Posted on 07/16/2004 11:27:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Can anyone put me in touch with someone who could transliterate an Egyptian 18th dynasty prayer-—one line?
I can’t do it, but I’ll look for a couple of URLs for you. You’ll need a picture of the inscription; however, chances are that it’s been translated, and you’ll just need to know where the inscription is and what it’s a part of.
Thanks. Actually, I was looking to transliterate from English to hieroglyphs. The quote is an 18th dynasty blessing..supposedly an inscription from the tomb of Tutankhamun which reads “God be between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk.” I tried doing an online search,but most of the websites translate things phonetically as in “your name on a cartouche.” Consulted Gardiner, but I don’t know enough grammar to do an authentic trasliteration
“the empty places you must walk” is from the Book of the Dead, I believe. The Wiccans (giggle) among others have appropriated it.
I just went through the entirety of Budge’s “Book of the Dead” which is the Papyrus of Ani and could not find it.
Rarnaby Budge? Sorry, Monty Python flashback.
http://www.worldprayers.org/frameit.cgi?/archive/prayers/celebrations/god_be_between_you_and.html
God be between you and harm in all the empty places you walk. [blessing of the 18th egyptian dynasty]
It popped into a lot of consciousnesses due to its use in Bab5. Wikiquote pointed here:
http://harlanellison.com/iwrite/paladin.htm
A blessing of the 18th Egyptian Dynasty:
God be between you and harm in all the empty places you walk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paladin_of_the_Lost_Hour
http://harlanellison.com/iwrite/aboutpal.htm
http://harlanellison.com/iwrite/paladin.htm
http://www.b5tv.com/showthread.php?p=365603
It’s also claimed that its first appearance was in Bab5 and to check the dates. Here’s a bit more:
http://www.allsubs.org/search-movie-quotes/King%20Tut%27s%20Curse/1
Movie Name: Tut: The Boy King (1978)
Quote: [last lines]
Himself - Host: A final moment of contemplation, an early Egyptian grace note in the distant music of the Nile: God be between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk. Good night.
and here’s some other use of it:
http://circleoflifeservices.com/pages/baby_blessings.html
A Blessing For All Children
May God be between you and harm in all the empty places you walk.
May the power of water bring you life and sustenance, and the courage to feel through your way.
May the power of fire bring you strength and passion to go along your way.
May the power of earth bring you grounding in a strong body, to be centred in you way.
May the power of air bring you a clear mind to see your way.
Ann Arthur (With Hands Together)
Book of the Dead (Budge)
http://www.thenazareneway.com/ebod_full_text.html
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Welcome to the 350th issue. Okay, the the Q 'n' D program turned out to be more trouble than sending a probe to Mars. ;') It seemed to work like a freakin' charm a week ago, then wouldn't work when I got it home. I'm pretty sure the paint peeling was due to the language that resulted. You remember that old slogan -- "Profanity is the Sign of a Feeble Mind Trying to Express Itself Forcibly"? Well, the bastard who came up with that also came up missing one time, never was seen again. Not that it matters, but I have an alibi. |
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Thanks for your hard work and for the pings. Truly enlightening.
You remember that old slogan — “Profanity is the Sign of a Feeble Mind Trying to Express Itself Forcibly”? Well, the bastard who came up with that also came up missing one time, never was seen again. Not that it matters, but I have an alibi.
LOL!!!
Pretty sure my language was profane during that process as well, not sure though, I blacked out from the blood pressure spike, and my elderly mother didn’t hear the thud because she’d turned up the TV past the point of normal human endurance.
No Way!
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #352 Saturday, April 16, 2011 |
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· 04/14/2011 3:57:39 AM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 46 replies · · BBC · · April 13, 2011 · · Unknown · |
Academics at Dundee University have helped recreate the face of a Viking woman whose skeleton was unearthed in York more than 30 years ago. The facial reconstruction was achieved by laser-scanning her skull to create a 3D digital model. Eyes were then digitally created, along with hair and a bonnet, to complete the look. The project was part of a £150,000 investment at York's Jorvik Viking Centre. The Dundee academics were brought in by the centre's owners, the York Archaeological Trust, as part of a project to bring York's Vikings to life. The female skeleton used was one of four... |
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· 04/10/2011 5:26:30 AM PDT · · Posted by Scoutmaster · · 54 replies · · The Telegraph (U.K.) · · April 6, 2011 · · None Listed · |
First Homosexual Caveman FoundArchaeologists have unearthed the 5,000-year-old remains of what they believe may have been the world's oldest known gay caveman. Archeologists believe they have discovered a 'transsexual' or 'third gender grave' in the Czech Republic.The male body -- said to date back to between 2900-2500BC -- was discovered buried in a way normally reserved only for women of the Corded Ware culture in the Copper Age.The skeleton was found in a Prague suburb in the Czech Republic with its head pointing eastwards and surrounded by domestic jugs, rituals only previously seen in female graves."From history and ethnology, we... |
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| Are lead tablets discovered in a remote cave in Jordan the secret writings about Jesus? |
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· 03/21/2011 10:25:22 AM PDT · · Posted by TaraP · · 30 replies · · Mail Online · · March 21st,2011 · |
Artefacts discovered in a remote cave in Jordan could hold a contemporary account of the last years of Jesus. The find of scrolls and 70 lead codices - tiny credit-card-sized volumes containing ancient Hebrew script talking of the Messiah and the Resurrection - has excited biblical scholars. Much of the writing is in code, but experts have deciphered images, symbols and a few words and the texts could be 2,000 years old. Texts have been written on little sheets of lead bound together with wire. The treasure trove was found five years ago by an Israeli Bedouin and may have... |
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· 03/29/2011 8:14:29 AM PDT · · Posted by marshmallow · · 66 replies · · BBC · · 3/29/11 · · Robert Pigott · |
They could be the earliest Christian writing in existence, surviving almost 2,000 years in a Jordanian cave. They could, just possibly, change our understanding of how Jesus was crucified and resurrected, and how Christianity was born. A group of 70 or so "books", each with between five and 15 lead leaves bound by lead rings, was apparently discovered in a remote arid valley in northern Jordan somewhere between 2005 and 2007. A flash flood had exposed two niches inside the cave, one of them marked with a menorah or candlestick, the ancient Jewish religious symbol. A Jordanian Bedouin opened these... |
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· 03/30/2011 9:26:30 AM PDT · · Posted by TaraP · · 72 replies · · Daily Mail · · March 30th, 2011 · |
Seventy metal books found in cave in Jordan could change our view of Biblical history.....For scholars of faith and history, it is a treasure trove too precious for price. This ancient collection of 70 tiny books, their lead pages bound with wire, could unlock some of the secrets of the earliest days of Christianity. Academics are divided as to their authenticity but say that if verified, they could prove as pivotal as the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947. On pages not much bigger than a credit card, are images, symbols and words that appear to refer to... |
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· 04/14/2011 4:52:06 PM PDT · · Posted by TaraP · · 15 replies · · Fox News · · April 15th, 2011 · |
The 70 tiny books could date back to the first century. Carbon dating tests found that a piece of leather found with the scrolls was over 2000 years old. Experts say the books, made of lead and copper and bound by rings, may be more significant than the Dead Sea Scrolls, BBC reports. The writing featured in the books is a form of archaic Hebrew script with ancient messianic symbols, mixed with some form of a code, according to a news release. The codices show notable references to symbols of the Feast of Tabernacle, and depict images of menorahs and... |
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· 04/12/2011 2:48:23 PM PDT · · Posted by afraidfortherepublic · · 50 replies · · Haaretz.com · · 4-12-11 · · Nir Hasson · |
Journalist Simcha Jacobovici believes that the nails discovered in a Jerusalem cave are revolutionary in their implications regarding the birth of Christianity. The Peace Forest is a small grove of pines sandwiched between the Abu Tor neighborhood and main promenade in Jerusalem. Anyone walking along the road that snakes through the grove can see a green pipe rising from the ground and reaching a height of several meters. This pipe, if journalist Simcha Jacobovici is to be believed, this is the physical tip of an archaeological detective story in the style of the Da Vinci Code. And this pipe is... |
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| The Mother of All Languages. Modern languages may have all descended from a single ancestral tongue |
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· 04/15/2011 2:30:50 PM PDT · · Posted by SeekAndFind · · 67 replies · · Wall Street Journal · · 04/15/2011 · · Gautam Naik · |
The world's 6,000 or so modern languages may have all descended from a single ancestral tongue spoken by early African humans between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago, a new study suggests. The finding, published Thursday in the journal Science, could help explain how the first spoken language emerged, spread and contributed to the evolutionary success of the human species. Quentin Atkinson, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and author of the study, found that the first migrating populations leaving Africa laid the groundwork for all the world's cultures by taking their single language with them -- the... |
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· 04/12/2011 12:11:37 PM PDT · · Posted by Palter · · 8 replies · · AP · · 06 April 2011 · · AP · |
Tablets served as a reminder for many of the danger that can follow earthquakes Modern sea walls failed to protect coastal towns from Japan's destructive tsunami last month. But in the hamlet of Aneyoshi, a single centuries-old tablet saved the day. "High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants," the stone slab reads. "Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis. Do not build any homes below this point." It was advice the dozen or so households of Aneyoshi heeded, and their homes emerged unscathed from a disaster that flattened low-lying communities elsewhere and killed thousands along Japan's northeastern... |
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| Tuberculosis strain spread...fur trade reveals stealthy approach of epidemics... Stanford researchers |
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· 04/11/2011 2:26:01 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 12 replies · · Stanford University · · April 7, 2011 · · Louis Bergeron · |
French Canadian voyageurs spread tuberculosis throughout the indigenous peoples of western Canada for over 150 years, yet, strangely enough, it wasn't until the fur traders ceased their forays that epidemics of tuberculosis broke out. Now Stanford researchers have puzzled out why. It took a shift in the environment of the infected peoples -- in this case, confinement to reservations -- to create conditions conducive to outbreaks.Patience may be a virtue in a person, but in an infectious disease, it is insidious. Witness tuberculosis, which can lie dormant in a human host for decades before bursting forth into infection. TB's stealthy... |
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· 04/13/2011 1:10:14 PM PDT · · Posted by Perdogg · · 14 replies · · transworld news · · 04.13.11 · |
April 13th is the birthday of one of America's founding fathers. He was born in 1743 in Virginia. Jefferson was one of the original writers of "The Declaration of Independence' which was intended to free America of Britain's sovereignty over the colonies and thus founding the United States of America. Aside from "The Constitution', "The Declaration of Independence' is one of the most important documents of American history. After a year of war the American colonist were growing weary of the many taxes levied on the colonist to pay for Britain's wars and not being represented in their political system.... |
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· 04/10/2011 5:55:11 PM PDT · · Posted by Cincinna · · 5 replies · · The New York Times · · April 8, 2011 · · Souren Melikian · |
PARIS -- The memorable auction of the late Paul-Louis Weiller's objects conducted this week at Drouot by the Gros & Delettrez group is one of those events that signal the end of a period in the cultural life of a nation. Ever since the 1789 Revolution, succeeding generations of the French establishment sought to reconstruct in their residences an environment in which the 17th- and 18th-century styles set the tone. Mr. Weiller, who died in 1993 at age 100, was the archetypal Parisian haute bourgeoisie figure. Driven by a vivid desire to impress, he enjoyed the wealth needed to that... |
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| Gods, Graves, Glyphs Weekly Digest #353 Saturday, April 23, 2011 |
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| Let's Have Jerusalem | |
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| Pharaoh, the Ten Plagues, and Iran |
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· 03/29/2010 11:56:04 AM PDT · · Posted by Wontsubmit · · 4 replies · · 278+ view · · Mar 28 2010 · · Andrew Klavan · |
An antisemitic Jew I know, rather than seeing the Passover ceremony as the celebration of freedom (the world's first and for a long time only successful slave revolt), and of justice and morality (the Ten Commandments), derides the whole ceremony as the unconscionable and immoral celebration of the genocide of the Egyptian people. What troubles him so much is the fact that, after each plague, when Pharaoh seems about to soften and let the Jews go, God hardens Pharaoh's heart, leadingto the necessity of yet another plague, culminating in the death of the first born. I know that some... |
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· 03/29/2010 12:20:44 AM PDT · · Posted by nickcarraway · · 3 replies · · 220+ view · · 3/29/10 · · Rabbi Yosef Reinman · |
A Closer Look at the Peculiar Preamble to the Passover SederIt always helps to know what you're saying, especially if you want to get into the spirit of things. Most American Jews who attend a Passover Seder these days say the Haggadah in English, which makes sense if your Hebrew is rather limited. In ancient times, the common language, the lingua franca, in Israel and the surrounding countries was Aramaic. Nonetheless, the Haggadah was said in Hebrew, because most Jewish people understood it reasonably well even though they didn't speak it at home or on the street. And yet, the... |
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· 03/28/2010 3:06:45 PM PDT · · Posted by Shellybenoit · · 14 replies · · 431+ view · · 3/28/10 · · Professor Gerald Steinberg · |
This year, in reciting the Passover story and Exodus from Egypt, I suggest extending the discussion to include stories that might have been featured in newspapers, blogs, and nightly news broadcasts of 4,000 years ago (give or take a few centuries). In this not-so-imaginary world, the headlines and video clips highlight stark images of blood flowing in the Nile and the devastation from frogs, boils, locusts and other plagues. The BBC sends a team of reporters to document the devastation in Egypt for a 10-part series -- one for each plague. Editorials attack pro-Israelite conspirators, and NPR features moving interviews... |
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· 04/24/2006 6:48:22 PM PDT · · Posted by Iam1ru1-2 · · 74 replies · · 827+ view · · Hillel Fendel · |
"It's not a question of 'maybe' or 'if'," says the Temple Institute's Rabbi Yisrael Ariel. "Bringing the Paschal sacrifice is a Torah obligation incumbent upon the People of Israel these very days." Speaking with Yoel Yaakobi of the weekly B'Sheva newspaper, Rabbi Ariel said that though there are some grave Halakhic [Jewish legal] problems associated with bringing the Paschal sacrifice, "we have found the solutions, and the obligation is as strong as ever. This is one of the only twopositive Biblical commandments that those who forsake it are liable to receive the ultimate karet [cutting off] punishment. From the... |
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| Last Supper celebrated a day late, physicist claims in book |
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· 04/18/2011 3:33:37 PM PDT · · Posted by NYer · · 30 replies · · April 17, 2011 · |
Pascal Adolphe Dagnan-Bouveret's The Last Supper Wikipedia---The Last Supper is commemorated a day late, a Cambridge University physicist claims in his new book, according to reports in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Belfast Telegraph. Professor Sir Colin Humphreys argues that the last supper Jesus Christ shared with his disciples occurred on Wednesday, April 1, AD33, rather than on a Thursday as traditionally celebrated in most Christian churches.The theory would explain the apparent inconsistencies between the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke - which say the Last Supper was a Passover meal - and that of John, which says Jesus... |
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| Pope Notes Hypothesis on Date of Passover - Says Christ Likely Followed Essene Calendar |
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· 04/06/2007 7:14:13 PM PDT · · Posted by NYer · · 13 replies · · 1,338+ view · · April 6, 2007 · |
VATICAN CITY, APRIL 6, 2007 (Zenit.org).- It is likely that Jesus followed the calendar of the Essenes of Qumran, possibly explaining some contradictions within the Gospel accounts of the Passover, says Benedict XVI. The Pope made this observation Holy Thursday in his homily during the Mass of the Lord's Supper at the Basilica of St. John Lateran. In his address, the theologian commented on the historical investigations on the manuscripts of Qumran, found in the Dead Sea in 1947. "Inthe narrations of the Evangelists, there is an apparent contradiction between the Gospel of John, on one hand, and what,... |
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| What Really Happened at "Easter"? |
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· 03/30/2007 4:41:10 PM PDT · · Posted by Uri'el-2012 · · 190 replies · · 4,076+ view · · March 2007 · · Chuck Missler Ph.D. · |
Most reasonably informed Christians are well aware that many of the traditions that surround the Christmas holidays have pagan origins and very little correlation with the actual events as recorded in the Bible. However, most of us are surprised when we discover that some of what we have been taught about "Easter" is not only in error, but deliberately so! Many, of course, are aware that the name "Easter" actually originates with the pagan worship of Ishtar (or Astarte) that was traditionally observed at the time of the vernal equinox, nominally about March 21 or... |
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| What Are the Real Origins of Easter? |
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· 04/08/2006 7:12:48 AM PDT · · Posted by DouglasKC · · 256 replies · · 2,067+ view · · Spring 2006 · · Jerold Aust · |
Millions assume that Easter, one of the world's major religious holidays, is found in the Bible. But is it? Have you ever looked into Easter's origins and customs and compared them with the Bible? by Jerold Aust Easter is one of the most popular religious celebrations in the world. But is it biblical? The word Easter appears only once in the King James Version of the Bible (and not at all in most others). In the one place it does appear, the King James translators mistranslated the Greek word for Passover as... |
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| Researchers Unearth Ancient Japanese Bible Translation |
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· 06/22/2003 9:33:49 AM PDT · · Posted by blam · · 8 replies · · 732+ view · · 6-20-2003 · |
Researchers unearth ancient Japanese bible translation OSAKA -- A 400-year-old Japanese translation of biblical literature has been found at a university in the old Polish city of Krakow, a researcher has told the Mainichi. Courtesy of Jagiellorian University. The Japanese translation is written below the Latin text. One of the oldest known translations of the bible in Japanese, several paragraphs were translated by a Japanese mission of boys that left the country in 1582 and arrivedin Rome three years later to receive an audience by Pope Gregory XIII. "European countries that received the mission showed great interest and numerous... |
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· 04/22/2011 6:43:33 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 37 replies · · April 22, 2011 · · George Jahn · |
VIENNA -- A man turning dirt in his back yard stumbled onto buried treasure -- hundreds of pieces of centuries-old jewelry and other precious objects that Austrian authorities described Friday as a fairy-tale find. Austria's departmentin charge of national antiquities said the trove consists of more than 200 rings, brooches, ornate belt buckles, gold-plated silver plates and other pieces or fragments, many encrusted with pearls, fossilized coral and other ornaments. It says the objects are about 650 years old and are being evaluated for their provenance and worth. |
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| Race row erupts over casting of Angelina Jolie as Cleopatra |
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· 06/17/2010 8:16:48 PM PDT · · Posted by Free ThinkerNY · · 158 replies · · 3,003+ view · · June 17, 2010 · · Sophie Forbes · |
She hasn't even been officially confirmed as having the role, but Angelina Jolie is already receiving criticism over her possible portrayal of the legendary Queen of the Nile. Jolie, who turned 35 last week, is caught up in a racially charged debate over whether the role should of been played by a black woman. The Egyptian royal was most famously portrayed Elizabeth Taylor in 1963. The new film's producer, Scott Rudin, previously told USA Today the role is being developed with Angelina in mind as she has 'the perfect look'. But this statement has angered members of the African American... |
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· 06/18/2010 4:13:24 AM PDT · · Posted by C19fan · · 77 replies · · 1,504+ view · · June 17, 2010 · · Sophie Forbes · |
She hasn't even been officially confirmed as having the role, but Angelina Jolie is already receiving criticism over her possible portrayal of the legendary Queen of the Nile. Jolie, who turned 35 last week, is caught up in a racially charged debate over whether the role should of been played by a black woman. The Egyptian royal was most famously portrayed Elizabeth Taylor in 1963. The new film's producer, Scott Rudin, previously told USA Today the role is being developed with Angelina in mind as she has 'the perfect look'. But this statement has angered members of the African American... |
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· 06/18/2010 7:21:52 AM PDT · · Posted by chesley · · 114 replies · · 1,678+ view · · Sophie Forbes · |
She hasn't even been officially confirmed as having the role, but Angelina Jolie is already receiving criticism over her possible portrayal of the legendary Queen of the Nile. Jolie, who turned 35 last week, is caught up in a racially charged debate over whether the role should have been played by a black woman... |
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· 06/21/2010 7:43:10 AM PDT · · Posted by re_tail20 · · 109 replies · · 3+ view · · June 19, 2010 · · Meena Hartenstein · |
Angelina Jolie is one of the most beautiful women in the world, but her "perfect" looks have some critics complaining she's all wrong for her latest role. Earlier this month producer Scott Rudin got the Internet buzzing with his announcement that he was developing a Cleopatra biopic "for and with Jolie" based on Stacy Schiff's book "Cleopatra: A Life." Schiff raved about the choice, telling USA Today, "Physically, she's the perfect look." But some members of the African American community beg to differ -- they are outraged by the casting decision and say Jolie is "too white" to play the... |
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| Antiquities chief Zahi Hawass sentenced to one year in jail |
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· 04/18/2011 5:13:09 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 30 replies · · Sunday, April 17, 2011 · · Hatem Maher · |
Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs Zahi Hawass has been sentenced to one year in jail on Sunday for refusing to fulfill a court ruling over a land dispute. The Egyptian criminal court also said Hawass must be relieved of his governmental duties and ordered him to pay a LE1000 penalty. Hawass failed to adhere to a ruling in favour of his opponent over a land dispute when he was in charge of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA). The SCA appealed the court ruling, arguing that the land includes monuments and therefore should be treated as government-owned land. Hawass... |
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| 12,000 Years Old Unexplained Structure [Gobekli Tepe] |
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· 04/18/2011 4:25:18 PM PDT · · Posted by stockpirate · · 107 replies · · 2/10/2011 · · History Channel · |
This site is 12,000 years old, the most advanced strutures ever found. Several video's on the link |
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| Did Neanderthals Believe in an Afterlife? |
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· 04/21/2011 8:06:19 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 21 replies · · Wednesday, April 20, 2011 · · Jennifer Viegas · |
Evidence for a likely 50,000-year-old Neanderthal burial ground that includes the remains of at least three individuals has been unearthed in Spain... The deceased appear to have been intentionally buried, with each Neanderthal's armsfolded such that the hands were close to the head. Remains of other Neanderthals have been found in this position, suggesting that it held meaning. Neanderthals therefore may have conducted burials and possessed symbolic thought before modern humans hadthese abilities... So far they have found buried articulated skeletons for a young adult female, a juvenile or child, and an adult -- possibly male -- Neanderthal...... |
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| New research suggests right-handedness prevailed 500,000 years ago |
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· 04/21/2011 7:58:26 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 32 replies · · April 18, 2011 · · Brendan M. Lynch · |
David Frayer, professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas, has used markings on fossilized front teeth to show that right-handedness goes back more than 500,000 years... His research shows that distinctive markings on fossilized teeth correlate to the right or left-handedness of individual prehistoric humans... The oldest teeth come from a more than 500,000-year-old chamber known as Sima de los Huesos near Burgos, Spain, containing the remains of humans believed to be ancestors of European Neandertals. Other teeth studied by Frayer come from later Neandertal populations in Europe... Overall, Frayer and his co-authors found right-handedness in 93.1 percent of... |
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| Evolution of human 'super-brain' tied to development of bipedalism, tool-making |
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· 04/21/2011 8:15:16 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 14 replies · · Wednesday, April 20, 2011 · · John Hoffecker · |
CU-Boulder Research Associate John Hoffecker said there is abundant fossil and archaeological evidence for the evolution of the human mind, including its unique power to create a potentially infinite variety of thoughts expressed in the form of sentences, art and technologies. He attributes the evolving power of the mind to the formation of what he calls the "super-brain," or collective mind, an event that took place in Africa no later than 75,000 years ago... While anatomical fossil evidence for the capability of speech is controversial, the archaeological discoveries of symbols coincides with a creative explosion in the making of many... |
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· 04/18/2011 3:10:43 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 15 replies · · April 17, 2011 · · Unknown · |
Archaeologists have found evidence of a massacre linked to Iron Age warfare at a hill fort in Derbyshire.A burial site contained only women and children - the first segregated burial of this kind from Iron Age Britain. Nine skeletons were discovered in a section of ditch around the fort at Fin Cop in the Peak District. Scientists believe "perhaps hundreds more skeletons" could be buried in the ditch, only a small part of which has been excavated so far. Construction of the hill fort has been dated to some time between 440BC and 390BC, but it was destroyed before completion.... |
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| What Have We Learned In 2,066 Years? |
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· 04/21/2011 10:47:17 AM PDT · · Posted by Wuli · · 30 replies · · Cicero, 55 B.C. · |
QUESTION : WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IN 2,066 YEARS? "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." - CICERO - 55 BC ANSWER : APPARENTLY NOTHING |
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· 04/21/2011 7:40:45 PM PDT · · Posted by SunkenCiv · · 8 replies · · 13-Apr-2011 · · Kevin Stacey · |
Textiles and rope fragments found in a Peruvian cave have been dated to around 12,000 years ago, making them the oldest textiles ever found in South America, according to a report in the April issue of Current Anthropology. The items were found 30 years ago in Guitarrero Cave high in the Andes Mountains. Other artifacts found along with the textiles had been dated to 12,000 ago and even older. However, the textiles themselves had never been dated, and whether they too were that old had been controversial, according to Edward Jolie, an archaeologist at Mercyhurst College (PA) who led this... |
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· 04/21/2011 7:31:32 PM PDT · · Posted by greatdefender · · 44 replies · · Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience · |
The largest fossil spider uncovered to date once ensnared prey back in the age of dinosaurs, scientists find. The spider, named Nephila jurassica, was discovered buried in ancient volcanic ash in Inner Mongolia, China. Tufts of hairlike fibers seen on its legs showed this 165-million-year-old arachnid to be the oldest known species of the largest web-weaving spiders alive today -- the golden orb-weavers, or Nephila, which are big enough to catch birds and bats, and use silk that shines like gold in the sunlight. The fossil was about as large as its modern relatives, with a body one inch (2.5... |
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· 04/18/2011 4:25:21 PM PDT · · Posted by decimon · · 13 replies · · April 16, 2011 · · Colin Barras · |
TO SURVIVE in frigid polar regions, many cold-blooded creatures employ a natural antifreeze to protect themselves from the damage that large ice crystals would cause. These antifreeze molecules lock onto ice crystals, but not liquid water - though how they do this has been a mystery. Now the mechanism has been revealed, opening the way to using similar molecules in cancer treatments, to protect healthy tissue while tumours are destroyed by freezing. Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) found in nature lock onto ice crystals and stop them growing large enough to damage tissue. If AFPs bound as easily to liquid water as... |
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| Hints of yeast, honey; shipwrecked bubbly uncorked |
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· 11/17/2010 8:11:49 AM PST · · Posted by ConservativeStatement · · 15 replies · · 1+ view · · November 17, 2010 · · Louise Nordstrom · |
MARIEHAMN, Finland -- An accent of mushrooms merged with sweet notes of honey in a sampling Wednesday of what's been billed as the world's oldest champagne, salvaged from a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea. An expert who tasted the vintage bubbly was lyrical, detecting hints of chanterelles and linden blossom. An Associated Press reporter, who also sampled a bottle, found only a slight fizz and flavors of yeast and honey. The champagne -- of the brands Veuve Clicquot and the now defunct Juglar -- was recovered from a shipwreck discovered in July near the Aland Islands, between Sweden and Finland.... |
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| The Revolution | |
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| Madison's Ltr to George Washington, April 16, 1787 |
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· 04/16/2011 4:30:48 AM PDT · · Posted by Jacquerie · · 97 replies · · April 16, 1787 · · James Madison · |
Two hundred and twenty four years ago today, and one month before the Philadelphia Convention, aka the Constitutional Convention was to commence, James Madison responded to a letter from George Washington. He offered his thoughts on anew plan of government, the Virginia Plan. It would emerge largely intact almost five months later as The Constitution of the United States of America. To George Washington New York, April 16 1787 Dear Sir, I have been honoured with your letter of the 31 of March, and find with much pleasure that your views of the reform which ought to be pursued... |
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| Need Help with Research of Archives |
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· 02/11/2006 11:27:51 AM PST · · Posted by SantaLuz · · 10 replies · · 198+ view · · · |
The memory of John Morton has faded even more than his signature on the original Declaration of Indepedence. He was the first of the signers to die, and since then his name has been largely been forgotten. I'll be visiting the National Archives in Washington, DC in April and would like any recommendations on how to best research pre-1776 documents kept there. John Morton is my relative and I'm trying to do research on why he changed his mind at the last minute and decided to vote in favor of independence; even though he was sent by his Tory constituents... |
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oogles, moogles, this thread is still alive!! wow!
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