Posted on 06/29/2007 1:27:37 PM PDT by blam
Orpheus Tomb Discovered?
Updated on: 29.06.2007, 17:51
Published on: 29.06.2007, 17:46
Author: Olga Yoncheva
Orpheus sanctuary in Rhodope mountains is with thousand years older than the Egyptian pyramids.
The sensational discovery was made by an archaeological expedition which investigated the temple of the Thracians near the village of Tatul, informed BNT.
The scientists found 6000-year old buildings with preserved tools made of semi-precious stones, crockery, animal remains. According to the archaeologists now it can be claimed that this is the Tomb of Orpheus, which has been visited of thousands of pilgrims from around the antique world.
The sanctuary is one of the oldest in the world and can be compared only with cult complexes as Stonehеnge.
The Egyptian pyramids were built 4500 years ago. 1500 years earlier in the Rhodope mountains the Thracians construct their rock sanctuaries. This was proven by the archaeologists who for third successive year examine the Orpheus Tomb.
The life of Tatul has continued for 5 thousand years. The soldiers of Alexander the Great have built here magnificent antique temple of Orpheus. Four centuries later the Thracian Odrysian tribe, helped by the Roman legions, conquer and burn the sanctuary. The Romans restore it later.
Now a joint project of Bulgaria and Greece will allow for the temple to be restored and after several months it will be shown in its all its splendour.
Recent dives made by Robert Schoch appear to have missed the carved shapes more recently found at 'the stage' portioon of the site.
‘Yonaguni’ ... tired fingers.
I hope the guy who was claiming to have found an ancient pyramid near Sarajevo isn't involved in this project.
I think they’re a bunch of lyres..
You learn something new every day.
I thought Orpheus was a 60s/70s rock group?
That’s the 1960s/1970s, A.D.
As poor as the English is of the author it’s still a world better than my Bulgarian.
I saw the video of Schoch touring this underwater site. He said these were natural formations and that there were some still on land just like them. He didn't discount that these natural formations may have been 'worked' some by man before they went underwater. He closed the video by saying, "call me if you find writing."
Others whose names I don't recall have said (essentially) the same...natural formations.
Schock's latest book, Voyages Of The Pyramid Builders, is fun reading.
Book Description
Is it a mere coincidence that pyramids are found across our globe? Did cultures ranging across vast spaces in geography and time, such as the ancient Egyptians; early Buddhists; the Maya, Inca, Toltec, and Aztec civilizations of the Americas; the Celts of the British Isles; and even the Mississippi Indians of pre-Columbian Illinois, simply dream the same dreams and envision the same structures?
My orginal post was a comment on the translation, from what ever language, to english.
Where is Looter guy Looter guy been around since beginning of time ROFL
What do you mean jellybean he’s on the left side
. . . still govern thou my Song, [ 30 ]
Urania, and fit audience find, though few.
But drive farr off the barbarous dissonance
Of Bacchus and his Revellers, the Race
Of that wilde Rout that tore the Thracian Bard
In Rhodope, where Woods and Rocks had Eares [ 35 ]
To rapture, till the savage clamor dround
Both Harp and Voice; nor could the Muse defend
Her Son. So fail not thou, who thee implores:
For thou art Heav’nlie, shee an empty dreame.
— John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VII
OHH there he is I have look closely I need my eyes Check
LOOTER GUY I knew it he show up
See Looter guy been around the beginning of time
So was mine, but you lost me.
:^)
Does not conflict with some ideas proposed in Schoch's book posted in #48. Nor does it conflict with similar theories in Stephen Oppenheimer's book, Eden In The East, which Schoch seems to 'lean' on heavily. (credit given)
Any more blind poets these days?
Turlough O’Carolan.
The muse is an empty dream? A shade like Eurydice? And after life are we not all empty dreams as well? I guess this is part of what makes for tragedy... the flaw of dying. Yet if we are ultimately dreams and our life is the stuff of dreams... then we are dreams dreaming dreams (rounded by no sleep if we're Christian;-).
Wine....Vino (VEE-no)
Beer....Bira (BEE-ra).
There you go.
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