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  • Reply to: Mysterious Mummified Predator Baffles Experts   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: elderlyrstaff

    Is this a tusked Koala Bear?

  • Reply to: Archaeologists Claim to have Discovered the Location of the Biblical City of Sodom   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Merle Ray Tanner

    Though it is written: "do not cast pearls before swine", I pray Father that your Spirit would move this man's heart to see the truth, even if his sight be suspended. Just as with the Apostle Paul so let it be also with this man. As Your great Love for him is no less than it is for myself I ask for Your mercy and grace to be poured out upon him just as It was apportioned to me in my ignorance and pride. I ask that his repentance and redemption, be in accord with Your Will and to Your Glory. In Jesus name, Amen.

  • Reply to: Ancient Journeys: What was Travel Like for the Romans?   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: threeheadedmonkey

    Fascinating reading about day to day things like this. Would have to be able to have a camera that can look back in time and show what these roads were like. Wonder how busy they got?

  • Reply to: Enduring Mystery Surrounds the Ancient Site of Puma Punku   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: threeheadedmonkey

    An amazing achievement but it annoys me so many people leap to aliens with this site instead of looking at the ingenuity of our ancient ancestors.

  • Reply to: Gladiatrix: Female Fighters Offered Lewd Entertainment in Ancient Rome   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Circus Maximus

    "Septimius Severus also accepted female gladiators until around 200 AD, when he banned the female fights to stop making the gladiator fights into shows which, according to the emperor, promoted lower class behavior amongst noble women."
    A good reason to ban Housewives of New York as well.

    Read more: http://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/gladiatrix-fem...
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  • Reply to: From Chrome Plating to Nanotubes: the ‘Modern’ Chemistry First Used in Ancient Times   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Tom Carberry

    People have written books and articles about the problems with radio carbon dating.

    We don’t actually know the decay rate.  We know carbon levels have not remained constant, which means you can’t have some sort of steaady decay rate as a factor.

    When Libby first calibrated his system, he used “known” historical dates, which modern statistical reseach shows may have an error rate of 1000 years or more.  So if you get something dates 1000 BCE, it might mean the year 0, because of the innaccurate calibration.

     

     

  • Reply to: Did Ancient People Really Have Lifespans Longer Than 200 Years?   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Mick McNulty

    I doubt it because of the aging process. To live twice as long either we would have to mature at about half the rate, and take sixty years to become what is thirty today, or we would mature at a similar rate, aging at around seventy, and end up looking very, VERY old at the end of a two-hundred year lifespan.

    I'm convinced in the early bronze age a man of 900 was 900 moons old. About seventy-five years.

  • Reply to: Gladiatrix: Female Fighters Offered Lewd Entertainment in Ancient Rome   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Harry McNicholas

    No they never fought to the death. It was also highly unusual for men gladiators to fight to the death in spite of what we have been told in the movies. Rich people had lots of money invested in a gladiator and did not want to throw away their money. You could say it was like UFC but with weapons.

  • Reply to: Unraveling the Origins of the Roman Sword Discovered Off Oak Island   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: solafide

    According to the tests run by professors in Halifax, they felt the sword was not authentic (as reported on the Curse of Oak Island tv show). Were the tests mentioned in this article, after the tests shown on the tv show? According to those experts, the type of casting and the metallurgical makeup of the sword pointed more toward something made in the 1940's. They said the metallurgy of the brass did not match the brass of the Roman era.

  • Reply to: BREAKING NEWS: New Telescope Observes Otherwise Invisible Terrestrial Entities with Intelligent Movement   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: wkennedy

    parts make sense. Remember the "lights" on moon and flitting about background in near space videos. Energy beings might exist what they "eat" may be ethereal energy from life forms??? The thing is we may not be the top of food chain ...due to higher lifeforms ethics they might have to limit feeding to people with evil [negative] traits. Some think they are composed of say 13 [sort of like a Viking longboat] souls condemned to become part of these clouds of energy. Or not just theory.

  • Reply to: Did Humans Walk the Earth with Dinosaurs? Triceratops Horn Dated to 33,500 Years   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: OS

    Thanks for the clarification. Too many people are gullible.

  • Reply to: Enduring Mystery Surrounds the Ancient Site of Puma Punku   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Jason L

    There is NO way, that peoples thousands of years ago could make such precise cuts, deep cuts in the stone with just a stone tool. There is NO way they could have lifted 1000 Ton blocks (2,000,000 pound) blocks into place. Our ancestors had tools and knowledge that are lost to time. Modern stone carvers have a hard time replicating cuts that were done in ancient times. So, how did they make undercuts, back cuts and square holes that are still razor sharp today. What "mainstream archaeologists" won't tell you, is that 99% of their finds are University funded. What I mean is that most independent archaeology is considered fringe and not accepted if its not funded in Academically funded. Academics slant things to their "funders" ideals. Gotta make them happy. Puma Punku was around before the "great flood" and hence the reason for most the blocks looking thrown about. Many buried, half-buried and such. The complex is probably 2x-5x larger than previously thought. Same for Egypt and the area near the Pyramids. They have yet to uncover more than 15% of the ruins.

  • Reply to: Chinese New Year 2022 and the Legend of Nian   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Aliya Osho

    Same prehistoric traditions, same spirituality and beliefs all around the world, preserved till nowadays from the first human civilization The Stone Civilization of Ancient Bulgarians, people of Sun God Bal. In my country as well in the end of winter people use to decorate themselves with red woolen laces for keeping good health and vitality. They add to them as well the white colour laces for purity and innocence and call those laces martenichki. In the end of winter Bulgarians also use to decorate their domestic animals with those martenichki and food and flowers for keeping them alive and healthy during the year. The prototype of the Chinese lunar calendar is the Ancient Bulgarian calendar first human calendar, datedback to 5504 BC and officially recognised by UNESCO as th oldest calendar. This calendar is consisted of different animals for every month, hour and year. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=730826050370354&set=a.313566...

  • Reply to: Enduring Mystery Surrounds the Ancient Site of Puma Punku   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Guesto

    Studying this amazing stonework could get us an inkling as to the tools that made it.
    Puma Punku, Tiahuanaco, Ollantaytambo, Samaipata.
    When the world at large will get to grips with the fact that other civilizations roamed the Earth well before our own, it will be breaking news. As in, breaking the limits in which the "scientific community" resides, where theories are being piled up on theories. And breaking careers of limited "scientists", too. Being a scientist involves keeping asking Why?, which seldom if ever is seen nowadays.

  • Reply to: Preventing the Evil Dead from Arising, Ancient Practices Alive in Present-Day Romania Part 2   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: RobertR

    All these "tales" are known as jokes in Romania."Old women tales" for children. Are not to be taken serious even by the story teller.
    Romanians are orthodox and the true orthodox belief is that "dead are not arising" from their coffin unless the case when this is the God will.
    Arising from dead as "strigoi" or another form of malefic creature is not an orthodox belief.
    If such cases had really been recorded through history those are only illusions from the devil.

  • Reply to: Lao Tzu: The Founder of One of the Three Pillars of Traditional Chinese Thought   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Dennis Brody

    Lao Tzu's full story can be found in the Urantia revelation

  • Reply to: The engineering marvel of the Pozzo di San Patrizio   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Joe Stitzel

    cool ! open to public ? more pics please, where to see them ?

  • Reply to: Is the Assyrian Nimrud Lens the Oldest Telescope in the World?   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Joe Stitzel

    part of telescope ? Not ! no focus, no vision, no use for that.. probably used for starting fire, harness sun, a great realization for them, But is there any ancient tablet writing to back that up ?

  • Reply to: Exposing the Secret History of Giants and the Underground Hyperborean Gallery in Romania   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: hemdal

    goliath had 4 brothers.... thats why david picked five stones.... also later davids heros slew several other giants in the canaan valley.some of these were called kings and some had 6 fingers and toes and double rows of teeth.

  • Reply to: Did the Vikings use crystal sunstones to discover America?   8 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: tmobley1

    Yes this is very plausable because as you go north and cross and increase your degrees in relation to latitude lines from the equater. As you travel away from the equator if you travel fast enough the sun does not stay out as long. Even if the ancients did not have clocks a human fist can measure with some tolerances within an hour. So using a full fist for each hour a person can estimate thier amount of time the sun is up and will stay up, after high noon.  

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