God chose Cyrus to be the intstrument of doing his will two centuries before the man himself overthrew Babylon. Cyrus did indeed give YHWH credit and honor for this, not Marduk.
Might it be possible the creativity gene was passed by the infusion or addmixture of Neanderthal genes? I don’t recall reading about the equivalent of ‘cave art’ being found in sub-saharan Africa.
I do not doubt they were dark skinned. However, the hair and nose was likely not African looking. They likely looked like either black people wirh European features or very tan with European features. Either way it's unlikely they had wide noses and overly curly hair.
I decided to look up Sallow-Skin; apparently it’s a skin condition that makes the skin, especially the face lose it’s healthy ‘glow’ & gives a yellowish look with lighter skin. Those with darker skin have a browish dull appearence. So apparently a Mob of ugly skinned famers, perhaps with bad teeth as well over ran ancient Ireland overwelming the more ‘African’ hunter-gatherers? Heard that story before (Ha, Ha) That fact that the first human inhabitance of Ireland were dark skinned with blue eyes isn’t surprising; I’ve read a previous Ancient Origins article that the earliest Homo Sapiens to colonize Europe as a whole were of the same appearence as the ‘1st Irish’. Has anyone done studies on the 1st inhabitances of Britian where also Dark Skinned with Blue Eyes?
"Present-day sub-Saharan Africans trace up to 19% of their genetic ancestry to an extinct archaic hominin species (Homo erectus or Homo habilis) that is NOT found in the DNA of present-day Asians or Caucasians." -Robert Sepehr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDUAhrN9F0E
"Aryans" are mixed. African ancestry? No. Europeans have 1-2% Neanderthal admixture, there were never any Neanderthals in sub-Saharan Africa. Recent discoveries of a TRACE amount of Neanderthal DNA in Africans is because they were hybridized with MIXED Cro magnon." -Robert Sepehr
White people are NOT descended from black African people- "Aryans" are mixed. African ancestry? No. Europeans have 1-2% Neanderthal admixture, there were never any Neanderthals in sub-Saharan Africa. Recent discoveries of a TRACE amount of Neanderthal DNA in Africans is because they were hybridized with MIXED Cro magnon." -Robert Sepehr
The out of Africa theory has been debunked & proven wrong:
"Present-day sub-Saharan Africans trace up to 19% of their genetic ancestry to an extinct archaic hominin species (Homo erectus or Homo habilis) that is NOT found in the DNA of present-day Asians or Caucasians." -Robert Sepehr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDUAhrN9F0E
And, of course, judging by these "scientists", the very first ancient inhabitants of Ireland were....you guessed it: black!
Blatant propaganda that is thousands of light years away from even a fickle of truth. Wake up.
If there were people in Europe 33,000 years ago, and of course there were, then there were people in Ireland Scotland and England too, as it was all part of Europe. Sea levels were much lower during the glacial period; the post glacial Storegga tsunami that made these places islands was only 8000 years ago, just barely older than recorded history. (another mythical flood story?) Just because no artifacts older than 10K have been found in the flooded area doesn’t mean nobody had been there earlier. Bone breaks, wood rots, and the ocean dissolves everything eventually, even stone.
“When naturalist Carl Linnaeus visited the corpse, he noted that the body was not petrified, but rather preserved by a layer of vitriol. He speculated that once the vitriol wore away the body would decompose. Sure enough, the corpse hardened and began to smell, and after 30 years on display Fet-Mats was buried under the floor of the 15th-century Stora Kopparberg Church, the oldest building in Falun.
Unfortunately, he was not at rest for long. In 1816, almost 100 years after his discovery, the remains were moved to the cemetery. In 1862, however, Fet-Mats was uprooted again and transferred to a wooden box that wound up being stored in the attic of the church.
Fet-Mats was forgotten about until 1900, when the box holding his remains was rediscovered during church renovations. It was put back on display inside the church until locals began to feel guilty for the restless afterlife the man had endured. In 1930 the remains were finally buried in the consecrated grounds of the churchyard, where the grave of Fet-Mats can be found today, more than 300 years after his death.”
It’s pretty amazing his body wasn’t destroyed in the mine collapse that happened a decade after his death, but the mine is a pretty big place:
“ in 1687 the mine suffered a massive collapse called the “Big Stöten” or “Big Shock.” A section 2,000 feet across collapsed into a 300-foot-deep hole. Miraculously, nobody died, as it happened during the Swedish midsummer celebration. “
I still don’t understand how sulphuric acid, or vitriol, can preserve a body by covering it over. This is a very strong acid; I would think it would dissolve at least the outer layers of a body pretty quickly. So I looked it up, and you are in error. Sulphuric acid is sometimes called oil of vitriol, and will never be found in a copper mine. There are other kinds of vitriol; most likely Mats was covered in Blue Vitriol, aka Copper Sulfate, which is a fungicide, pesticide, herbicide and is very good at forming crystals. So that probably preserved him pretty well, and it’s possible that he was eventually inside a crystal, like a Jurrasic mosquito in amber. Problem is, the most common form of copper sulphate is water soluble. So perhaps when the later miners broke into the flooded shaft, the water pouring out did some erosion, which washed Mats’ body free. But he could not have been resting in that water for decades, as the preservative would have dissolved away and his body would have rotted. So there’s a bit of a mystery there as well.
As an Alchymist from birth, at 79 I have had much learning and experience in science, chemistry, materials and natural philosophy…
In my knowledge, I have come across this question several times… In ancient times it was common for any material which had the qualities of “glass” to be called a “glass...”
Anything reflective, for example, like polished brass or obsidian… or any mineral was called a glass… thus we get the cognomen, “looking glass...”
Sodium Silicate, because it dries to a clear, shiny material, is called “water glass...”
Then there are semi-transparent materials, like Isinglas, which is a natural, animal product…
It is very likely that an enterprising alchemist came up with an early plastic material, which he considered a “glass,” but was merely a synthetic, non-mineral substance which was probably similar to a very clear, or at least, semi-clear, synthetic… It might even have been a clarified amber, or something related…
Not really a mystery here, just a question as to what it actually may have been…
No modern day archosaur hunts in anything larger than a small family unit, and even these (raprorial birds) are not many, just a few species. So, give this, then why would tyrannosaurus hunt in packs.
….AND…. since the half-life of nuclear DNA is 512 years, any samples found are only a few thousand years old – MAXIMUM. Why don't paleontologists actually LISTEN to Biochemists from time-to-time? It would save a lot of fiction being published.
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Probably intended as a couched insult to white people. Way of the future, don’t you know?
God chose Cyrus to be the intstrument of doing his will two centuries before the man himself overthrew Babylon. Cyrus did indeed give YHWH credit and honor for this, not Marduk.
Nonsense. RTE and TCD social justice warriors jumping on the BLM bandwagon.
Might it be possible the creativity gene was passed by the infusion or addmixture of Neanderthal genes? I don’t recall reading about the equivalent of ‘cave art’ being found in sub-saharan Africa.
I do not doubt they were dark skinned. However, the hair and nose was likely not African looking. They likely looked like either black people wirh European features or very tan with European features.
Either way it's unlikely they had wide noses and overly curly hair.
they were dark skin, not African
“Sallow” skin?? Sallow means unhealthy, jaundiced. Is this an oversight or an intentional word choice?
Yes, you are right Caesar, this is nothing new for the Europe region, but it is new for Ireland. The Cheddar man from England was found to have similar charateristics a few years ago: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/blue-eyed-b...
I decided to look up Sallow-Skin; apparently it’s a skin condition that makes the skin, especially the face lose it’s healthy ‘glow’ & gives a yellowish look with lighter skin. Those with darker skin have a browish dull appearence. So apparently a Mob of ugly skinned famers, perhaps with bad teeth as well over ran ancient Ireland overwelming the more ‘African’ hunter-gatherers? Heard that story before (Ha, Ha) That fact that the first human inhabitance of Ireland were dark skinned with blue eyes isn’t surprising; I’ve read a previous Ancient Origins article that the earliest Homo Sapiens to colonize Europe as a whole were of the same appearence as the ‘1st Irish’. Has anyone done studies on the 1st inhabitances of Britian where also Dark Skinned with Blue Eyes?
"Present-day sub-Saharan Africans trace up to 19% of their genetic ancestry to an extinct archaic hominin species (Homo erectus or Homo habilis) that is NOT found in the DNA of present-day Asians or Caucasians." -Robert Sepehr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDUAhrN9F0E
"Aryans" are mixed. African ancestry? No. Europeans have 1-2% Neanderthal admixture, there were never any Neanderthals in sub-Saharan Africa. Recent discoveries of a TRACE amount of Neanderthal DNA in Africans is because they were hybridized with MIXED Cro magnon." -Robert Sepehr
White people are NOT descended from black African people- "Aryans" are mixed. African ancestry? No. Europeans have 1-2% Neanderthal admixture, there were never any Neanderthals in sub-Saharan Africa. Recent discoveries of a TRACE amount of Neanderthal DNA in Africans is because they were hybridized with MIXED Cro magnon." -Robert Sepehr
The out of Africa theory has been debunked & proven wrong:
"Present-day sub-Saharan Africans trace up to 19% of their genetic ancestry to an extinct archaic hominin species (Homo erectus or Homo habilis) that is NOT found in the DNA of present-day Asians or Caucasians." -Robert Sepehr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDUAhrN9F0E
I find it hard to believe that after reading a really interesting article, someone (Aleska) can only come up with racism. What a sad sad world.
And, of course, judging by these "scientists", the very first ancient inhabitants of Ireland were....you guessed it: black!
Blatant propaganda that is thousands of light years away from even a fickle of truth. Wake up.
If there were people in Europe 33,000 years ago, and of course there were, then there were people in Ireland Scotland and England too, as it was all part of Europe. Sea levels were much lower during the glacial period; the post glacial Storegga tsunami that made these places islands was only 8000 years ago, just barely older than recorded history. (another mythical flood story?) Just because no artifacts older than 10K have been found in the flooded area doesn’t mean nobody had been there earlier. Bone breaks, wood rots, and the ocean dissolves everything eventually, even stone.
“eventually buried” is right:
“When naturalist Carl Linnaeus visited the corpse, he noted that the body was not petrified, but rather preserved by a layer of vitriol. He speculated that once the vitriol wore away the body would decompose. Sure enough, the corpse hardened and began to smell, and after 30 years on display Fet-Mats was buried under the floor of the 15th-century Stora Kopparberg Church, the oldest building in Falun.
Unfortunately, he was not at rest for long. In 1816, almost 100 years after his discovery, the remains were moved to the cemetery. In 1862, however, Fet-Mats was uprooted again and transferred to a wooden box that wound up being stored in the attic of the church.
Fet-Mats was forgotten about until 1900, when the box holding his remains was rediscovered during church renovations. It was put back on display inside the church until locals began to feel guilty for the restless afterlife the man had endured. In 1930 the remains were finally buried in the consecrated grounds of the churchyard, where the grave of Fet-Mats can be found today, more than 300 years after his death.”
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-grave-of-fetmats-falun-sweden
It’s pretty amazing his body wasn’t destroyed in the mine collapse that happened a decade after his death, but the mine is a pretty big place:
“ in 1687 the mine suffered a massive collapse called the “Big Stöten” or “Big Shock.” A section 2,000 feet across collapsed into a 300-foot-deep hole. Miraculously, nobody died, as it happened during the Swedish midsummer celebration. “
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/falu-gruva
I still don’t understand how sulphuric acid, or vitriol, can preserve a body by covering it over. This is a very strong acid; I would think it would dissolve at least the outer layers of a body pretty quickly. So I looked it up, and you are in error. Sulphuric acid is sometimes called oil of vitriol, and will never be found in a copper mine. There are other kinds of vitriol; most likely Mats was covered in Blue Vitriol, aka Copper Sulfate, which is a fungicide, pesticide, herbicide and is very good at forming crystals. So that probably preserved him pretty well, and it’s possible that he was eventually inside a crystal, like a Jurrasic mosquito in amber. Problem is, the most common form of copper sulphate is water soluble. So perhaps when the later miners broke into the flooded shaft, the water pouring out did some erosion, which washed Mats’ body free. But he could not have been resting in that water for decades, as the preservative would have dissolved away and his body would have rotted. So there’s a bit of a mystery there as well.
As an Alchymist from birth, at 79 I have had much learning and experience in science, chemistry, materials and natural philosophy…
In my knowledge, I have come across this question several times… In ancient times it was common for any material which had the qualities of “glass” to be called a “glass...”
Anything reflective, for example, like polished brass or obsidian… or any mineral was called a glass… thus we get the cognomen, “looking glass...”
Sodium Silicate, because it dries to a clear, shiny material, is called “water glass...”
Then there are semi-transparent materials, like Isinglas, which is a natural, animal product…
It is very likely that an enterprising alchemist came up with an early plastic material, which he considered a “glass,” but was merely a synthetic, non-mineral substance which was probably similar to a very clear, or at least, semi-clear, synthetic… It might even have been a clarified amber, or something related…
Not really a mystery here, just a question as to what it actually may have been…
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No modern day archosaur hunts in anything larger than a small family unit, and even these (raprorial birds) are not many, just a few species. So, give this, then why would tyrannosaurus hunt in packs.
Amazing to see new tools being developed for the use in exploring our distant past, and relatives.
….AND…. since the half-life of nuclear DNA is 512 years, any samples found are only a few thousand years old – MAXIMUM. Why don't paleontologists actually LISTEN to Biochemists from time-to-time? It would save a lot of fiction being published.
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