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176 pages of results. 321. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... by that wonderfully written Preface to A Test of Time, in which David Rohl discovers this block at the Ramesseum near Luxor. You remember the story: a long wait in the heat till the sun starts to go down, ... around the time of Christ which extended to the Canaries in the west and had links to Cleopatra's Egypt in the east. However, since the Canary pyramids are stepped (as in the Americas) it may be possible to see ... to have found artefacts dating back to 50,000 years ago at a place called Serra da Capavari in North Eastern Brazil - i.e . thousands of years before human occupation of the continent was supposed to have taken place ...
322. Analysis of the Babylonian Observations [Journals] [Kronos]
... an inner planet (one whose orbit lies closer to the Sun than does that of Earth) at the time near inferior conjunction, when the planet is passing between Earth and the Sun. Or we may be told that Ninsianna ... west on such-and-such a date, remains absent for so many months and/or days, and reappears in the east on such-and-such a date. This phenomenon resembles the invisibility of an inner planet (one whose orbit lies closer to ... has the same latitude as Babylon and which has the Sun, at that instant, 5-3/4 below its eastern horizon. These two great circles divide the celestial sphere into four zones, labeled A, B, C, ...
323. Chaos and Creation [Books] [de Grazia books]
... was so well reported as the career of the glowing and devastating comet and proto-planet Venus [3 ]. For nearly a thousand years it raged through the heavens periodically, encountering first Earth, then Mars; then Jupiter; then ... AND ITS PERPETRATOR In 1948, Claude Schaeffer published his comprehensive review of the field studies of Ancient Near and Middle East civilizations. He concluded that all had been concurrently destroyed by earthquake or other cause on several occasions. The many ... according to recent calculations. This would indicate a Jovean base, and before then comes the story of Atlantis and eastern connections. In Meso-America between 1500-1200 B.C ., writes, there was a diffusion of the religious idea ...
324. Solar System Studies (Part 2) [Journals] [Aeon]
... against exposed surface materials, creating a shallow, easily compressed regolith of gritty, glass-like particles. The Moon is nearly spherical due to its slow spin rate, although it has a 2 km shift away from Earth centered along the ... fire which extends in a great circle along the west coasts of the Americas, the Aleutian Islands and down the East coasts of Asia at least to Indonesia. What titanic long-term pull created a lop-sided Earth? The second component of ... of the Pacific plate which is not yet complete. This split has propagated south along the Emperor seamounts, then easterly along the Hawaiian Island chain. Many geologists believe these structures have formed because the bed of the Pacific Ocean is ...
325. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... these proposals is impressive, as it is for Velikovsky's general thesis regarding the "Dark Ages" of the ancient Near East. However, certain basic problems must be tackled before we will really know how well Velikovsky's scheme compares to ... generally accepted. Three areas of difficulty figure prominently: (A ) A satisfactory scheme of archaeological synchronisms must be developed for all the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean, resolving the chronological anomalies pointed to by Velikovsky, yet having its ... internal consistency and harmony with the written records of each area. (B ) The conventional pattern of historical synchronism between Egypt and Western Asia (especially Mesopotamia) is one of the pillars of the accepted chronology. This must be ...
326. Afterword [Journals] [Kronos]
... saying. The principal delay in the preparation of material for this volume has been due to Sagan, who consumed nearly two years (late February 1974 to early February 1976) in revising and greatly expanding his paper. There are ... place in Egypt at the same time. And of what value are reports of phenomena from Syria or the Far East that are now supposed to be eclipses, when a plurality of scholars long acquainted with the problem discount such claims ... interpretations? In my debate with Princeton astronomer John Q. Stewart, in Harper's, June 1951, Stewart based himself on an article by Fotheringham concerning three historical "eclipses". In 1974 Huber declared me right, and Fotheringham ...
327. The Woman Who Wondered (Prof. Dr. Hertha von Dechend) [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... inspire radical syncreticism, and is appreciated for its multi-disciplinary sincerity (or, at least, an attempt) by nearly everyone. Frau Von Dechend wondered about wonderful things. Surely, the heavens are dimmer. She studied under the ... IGN, Willy Hartner, who wrote his classic paper, "The Earliest History of the Constellations in the Near East and the Motif of the Lion-Bull Combat" (by Willy Hartner, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. ... , No. 's 1 & 2, 1965, pp. 1-16), while she was lecturing in America. Those must have been wonderful times, indeed. Hamlet's Mill argues that the study and understanding of number, ...
328. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Contents Letters Alalakh, Heinsohn and Pottery Dear Sir, Alalakh (Tell Achana) is an important ancient city mound near the Orontes river on the Syrian/Turkish border. It is in the Levant with its links to Egypt, ... actually quoted her, that the westernmost extent of Khabur Ware is the Balikh river. This river is 150 miles east of Alalakh. Even Smith did not claim that Khabur Ware was actually found at Alalakh but only that local wares ... needed for compressive failure at the new ocean floor level. Melvin Cook, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Easter Island Dear Sir, Indeed, the mystery of Easter Island is solved. Thor Heyerdahl's latest book, (reviewed ...
329. Stiebing, BAR, and the Revised Chronology [Journals] [Kronos]
... comet (which later became the planet Venus) passed close to the Earth about 1450 B.C . This near collision, he argued, produced world-wide earthquakes, tidal waves, pestilence, and other catastrophes. It also caused ... chronology".) Finally, we would like to note that John Dayton, a field archaeologist in the Near East and specialist in ancient glazing techniques, has arrived independently at similar conclusions to those of Velikovsky. In his massively ... Minerals, Metals, Glazing and Man,(18) Dayton recently concluded that the dates for the Late Bronze Age are centuries too high, and that the nebulous "Dark Ages" of the Ancient Near East (from c ...
... Velikovsky triggered a venomous scientific controversy when he claimed that, within the past few thousand years, errant planets have nearly destroyed life on Earth. Though his book, Worlds in Collision, was highly successful commercially (becoming a number-one ... a thick gloomy haze that lasted for many years. In the age to follow, the sun rose in the east, where formerly it set. Now, the quarters of the world were displaced, and the seasons no longer ... in their appointed times. "The winter is come as summer, the months are reversed, and the hours are disordered," reads an Egyptian papyrus. An inscription from before the tumult says that the sun "riseth in ...
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