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  • Reply to: Ancient Mongolian Teeth Demand New Research Into the Mysterious Origins of Lactose Intolerance in Humans   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: Veronica-Mae Soar

    it has already been shown that some adult people do still have lactase = the enzyme which digests the lactose in milk, Those who do not are still able to eat fermented products like yogurt - a fact to which I can personally attest There is some research which indicates that the number of those who retain lactase in adulthood is rising. Other studies indicate that race has a lot of influence on whether we have it or not.

  • Reply to: The Monastery of Saint Catherine: A Controversial Agreement Across Faiths   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: Joe T

    This place was a well oiled tourist trap, the mountain associated with Moses is situated across the gulf in Saudi Arabia this has been documented and exposed.

  • Reply to: Enigmatic Ancient Wheel: The 300-Million-Year-Old Wheel and Anomalous Ancient Tracks Across the World   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: frankw

    I have long suspected that modern geologic dating is defective and many of the numbers tossed out by earth scientists are pulled out of their...hats in order to conform to Darwinist convention.

  • Reply to: The Hidden Identity of the Woman Glorified as Athena: Her Link to the Pre-Flood World   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: Scott Crossman

    Religious syncretism exhibits blending of two or more religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation into a religious tradition of beliefs from unrelated traditions. ... The consequence, according to Keith Ferdinando, is a fatal compromise of the dominant religion's integrity.

  • Reply to: New Research Shows that Some Ancient Egyptians Were Naturally Fair-Haired   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: Chris Bucksey

    While unquestionably the Hebrews came out of Africa, The Nazarines of Edessa were blonde. Their blood line has been traced to a ruling class of ancient Egypt. I wonder if the two groups were involved in the same Exodus?

  • Reply to: Enigmatic Ancient Wheel: The 300-Million-Year-Old Wheel and Anomalous Ancient Tracks Across the World   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: Blake Long

    Perhaps the cart tracks wee carved as a guide for cart wheels, like an ancient type of railway or road?

  • Reply to: Face of King Robert The Bruce, Outlaw King is Brought Back to Life 700 Years After His Death   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: Guillaumé

    What complete rubbish. A face cannot acurately be reconstructed from a skull. There are so many variables that it is not within human capability to recontruct acurately. This reconstruction is not science but simply an artists impression. If he had leprosy how in heavens name can you know the disfigurement of his face. Where did this plaster cast come from is another question. You don’t know the colour of his hair or eyes. You do not know the shape of his mouth, chin, nose etc etc, you cannot know his wrinkles.

  • Reply to: The Fantastic Basilica San Vitale is the Last Entirely Intact Byzantine Church   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: John Pitkethly

    "In 540, Constantine would conquer Italy and parts of Spain, and for a time they were ruled by the Byzantine Empire."

    Justinian (not Constantine)

  • Reply to: Enigmatic Ancient Wheel: The 300-Million-Year-Old Wheel and Anomalous Ancient Tracks Across the World   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: qtessa

    It seems more likely these would have been routing for water. Where are the animal tracks that pulled the carts? Surely 1 or 2 would have remained. If carts were heavy than stands to reason heavy animal would have pulled it whereby leaving prints. Or perhaps you are thinking machine driven???

  • Reply to: Enigmatic Ancient Wheel: The 300-Million-Year-Old Wheel and Anomalous Ancient Tracks Across the World   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: kjohnson

    What I find interesting is the mine owners refusal you let scientists examine this artefact. Are they afraid the government might seize his mine or is something else going on?

  • Reply to: The Children's Crusade: Thousands of Children March to Holy Land but Never Return   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: Cousin_Jack

    Legend has it the 15 bezants on the Cornish coat of arms were what was paid by the Cornish as ransom for someone during during the crusades.

  • Reply to: It Looks Like a Laser Cut But What Really Split the Ancient Al Naslaa Rock?   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: briansteere

    On thunderbolts.info I have read of electrical activity at a level not currently experienced on earth that is posited to account for all sorts of geological 'anomalies' on earth as on other planets and beyond.
    https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2018/03/31/sputtering-canyons-part-3/

    Plasma Cosmology - along with a re-reading of the Mythic record are part of an emerging Electric Universe Idea.

    Anyone interested in ancient origins would find very interesting information in looking into these directions.

  • Reply to: Enigmatic Ancient Wheel: The 300-Million-Year-Old Wheel and Anomalous Ancient Tracks Across the World   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: George Metaxas

    The tracks in the amphitheater of Syracuse are obviously the result of wear from chariots, unlike most of the cart ruts around the word that are too deep or useless for any practical purpose. A "crazy" idea is that they were made by Atlantean refugees who tried to imitate tracks remembered from their lost homeland.

  • Reply to: Unearthing the Lost City Built By Prisoners Of The Famous Trojan War   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: Ray Sarna

    Very much like the diasporic Jews, the diasporic Trojans needed a way to generate income. In the Trojans’ case, they became fluent in both Roman and Greek. They could act as middlemen, brokers of goods and services. They could profit as fair traders or as theives as in enormous profit, with each of the other side content with the deal. In an out, quickly, paid in full, the spoils to the Trojans. It makes all the sense in the world that this transpired repeatedly, making Tenea “rich”.

  • Reply to: Is This the Real Reason Why Pirates Wore Eyepatches?   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: Prysm

    Actually, pirates reportedly took good care of those who had been maimed on duty. Lose an eye? Slightly greater share of treasure. Lose a leg? Much larger share of treasure. I think it was more or less done as a sort of fund to help ease their lives back on land. Pirates really looked after one another, had a democratic system for deciding on their leaders, and were treated far better than any other sailor. It's no wonder that piracy was such a huge problem.

  • Reply to: Is This the Real Reason Why Pirates Wore Eyepatches?   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: menno

    Sorry folks, it is caused by the sextant. There was no GPS is those days, so the captain had to navigate by the altitude of the sun to the horizon.

  • Reply to: Is The Real Location of the Ancient Underworld Right in Front of Us?   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: George Metaxas

    First, a correction. Odysseus (Ulysses) met a lot of (dead) people in the Underworld including his mother, but not his father who was alive and well and whom he met upon returning to Ithaka. It was Aeneas, the Trojan hero who met his father in the Underword. Also the ancient Greeks had not the notion of Heaven and Hell but there was a common deep underground place, although there was a "first class" area (Elysian fields) for the heroes. The most renown entrances to the ancient Underworld were Acheron (western Greece) and Cuma or Baia (near Naples, Italy). In Baia it was also supposed to be the place where the Titans were buried after been defeated, where the land still groans, fumes and vibrates (there a supervolcano underneath). The "ocean" for the ancient Greeks was a vague notion of a westerly placed big body of sea, not coinciding decidedly with today's notion of the ocean.

  • Reply to: Espada de Anibal - The Mystery Behind Hannibal’s Magical Lost Sword   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: Juan Pedro Fisanotti

    Hey, one small correction: when the article says "which had probably broken through bad casting", are you implying that the sword was made by pouring molten metal into a mold (casting)?

    Medieval and renaissance swords were never made that way. Swords were forged, hammered down into shape. Casting produces pieces far too weak to be used as real swords, so they weren't made like that. The sword casting thing is sadly a very widespread myth.

  • Reply to: Is This the Real Reason Why Pirates Wore Eyepatches?   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: George Metaxas

    I believe that the disadvantage of the loss of stereoscopic sight by wearing a patch on the deck, where all battles should begin, overrides any possible advantage for a night adapted vision for the suite of the fight belowdecks. Is it possible that the patch was to save at least one eye in the event of a gun malfunction or explosion, or splinter flying all around? I may guess that a blind pirate's fate would be much more grim that a sailor's.

  • Reply to: Is This the Real Reason Why Pirates Wore Eyepatches?   5 years 6 months ago
    Comment Author: Tesla's Apprentice

    I was in the aviation branch of the U. S. Navy and spent several cruises aboard an aircraft carrier. During around-the-clock flight ops. (24/7) I NEVER saw a single pilot use the technique you mentioned.

    In addition, even if a pilot used that technique, it would be downright dangerous for a pirate to fight in close contact, as he would while fighting below deck, because of the loss of depth perception. Further, any presumed advantage of saving your "night eye" for below deck fighting would quickly be lost to an opponent who uses both eyes above deck. To gain an added advantage while fighting a one-eyed opponent all you would need to do is move to his "blind side" where his vision is blocked by the eyepatch. That would be the natural thing to do. It could also end the fight post-haste.

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