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  • Reply to: Weapons Control in Ancient Greece: When an Accident was Deadly   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: Nimostar

    As much as I dislike gun nuts, this is a terrible argument for "weapons control". Basically, greeks didn't withold weapons because you could accidentally kill your neighbor. As you noticed, weapons were only owned and stored by rich citizens - and the vas majority of the population was not. Weapons control in this instance was no more and mo less than a form of military subjugation of the greater society by the select few. If slaves had weapons those "citizens" woudn't feel very safe.
    So the issue wasn't "protecting freedom", but rather preventing it.

  • Reply to: The Celestial Temple of Sogmatar: A Sacred Site Dedicated to Sin and the Planets   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: Roy Zartarian

    This site is in historic Armenia. Why is there no reference to that fact?

  • Reply to: The Magna Carta: Did a Tyrannical English King Really Set the Stage for Liberty?   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: Noel Ryan

    Yes, unlike the 1791 American Bill of Rights, the MC only applied to the Feudal Lords ie slave owning class. It did not redress the abject state of absolute misery endured by the king's ordinary subjects. While he was placing King John and England under Interdict in 1208, what a pity Pope Innocent 111 did not also reverse the 1155 Papal Bull 'Laudabiliter' of his predecessor Adrian 1V (Nicholas Breakspeare, the only English Pope) authorising King Henry 11 to invade and govern Ireland and enforce the Gregorian Reforms on the semi-autonomous Christian Church in Ireland. No MC for Ireland! How much misery and conflict could have been avoided over the last 900 years if he had.

  • Reply to: Why Are Mysterious Handbags Prevalent in Ancient Carvings Worldwide?   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: cezary

    hand teleport...

  • Reply to: Looking for book recommendations for Christian/Jewish/Kabbalah etc mythology   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: Terri Anderson ...

    I am new to this forum but I am so glad to find it!  I am looking for a copy of a fictional book written by Cornelia Amiri – The Druidess.  I am interested in Celtic topics, Queen Boudica, etc.  Its a pleasure to join this group.  Thanks.

  • Reply to: Chronicles from the future: 3-ΙΧ to 5-IX   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: NN

    Too bad I'm living in 21th century where money applies, it must be hard to publish an ordinary person's dairy for free, specially when it has "life changing" information that belongs to humankind. ~unless is pure fiction and like any ohter book, of course, needs to be sold... ╮(╯▽╰)╭

  • Reply to: A Failed #MeToo Moment: Just How Horrible Being An Ancient Roman Actress Could Be   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: daydreamerslife

    Weakest of males/females have been used and abused since our time has begun, poisoning was the equalizer when karma runs too slowly

  • Reply to: Return of the Ancient Gods: The Resurgence of Paganism   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: skipNclair

    What you see today, will be considered child's play tomorrow. When Damascus is turned to rubble and surely it will be, then and only then will most of the world regret what happens after.

  • Reply to: Egyptian Archaeologists unearth large black sarcophagus in Alexandria   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: honest abe

    eddie boy, you need to learn either how to properly do research or how to properly proofread before you do an 'article'. your measurements of '6 feet (1.83 m) tall and over 5. 5 feet (1.65 m) wide' is completely false. this is how disinformation becomes 'truth' for the unlearned masses, of which you are without doubt one. your fake measurements would make the sarcophagus width just 0.17m smaller than the 'height', which by only visually comparing the two in the photo, if it is real, shows it is less than that. in reality, by looking at the photo, it is easy to tell that the length should be closer to 7to8 feet -- that is, if the width is correct. casket or sarcophagus is never over 2/3 the height. you prove that people will believe anything and that the writers will write anything just to be published. hope you have a wonderful and cheery day, mate.

  • Reply to: Mimes, Paid Grievers, and Masks: The Insane Theatrics of Ancient Roman Funerals   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: R

    You forgot the gladiator's games. Initially, gladiators fought only on funerals to honor the deceased, and never to death.

  • Reply to: Startling new find of a 5500-year-old Megalithic Passage Tomb in Ireland is, “The Most Important Find for Half a Century”   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: Prem Kaidi

    Great job! Congrats from Kathmandu Nepal....

  • Reply to: Bronze Treasures Beyond Belief: The Fabulous Dowris Hoard of Ireland   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: Sharon

    *early medieval period* (damned predictive text!)

  • Reply to: Bronze Treasures Beyond Belief: The Fabulous Dowris Hoard of Ireland   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: Sharon

    The Dowris latchet was NOT part of the Dowris hoard. The name refers to the town land (aka Whigsborough) where they were found. The hoard dates to the Bronze Age alright but the latchet dates tithe earth medieval period - probably 6th/7th century AD! They were not found together.

  • Reply to: Massive 5,000-year-old underground city uncovered in Cappadocia, Turkey   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: dumbcreaknuller

    Regarding the city. i have looked at many cities from around the world as well as ancient buildings, and what i see is in common, is that the top of the buildings are all the same. in my mind, what i see from these pictures is just top top section of a giant building structure and that most of this superstructure is underground. from my experience in watching pictures of ancient ruins,i have discovered a repeating pattern of ruins, and that is that their all ruins that have been undergoing flooding. whats underground does not seem to have ever been builth underground as the surrounding terrein suggest that this structure have been under water for some time. its likely that all of this was once above ground and that this city was gigantic in size. it seem to be the same kind of mudrock on these buildings as it is on many other such structures around the world. from my perspective, we are only looking at the top of the superstructure and that most of the giant city is burried underground. it will take a massive effort to excavate the city and get down to the bottom of this structure. based on how the wall in these buildings are made, i think its likely that the above and underground structure is not carved structures but that this superstructure is all made from bottom up and that the ground floor or rock bottom, may be hundreds of meter deep. much of what have been believed to be natural rock, under a process of flooding can transform mud into solid rock. most types of rock can be formed as a result of different compositions of mud hardening into rock, and it all depends on the content of the mud to what type and strenght the rock will form from. i think that rock formation need a reinvestigation since the types of rock found in ruins like these are much of the same quality as rock found elsewhere and perhaps the theory of rock formation need an uppgrade.

  • Reply to: Kailasa Temple Was Carved Out of One Rock from the Top Down!   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: Kalin Jock

    The last time I smoked DMT, my dog turned into ravana, the god shaking the temple, and I had never seen or even heard of ravana before, wow I'm absolutely shocked right now!

  • Reply to: Rh-Negative Blood: An Exotic Bloodline or Random Mutation?   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: Gertrude van Voorden

    Possibly the result of inbreeding/incest, said the elite, who have a thing for rhesus -, have done, until they discovered the rise in mental health problems. Then again no psychiatric disease can be proven and all these issues could relate to traumas in your bloodline.

  • Reply to: Rh-Negative Blood: An Exotic Bloodline or Random Mutation?   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: the Jude9

    No one ever mentions the real advantage of Rh - for a female. Assuming her partner is in a positive blood group, the mother will develop antibodies against her positive RH children. After one or 2 births this process will abort any future children. In ancient times when women frequently died of childbirth and overwork, leaving the care of her children in jeopardy. Therefore, if you only had a couple of children, your chances of surviving to old age were greatly increased for a female.
    FYI: I am Rh- and do not have blue eyes and in fact, I am sadly, a fragile mortal. All of the silly Alien origins stories are simply racist judgments. How could those small brown people make civilizations and erect pyramids... Let's see, must have been blue eyed aliens..Not!

  • Reply to: The rediscovery of ‘Noah’, a 6,500-year-old skeleton, who survived a Great Flood   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: harrykane

    thanks

  • Reply to: Boy, 11, Finds 1,000-Year-Old-Message Written in Runes on Pendant Made of Mammoth Bone   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: Gary Lovell

    If the object in question is a mammoth bone it would have to be at least 10,000 years old. Were the inhabitants of that area digging up old Mammoth carcasses? how was the determination made that it was a mammoth bone is there a chemical signature, is it the age of the artifact. there's much left unsaid in this article.

  • Reply to: 2,000-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy Workshop and Goldmine of Treasures Unearthed in Saqqara   5 years 9 months ago
    Comment Author: Nick D

    Egypt is amazing, it so dry everything is really well preserved. I wish the scientists could work out how they were doing guiding, there are three methods:
    1. Leaf (hammer gold flat).
    2. Create an amalgam with mercury, apply in liquid state and boil off the mercury (bit dangerous but they were not to know this). Likely for ultrafine coating, but it would not work well for these type of forms as the liquid would just roll off.
    3. Electroplating and this would suggest they had something like the Baghdad batteries (again a nano fine layer could be applied, may work better if a brush technique was applied).
    If the layers are less than 6 microns, it suggest the last two methods are more likely.

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