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69 pages of results. 491. From the Death of Isaac to the Exodus out of Egypt [Books]
... the Israelites, and contrived many ways of afflicting them; for they enjoined them to cut a great number of channels for the river, and to build walls for their cities and ramparts, that they might restrain the river, and hinder its waters from stagnating, upon its running over its own banks: they set them also to build pyramids, (17) and by all this wore them out; and forced them to learn all sorts of mechanical arts, and to accustom themselves to hard labor. And four hundred years did they spend under these afflictions; for they strove one against the other which should get the mastery, the Egyptians desiring to destroy the Israelites by ...
492. Some Implications of Saunders' Lunar Hypothesis [Journals] [SIS Review]
... . Saunders makes a good case that Newgrange, Stonehenge and Avebury were first built as lunar observatories but used to observe the Sun too; and he interprets the Newgrange pictographs as illustrating lunar motions. Could he be right? In Worlds in Collision [5 ], Velikovsky cites ancient sources (e .g . Herodotus, Pomponius Mela and Pyramid texts) claiming that the directions of sunrise and sunset had been reversed. From the second book of Herodotus' history, he relates an assertion made to its author by Egyptian priests, that since Egypt became a kingdom – four times in this period (so they told me) the sun rose contrary to his wont; twice he ...
493. Recent Developments in Near Eastern Archaeology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... again uses archaeological evidence linking with Egypt to support much later dates (e .g . c. 500 years later for EM1B). Hood is suspicious of the excessive length of Early Minoan which results from radiocarbon dating. Hood hints that there may be a link with the results of Haas et al's project to carbon date material from the pyramids, which suggested dates c. 370 years older than conventional Egyptian historical dates (but see now the latest results outlined in C&CR 1999:2 , p. 32). Ash From Thera in Turkish Lake Sediments Several recent articles by W. Eastwood et al have described the results from cores taken from a small lake in ...
494. Atlantis (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... From: Moons, Myths and Man by H. S. Bellamy CD Rom Home Last | Contents | Next 31 Atlantis There is magic in names. You breathe but the word Egypt'-and there rises before you a picture of teeming masses of dark slaves piling pyramids under a sky forever blue. You say Rome'-and the ground, you think, trembles under the brazen tread of invincible legions and the air is thick with the blare of martial music. You utter Greece'-and the words of the sages' converse are sweet in your mind, and the sound of the artists' chisels rings out in the fine air. But there is a greater magic in names than that which we ...
495. Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilisations [Journals] [Aeon]
... science journalists to have raised the subject of catastrophism in the public mind. There were two prejudices that needed to be gotten rid of, he said. The first was the general belief that the ancients were not capable of understanding astronomical matters. He thus ran through a long list of ancient achievements- with a detour that included the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, and Sodom and Gomorrha- by such personages as Hipparchos (via Meton), Gildas, Gervase of Canterbury, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Halley, Cassini, Biot, up to Luis Alvarez and even Louis Frank, most of whom have been convinced that catastrophic impacts from celestial bodies have periodically bombarded the Earth. One ...
496. Sins Of The Father [Journals] [Aeon]
... is to be identified with Sargon II of Assyria; that Hammurabi is to be identified with Darius; and that the empires of Mitanni and the Medes are one and the same. Heinsohn's reconstruction has recently been embraced by Emmet Sweeney, a British researcher otherwise known for arguing that Abraham brought the first instruments of civilization to Egypt and that the pyramids were constructed in the first millennium BCE. [3 ] With this brief introduction before us, we turn to the specific arguments of the book in question. Since I have neither the training nor expertise necessary to address each and every issue raised in this 550-page tome, I will focus here on the two chapters devoted to the Mesopotamian ...
497. Language and Thought in Ancient Egypt (Forum) [Journals] [Kronos]
... to support this view, however, Talbott seems to me to use arguments chiefly, but not exclusively, linguistic which actually weaken it. While most of these arguments are merely ambiguous, a few are flatly erroneous. One such argument, on p. 28, is that "the idea that Coptic goes back to the time of the Pyramid Texts is about as cogent as the notion that English is rooted in the language of the Navajo Indians". In fact, Coptic (the very name of which is a procopized variant of the Greek word Aiguptiakos, "Egyptian") is the latest form of the same language of which Old Egyptian is the earliest form. The ...
498. The Hero's Garment [Journals] [Aeon]
... from four different lines of evidence. The Mother Goddess As Garment Hathor, who, strange as it may sound, was believed to have served as the kilt of the deceased king. (From the capital of a column in the temple of Dendera In the first place, the Mother Goddess is explicitly described as a garment. In the Pyramid Texts, the deceased king is made to proclaim: "My kilt which is on me is Hathor. I am girt with the girdle of Horus, I am clad with the garment of Thoth, Isis is before me and Nephtys is behind me." [13] We come across a near-identical situation in Geshtinanna's lament over the ...
499. Comets in Perspective: What the Comet Halley probes tell us [Journals] [Horus]
... F. Glenn Graham Nowhere is the ancient passion for astronomy any more evident than in the pre-Columbian ruins of Mesoamerica. In the Yucatan, and other parts of Mexico and Central America, ancient remains have been uncovered showing a vast system of cities and their satellites, a network of straight stone-paved highways between them, and ingenious astronomical alignments of pyramids and temples, themselves richly decorated with astronomical symbols. It seemed an appropriate setting, in introducing the topic of perception in ancient astronomy, to observe and to photograph for the reader (see cover) still another apparition in the heavens which has played a major role in ancient cosmologies - the temporary appearance of a cometary visitor. Then ...
500. The Secret of Baalbek (Concluded) [Journals] [Kronos]
... the problem of its origin or the nature of its cult.(3 ) No early inscriptions were found. Throngs of travelers who spend their day wandering among the ruins of a magnificent acropolis go away without having heard what the role of the place was in ancient times, when it was built, or who was the builder. The pyramids, the temples of Karnak and Luxor, the Forum and Circus Maximus in Rome were erected by builders whose identity is generally known. The marvellous site in the valley on the junction of roads running to Hamath is a work of anonymous authors in unknown ages. It is as if some mysterious people brought the mighty blocks and placed them ...
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