > tens of thousands of Bosnian convertible marksby Byrd - Ancient History
I realize it's not YOUR article, but I think I have a few bones to pick with it. archaeo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > "Professor Timothy Darvill, Head of the > Archaeology Group at Bournemouth University, has > breathed new life into the controversy surrounding > the origins of Stonehenge by publishing a theory > which sugby Byrd - Ancient History
It's true that you really can find out ancestral information with a DNA test. Eager people have built up expectations about this that aren't correct, and it aggravates the scientists no end to try and correct some of the misapprehensions. Here's a basic page on genetics and geneaology over on About.com: Here's an interesting page where a student at a university ordereby Byrd - Laboratory
Apparently something new has been added. On another board we were hit by a drive-by advertiser who's done a film on this. The sad thing is that it's an excellent bit of cinematography. But they're working from Osmanagic's "facts" (it's now claimed that NASA made the initial find and that they were interested in it because the hills retained heat longer than nby Byrd - Ancient History
Don Barone Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I need to know if is possible that this > axis of rotation actually changed so that instead > of the pyramids pointing at this axis they were > actually pointing 7 degrees to the east. No. The effect you're describing actually isn't a rotational change, but rather requires a huge shift iby Byrd - Ancient History
You might also check the European geocaching groups. Someone will know (and would have set a geocache up there if they possibly could... they may have a "virtual cache" there, though.) Or we could all go grab our GPSs and go see for ourselves! I've got a very nice Magellan. Maybe we could get a grant for it? (We were on a rock art tour three weeks ago and there wereby Byrd - Ancient History
Greg Reeder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The animals look very much like Egyptian > predynastic renderings. > Don't know what that means? SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! I do want to go look up more photos of the site. Love the crocodile figure in the photo on the first page!by Byrd - Ancient History
Welcome, and thanks for your views! I didn't know about the "wall" but I don't think I'm teribly surprised.by Byrd - Ancient History
The other clues that the face is *supposed* to be upside down include the big skull below the face and the claws and the orientation of the leaf on the left-hand side.by Byrd - Ancient History
Urgh. Only if you display the constellation backwards on the ground and rotate it a bit. Same problem as with Orion. I'm also not sure that the AE's saw Cygnus as a constellation. You could also tweak Cassiopia to fit. You could tweak Auriga, Canis Major, and on and on and on. If I stretched things and rotated them just right, I could even match most of the symbols on the starby Byrd - Ancient History
Warwick L Nixon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Some were mortuary poles, some of which actually > contained bodies others not. Do you have a citation for this? I talked to some of the carvers in Alaska and Canada and museum curators and no one mentioned them containing bodies. The boxes for mortuary poles are separate carvings in all the examples Iby Byrd - Humanities
megamont Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Byrd, > I am a retired builder and know nothing about > hieroglyphics. There's a couple of REALLY good books we can recommend to you if you like. > I read all Egyptian Stuff ( backwards ) even my > web site numbering is shown anticlockwise. The direction that the humans and animals face oby Byrd - Ancient History
Polymaths like Da Vinci can come of any heritage -- purebred or mixed blood. We only note the very famous polymaths (Da Vinci, Leibnitz, Goethe, etc) but there are thousands of them alive at any point in history:by Byrd - Ancient History
Some drawings of the tools you are interested in are here: Techniques and more pictures here: Academic paper with details and lots of photos here: Another paper with more drawings and photos and explainations: You can find many more, of course, using Google and Google.scholar.comby Byrd - Ancient History
I've studied hieroglyphics, and as others say it's part of a longer inscription that's taken out of context. It's also turned "mirror image" ... so you need to read it from right to left (backwards.) The first sign is A20, which means old person. After this two signs (foot & water) pronounced "ben", which means "going away" or "leby Byrd - Ancient History
Given all the details about Caesar (including his bisexuality and his many affairs), I can't find any matches with Jesus. Other than they both lived in the Mediterranean area in a 100 year span of time.by Byrd - Ancient History
I was horrified to read about that. Just this weekend we're on a rock art tour of the Del Rio (Texas) area. We got to see Panther Cave and tomorrow we'll tour Rattlesnake. I don't understand those who think the art is worthless trash, to be "improved" by their names. Last year I talked with some rangers about vandalism at a site. They'd caught the perps, anby Byrd - Ancient History
DDeden Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Were tall carved logs vertically set, only common > to pacific NW people, or were they constructed by > any other people anywhere? To the best of my knowledge, tall carved trees with images are unique only to that area. The poles are interesting because they're not only totemic (household/clan markersby Byrd - Humanities
Interesting. I'd like to see what data correlation develops. While I personally believe that the Americas were settled long before 20,000 BP, I firmly believe they were settled by homo sapiens. When you hit the 80,000 year mark, you're hitting very early h.sap, and at the 1 million year mark you're hitting h. erectus. We should see an entirely different species here in theby Byrd - Ancient History
Ron. Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The reference to “Chinese Civilization" is just > one of the subtleties I wanted to point out. As > you might know, in Chinese schools today they > teach that China is the source of what among > others came to be Ancient Egypt. I am not familar with what's taught in Chinese schools and universby Byrd - Ancient History
Ron Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It suggests that the script originiates or is > similar to the 'early' or pr-” hieroglyphic > writing of ancient Egypt” is this a fact according > to you? c I have no eartly idea (not being an expert in either), though I would like to note that the non-scholars tend to say that imaged-based symbols &by Byrd - Ancient History
Ron Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Obviously this is not a credible source. Why not? The other information in the article matches with information found elsewhere, including the age of the civilization and that it was considered one of the "cradles" of Chinese Civilization. It was picked up by at least one other source that looks reliaby Byrd - Ancient History
Anthony Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What if the myths of "advanced beings", such as > Atlanteans, actually stem back to this time, > 30,000 years ago, when modern humans met with and > "absorbed" Neandertals? One small problem with that: The Greeks were fond of poetry and plays and performances. Any significant mythby Byrd - Ancient History
Robin Edgar Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The "unusual series of solar eclipses" that is > described in considerable detail in my eclipse > lore web site that shows how the Nazca Lines and > geoglyphs were almost certainly a religious > response to the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" > and other eclipse phenomena.by Byrd - Ancient History
What "unusual series of solar eclipses?" Since the position of various pieces of the solar system can be determined by simple calculations (and there are ancient and accurate recordings and predictions of solar eclipses), I haven't seen any scenario that predicts the moon's shifting its present orbit for an 800 year period beginning in 200 BC. We've got good databy Byrd - Ancient History
Do scroll down to the bottom and click on the links. In #5, Osmanagic's "smear campaign" (called by those words) is detailed. It's polite, but it's very explicit.by Byrd - Ancient History
Tragic and fascinating. Thanks for the interesting link!by Byrd - Humanities
Hermione -- a scholar's note of thanks for the wonderful material you've contributed. I had noted the bits and pieces but was not as familiar with European history and historians as you are. Thanks for you wonderful insights!by Byrd - Ancient History
I should have reminded my classes of that last week! I'll ask them next week if they celebrated it.by Byrd - Coffee Shop
Alas, not the right generation, but that's the same place where my son got his training in the Navy. FWIW, the uniforms are authentic and the buildings in the first picture are typical for that era. The second one looks a bit like the naval base at Oahu, Hawaii...though I gotta admit that ALL the bases have a very similar look. My dad was in the Army, and I grew up as an Army brat...by Byrd - Coffee Shop