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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
This reminds me of the old joke: There are three kinds of mathemeticians -- those who can count and those who can't. Fact: your divisions are ones that make sense to you within the bounds of what you know and within the bounds of what seems sensible to you. Fact: you might get a better picture if you took a few anthropology courses and learned about humans and cultures. Fact: Anby Byrd - Ancient History
That's just... so BAD it hurts! Pharoah's daughter named "Scota"... indeed. Father of Tutankhamen, indeed. So what kind of time travel device did they use to go back 3,000 years and people the area of Scotland with their not-very-Egyptian-looking descendants?by Byrd - Ancient History
Joe Schiller Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In the same way cultures can and > do have gender identities. I can see why you're struggling with it -- there are almost no examples of cultures where women dominated or ruled, except perhaps in more modern times when a queen (like England's Elizabeth) rose to power. However, the rest of societby Byrd - Ancient History
Goldcalf Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As far as anyone knows, the Great Pyramid is far > more advanced than any of the others and may have > no connection with any of them whatsoever. Explain "advanced" and why it's "advanced" compared to the monumental statues and complex temple designs. Is it 'advanced' becby Byrd - Ancient History
Let's review a little mathematics, here.... Goldcalf Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So am I to take it that you DON'T see how the > pendant is directly related to hexagonal geometry > even after I drew you a picture? All you've done is hammered a design for the pyramid onto a piece of jewelry and added various angles to it untby Byrd - Ancient History
Perhaps someone on behalf of the Hall of Ma'at should email the BBC (or several of us) and point out that they've fallen for a Pravda tale.by Byrd - Ancient History
Forgive me for being contentious (I have been a part of the Magickal tradition since 1965) but I'd like to see some proof of what you say below. Goldcalf Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's how they made magical talismans. They > didn't show the magic figures overtly. Instead, > they would construct an image in such a way that &gby Byrd - Ancient History
I'm not buying it, either. The stone is a decree praising the king of Egypt (Ptolemy V - 206 BC-181 BC). The Greeks and the Egyptians were the dominant literate cultures in the area and there was no need to write the text in languages not in common use in the city where it was set up. By that time, Macedonian coins had been using the Greek alphabet for well over 100 years: Therby Byrd - Ancient History
If I tweak things enough, I can make a connection with: The constellation Cassiopea The constellation of Gemini The Washington Monument Carnegie Hall A map of selected areas of the lunar surface I could probably map it onto one of the faces at Mount Rushmore, too. The fact that you can take one view of one artifact and prove that it's a well-designed piece that followsby Byrd - Ancient History
I was saddened by the announcement. He did a lot to bring awareness to a number of endangered animals.by Byrd - Coffee Shop
A justified rant, IMHO. You could start with a nice letter to ABC. No dates were given for the find, but I know that in the Levant there's considerable evidence for ancient herding groups. One group apparently tried domesticating gazelles. Depending on the age of this find, it might be well within the date for such communities.by Byrd - Ancient History
Is there any chance you could put this up on a web page... so we could refer to it in debating certain people?by Byrd - Ancient History
I'd love to go and present some of the stuff on the fake texts here in America. But... there's the matter of money...by Byrd - Ancient History
Humans are said to be descended from the lineage of the great apes... but sometimes it appears that some of us have been descended from the lineage of the not-so-great apes. I don't much like that idea... it implies different degrees of humanity. While that may actually be true, the political and religious and moral implications are weighty.by Byrd - Ancient History
And the Mayans had good calendars and good star charts, but they never found any planet beyond Saturn.by Byrd - Ancient History
I can answer this one with some authority. No, the Egyptians only knew of the five visible planets (through Saturn.) The "12th planet/Nibiru" comes from Zecharia Sitchin, one of the best promoters and WORST scholars around. He re-contextualized the Enamma Elish (the "genesis" of the Sumerians) to a truly bizarre story that goes like this: The Annunaki (Sumerian Godby Byrd - Ancient History
I'm not convinced yet... and when I looked up reports, the inital reports said that the remains of 6 individuals were found: Microcephaly exists, BUT the associated physical problems and the associated profound retardation would produce a human that was so "high maintenance" that there seems little chance of her surviving to full adulthood. Many have difficulty walking or takby Byrd - Ancient History
Jammer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The disappointing thing is it wasn't assumed to be > native, IF it dates that far back, as if Native > Americans weren't "bright" enough. Actualy, this is a typical fraud of the nationalists. They want to prove that their culture was the one that gave the world everything (like Osmanagic aby Byrd - Ancient History
Yes, that's pseudoscience. Obvious fraud. The brightness of the lines show that the sandstone rock was carved recently. While it's not unusual for a petroglyph/pictograph site to be multicultural (the White Shaman site that I'm working on an paper about has at least three distinct cultural styles in the single panel), that one's just obvious garbage. And the "hierby Byrd - Ancient History
Well, if we're discussing Ancient Egypt, let's not forget the story of Set and Horus, where there's an incestual homosexual affair between them (uncle and nephew) and Horus impregnates Set. I'm not sure which time period that story belongs to... perhaps someone can comment. As to homosexuality... there's a number of cultural practices that border on it in ancient cultby Byrd - Humanities
Oy. Every cryptologist should be forced to own dogs, cats, foxes, ferrets, sheep, horses, cows, and goats -- and to have an examination on what their body parts look like. And if they can't tell a canine paw (with overgrown dewclaws from living in a feral condition) from a chupacabra, then they need to have their license revoked. Publically. Canus domesticus, with overgrown dewclawby Byrd - Laboratory
Actually, this isn't a new discovery (so the articles themselves puzzle me.) AIDS as a zoonoses has been known for quite some time: ...1995, in fact: and possibly before.by Byrd - Laboratory
I wonder how she's going to respond to this. She was clearly distressed by her findings -- to be dismissed as an incompetant jerk will surely sting. Some women would retract and speak the lie. I wonder what kind of character she has.by Byrd - Ancient History
Hi Jammer! Actually, I picked all that up with a masters' in anthropology (finished 2 months ago. For my next trick, it's a PhD in information sciences.) I had a lot of fun courses and some fun profs and had a lot of my ideas challenged and rearranged! There was one archaeology prof who introduced us to paleoclimates and so forth. It was so much fun (well, maybe not the "readby Byrd - Ancient History