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  • Reply to: Did Egyptian Mummification Descend from a More Ancient and, Perhaps, Reversible Preservation Technique?   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: kjohnson

    I’m a firm believer in the idea of a previous possibly world wide civilization that fell during the last ice age. There is too much ancient “shared” knowledge for it to be otherwise

  • Reply to: Frankincense: An Ancient Wonder Cure on the Verge of Extinction   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Dan Neutron

    Frankincense was mostly grown in India and India was the largest producer of it in the ancient world, how come this is isn't mentioned?

  • Reply to: Does Ta Prohm Temple Depict a ‘Domestic’ Dinosaur?   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Christopher Bar...

    It most definitely does NOT look "unmistakably like a Stegosaurus".
    No spikes on tail and wrong sized head. Did you even read the article ??

  • Reply to: The Lost Knowledge of the Ancients: Were Humans the First? Part 1   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: jaredcondon

    "Yet ancient Brahmin books estimated the Day of Brahma, the life span of our universe, to be 4,320 million years - not very far off from modern calculations"

    Modern estimates actually peg the universe as being ~13.8 billion years old. The ancient Brahmin account varies with the modern proposal by some 13.4 billion years. Where did this 4.320 years old figure come from?

  • Reply to: OOPArts Found in Coal and Stone: Is There an Explanation for These Anomalous Bells, Chains, Walls and More?   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Amlodhi

    A much-reduced age for coal was proposed by Immanuel Velikovsky in his book 'Earth In Upheaval.' In it he reports that a sandal was found inside a piece of coal (where and when, sadly, I don't know as I no longer have the book).

  • Reply to: Shipping Blackspot: Largest Find of Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Intensifies   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: aruvqan myers

    I would definitely put this on my bucket list if they turned the area into a dive museum. Fantastic discovery.

  • Reply to: Ancient Babylonian Tablet Provides Compelling Evidence that the Tower of Babel DID Exist   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: ScareBear

    I’m not really certain Etemenanki was the original tower of Babel. I’m pretty sure Babylon was off and on for about 10,000 years and established several capitals, sometimes simultaneous capitals across Asia Minor and Egypt. This Etemenanki was probably a later construct and given the title Ziggurat Babel because of its size. This would actually more or less conclude the legend of the Tower of Babel was known by its later allusion of recreation. I’ve also deduced there was a mother tongue spoken by everyone and rapidly evolved as people scattered but civilizations evidence are very hard to preserve over a span of 10,000 years. The whole world was probably extremely different and had different resources with entirely properties, like what is now sand could’ve been entirely crystalline and eventually crumbled after constant recycling of materials. I’m a pretty big recycler myself and I’m pretty sure if you take a piece of wood and recycle it it’s no longer a whole piece of wood, it’s a pressboard of sawdust, probably the same with babel bricks. Even the scientists visited this Etemenanki and deduced that most of the bricks were recast and reused for other buildings 

  • Reply to: What Makes the Olmec Culture So Unique and Alluring?   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: em doug

    As a person of American Indian and also proudly of brown-skin, kinky hair African ancestry, I find it so perversely fascinating how the many white European-descent "investigators of the Olmecs" never state the obvious: the Olmec colossal heads in southern Mexico LOOK AFRICAN. They have AFRICAN FEATURES.

  • Reply to: Shipping Blackspot: Largest Find of Shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Intensifies   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Karl Frederick

    You apparently mixed up the numbers for feet and meters (one meter is a little more than 3 feet).

  • Reply to: Please introduce yourself   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: callow_explorer

    Hello all.

    My name is Kieron and I've only recently registered on the site. I'm a Northern Ireland based photographer and I like to travel a lot. One of the reasons for coming on board is to see if anyone is working on a project (or knows someone) that requires a photographer. I'm always looking for adventure and would be happy to relocate.

    I have a particular interest in history involving pirates and whatever else Lara Croft and Nathan Drake has brought my way.

    Nice to meet everyone.

    Kieron

  • Reply to: Medieval Re-enactor Tragically Dies After Being Impaled With His Own Lance   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Barcsi Janos

    Thank you for an excellent and respectful article. Master Terafan was a friend of mine, although we had been out of touch for a couple of years. He's a great man, an excellent Army officer (now retired), and a spectacular reenactor, as well as the very pinnacle of kindness and generosity.

  • Reply to: Pointing to Witchcraft: The Possible Origin of the Conical Witch's Hat   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Dr RJ Nicholas

    Wow - you missed the whole story - the conical hat was worn by Jews in medieval times (pointed hat with brim) - there are many historical photographs of this yet you manage to not find it. It is thought that the association between Jews (who openly practiced some forms of magic) and Satan was made and this may be the origin of the wtiches hat.

  • Reply to: Bible origins   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: evilsorcerer1

    I know far more than most about the bible. I say that because I like to brag. But I've written so much I don't know where to start. You probably don't believe me, but I created a video you can watch to decide for yourself. I guarantee you'll learn far more from me about the bible than most of the people walking this earth. In a much shorter time. And I have a motive for telling you that I can't explain in a few words. Watch my videos and you'll see.
    https://www.ancient-origins.net/comment/32122#comment-32122
    I can tell you this. Moses was the torah of bible, the written word at one time. Aaron was the tower of bable. The spoken word at the time. Moses being slow of speech symbolized, first, the difficulty by people to decipher the writings. And also the miniscule amount. Aaron was able to speak well (bable). He was the spoken word, the errin of bable + the airin of bable. Babel comes from abel. I know the whole story of the bible, if you like the video and are interested you can read what I've written. It's easy reading, with a lot of pictures. And I have other videos on my site, check them all out. But I apologize, I was told on small screens the video appears blurry, so you'd be better viewing on a laptop.

  • Reply to: The Big Egyptian Sphinx Cover Up: Hidden Chambers, An Unexcavated Mound and Endless Denial   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Don J

    There is also a stella in between its front legs
    If removed there would be a path to the great pyramid

    Originally it was a canal, filled with water
    Procession ceremony back to Zep Tepi

  • Reply to: The Big Egyptian Sphinx Cover Up: Hidden Chambers, An Unexcavated Mound and Endless Denial   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: Richard C
    Tip

    Just the tip
    The shaft is under the sand

  • Reply to: The Crooked Spire: Kicked Over by the Devil?   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: DanaThompson

    Thanks for sharing such great read.

  • Reply to: Earliest Known Inscription of the Word ‘Jerusalem’ Discovered at Ancient City’s Entrance   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: ScareBear

    Well, it could just mean Dadalos was his fathers name. Unless that sort of graffiti was a crime in the holy city, carving it at the gates and not exactly pinpointing a culprit. I, too thought it was similar to Deadylus...maybe it was a greek jew visiting the holy land 

     interesting find nonetheless

  • Reply to: Bible origins   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: ScareBear

    This Torah was written or rewritten by Moses. Moses might’ve erred in the lineages because towards the end of that commentary you find identical names, I’m guessing he didn’t know what was what or who came from where. Then you have Moses circling the entire Arabian peninsula probably because he was a little lost and had no real concept of direction. Then you have Aaronic priesthood taboo which was a little messy. It is tough growing up learning the Bible was the word of God and yet dealing with bemuddlements right away in Genesis.  It’s a tough battle, it has a kings list and genaeology to the first man but it’s hard to know if it’s true or an adopted embellishment. I pour and pour over anything like that i can get my hands on...

  • Reply to: Please introduce yourself   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: ScareBear

    Hi, I am Brandon (Sword) in Arkansas (US) and I am extremely interested in genaeology. Unfortunately I am out of leads and now I spend countless hours and years pilfering through a great many credible stories looking for hunches. I’ve studied elements of extinct languages as a hobby over the years (don’t get me wrong, I don’t speak proto-Austronesian). I didn’t want to submit my DNA (Y analysis) so I used other means and actually pieced together some interesting coincidences but also each story leads to more and more dead ends and now I just read everything. I especially choose this site the past couple of months to thoroughly review because I probably do know a lot more now than the average user with a degree...and I’m just a cook at a stupid bureaucratic restaurant.  I’m actually a sous chef among other qualities but I make salads at where I am (by choice, by graciousness also but for real I’m great). I read, I learn, I teach, I might be wrong some but I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one. I can’t tell you just yet what piques my interest because I’m yet to submit my DNA, there’s a great bounty here that pleases me and I’m too broke to get premium though I would if i had a debit card or PayPal which I refuse so...I’ll definitely read what I can get. Thank you for your many articles, I gladly spend my time perusing through them!  I’m very single and very handsome, just couldn’t make it to college yet darn the luck 

  • Reply to: Mayan Calendar Similar to Ancient Chinese: Early Contact?   5 years 7 months ago
    Comment Author: ScareBear

    These two civilizations and technologies were entirely different, never signs of mingling. Their similarity in a calendar is also a clear faux pas but it points to even more ancient knowledge of the cosmos. This elemental concept is most likely due to pre-migratory understandings and way of life and can be in no way linked with contact unless they were going back and forth between land bridges or practicing shamanism together and the future Mayans decided to kick rocks

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