I wanted some context for his remarks, so I hunted down other places where his works might be found, but he's mostly published in books and not in easily found journal articles. Much of what I see is over 10 years old.
I am not fond of videos, but here's a link to a set of documentaries he did on Egypt which isn't widely available:
I can find links to his books on Google Bo
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That'd be about 8,000 for the year... if it continues at the same pace.
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I don't think I agree with him. He does have a point, but when he starts talking about kings living in one and two story mud huts, I really think he's off the mark.
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Scholarly papers, or other? So far this year, in the scholarly range, it looks to be upward of 4,000 mentions of ancient Egypt in a reasonably scholarly format on scholar.google.com.
So... bunches and bunches.
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Ahatmose Wrote:
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> I was just about to say the same thing. But what
> is a "religious ritual" and how do they know they
> were performing one ?
>
> db
We know these are rituals because the same poses and similar scenes (the differences are minor, such as the items on the offering table) show up in many oth
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When people ask "what's the harm in pseudohistory", this should stand as a sterling example. You can get some groups so nervous about a pseudohistorical theory (I hate calling them theories, by the way) that they tend to knee-jerk over things that on a second glimpse aren't actually terrible and full of falsehoods.
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Might not survive long, poor thing. They've become a menace to native wildlife in Florida, though.
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I'm not seeing anything in those pictures that resembles carvings.
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Hermione Wrote:
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> Byrd Wrote:
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> > Hermione Wrote:
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> > > The Cyclades are about 600 miles from Egypt
> as
> > the
> > > crow flies. So did metal-traders f
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Hermione Wrote:
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> The Cyclades are about 600 miles from Egypt as the
> crow flies. So did metal-traders from the
> Cyclades sail to Egypt, or did Egyptian
> expeditions sail to the Cyclades?
Phoenicians? Minoans?
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Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Er ... actually the point was Hermione that the
> date of creation in the 1813 Bible and Zep Tepi
> according to hrst1 were identical and that "The
> Creation" and Egypt will both be 6000 years old in
> summer of 2024.
>
> db
I'm not sure how someone came up with a definitive
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Ahatmose Wrote:
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> On a totally different conspiracy board someone
> posted this YouTube video of an interesting
> mention in an 1813 Bible. I thought it was
> relevant to this discussion. I mean really talk
> about coincidences ... LOL
>
> YouTube video about
> 0.47 seconds
>
> Cheers
> db
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Blessings to him for his work. I love petroglyphs and pictographs, but too often they're targets for casual vandalism.
I hate that. I really do.
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> Well I suppose you are right. But I have examined
> Giza stonework in situ (for example in Khufu
> King's chamber and the jointing of pavements) but
> the joints inside the Bent blew me away (assuming
> the pictures are not fake). And the ability to
> achieve such near perfection in buildings
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robin cook Wrote:
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> The building of a single pyramid supposedly only
> took 10 to 30 years according to modern estimates
> yet a common conceit is that, given sufficient
> time and patience, the Egyptians could have
> achieved such results using their
> non-sophisticated methods. There is something
> wrong with
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Kanga Wrote:
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> I am not sure what you are getting at here either.
> Are you referring to the dimensions of pyramids
> generally?
Yes. Sorry. Quite tired yesterday when I wrote that.
I did indeed wonder why he ended up with a length of 440 cubits for the Great Pyramid instead of 400. Do you know anything about how h
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Kanga Wrote:
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> > The height of the Queen's Chamber of
> > the Khufu is 10.9 cubits from floor to apex,
>
> No it's not. The height is 11 cubits 6 palms, not
> a decimal amount.
>
> > the dimensions of the passage from the
> Antechamber to
> > the King's Chamber were structur
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Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Hi Byrd, if I might.
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> Apparently the oldest cubit rod found is from The
> New Kingdom. Now it is possible that all the
> others have been lost but I tend to not think so.
> So what could be another reason why no earlier
> cubit rods have been found ? Could it be that it
> was constantly
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hrst1 Wrote:
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> Now you're claiming that, for the Royal Cubit, one
> has to add a 'fist' to the length of the forearm?
> The forearm length you claimed to equate to the
> Royal Cubit?
Yup. I was wrong. Folks here reminded me of it and I checked references. I don't have more than a passing interest
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hrst1 Wrote:
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> So why would anybody here maintain that forearm
> length to BE the Royal cubit?
I believe the royal cubit is defined as seven palms, and is counted as a regular cubit plus the fist. Easy measurement to make.
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Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Hi Pistol, nice post.
>
> However that is the problem. They, and I assume we
> mean Egyptologists, have moved on but they moved
> on having never examined the evidence that the
> measuring produced and that is what continues, and
> will continue to fuel theories and speculations.
>
The
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Pistol Wrote:
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> Size and location are predetermined, hence the
> architect's draftsman/scribe would task (verbally,
> by notes or on drawn plans) their surveying team
> to achieve the dimensions they want at the
> building site, the architect would only use "one
> royal cubit length" in his design... h
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Ahatmose Wrote:
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> I thought there was two cubits.
I think it depends on the source. One source I had showed three variants of the cubit.
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Ahatmose Wrote:
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> I thought there was two cubits. A regular cubit of
> approximately 18 inches (17.72 will do) and The
> Royal Cubit of continuing debate (between
> apparently 20.5 and 20.67448 (mine for Meidum) and
> 20.70.
It would be likely that all projects under the supervision of the royal architect of that time
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Hermione Wrote:
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> The point is that the pyramids - in particular,
> Djoser's - are the first known constructions to
> have had the royal cubit measure used in their
> construction.
I suspect that they would probably do as they did for other royal workshop objects; send copies to the main workshops in major cities t
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Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Gosh Byrd I expected more from you.
>
> But when the wagons are being circled the best
> defence is a nonsense offence I guess.
Care to try rebutting my points with inscriptions and artifacts that are equal in age or older and are named and associated with the king? That was the point of my exercise
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Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Another observation ...
>
> The Longitude of Perihelion (... The longitude of
> the perihelion represents the angular position of
> the perihelion of the orbit from the vernal
> equinox. This angle gives the position of the
> Earth on its orbit at the spring equinox. Knowing
> the longitude
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Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Tompkins showed an image over the well at Syrene
> and explained how it showed the Tropic of Cancer.
> If you find fault with that great but don't try to
> muddy the waters. The only thing I haven't been
> able to verify is his statement of "an
> observatory" on Elephantin
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