| Man, Myth & Mayhem in Ancient History and the Sciences |
history linguistics mythology palaeontology physics psychology religion Uniformitarianism
|
Catastrophism.com
history linguistics mythology palaeontology physics psychology religion Uniformitarianism |
|
| Sign-up | Log-in |
Introduction | Publications | More
|
Search results for: roman in all categories
884 results found.
89 pages of results. 411. A God by any other name: the Dead Sea Scrolls Deception by Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... '. After discussing what is known about the content of the scrolls and the archaeology of the Qumran region where they were found, the authors outline the official conclusions and how they were arrived at in a chapter tellingly entitled Science in the Service of Faith. They then go on to enlarge upon what is known of the history of the Roman period in the region and the local Jewish communities, which naturally leads to very different conclusions regarding any light the scrolls may shed upon the New Testament accounts of the life of Christ and the early Christian church. The gentle Essene community, often accepted as the origin of the meek and mild' Jesus, becomes in reality part of ...
412. What Was "Brimstone"? [Journals] [Kronos]
... ". Onycha is the horny plate that covers a species of mussel found in the lakes of India which, when burned, emits a musky odor. Galbanum is a pleasantly aromatic gum resin derived from certain umbelliferous plants. Frankincense (from the Old French for "pure incense"), as used by the Jews, Greeks, and Romans, was a gum resin now called olibanum which was derived from certain trees of the genus boswellia found growing on the limestone of South Arabia and Somaiiland. Thus, three of the four ingredients in the incense burned on the golden altar were gum resins. Gum resins are mixtures of gum and resin obtained from plants or trees by incision ...
413. Dating the Trojan War [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... there were many generations. It is significant that apart from the names nearly nothing is known about Romulus' ancestors from the grandson of Aeneas until the grandfather of Romulus. Their names resemble each other- they can thus be the fruit of horror vacui. This traditional view, however, is based on relatively late testimonies. The most ancient Roman sources, Ennius and Naevius, had Ilia, a daughter of Aeneas, as Romulus' mother. [12] Now, a coherent chronological scheme emerges, for two generations before Romulus we reach the traditional date of Carthage's founding (804 or 803): Aeneas can have visited Carthage when Dido was building the city. But again ...
414. The Sacred Mountain [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... of Troy as the earthly representation of the Sacred Mountain was overcome by the Greeks in the Trojan War, which ushered in a Greek Heroic Age and founded Western culture. Greek cities were built for human comfort, with forums and agoras for social gathering and baths for relaxing and discussing philosophy; religion was banished to Delphi. In the early Roman Empire Rome was built on the Greek model, permitting the Eastern Mediterranean to continue speaking Greek and Athens to remain the cultural capital in which great thinkers and philosophers gathered. The influential force of the Mountain reemerged, however, in the Latin-speaking world centered in Rome, with the building of towers and the institution of an empire. In ...
415. The Seven-Gated Thebes and The Hundred-Gated Thebes. Part 1 (Oedipus and Akhnaton) [Velikovsky]
... to perpetuate the names of the great pharaohs did not escape the ravages of war and time. Of the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III, the most opulent of the tenants of the throne of Egypt, nothing is left save two enormous statues of the seated king-so large that each finger is three feet long. Of one of them Greek and Roman travellers related that it emitted a musical sound at sunrise. The restoration work performed by order of the Emperor Septimius Severus was held responsible for the cessation of the complaining sighs. These two statues were called Memnon colossi by the Greeks, who thought they were likenesses of Memnon, the dark-skinned warrior who came from a southern country to help ...
416. A Further Response to Marvin Luckerman [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... solution, in fact, is that Tel Beersheba does not mark the site of the Bronze Age town. An earlier town of the missing periods may have stood at the site of modern Beersheba (just west of Tel Beersheba). Here, during development work carried out in the 1960's, Iron Age remains were discovered beneath remains of the Roman and Byzantine periods, and it is quite possible that still earlier material lies hidden beneath the many areas which cannot be excavated because of modern buildings. The biblical scholar A. Alt actually suggested long ago that Old Testament Beersheba lay beneath the present-day town, and not at Tel Beersheba; the archeologist R. Gophna has suggested more recently ...
417. THE ROAD TO SATURN (EXCERPTS FROM AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY) [Journals] [Aeon]
... to have really been the deified planets of the solar system. Their divine actions were merely reflections of errant orbits in a cosmic drama which man witnessed and immortalized in his religious rites, his liturgies and, finally, his sacred texts. Worlds in Collision was first published in 1950. At that time, having been raised in one of Roman Catholicism's most impregnable strongholds, I was still being taught that the world had been created in six consecutive days. During our science courses at Stella Maris College, Gzira, on the island of Malta, we were informed that the Earth came into existence long after the Sun. But in the course of our religious upbringing during the same ...
418. Troy and the Greek Dark Age [Journals] [Kronos]
... Chronology article mentioned above was written by Israel Issacson, not Schorr.] THE IDENTIFICATION OF TROY When Alexander crossed the Hellespont, setting foot in Asia for the first time, he paused briefly at what he believed to be the site of Homeric Ilion - the hill we know today as Hissarlik. A Greek and, after it, a Roman town named "Ilion" grew up on the site; and few ancient writers doubted that here once stood the "well-towered" citadel of Priam. The Roman geographer Strabo, however, questioned the identification, and brought many arguments to show that "Ilion" was in all respects unlikely to have been the site of the Homeric city ...
419. From Ramses III To Darius III. Part I Ch.5 (Peoples of the Sea) [Velikovsky]
... are plenty of inscriptions and the enigma disappears. The kings who followed Ramses III regularly added the name Ramses to their other throne names and eponyms. There was a similar custom in Rome of the imperial age, when the name Caesar or Augustus, more in the nature of a title, was added as an agnomen to the names of Roman emperors. Actually it was Ramses II, before Ramses III, whose name was added to whatever name an occupant of the throne, or a pretender, had or assumed. Ramses IV reigned for six years and was deposed under circumstances for which hieroglyphic texts supply no information. Of Ramses V almost nothing is known-he must have been a ...
420. Two gold masks [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... CR 2003, Proceedings of the SIS Conference: Ages Still in Chaos, pp. 53-60), indicating that Mycenae should be downdated by hundreds of years. Mycenae is situated in the north of the Peloponnese and to the north of Greece lies ancient Thrace. Both Mycenaean and Thracians were renowned warriors, but the Thracians were well-known to the Romans and date from the 4th - 5th centuries BC. In what is now known as Bulgaria's Valley of the Kings' lie many burial mounds and at the site of a mid-5th century BC tomb was found, in 2004, the dismembered remains of a man and a life-size mask of solid gold. The connection with Mycenae is further enhanced ...
Search powered by Zoom Search Engine Search took 0.047 seconds |
