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  • Reply to: The Influential Women that Surrounded and Aided Alexander the Great   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Claudio S.

    For me it is quite clear from the historical evidence that Alexander and Hephaestion were lovers, while marriages with persian women were basically political aliases, and much of the romantic descriptions of Alexander's relationship with female lovers seem more fictional, or mirror the particular views of those who wrote these descriptions.

  • Reply to: What was the REAL relationship Between Alexander the Great and Hephaestion?   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Claudio S.

    For me it is quite clear from the historical evidence that Alexander and Hephaestion were lovers, while marriages with persian women were basically political aliases.

  • Reply to: The Truth Behind the Christ Myth: Ancient Origins of the Often Used Legend – Part I   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Freddie Rey

    I can’t stand people who spread this garbage. They do what sitchen did when he spread his lies about the Sumerian tablets, he banked on people being too lazy to go read the stories for themselves to fact check! Osiris life was NOTHING like Jesus. He was not resurrected nor was his mother a virgin. Jesus was not green either. Osiris was cut up into pieces except his penis was never found so his wife made one from gold and used it. No virgins in his story anywhere! The owner of this site is a Freemason and if his staff is as educated as they claim why would they let this slip through?

  • Reply to: The Benin Bronzes: A Tragic Story of Slavery and Imperialism Cast in Brass   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Erico

    The Benin empire banned the slave trade in its territory. Get your facts right Mr.

  • Reply to: Spintriae, The Roman Sex Coins That Showed What Was on The Menu   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Armando

    I am sure that the coins pictured in that article were found a LONG time ago.
    Is it only now that they have surfaced?

  • Reply to: The Truth Behind the Christ Myth: Ancient Origins of the Often Used Legend – Part I   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Rwth Hunt

    As mentioned before, the links are tenuous. There is independent evidence in non-Christian writings to a lot of the Christian story. At worst, this can also be a case of History repeating itself. Maybe virgin birth isn't that rare, but probably fairly important. There was a prophecy a few hundred years earlier, and while the creators of the Torah threw out a lot of stuff, they kept this.. Jesus should have been called Emmanuel, as far as I can recall.

    I studied Mesopotamian myth at university and while I do remember Dumuzi going to Hell for being unfaithful to Inanna, I don't remember any suggestion that he was her son. She was a nasty piece of work, but this just wasn't part of the story.

  • Reply to: Discovered! Ancient Mexican Spiral of Death   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Ralph Baumlisberger

    James Mccanney (nuclear physicist, mathematician,archeologist etc) has proven without a doubt last year that the Nasca Lines are for communication off into space. He also worked in telecommunication industry and says they are constructed exactly like a fractal antenna in your cell phone. They are powered by atmospheric electricity.

  • Reply to: The Legend of Shikhandi, the Transgendered Warrior Who Paid the Price of Opposing Powerful Men   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: chris6a2

    This is only a preview of the complete article that is only available only for members. Sign up to read the complete story. http://members.ancient-origins.net/ancient-origins-premium-membership-sales

  • Reply to: The Legend of Shikhandi, the Transgendered Warrior Who Paid the Price of Opposing Powerful Men   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: IJ

    This has nothing to do with transgenders. Yet another misleading headline to a factual story. What the hell is happening to this website?

  • Reply to: 11 of the Most Ancient and Continually Occupied Cities in the World   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: CHRIS S SIDAH

    Oraibe, on the Second Mesa Hopi lands should have been included,

  • Reply to: 3,000-Year-Old Ain Dara Temple in Syria Reduced to Rubble by Turkish Airstrikes   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Kerem

    I'm Turk, but I feel sad about this loss as an archeologist.

  • Reply to: 3,000-Year-Old Ain Dara Temple in Syria Reduced to Rubble by Turkish Airstrikes   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Todd McCain

    This is just tragic news. These monuments have stood the test of time only to be destroyed in the "modern" era. Long after the battle is over the destruction will remain as another lost chapter in human history.

  • Reply to: UFO ORIGIN & THE END TIMES   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Ingvar nord

    Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung in his One Modern Myth: The Things Observed in the Sky (1958) considered the UFO to be the sole result of the activity of the human psyche and the manifestation of archetypes. In my opinion, the UFO phenomenon arose under the influence of the scientific and technological revolution and the exploration of space when people began to look for brothers in their minds in other galaxies, and pop culture began to blow this phenomenon through films such as Star Trek or Star Wars. In my opinion, there are more important mysteries of mankind than UFOs. We still do not know who we are, where we came from, where we are going. Regarding religion, as a Christian, I also admit that this phenomenon is related to the wicked. It is best for the Lord to understand the nature of the higher world than to study some flying saucers. Additionally, the Vatican has long been interested in UFOs
    http://www.traditioninaction.org/Questions/B674_UFO.html
     

  • Reply to: Five da Vinci inventions that could have revolutionized the history of technology   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Nick D

    Every time you look at the master's sketches you see something new. The aircraft is very clever (but not workable, it may show an important aspect of flight control). Bird muscle mass, is around 4:1 wing to leg. For humans it's the other way around, the aircraft is controlled with human legs. What I didn't appreciate before, is how the wing is configured There is NO way a human can support wing loading for a sufficient large platform area for any length of time using arms (many tower jumpers tried to breaking limbs or losing their life). He's not trying to. More so, he may be trying to utilise dynamic soaring (that birds use). I do not believe he's trying to create propelled flight using a flapping wing. He's wanting to change the angle of attack to generate lift (altitude) in high winds, then lower the angle of attack for gliding flight in low winds. What's clever is how the wing is controlled. You don't have to use energy to support the wing, this is done using the pulley system. You just extend one leg to control the angle of attack to selectively trade momentum for altitude. There is a note he wrote referring to testing an aircraft (unknown which it was), I think it was Como or another nearby lake when he worked for the Duke of Milano. The air screw was also built, it is an enhancement to a Chinese spinning top (that were imported as a curiosity/toy at this time), strange swirling devices where observed over the Vatican wall when he was commissioned to paint a fresco. It's a new type of spinning top, the section at the bottom is the release mechanism, you get the blade up to speed with a wound cord held in a tube, you pull the cord, The helix is for a left-handed thinker/cord puller. I suspect that this was being explored not for air, but to propel a ship in water. There is a passage that refers to 'silent approach' to attack a port, he was bragging about it in his letter of introduction to the Duke. It may not relate to the breathing apparatus, but a method of propelling a ship using a water screw without oars (much more useful), there is an armoured destroyer sketch, it doesn't have apertures in the hull for oars! This guy knews he's fluid dynamics, he built water tunnels to observe what was going on (you put pepper in the water to see the fluid flows).. There are flecks on the air screw sketch where air would fall off the returning blade creating turbulance. Genius.

  • Reply to: 11 of the Most Ancient and Continually Occupied Cities in the World   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Jsmith

    Confused. I've been to Ur several times. It's completely uninhabited and has been for millennia. How do you define "continuously inhabited?"

  • Reply to: Dark Skin and Blue Eyes: European Hunter-Gatherers Did Not Fit with Common Representations   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Jsmith

    Amazing what scientists are able to determine from a millennia old tooth.

  • Reply to: Driver Plows Truck into 2,000-Year-Old Nazca Lines Causing Irreversible Damage   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Guillaumé

    Such a pity that we are so destructive. For me the most critical fact, of which the article does not mention is that the images are only realizable at 1000 feet above the ground. This strongly suggests that the ‘people’ had the technology of flight.  

     

  • Reply to: 11 of the Most Ancient and Continually Occupied Cities in the World   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Todd McCain

    I don't feel Ur should be included in this list. I don't think it has been inhabited for a very long time.Other than that, great article.

  • Reply to: Britannia, Druids and the Surprisingly Modern Origins of Myths   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Cousin_Jack

    Cornwall still has druids, Gorsdh Kernow. Maybe not the same as they were but I’m sure they’d still know more than the average person, especially since a few are Cornish historians.

  • Reply to: Richly Adorned Arabic Influenced Chess Piece Unearthed in Norway   6 years 3 months ago
    Comment Author: Bob H

    I just don't see the Arabic influence. The designs I see were being used in Europe well before Islam came on the scene.the birth of Muhammed. What am I missing?

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