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89 pages of results. 231. Mummies Galore [Journals] [Aeon]
... ,000. Professor Bagnall, who has also explored the site, stated that: "This may be the largest known cemetery in Egypt that hasn't been gotten to by plunderers before the archaeologists." The burials are accompanied by various grave goods, such as pottery, amulets, and other sundry items. While the burials date to the Roman era, many of the decorations on the mummies, to quote Dr. Hawass, are "pure Egyptian." The mummies are well preserved and the smell of resin, used in the embalming, still strong. As is to be expected, the site is under guard and not yet open to the public. From a historical ...
232. Catastrophe and Divine Fires [Books] [de Grazia books]
... , Judah, Dan, and Ephraim, the standard bearers [23]. The sacred ball-courts of the Olmecs of the same age and of other Meso-Americans are authoritatively acknowledged to be tied to the cardinal points of the sky. The planet Venus is prominently represented in the games [24]. The players fought to the death. The Roman circus had on its axis altars of the planets [25]. There, too, blood flowed freely. "Ninevah proclaimed itself the seat of stable order and power by its seven-times crenellated circle of walls, colored by the seven planetary colors." [26] Chariots would run along the top of the walls. "Thy ...
233. "The Basest Of The Kingdoms". Part 2 Ch.2 (Peoples of the Sea) [Velikovsky]
... also known from Josephus Flavius. Books with genealogies of priests were kept in temples and were often consulted in Jerusalem as well as in Egypt. Ezra, though of a priestly line, was not descended from a high priest. Nevertheless, he succeeded in moulding the Jewish religion into forms that were unbreakable through the Persian, Greek, and Roman times, and through the nineteen centuries of Diaspora. The Egyptian priests of his time supplemented their income from taxations and donations with raids on ancient tombs with their treasures, disrobing the mummies of their ancestors in search of anything of value. Accordingly, the religions of Egypt and of Israel fared very differently in the centuries to come. ...
234. The Velikovsky Affair [Books] [de Grazia books]
... never was seen before nor in after-times: for the colour, the size, the figure, and the course of it were changed. ' The catastrophe associated with the name of Ogyges, a time mark for ancient Greeks, took place simultaneously with Venus' complete metamorphosis. This statement made by Varro, the most learned of all the Romans, ' on the authority of earlier scientists should have provoked interest in the time of Newton, when the working of the solar system was elevated to the state of a most exact science. But, whereas the gleaning of information from ancient authors contributed to more than one discovery of the new age of astronomy (the very heliocentric theory ...
235. The Merlin 'Vision' and the 6th Century 'Event' [Journals] [SIS Review]
... fireballs, with the valleys below seeming to suffer the Yellow Pestilence' mist. The resulting crop failures would have brought famine, mass migrations and disease outbreaks which could easily have reached plague proportions. These events are remembered in Morganwg traditions and folklore. Though little recognised now, this area of South Wales was an important administrative centre before the Romans came and continued to be until the 6th century. It marked the seat of the kings of Morganwg, an area that stretched from the river Severn in the east to Caerfyrddin (Merlin's Fortress) in the southwest. However Morganwg was just one kingdom in a vast Cymric (Welsh) empire that at one time reached as far as ...
236. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Nimrod's Tower of Babel, to be built of brick and too high for the waters to reach. Lasken believes the dating of the story of Gilgamesh, as told by Berossus, as well as Sumerian chronology (flood 3100-2800), to be incorrect. There are lots of flood stories. The earliest datable ones were by the Greek and Roman authors: Eusebius - Apollodorus - Plutarch - Diodorus. Diodorus dated nothing before the time of the Trojan War, about 1200. From the Parian Chronicle (Frazier) a date of 1539 for Deucalion's flood can be deduced. Thucydides wrote that the early Greeks were poor and couldn't afford walls until after Trojan War. Eusebius (Preparation for ...
... three letters, then another two or three more, and finally an alphabet and syllabary were constructed. So it was not long before some of the inscriptions at Denderah were read. Then it was found that the temple, as it then stood, had certainly been, partly at all events, embellished so late as the time of the Roman emperors. Naturally there was then a tremendous reaction from the idea of fabulous antiquity which had been urged by the school of Dupuis. There were two radically opposed camps, led by Letronne, a distinguished archaeologist, and Biot, one of the most eminent astronomers of his day, and both these savans brought papers before the Academy of ...
238. Forum [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Succinifera". This substance has been taken largely from countries bounded by the North Sea, and huge amounts have been found in Prussia. Conventional geology ascribes the pine forests which gave rise to amber to the very early Tertiary - about 70,000,000 years age. In ancient times, amber was much prized by the Greeks and Romans who fashioned jewellery from it. There is one fable from ancient Greece which is significant in explaining the origin of amber. It tells that Zeus became so annoyed with Phaethon, who was perpetually disobedient, that one day he struck him with a bolt of lightning and killed him. Following this, Zeus transformed Phaethon's mourning sisters, the ...
239. Society News [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... in 1219, the Christian Era' in 748, and the use of the birth of Jesus as a starting point was introduced by Dionysius Exiguus in 532, being taken up by Rome then France and possibly brought to England by St Augustine in 596. Most dates before c.800 are a kind of retrograde calculation to line up with Roman dates which claim to start from Rome's foundation. It is now thought that Dionysius got it wrong by 4 years by confusing the commencing dates given for Augustus's reign -727 or 723 AUC. According to Clement of Alexandria (c .150-220 AD) Christ was born in the 28th year of Augustus, this now being the accepted beginning of ...
240. Book Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... light due to static charging like St Elmo's Fire. Although earthquake sounds are mentioned as sometimes like trumpets, the obvious connection with the fall of the walls of Jericho is overlooked. An interesting discussion of the auguries of ancient Rome leads to the supposition that these rituals were based on the earlier Etruscans' detailed knowledge of earthquake precursors. The Romans possibly had, in effect, an earthquake warning system organized along the lines of China's of today, but in the Roman case, cleverly used by those in the know for their own politico-social ends. Or perhaps this was one more case of ancient wisdom misunderstood, yet propagated by religious ritual. Tributsch's book certainly brings to the light ...
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