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While his attack on Sitchin is startling, Hancock has long espoused that the "Lost Civilization" provided a better explanation for ancient mysteries than "Ancient Astronauts". Even the title of his book "Fingerprints of the Gods" seems to want supplant to von Daniken's "Chariots of the the Gods". In FOG, Hancock offers criticism of Robert Temple sugge
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Humanities
The fact that there is a tomb in the Great Pyramid, doesn't mean that the Great Pyramid is a tomb.
Mark,
I believe that is also the accepted academic view in the USA -- the GP is an elaborate funerary structure -- and not simply a tomb.
Also, as I understand, the sole 'smoking gun' that links the GP to Khufu as the builder requires the assumption that no one takes their na
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Ancient Egypt
Are you by any chance the Paul H that is quoted here!
Paul V Heinrich, a US geologist, wrote: “Rather than stumbling upon an archaeological mystery, he has merely created one.”
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barry
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Paper Lens
The 12,500 years BP date for the Younger Dryas event matches nicely with 10,500 BC date -- a date that is significant to the Theosophists (e.g., Gerald Massey) and others such as Robert Bauval for his OCT.
It would fascinating if scientists were also now confirming something extraordinary happened 12,500 years ago.
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Paper Lens
Yet another debate on the OCT between Hancock and Hawass. Zahi is still not very fond of Mr. Bauval.
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barry
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Paper Lens
So why do a scientific study?
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Laboratory
Not much for me to add:
1) For some mysterious reason simian viruses jumped to humans in the 20th century (though humans and simians have been in close contact for millenia)
2) We can rule out that the genocidal policies of the Belgian government played any role in creating a public health hazard, It the railroads the Belgians built that caused the spread of the virus.
3) There was no t
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Laboratory
My hang up is with how the historical record has been altered to certain cultural interests. These reports on the origins of HIV and the spread of same to the rest of the world offers a stark illustration of that process.
Why did a virus jump from simians to humans in the 20th century? How did this virus spread from Africa to the rest of world. We are told that this was a result of Belgian rai
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Laboratory
This study is almost a prototype of how the concept of 'history is written by the winners' has an impact on even scientific endeavors. Again, I am just going by the abstract and the newspaper article, but the one would think that the spread of AIDs from Africa was primarily a result of the unintended consequences of the good efforts of the noble Europeans (building a railroad for savage
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Laboratory
Rick,
I apologize if I wasn't clear:
1) To view the entire article in the scientific journal requires payment
2) Therefore, I have only read the newspaper article
3) The newspaper article cites the good deeds done by the Belgians that may have had the completely unintended consequence of spreading HIV through the Congo.
4) The newspaper article makes no mention of the genoci
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barry
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Laboratory
Surely this report is full of the usual European biases that continue to distort historical fact. The newspaper article makes no mention of the genocidal policies conducted by the Belgians in the 19th and 20th centuries -- policies that may have lead to the deterioration of the immune systems of the local populace. Much like a description of health conditions in Western Europe in 1944 without any
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barry
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Laboratory
It is ironic that the orthodoxy has no problem comparing those espousing a 'lost civilization' to Nazis yet, the same orthodoxy has no problem espousing:
1) The 'brownies' on the Indian subcontinent received all their knowledge from Aryan invaders
2) The 'brownie' AE were capable of construction enormous structures with incredible precision but were incapable
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Ancient History
Thanks Martin.
Not sure if you get the History Channel in UK but that cable network has but literally continuous broadcasts of shows that state unequivocally that the Pyramids and other megalithic structures have connections to extra terrestrials.
I learned only yesterday that 'three' is of extreme importance and indicates a connection to beings not of this planet. And was immed
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Ancient Egypt
Martin,
A question that has long puzzled me but for which I've received no answer (not sure if I posted this here but I know that I've posted on GHMB )
Why couldn't this Khufu fellow have just taken his name(s), including the Horus name (see I've learned a few things over the years), from the an existing structure? Instead of the Pyramid being inscribed with name of th
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Ancient Egypt
Did you hear about the Spanish American War veteran who was lost in the sewers? Fortunately, he remembered the main.
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barry
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Coffee Shop
Article on Lost Civilization underneath Persian Gulf:
At its peak, the floodplain now below the Gulf would have been about the size of Great Britain, and then shrank as water began to flood the area. Then, about 8,000 years ago, the land would have been swallowed up by the Indian Ocean, the review scientist said.
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Ancient History
FWIW, a serious Egyptologist citing Mr. Bauval's work in a serious publication.
5. Bauval, R. G. & Gilbert A. G. Disc. Egyptol. 28, 5–13 (1994).
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Ancient Egypt
Not to be flip, but are you suggesting that the lack of bodies is, in fact, proof that the pyramids were tombs?
Isn't that similar to the joke in mystery novels that the lack of a an ablibi is sure proof innoncence as only the guilty would have lined up a perfect alibi?
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barry
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Ancient Egypt
I can actually imagine a debate on some message boarad 5000 years from now as to whether March 14 wasd designated as PI Day in the 21st century.
There will furious debates that 3.14 is not a very accurate description of Pi and that the religious texts of the era make no reference to this number.
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
How strange that nowhere in their entire history did they ever mention this reverence for 22/7, but they would build 93 million ton mountains to exact specifications that allowed us to discover it thousands of years after the fact.
Never once, in all the hundreds of thousands of translated pages of script.
Never once.
I know some will term this 'ethnocentrism', but no one
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Ancient Egypt
How is that suddenly now a reference to Isaac Newton?
Alas, I am not sure how to do links on this board. However, even a cursory glance to the post to which Khazar-khum replied will show the name 'Sir Issac Newton'.
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Ancient Egypt
Are you suggesting that ancient Egyptians had this knowledge?
I am unaware of making such a suggestion.
My post on this thread only mentioned that others, e. g., Sir Issac Newton, beleived that the AE had knowledge of the circumference of the Earth and that such knowledge could be uncovered by studying the dimensions of the GP.
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Ancient Egypt
Knowledge of the earth's circumference is 'mysticism'?
BTW, the reference to millions of stones to replicate an infinite series was an attempt to answer your question as to why you need such a structure to represent Pi or the square root of 2.
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Ancient Egypt
Long before Don Barone, Clive Ross, et al, there was a view well into 18th century among the learned (e. g. Sir Issac Newton) that the AE had knowledge of such facts as the circumference of the earth and that this information could be divined by studying, inter alia, the measurements of the GP. I am not aware of a similiar tradition suggesting that the AE knew of the speed of light.
As I re
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Ancient Egypt
The antics of the Canadian women were also something to behold!
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Coffee Shop
Well deserved. Drew's performance was amazing. Erases 40+ years of futility!
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Coffee Shop
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