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... violent explosion accompanied by fire and lightning. The sound of the explosion was heard as far away as Rodriguez (nearly 3 000 miles distant) and Ceylon (2 058 miles distant). (g ) Where there had been ... can only be measured with any accuracy by the linear direction of mountain masses. The situation of Java and the East Indian Archipelagi generally suggests that this region has always retained a position on or towards the Equator, which could easily ... related rather to adjacent isles on the east, to Western New' Guinea, to the Tibetan Mountains, the eastern parts of the Hindu Kush and Pamirs, the Kohi-Baba of Mghanistan the Styrian Alps and the Tyrol, the Pennine ...
272. Centuries of Darkness? - the reviewers reviewed [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Centuries of Darkness? - the reviewers reviewed by Bernard Newgrosh Works cited: Michael Roaf, in British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology Newsletter no. 4 (1991), pp. 106-107 K. A. Kitchen, in The ... conclusions, even though some show a refreshing openness about the shortcomings of the generally accepted chronology for the ancient Near East. Responses vary considerably in length, from the symposium in Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1:2 - spanning 27 pages ... case presentation and critique - to that of Michael Roaf, which is reproduced here in its entirety [sic]: "The conclusions presented in this book are wrong." The editor of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology ...
273. From the Coming of Titus to besiege Jerusalem to the Great Extremity to which the Jews were reduced [Books]
... The Wars Of The Jews Or The History Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem Book V CONTAINING THE INTERVAL OF NEAR SIX MONTHS. FROM THE COMING OF TITUS TO BESIEGE JERUSALEM, TO THE GREAT EXTREMITY TO WHICH THE JEWS WERE REDUCED ... Jerusalem, at the mount called the Mount of Olives (8 ) which lies over against the city on the east side, and is parted from it by a deep valley, interposed between them, which is named Cedron. ... and reaches as far as a certain place which they called "Ophlas," where it was joined to the eastern cloister of the temple. The second wall took its beginning from that gate which they called "Gennath," ...
274. Catastrophes and the History of Life on Earth [Journals] [SIS Review]
... a volcanic scenario, as does the fact that Zeus clashed with the monstrous Typhon (also known as Typhoeus) near Mount Vesuvius and finally trapped him under Mount Etna. However, the Roman author, Pliny the Elder, wrote ... as a circular caldera over 10 km in diameter (Fig. 3). The eruption of Krakatoa in the East Indies in 1883 was slightly smaller, producing a caldera about half the area of that of Thera. Nevertheless, ... of 5 out of a possible 8. Moving up the scale, the Bronze Age eruption of Thera in the Eastern Mediterranean, which seems to have destabilised the Minoan Civilisation without bringing it to an immediate end, was a VEI ...
275. Encounters and Collisions [Books] [de Grazia books]
... magnetism whose effects were then unnoticeable. The gravitational balance of the solar system, he proved, however, was near perfect, an empirical demonstration that became a shibboleth to astronomy and thence to progressive mankind. The present trend to ... the antipodes, and vast tidal waves sweeping across America, the Caribbean, and the oceans to the north, east, and south. Large tracts of land would be sunk and others elevated. Minerals would be formed, elements ... , species extincted and new forms created in the radiation storms. They assigned an axis tilt of 30 to the blow, shifting the north pole from near Akpatok Island, in the Hudson Strait, to its present location. The ...
276. Saul, David and Solomon [Journals] [SIS Review]
... a hero in Saul [1 ] and argued his case eloquently [2 ]. Historical credit for freeing the Near East from the yoke of the Hyksos belongs to Saul, but his great deed was not esteemed, not even ... . The capture of Avaris and the destruction of the Amalekite host changed the course of history. Once more Egypt rose to power and splendour after being freed from hundreds of years of abject slavery by a descendant of the Hebrews who ... condition. Velikovsky has this as the siege of Avaris, not Sharuhen. There are two versions in Ancient Near Eastern Texts. The first is the longer version of the siege of Avaris by Kamose [20], which is ...
277. Was Hatshepsut the Queen of Sheba? [Articles]
... land, the desert conies right down to the shore of the Nile. These pictures were taken at Assuan, near the first cataract. (3 ) A simple sketch map of Egypt and the Red Sea and Palestine and Phoenicia ... You can see here were Thebes is, it is on the western bank of the Nile, Luxor on the East. Note this place called Qeseir on the Red Sea coast which I will be mentioning later on. The pictures ... one which inspired Shelley's poem "Ozymandias, King of Kings". (13) All that was on the eastern side of the river. The temple of Deir-el-Bahri is west of the river in this very impressive bay of sandstone ...
278. Three Views of Heinsohn's Chronology [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , p. 42] Behind this neutral statement hides one of the major enigmas of language development in the Ancient Near East. Semitic cuneiform should pass through the stages Old-Akkadian and Old-Babylonian, with the former starting around 2400 BC and ... latter taking over around 2000 BC. This sequence is well adhered to in Mesopotamia and parts of Syria, like Ebla and Mari, dated via Mesopotamian connections. They switch from so-called true Akkadian to West Semitic Akkadian of the Old-Babylonian ... 13ff). What did the Hyksos have in mind when they decided not to use the language of their closest eastern neighbours at Mari but to revive an idiom dead for quite a few centuries? If they behaved not as awkwardly ...
279. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the Late Bronze civilisations of the eastern Mediterranean c.1200 BC is probably one of the most treasured concepts of Near Eastern archaeology. The linking of this invasion of "Sea Peoples" with the arrival of the Philistines of the ... movement of "barbarians" from the north is crucial to the accepted interpretation of the archaeology of the whole Near East. The latest documents of the Hittite Empire found at Boghazköi and those of the allied city of Ugarit appear to ... that a mass migration of barbarians from the Aegean was responsible for the destruction of the Late Bronze civilisations of the eastern Mediterranean c.1200 BC is probably one of the most treasured concepts of Near Eastern archaeology. The linking of ...
280. From the Death of David to the Death of Ahab [Books]
... it pleases thee to dwell here, dost thou leave the care of all men, but rather thou art very near to them all, but especially thou art present to those that address themselves to thee, whether by night or ... ; so that the entire altitude of the temple was a hundred and twenty cubits. Its front was to the east. As to the porch, they built it before the temple; its length was twenty cubits, and it ... and as many on the right side, towards the south, but looking towards the east; the same [eastern] way he also set the sea Now he appointed the sea to be for washing the hands and the feet ...
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