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| CP
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2/2/2007 10:55 AM | | Re: Enigmatic Archaeology | Quote |
I have been fascinated for years by tales of ancient aircraft and warfare in ancient India. There appears to be both archeological evidence and written stories about nuclear war either between men or gods, over 10,000 years ago. If we do not know our history we are doomed to repeat it.
[ link to www.hinduwisdom.info]
According to Professor Dileep Kumar Kanjilal in his book, Vimana in Ancient India:
In addition to the Vaimanika Shashtra, the Samarangana Sutradhara and the Yuktikalpataru of Bhoja, there are about 150 verses of the Rig Veda, Yajurveda and the Atharvaveda, a lot of literary passages belonging to the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Puranas, the Bhagavata and the Raghuvamsa and some references of the darma Abhijnanasakuntalam of Kalidasa, the Abimaraka of Bhasa, the Jatalas. the Avadhana Literature and of the Kathasaritsagara and a number of literary works contained either references to graphic aerial flight or to the mechanism of the aerial vehicles used in old ages in India.
In the Ramayana both the words "Vimana" and "Ratha" have been used:
Kamagam ratham asthaya...nadanadipatim (3. 35. 6-7). He boarded the aerial vehicle with Khara which was decorated with jewels and the faces of demons and it moved with noise resembling the sonorous clouds.
You may go to your desired place after enticing Sita and I shall bring her to Lanka by air.. So Ravana and Maricha boarded the aerial vehicle resembling a palace (Vimana) from that hermitage.
Then the demoness brought the Puspaka aerial vehicle and placed Sita on it by bringing her from the Ashoka forest and she was made to see the battle field with Trijata.
This aerial vehicle marked with Swan soared into the sky with loud noise.
Reference to Flying vehicles as Vimana occur in the Mahabharata in about 41 places of which the air attack of Salva on Krisna's capital Dwaraka deserve special notice. The Asura king Salva had an aerial flying machine known as Saubha-pura in which he came to attack Dwaraka. He began to shower hails, and missiles from the sky. As Krishna chased him he went near the sea and landed in the high seas. Then he came back again with his flying machine and gave a tough fight to Krishna staying about one Krosa (about 4,000 ft) above the ground level. Krishna at last threw a powerful ground-to-air weapon which hit the plane in the middle and broke it into pieces. The damaged flying machine fell into the seas. This vivid description of the air attack occurs in the Bhagavata also. We also come across the following references to missiles, armaments, sophisticated war-machines and mechanical contrivances as well as to Vimanas in Mahabharata.
Also: [ link to www.main.org]
[ link to www.atributetohinduism.com]
[ link to www.geocities.com]
[ link to www.veling.nl]
Peace 
Thank you for sharing this I is what I is,
I have read some of this material and am impressed with the technical detail of their accounts. I have also read some accounts of vitrified ruins in India that were claimed to be radioactive. Sorry that I cannot confirm any of this. Later I will try to find an article I once read about these ruins. Very intriguing! |
| 20-40
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2/2/2007 11:12 AM
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IMPORTANT MESSAGE!
TO ALL BIG ARCHAEOLOGISTS!
Baalbek is in LEBANON.
God, save us from such specialists.
20-40
P.S Baalbek is 35 mi (56 km) NW of Damascus and 80 miles from Israel.
Derek One Seven (Viable Light Being) on Spiritual warfare thread:
quote 1: 20-40, you seem to take a page out of Nazi Joesph Goebbells', and Adolf Hitler's handbooks (about need to repeat a lie) THEN:
quote 2: 20-40, it is of no surprise to me that you, an obviously concienceless pervert.
quote 3: 20-40, it is of no surprise to me that you, an obviously concienceless pervert.
quote 4: and you are a liar, with admitted connections to the CIA.
quote 5: you are a hypocritical pervert, with admitted connections to the CIA.
quote 6: you are an obvious concienceless hypocrite and pervert, 20-40.
Over and over and over and over. Same post with few sentences added or omitted, same lies and whatever I have tried to say, he has ignored it, and keep posting the same.
BTW, I swear on bible that I have never tried to warn him about misspelled word "concienceless". |
| CP
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2/2/2007 11:19 AM | | Re: Enigmatic Archaeology | Quote |
IMPORTANT MESSAGE!
TO ALL BIG ARCHAEOLOGISTS!
Baalbek is in LEBANON.
God, save us from such specialists.
20-40 Quoting: 20-40
Thank you for the correction 20-40.
And I am a regular-sized archaeologist. |
| 20-40
User ID: 4891
2/2/2007 11:23 AM
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NP. Once said, your mistake was repeated. Just that.
You're welcome - normal sized one.
In same style:
The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation. The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube. The Pyramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain.
It's mockery and reminds me of your first paragraph.
20-40
Derek One Seven (Viable Light Being) on Spiritual warfare thread:
quote 1: 20-40, you seem to take a page out of Nazi Joesph Goebbells', and Adolf Hitler's handbooks (about need to repeat a lie) THEN:
quote 2: 20-40, it is of no surprise to me that you, an obviously concienceless pervert.
quote 3: 20-40, it is of no surprise to me that you, an obviously concienceless pervert.
quote 4: and you are a liar, with admitted connections to the CIA.
quote 5: you are a hypocritical pervert, with admitted connections to the CIA.
quote 6: you are an obvious concienceless hypocrite and pervert, 20-40.
Over and over and over and over. Same post with few sentences added or omitted, same lies and whatever I have tried to say, he has ignored it, and keep posting the same.
BTW, I swear on bible that I have never tried to warn him about misspelled word "concienceless". |
| CP
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2/2/2007 11:31 AM | | Re: Enigmatic Archaeology | Quote |
The Olmecs seem to have been intentionally depicting portraits of different races of people. Some Asian or indigenous, African and bearded turban headed folks too.
Below is a link from an earlier post, a collection of Olmec photos and an out of context overview of the Olmec culture.
In the photbucket link below click “View All” the photos are grouped: Asian, Caucasian, Negroid. Also includes human to jaguar transformation and deformed baby themes. Toys with wheels and possible brain surgery (trepanation.) Hopefully this link will work to show a few of the sculptures.
[link to s98.photobucket.com]
The Olmec, who preceded both the Maya and the Teotihucanos, explode onto the Mesoamerican scene at about 2000 BC to initiate the first cities complete with pyramids, monumental works of art, drainage systems etc.. We don’t know what languages thy spoke and their ethnicity also remains a mystery. Because of the acidic soils in the Olmec region here in Southern Mexico, no skeletal materials have been recovered for analysis.
The earliest examples of the ¨Maya¨ calendrical and mathematical systems are clearly Olmec in origin. The earliest examples of Mesoamerican hieroglyphic writing are also Olmec in origin, and though they are probably the precursors of Maya hieroglyphic writing, except for the written dates these examples remains untranslated.
Some of the most interesting and enigmatic information left to us by the Olmec are their unparalleled works of public and private art. Exquisitely executed sculptures often carved in the round in hard volcanic basalt and jade, depict a wide range of subject matter but also include extremely realistic portraiture that, in my opinion and others, intentionally portray human beings of various races including Negroid, Asiatic, Mesopotamian, and indigenous.
There are no known (to me anyways) smoking gun artifacts that would prove contact between the old world and the Olmec. However, prime suspects include the Phoenicians and North Africans who were great seafarers at the time of the Olmec. The Phoenicians were also rumored in their day to have cross Atlantic trade routs. Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean and North Africa would also drift with the prevailing sea currents to land somewhere along the Caribbean coast between the Yucatan Peninsula and Honduras. Note also that the Caucasian looking folks in the photos (a handful of examples are grouped in photo bucket) wear turbans, have beards, sometimes display curly hair, and have shoes with curled up tips---al characteristic of how Phoenicians portrayed themselves in their own works of art.
But incidental contacts between wayward seafarers and established civilizations rarely effect great changes in the latter. Olmec hieroglyphic writing, calendrics and mathematics are unique to Mesoamerica. Thus the Indigenous culture deserves the lion’s share of the credit for Olmec cultural accomplishments. But a mix of foreign and indigenous cultures due to trade and repetitive contact could well have provided the spark for the marvelous creative energy so evident in the artifacts left to us by the enigmatic Olmec.
P.S. Ignor the first three photos in the photobucut colection as they are of Maya artifacts. |
| GREY LENSMAN 
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2/2/2007 11:32 AM
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A GOOD LINK WITH GOOD STUFF RE NON EXISTENT GREEK DARK AGE.
[link to www.varchive.org]
LOADS OF OTHER STUFF THERE AS WELL.
GL
greylensman@rocketmail.com |
| CP
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2/2/2007 11:49 AM | | mercury2
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2/2/2007 11:59 AM
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Book recommendations:
Anyone who is interested in this subject can't do better than to start with the author Peter Tompkins. Not only is his material most interesting, but he is such a good writer, really a great prose stylist, which unfortunately can't be said for many other writers in this field.
Here are the titles of three of his large, illustrated classic works:
by Peter Tompkins:
Secrets of the Great Pyramid
Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids
The Magic of Obelisks
Another guy you should be aware of is David Hatcher Childress, his Lost Cities series is worth checking out, even if it is kind of jumbled and you wonder about it sometimes. He owns a publishing company, Adventures Unlimited Press, which is doing a great service by reprinting out of print titles such as the works of Charles Hapgood.
by Charles Hapgood
Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings
The Path of the Pole
There's another one I can't think of right now. Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings is really good.
It's fun to go on Amazon and read book reviews. I do that a lot. People sell used books on there and you can look for used copies at [link to www.abebooks.com] too
There are three magazines you might be interested in.
Atlantis Rising
not sure why Atlantis Rising has to have such dreadful graphics and awful layout. I think they might have improved it a teeny bit in recent years. But they do have good articles so I guess it's worth looking past the aesthetics.
World Explorer
That's the magazine put out by David Hatcher Childress. A mix of different mysteries including cryptozoology.
The Ancient American
I have been disappointed by this rag in the past. I used to always buy it but stopped some years ago. They have good articles sometimes and of course the whole subject matter is interesting. But they seem like they have no editorial standards and will just publish anything. It gets pretty stupid and loses credibility with me. They did have a fantastic issue once that was all reprinted articles about the ancient copper mines on Lake Superior. Very cool.
Sorry I didn't get links to all that stuff, maybe I'll go back and edit in some links later. For now here's a link to the Great Pyramid of Giza Research Association:
[link to gizapyramid.com]
The list of members is a good starting point for looking for more information and books, sites etc. Especially Patrick Flanagan, he is doing great things these days, I just started taking some of his supplements and feel like I'm on a rocket ship to the future LOL. |
| Harte
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2/2/2007 12:10 PM | | Re: Enigmatic Archaeology | Quote |
Thank you Heidilore, the Forbidden Archaeology site is a very good compilation of the enigmatic and probably more extensive than we could compile here... Quoting: CP 185210
Cremo's "Forbidden Archaeology" is the result of a Hindu Creationist agenda. Mr. Cremo, a college dropout with no education whatsoever in any science at all, tells lies and half-truths (mostly lies) throughout his "book" in an attempt to show that humans have been here for hundreds of millions of years - just like a good Hindu (which he is - his book was published by a Hindu group)is supposed to believe.
Ironic that the other creationist group - Christian Fundamentalists, use exactly the same tales told by Cremo to try to claim exactly the opposite - that humans (and the Earth itself, BTW) have only been here a few thousand years!
www.s8int.com is quite good... Quoting: Pathfinder
This site mentioned by Pathfinder is an excellent example of the latter. It's a Christian Fundie site that, among other things, claims to have evidence of a worldwide flood.
The only "enigmas" in Archaeology are Archaeological in nature. That is, they are unanswered Archaeological questions posed by actual Archaeologists. Like the Chaco Canyon site where it's not known why the inhabitants put so much work into building in that inhospitable area. Questions such as these are difficult to answer when they involve illiterate societies. The best answer is the one given by the person with enough experience to make the best guess.
People like Cremo, Hancock, Sitchen, VonDaniken, et al. only muddy the waters for laymen, and that in order to make a quick buck before the waters settle.
Don't waste hard earned money on them.
Harte |
| CP
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2/2/2007 12:35 PM | | Re: Enigmatic Archaeology | Quote |
Thank you Heidilore, the Forbidden Archaeology site is a very good compilation of the enigmatic and probably more extensive than we could compile here...
Cremo's "Forbidden Archaeology" is the result of a Hindu Creationist agenda. Mr. Cremo, a college dropout with no education whatsoever in any science at all, tells lies and half-truths (mostly lies) throughout his "book" in an attempt to show that humans have been here for hundreds of millions of years - just like a good Hindu (which he is - his book was published by a Hindu group)is supposed to believe.
Ironic that the other creationist group - Christian Fundamentalists, use exactly the same tales told by Cremo to try to claim exactly the opposite - that humans (and the Earth itself, BTW) have only been here a few thousand years!
www.s8int.com is quite good...
This site mentioned by Pathfinder is an excellent example of the latter. It's a Christian Fundie site that, among other things, claims to have evidence of a worldwide flood.
The only "enigmas" in Archaeology are Archaeological in nature. That is, they are unanswered Archaeological questions posed by actual Archaeologists. Like the Chaco Canyon site where it's not known why the inhabitants put so much work into building in that inhospitable area. Questions such as these are difficult to answer when they involve illiterate societies. The best answer is the one given by the person with enough experience to make the best guess.
People like Cremo, Hancock, Sitchen, VonDaniken, et al. only muddy the waters for laymen, and that in order to make a quick buck before the waters settle.
Don't waste hard earned money on them.
Harte Quoting: Harte
Good points Harte. There is a lot of “muddy water” out there and careless or agenda driven interpretations of real archaeological enigmas often compound the problem. Sometimes it is better to just scratch your head and wonder.
I was at an archaeological conference last year in New Mexico and listened to a few papers on the Chaco Canyon ruins. Extensive excavations have recently proved that there are not enough garbage middens associated with these ruins to support the assumption that large populations ever lived at these sites full time. Numerous astronomical orientations were also noted at the conference. Because of these observations many archaeologists now suspect that they were ceremonial structures built by groups of people gathering from smaller sites and were inhabited seasonally. |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/2/2007 1:07 PM | | Re: Enigmatic Archaeology | Quote |
CP, how is your study on 2012 going? |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/2/2007 1:24 PM | | Re: Enigmatic Archaeology | Quote |
Thank you for your quick and thoughtful response to my post!
Good morning Duncun Kunz.
There are few archaeo-linguistic studies out there that explore possible links between Old World and New World languages. Most linguists do not take this seriously because the general assumption is that the language groups came to the Americas some 11 to 12,000 years ago when the Paleolithic hunters followed the big game into Alaska from N/E Asia and worked their way south during the Pleistocene /Holocene interglacial period. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 190142
Understandable. As far as I know, there is little hard evidence to support any interaction, althought the recent studies of putative New World drugs found in the mummies of ancient Egyptians is certainly intriguing.
Regardless, though, it is our responsibility as people postulating a particular idea to provide evidence and data to support it. I think it's counterproductive to present a hypothesis or assertion withoug any backup and require that skeptics provide the evidence to "prove me wrong." As we both know, that is not the way science works.
There are exceptions to this assumption in my opinion and a closer look at more recent possible linguistic ties between Old and New worlds cultures would be worth a try. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 190142
(Let me preface my remarks by saying I am not a linguist; I took a couple of courses 35 years ago! Furthermore, I know nothing about paleolinguistics except for a very little bit of Indo-European PL, which probably doesn't help much here!) True. but "linguistic ties", as you correctly point out, are not as simple as seeing that two words for the same thing sound similar; there are other "markers" as well. One of the flaws in the work of Thor Heyerdahl (whom I certainly admire) was his seeing a similarity of sound between the Easter Island and Peruvian words for "sweet potato"; however, his analysis only looked at the similarity between the nominative case of the two words, and ignored the fact that the entire structure of that noun was different. I think that most paleolinguists today see such superficial similarities as a sort of linguistic "convergent evolution" of a word-form.
Some possible links have been explored, for example, similarities between Navaho and Basque languages have been noted. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 190142
You may be aware that the Navajo are fairly recent interlopers, arriving on the Colorado Plateau about the same time that the first Spaniards came up from what is now Sonora, Mexico. Their language family is Athabascan; it is similar in structure, grammar, and vocabulary to those of present-day Indians in parts of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. I would love to find out more about this possible correlation between Basque and Navajo. If you do find some research, let me know; meanwhile, I'll look myself.
I am sorry that I can’t remember where I read this. And there are also some intriguing similarities noted between a suite of Sumerian words and Quechua words in Peru. There is a fellow named Zacheria Sitchin who has some who has explored these linguistic similarities along with some other, much wilder, ideas about contact between the Old and New worlds. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 190142
To be honest, I am not impressed with any of Sitchin's work. Even disregarding his assertions about "Nibiru", the man does linguistics as a hobby; most if not all of the serious scholars of Sumerian and Akkadian consider him a charlatan.
A cautionary note though. Linguists often doubt the significance of their own observations of word similarities between languages. It is a tricky field of study and I am not an expert. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 190142
True that. If a family of words have the same or similar roots, and they take into consideration the migration of sounds like the IE Great Vowel Shift, and they decline or conjugate in the same basic pattern, that would be great evidence.
If we can see those kinds of correlations between Old Iranian, Hindi, Icelandic, Afrikaans, and Spanish (which we can) we should be able to see some sort of correlation in the Old World - vs - New World question! |
| Duncan Kunz
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2/2/2007 1:25 PM
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Sorry, above post was mine.
Those western imperialist warmongers beat us to the Moon. Damn! |
| OhZone
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2/2/2007 1:31 PM | | Re: Enigmatic Archaeology | Quote |
This is fascinating
I now have more links in my "anomolies" file that will take hours to read.
Thanks everyone.
All this and still no depictions of man emerging from monkeys. |
| Anka
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2/2/2007 1:33 PM | | Re: Enigmatic Archaeology | Quote |
Baalbek is indeed very interesting. Ba-al could refer to any god depending on the region. Hadad or Haddu was a very important northwest Semitic storm or rain god, cognate in name and origin with the Akkadian god, Adad. Hadad is often called Ba-al Lord, but this title is used for other gods. In the Canaanite pantheon, Hadad was the son of El, who once had been the primary god and used interchaneably with the Hebrew god, Yawah.
Because more than one god bore the title "Ba’al" and more than one goddess bore the title "Ba’alat" or "Ba’alah," only the context of a text can indicate which Ba’al 'Lord' or Baalath 'Lady' a particular inscription or text is speaking of.
Though the god Hadad (or Adad) was especially likely to be called Ba’al, Hadad was far from the only god to have that title. The Ugaritic texts (mainly preserved in the Baal cycle) place the dwelling of Ba’al/Hadad on Mount Zephon, so one can probably take as evident that references to Ba’al Zephon in the Tanach and in inscriptions and tablets refer to Hadad. It is said that Ba’al Pe’or, the Lord of Mount Pe’or, whom Israelites were forbidden from worshipping (Numbers 1:25) was also Hadad. In the Canaanite pantheon, Hadad was the son of El, who had once been the primary god of the Canaanite pantheon, and whose name was also used interchangeably with that of the Hebrew God, Yahweh.
Melqart, the god of Tyre, was often called the Ba’al of Tyre. 1 Kings 16:31 relates that Ahab, king of Israel, married Jezebel, daughter of Ethba’al, king of the Sidonians, and then served habba’al ('the Ba’al'.) The cult of this god was prominent in Israel until the reign of Jehu, who put an end to it (2 Kings 10:26):
And they brought out the pillars (massebahs) of the house of the Ba’al and burned them. And they pulled down the pillar (massebah) of the Ba’al and pulled down the house of the Ba’al and turned it into a latrine until this day.
It is uncertain whether "the Ba’al" 'the Lord' refers to Melqart, to Hadad, who was also worshipped in Tyre, or Ba’al Shamîm 'Lord of Heaven' who was also worshipped in Tyre and often distinguished from Hadad. Josephus (Antiquities 8.13.1) states clearly that Jezebel "built a temple to the god of the Tyrians, which they call Belus" which certainly refers to Melqart. But Josephus may be relying on likelihood rather than knowledge. Hadad is generally a rain god but Melqart is not known to be connected with bringing of rain. But so little is known of Melqart's cult that such reasoning is not decisive.
In any case, King Ahab, despite supporting the cult of this Ba‘al, remained at the same time also a follower of Yahweh. Ahab still consulted Yahweh's prophets and cherished Yahweh's protection when he named his sons Ahaziah ("Yahweh holds") and Jehoram ("Yahweh is high.")
One of Tyre's rulers, Hiram I maintained close ties with Hebrew Kings, Solomon and David.
Baalbek was also sacked by the Crusaders. Hhhmmm, what were they looking for?
Baalbek was also sacked by the Crusaders. Quoting: SaFire 188985
In the news during the Lebanon War:
[link to unveiling.18.forumer.com] |
| Anka
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2/2/2007 1:37 PM | | LEGION, FOR THERE ARE MANY
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2/2/2007 1:55 PM | | Re: Enigmatic Archaeology | Quote |
Very interesting thread........LEGION |
| mathetes
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2/2/2007 1:57 PM
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AC 184619 sent me this excellent link [link to www.world-mysteries.com] today and it got me to thinking that it might be interesting for some of the folks here to start a thread dedicated to enigmatic archaeology. Where possible, please provide links. If this thread takes off, we could end up with valuable (to some at least) research tool.
I am an archaeologist with over 20 years experience in the field. I worked some 7 years in the deserts in the S/W U.S. and for a few years at sites in California, New York and the Midwest. Since 1993 I have been living and working in Southern Mexico and Central America directing excavations at Maya ceremonial centers (Palenque in Chiapas Mexico, Copan in Honduras, and Cerros in Belize). I have also conducted ethnographic research in Maya communities and am currently teaching and conducting archaroastronomical studies at various Maya ceremonial centers. I work and teach with a group of anthropologists at the Maya Exploration Center, a non-profit research institute (see our website at: [ link to mayaexploration.org] ).
Though my professional focus has been archaeology in the Americas, I am interested in archaeology in general and have long been interested in Archaeological enigmas. I will be traveling off and on for the next several months but I will try to find time (and internet services) to comment on additions to this thread and to answer questions if they arise.
I am a long time lurker and occasional poster here at Godlike Productions.
I will begin with a link that includes photos, drawings and a brief description of the site of Baalbek in Iraq (from about 3,500 B.C.) where the largest known stones ever cut and moved by humans are found: [ link to www.bibliotecapleyades.net]
Vamos!
"The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.
The command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory.
John Quincy Adams |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/2/2007 2:00 PM | | Harte
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2/2/2007 2:15 PM | | Harte
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2/2/2007 2:25 PM | | Re: Enigmatic Archaeology | Quote |
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 190237
Wow, how unusual for dust motes to be floating around in a museum, especially one as old as the British Museum.
Harte |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/2/2007 2:42 PM | | Anonymous Coward
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2/2/2007 2:49 PM | | Re: Enigmatic Archaeology | Quote |
[ link to www.victorianweb.org]
Always enigmatic anyway, check the four orbs on this "doorway guardian" statue at the British Museum.
Wow, how unusual for dust motes to be floating around in a museum, especially one as old as the British Museum.
Harte
Well, yes, but, actually, shouldn't there be many thousands more dust motes given the mammoth proportions of the place? |
| Asan
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2/2/2007 3:10 PM | | Anonymous Coward
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2/2/2007 3:31 PM | | Re: Enigmatic Archaeology | Quote |
NP. Once said, your mistake was repeated. Just that.
You're welcome - normal sized one.
In same style:
The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation. The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube. The Pyramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain.
It's mockery and reminds me of your first paragraph.
20-40 Quoting: 20-40
rofl...
On a more serious note:
The US State Department today announced plans to build a Cradle of Civilisation Theme Park in Northern Iraq, complete with Hanging Gardens of Babylon multiplex cinema complex and Tower of Babel games emporium. The ambitious plan has been criticised by international aid organisations who are pressing the Bush administration to concentrate on rebuilding the country's infrastructure. Cultural heritage commentators have condemned the project as "a crass and ignorant cultural invasion of an injured nation," but Washington has welcomed it as a beacon of urban revitalisation "which will do wonders for Iraq.plc."
The park is to be constructed on a plot of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and will occupy about half of the current city of Baghdad. Many of Saddam's former palaces are to be disassembled and moved to the park where they will be reconstructed within a complex of artificial lakes and waterslides at an estimated cost of US$46 billion. Los Angeles interior decorators are said to have won the majority of furnishing contracts on account of the close correspondences between West Coast interior design taste and the aesthetic predilections of the deposed Iraqi regime.
Already US fast food and merchandising companies are lobbying furiously to win lucrative franchise contracts to operate within the park. One organisation tipped to win hearts and minds among Washington policy wonks is a new company — Freedom Fries Inc. of Southern California — which is expected to steal a march on rival MacDonalds to sell the famous Basra burger and chips to hungry punters.
Among the park's main attractions will be The Magically Disappearing Museum, The Shock and Awe Adventure Playground, the Hunt the WMDs Fun Tent and the Chemical Ali Adrenalin Rollercoaster which will propel braver customers into Southern Kurdistan. Among the spin-off TV contracts is likely to be a game-show entitled 'I'm a Ba'ath Party Supporter, Get Me Out of Here'.
:P |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/2/2007 4:42 PM | | Re: Enigmatic Archaeology | Quote |
Excellent!!! 
I am not an archeologist but study alot of it and have a deep interest in it as well as respect for the knowledge it reveals
It is great that anomalous archeology is getting more mainline.
For Christopher Powell, how easy do you feel it is to discern archeology that has been created legitimately to that which is obviously seeded falsely or set up/faked? Obviously there are numerous considerations but what have you found to be most elucidating to determining the legitimacy of finds?
What do you think are the more interesting finds submerged under our bodies of water?
What is the most impressive subterranean living quarters/caves to you as an archeologist?
What do you know about the pyramids of China?
Will the scholars ever loosen the hold on Holy writings or the Dead Sea Scrolls completely??? |
| Duncan Kunz
The Debunker King
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2/2/2007 4:57 PM
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Thank God we're not planning a Magical Maya Mountain Theme Park. Having to undergo some of those Coronation rituals....
High Priest: "Well, kid, your father, 24 Rabbit, has taken the dive to the Big Cenote in the Sky. Hail, 25 Rabbit!"
25 Rabbit "Cool! I'm the King of Kopan! Bring on those virgin slave girls!! Bring on those Chickens from Chichen Itza! I'll show them hegemony!"
High Priest: "Not so fast, O Unpierced One. You know the rules."
25 Rabbit: "What rules?"
High Priest: "Don't play innocent with me, boy. Here's the agave spine. Lose the loincloth, or meet Mister Obsidian at the top of the Pyramid!"
25 Rabbit: "Grumble grumble...AAAARRRGGGHHHH! AAIIEEEEEEE!! OWOWOWOWOW!!"
High Priest: "There, was that so bad? Now about those virgin slave girls..."
25 Rabbit: "Never mind."
Those western imperialist warmongers beat us to the Moon. Damn! |
| Thomas Dolby 5.5
User ID: 37525
2/2/2007 5:05 PM | | Re: Enigmatic Archaeology | Quote |
"I will begin with a link that includes photos, drawings and a brief description of the site of Baalbek in Iraq (from about 3,500 B.C.) where the largest known stones ever cut and moved by humans are found"
cut and moved by humans
You are kidding, right?
"Some dance to remember, some dance to forget"
"Don't worry, everything is going to be Ok" |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 188985
2/2/2007 5:46 PM | | Re: Enigmatic Archaeology | Quote |
Yes, he must be kidding. Any engineer would tell you that it's impossible even with the equipment we have today. |
| Thomas Dolby 5.5
User ID: 37525
2/2/2007 5:58 PM | | Re: Enigmatic Archaeology | Quote |
Yes, he must be kidding. Any engineer would tell you that it's impossible even with the equipment we have today. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 188985
Exactly my point. Thanks.
"Some dance to remember, some dance to forget"
"Don't worry, everything is going to be Ok" |
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