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Hans_lune Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Byrd Wrote: > > > > > Erm... no. A "Sol" is the length of the day on > > Mars. Mars' day is about 24 minutes longer than > a > > Earth day. > > Its 'sidereal' day is 24 hours, 37 minutes and 22 > seconds, and its solar day 24 hours, 39 minuteby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 1) Since the Royal Cubit was first introduced at > Saqqara, can we not infer that it was, in all > probability, of a "foreign" origin and not a home > spun design unless Imhotep decided this on his > own. I'm dubious that it was foreign and acquired by Imhotep. He's brilliant eby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
molder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi all > > Quote 'How do you propose that they > at they measured that diagonal? Given that the GP > base is not exactly a perfect square, what is your > evidence for them being able to do a large > construction project and measuring the sides to > within less than half an inch?" &by Byrd - Ancient Egypt
molder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well I am going to disagree with everyone as the > diagonal of the Great pyramid seems to me a sort > of standard from which many ancient measures were > formed. > > Here for Example + > > D9iagonal of Great Pyramid 622.08 royal cubits and > a number dwhich was found in Indian cosmologyby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > sq rt of 3 / 3 x 10,000 for height > > then divided by 2 for base. > Here's a list of their numbers (in every mathematical text and log book and accounting book and tally) that they used: (examples are shown at the link) Please show me how the formula above is written in Egyptian hieroglby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
The artistic world has been shaken up by programs like MidJourney, to the point where artists are concerned about their income (I've seen AI generated images for sale at a dealer table... a bit disheartening for an artist like myself who can spend days on a complex piece.) And it turns out that writers aren't safe, either. It seems AI has been scooping up fanfic in its process of leby Byrd - Humanities
(Grits teeth) I got through the first few "archaeology is not a real science"... and had to quit reading at that point.by Byrd - Paper Lens
I always thought that it was an "inside job"; the pilot being the most likely culprit.by Byrd - Coffee Shop
Ahatmose Wrote: > For the umpteenth and final time I will say again > ... these are not inches ! They are an abstract > mathematical number. 5773.5 and 9068.996821 are > not inches. Once the mathematics has/had been > worked out the Royal Cubit comes/came later. This doesn't make sense. With the exception of the 2/3 fraction, everything else was written as a unit frby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Artnet news has a few more examples (most news stories seem to be a rewrite of this one) I think what's interesting here is the very strong Greek influence. We see a lot of Roman portraits but this find is very strongly Greek in nature (including the burial styles which include Greek-style tombs.by Byrd - Ancient Egypt
...none of the names seem authentic to the area. That's one strike against it.by Byrd - Ancient History
You still haven't answered the question of "why would the Egyptians encode pi?" given that a) they didn't have a name for it and b) everyone who recorded measurements had some version of it - including the Egyptians and c) other than helping them estimate a volume, it had no practical use. What's so important about that fraction? And then: why would they use someoby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
molder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Byrd it smooths out imperial 16.5 feet in a rod > Saxon 15 Imperial 660 feet in a furlong Saxon 600 > the mile 5280 feet Saxon 4800 and 5000 in in the > Saxon metric system. > > The acre 43560 square feet Saxon 36000. None of these are measurements that the ancient Egyptians used. > >by Byrd - Ancient Egypt
molder Wrote: > > Byrd "Seals numbering in the thousands have been > discovered in excavations of Indus cities as well > as in sites in the Persian Gulf in southwest Asia. > Seals from the Gulf region have similarly been > found in Indus cities. The finds suggest active > trade and exchange between these areas in the > third millennium B.C.E.' Yes,by Byrd - Ancient Egypt
engbren Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Jim, > > This paper provides an excellent overview of our > knowledge of the Egyptian knowledge of the > planets: > > Quack, J. F. (2019). The planets in ancient Egypt. > In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Planetary > Science. Accessed from: > > > > Regards, >by Byrd - Ancient Egypt
molder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It was trade that brought them together remember > Thor Heyerdahl and the Tigris in 1978? Except that there's no evidence of trade between Indus Valley and Egypt > Main crops in the Indus Valley Wheat and cotton DR > S. R. Rao an Indian archaeologist found 'eight > gold pendants similar toby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
molder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Byrd I reason the Royal cubit might be a good > place to begin. They say the base is 440 royal > cubits and the height is 280. Yes... and the length of the royal cubit seems to have varied (for awhile) with the proportions of the pharaoh who was ruling at the time (standard cubit plus the width of the pharaohby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
molder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Encyclopedia Britannica gives us 3 examples of > different lengths for the foot found at a well > known and quite famous Greek site. > > OLYMPIA > > First the Stadium 600 Greek feet a foot = to 1.05 > imperial feet 12.6 inches the Olympic foot > > Second The temple of Hera which tby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
And good day to you, too. An interesting first message - I must confess that I've never heard of the "Saxon foot", so that's new material for me to look up. So what evidence do you have that the Egyptians used this measure of a "foot"? I don't see a single named measurement that matches among the know and recorded (by the Egyptians) measurements.by Byrd - Ancient Egypt
I think it's the romantic longing for a piece of something "larger" than the "official story"; something more dramatic and mysterious.by Byrd - Ancient History
A classic case of mis-cataloging resulted in the skeleton and skin of the last known thylacine being "lost" in the museum cabinets. This isn't quite as uncommon as you might think; museums have a lot of items donated and as cataloging systems are updated and buildings are updated and specimens are moved around (not to mention the change in an item's identification as more samby Byrd - Laboratory
Sadly, it's howling at the wind. Just like with Osmanagic.by Byrd - Ancient History
Here's the USGS live webcam!by Byrd - Laboratory
Overall, I find that unconvincing. Culturally, there's not a lot of repetition of numbers (unlike in Christianity and medieval Europe) beyond the triads of deities that presided over the major cities. There's no standard number of judges/spirits/etc, etc that would lead us to believe certain numbers had a mystical power. I could be wrong, of course, but I found the evidence toby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Pistol Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The trend with current field work in lower Egypt > (Nile Delta) supports Romer's view, but there can > be no doubt the expansion of Naqada culture also > included military power, in fact Naqada IIc > expansion went beyond lower Egypt into the Levant. > In my opinion you should read "Before Tby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
And cue the conspiracies about this headline in 3... 2...by Byrd - Coffee Shop
...that seems a bit off-kilter for what I understand about ancient Egypt. However, I haven't studied much about the slave economy in Egypt.by Byrd - Ancient Egypt
Haven't really read up on that, but will do so a bit later. You've asked some interesting questions that are quite worthy of exploration. He's an interesting figure and it's not quite clear (as I understand it) if he usurped the throne or not. I do love Tarhaqa's sphinx- one of my favorite pieces from that era (or any era) - but I think as others have said that the qby Byrd - Ancient Egypt
But you gotta admit it's GREAT advice!by Byrd - Ancient History
There's also the problem of "getting back to tell the tale."by Byrd - Ancient History