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  • Reply to: Frankincense: An Ancient Wonder Cure on the Verge of Extinction   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: morgar54

    I just got a bottle of the essential oil to try to see whether it can help with my various health issues, primary concern is kidney problems due to the years of medication for my arthritis. I had seen claims in another source that it was one of the benefits. Don’t think I’ll try smoking it, but I can tell you that it does have a very distinctive although not unpleasant taste. I’ll try to remember to come back in a month or so with a report

  • Reply to: Are the Distinctive Kalash People of Pakistan Really Descendants of Alexander the Great’s Army?   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Hassan Mujtaba

    Mr. Wu Mingren,
    I am Hassan Mujtaba from Pakistan.
    Islam is not the religion of extremists even the prophet of Muslims (Muhammad PBUH) forgave his enemies. Pakistanis are not threatening the Kalash people to convert to Islam (it is just propaganda against Pakistan and Islam. No. of people joining Islam is increasing day by day in the world so, one can not say that they are being forced to convert to Islam. these are the teachings of Islam which persuade people to become the member of Islam by their own willingness not by coercion.

  • Reply to: Lost Norse of Greenland Fueled the Medieval Ivory Trade, Ancient Walrus DNA Suggests   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: pete wagner

    They went back inside from where they came.

  • Reply to: History’s Lost Transoceanic Voyages: Tamils and Sumerians Among the FIRST to Reach Australia and Antarctica?— PART II   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Kyle J. Dahl

    Perhaps 'they' didn't travel to Antarctica, perhaps Antarctica was closer to them pre-Pangaea breakup? Obviously, the weather (notice no reference to climate) now would make the continent inhabitable.

  • Reply to: Most Complete Ancient Human Relative Skeleton Is Unveiled   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Ort

    What a crock of crap. It's a fricking primate of some kind. Not a human relative. A. Monkey. If you think you came from such a one as these..........(snort!)

  • Reply to: Sobek, the Crocodile God Who Sweated the Nile While Creating the World   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: PETER AVELLONE

    Sobek's Mother is Neith. He protected Isis and the body of Osiris from further damage by Set, and is not a son of Set. Sobek raised Horus, Son of Isis and Osiris and taught Him to fight, and the value of vengeance. Yes, sometimes associated with both Osiris and Horus, as well as (in a funerary aspect) Anubis. Brother to Ra, but not bound to service. Known for being very independent, like His mother Neith, He can be counted on for an independent opinion or decision. He has made quite a popular return of late. Seekers should turn to Him for questions. Dua Sobek, Lord of Shedet!

  • Reply to: The Sumerian King List Reveals the Origin of Mesopotamian Kingship   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: John Barr

    I believe or am of the opinion that the longevity of the people before the flood would be the same as the "Dream Time" for Aboriginal people. The List was written down long after people learned to write & Tribes became "Civilized" after a fashion. Their Dreamtime stories were written down with a reverence to the old Rulers & their Rule as the people were slowly changing to wandering nomadic hunter gathers to a settled Farming society. This would have taken a few thousand years & the remembrance of those dreamtime stories was told & retold through the generations.

    The Great Flood happened in the Black Sea as a result of a combination of El Nino, Earthquake, Global Warming after an Ice Age which left the Mediterranean much higher than the Black Sea. The breaking through of the Bosporus at Istanbul caused the Flooding of the Black Sea & drowned the people who lived there. Those that survived told & retold the story of their survival. Dreamtime Stories.

    The Flooding of the Black Sea happened around 9000BC. There were no metal tools at that time & even Stone tools were still rudimentary & there were no settled communities.

    The lifestyle the people were leading when the Stories were written down, around 2500BC was vastly different to 9000BC but they just assumed that it always was as it was when they wrote it down. As they did in the Bible. Reference Camels. Camels weren't domesticated until after 1000BC yet Abraham was supposed to have them in 2500BC. The Bible, or Torah, wasn't written down in a complete form until about 750BC . They just assumed that Camels had been around forever & Abraham, & his ilk, must have had some. Dreamtime Stories once again.

    With the Sumerian Kings list I think that a couple of "0" can be taken off the years. This is just my opinion gleaned from many sources.

  • Reply to: The Sumerian King List Reveals the Origin of Mesopotamian Kingship   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: morgar54

    I’ve spent a long time reading thru the article and comments, and have only this to say:

    With so many versions of this list that have almost identical life spans for the old Kings, I’m inclined to believe the years listed are real – why would they change the value of years? All the interpreters give the word year as being the same. I normally don’t like referencing the Bible as I have serious doubts about the accuracy of information there as a result of so many successive translations corrupting the original meanings. However, even the most modern versions tell of improbably long life spans for some – think Noah. To me, that helps to confirm the veracity of the Sumerian lists.

     

  • Reply to: The Sumerian King List Reveals the Origin of Mesopotamian Kingship   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: morgar54

    How would you identify “alien” DNA? If the gods manipulated us so far in the past, – as in from apes to Homo whatever, we would all have the same make-up and no differences to identify as alien.  

  • Reply to: Unearthing the 1,000-Year-Old Story of a Rare Viking Toolbox   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: morgar54

    The draw plate is interesting, Same basic process is still used in the present day to produce wire, by pulling it thru sucessively smaller dies. If this belonged to a craftsman, it was a talented one to do both metal-working and carpentry. I would have expected more specialization.

  • Reply to: Stone Age Men Could Kill with One Swing of Their Club   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Eddy Polockski

    First, let me say, this article is truly one of the most intellectually provocative pieces I read.

    To summarize the salient points for those who might have gotten lost in the complexity of thought presented in the article:

    1. Could a man kill another man with a club? This may seem obvious to us today, but consider this question is being posed of a man 5,500 years ago AND of a man across "time and space."

    2. Clubs are heavy and when swung can hurt and even kill people if applied with force to another's head.

    3. In a strange twist of irony, some clubs might have resembled cricket bats.

    4. Scientists have been scratching their heads (no pun intended) about how caveman kill other caveman.

    5. If we make a fake skull and strike with club today fake skull crack open. Could caveman hit skull and crack it open too?

    6. Caveman might indeed kill other caveman with heavy stick.

    7. Caveman take dead caveman club and now have two club to kill two more caveman now no more caveman only scientist studying where caveman go.

  • Reply to: The Curious Disappearance of the Eilean Mor Lighthouse Keepers – A Scottish Mystery   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Holly N

    Curiously I had been speaking to a friend about a Dr Who story not half an hour before reading this, called "The Horror of Fang Rock". Apparently the Flannan mystery inspired the writer of this particular Tom Baker era installment, and it is one of my favourites due the claustrophobic atmosphere that it manages to create, all four episodes being set entirely in / around an isolated lighthouse.

  • Reply to: Are These Incredible Historical Coincidences Actually Due to Synchronicity or Mathematical Probability?   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: George Metaxas

    People have a tendency to focus on a "positive" coincidence, that inevitably happens from time to time by the laws of probability, and choose to ignore all "negative" coicidences which are the norm. Perhaps because we'd like to find some reason or cause in the chaotic system of the events of life. Simulacra and Gematria express a similar desire and of course the same is true of all occult arts. And sometimes one falls victim of his own prejudices, as perhaps is the case of Mark Twain. Or, it is just a matter of ignoring how probability works, as in the known example of the birthday dates coincidence of the people in a party.

  • Reply to: Car-boot Sale Toothbrush Holder Revealed to be a 4000-year-old Artifact   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: VickyS

    He should probably get fired. How is the "professional antique valuer" not aware of what they have in front of them? No clue of how old or the origin? and moreover then use it as a toothbrush holder? ridiculous...

  • Reply to: UK's First Pagan Burial Site In Over 5000 Years Is Hit For ‘Business Rates’. Is it Religious Discrimination?   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Guillaumé

    Everybody wants a slice of your pie.

  • Reply to: Car-boot Sale Toothbrush Holder Revealed to be a 4000-year-old Artifact   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Guillaumé

    Mr Martin sold the artifact for 80 little biddie pounds. Would you, in all honesty, sell something like a valued toothbrush holder for 80 pounds. This priceless item sold for 80 pounds he must be either naive, poor or just simply souless. The item is worth thousands more than 80 quid. 

  • Reply to: Archeoastronomy Reveals Cosmic Dynastic Divide in Chinese Burial Pyramids   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Charles Ford

    Velikovsky explained this in his works over 60 years ago the reason for the difference in orientation is because the angle of the axis of the earth that changed

  • Reply to: The Komnenian Dynasty: The Byzantine Royal Family that Kept Coming Back   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: Charles Ford

    The dynasty went in decline in large measure because they had exerted a lot of energy against the Persians and then fell victim to the Muslim jihadis that emerge from Saudi Arabia

  • Reply to: Why Are There Carvings of Women Flashing Their Genitals on Churches Across Europe?   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: MimiMelo

    Why would the sex of a woman (or man) is so often said to be "grotesque"? Is it maybe one of the reasons we cannot solve the mystery, because to do so we would have to change our mentalities, or at least put them aside ...

  • Reply to: Remembering the Barbary Slaves: White Slaves and North African Pirates   5 years 4 months ago
    Comment Author: MikeD2018

    These numbers are deeply understated. There is a reference from Poland [published in research made by writer Dr Andrew Bostom] which claimed that 3 million people in Poland was raided by muslims into slavery. And that's only in Poland... so imagine how huge the numbers must have been in countries far closer to the Islamic conquest, like Italy, Greece, Spain, France....

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