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Mysterious Ancient Rock Carvings Found Near Nile
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| May 16, 2011
| Owen Jarus
Posted on 05/16/2011 3:51:11 PM PDT by decimon
An archaeological team in the Bayuda Desert in northern Sudan has discovered dozens of new rock art drawings, some of which were etched more than 5,000 years ago and reveal scenes that scientists can't explain.
The team discovered 15 new rock art sites in an arid valley known as Wadi Abu Dom, some 18 miles (29 kilometers) from the Nile River. Its an arid valley that flows with water only during rainy periods. Many of the drawings were carved into the rock faces no paint was used of small stream beds known as "khors" that flow into the valley.
Some of the sites revealed just a single drawing while others have up to 30, said lead researcher Tim Karberg, of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in Germany.
We asked the local people about the rock art and they said that it would be very old, before their grandfathers, Karberg told LiveScience.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; sudan
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To: ApplegateRanch
My kids have been doing similarbetter stuff on my driveway with chalk since they were 2 years old.
To: decimon
Back when I was young, we didn’t have stereos. No, we had rocks. And when we wanted entertainment, we banged ‘em together rhythmically; and a few of us, the talented ones, grunted in time. That was how opera got started....
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05/16/2011 6:42:13 PM PDT
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Grut
To: ApplegateRanch
I don’t know. Looks to be a smiling cyclops emoticon to me.
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05/16/2011 6:47:38 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
To: Grut
That was how opera got started....Opera or Opry?
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05/16/2011 6:52:03 PM PDT
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decimon
To: lonevoice
I wondered what the Mexicans were doing while we were building the space station.
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05/16/2011 6:59:10 PM PDT
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Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: decimon
The pictured rock carvings are mostly relatively recent - an Islamic (?) crecent moon, Sir George and the dragon and a Christian church.
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05/16/2011 7:48:44 PM PDT
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JimSEA
To: ApplegateRanch
The corridors and chambers under the Great Sphinx are pretty spacious, they needed a lot of illumination. ;’)
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05/16/2011 8:11:22 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: wildbill
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05/16/2011 8:12:28 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: moehoward
That’s the new Mexican style,..pointy toe boots.
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05/16/2011 8:15:17 PM PDT
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: aruanan
" Some researchers connect the "spiral motifs to some astronomical or astrological forms," Karberg said, but he thinks it might have more to do with math. "The regularity of the spiral might be one of the earliest mathematical ideas the people developed."Early American Indians used a spiral design to illustrate a long, wandering journey.
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05/16/2011 8:15:48 PM PDT
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redhead
(Get the GOVERNMENT out of our BUSINESS!!)
To: redhead
Early American Indians used a spiral design to illustrate a long, wandering journey.
More likely: People assumed early American Indians used a spiral design to illustrate a long wandering journey. Not likely, since a spiral is anything but wandering. And when you have exactly the same pictographs occurring in the tens of millions all over the earth regardless of race/linguistic background and these pictographs happen to be foreshortened in a way that corresponds exactly to latitude, then we're dealing with something that arose from a common experience and that is celestial in nature.
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05/16/2011 8:29:39 PM PDT
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aruanan
To: decimon
Mysterious Ancient Rock Carvings Found Near Nile...
That would be me doing that a few thou years ago. Sorry my bad.
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05/16/2011 8:37:23 PM PDT
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Redcitizen
(In case of economic breakdown, make sure you have a case of Snickers candy bars.)
To: Colofornian
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05/16/2011 8:41:51 PM PDT
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Redcitizen
(In case of economic breakdown, make sure you have a case of Snickers candy bars.)
To: moehoward
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05/16/2011 11:42:26 PM PDT
by
gnarledmaw
(Obama: Evincing a Design since 2009)
To: decimon
It says to me: “They went thata way”.
Gotta be careful what you draw on rocks. Could be confusing down the road.
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05/17/2011 4:35:06 AM PDT
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wolfcreek
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
To: SunkenCiv
...reveal scenes that scientists can't explain.And yet, explain them they did. The "St. George" explanation struck me as particularly explanatory.
To: ApplegateRanch
The crescent or star and crescent motif is a common depiction of the mythological “ship of heaven” and is echoed as crescent horns, up stretched arms, twin mountain peaks, or a crescent at the top of a staff as seen in many Babylonian cylinder seals. A crescent is often found under the “wheel of Saturn” and sun wheel atop a holy mountain or axis mundi world pillar. This is discussed in “Hamlet’s Mill”. It is also depicted as underfoot of many female deities such as Venus, Astarte, Inanna and even on occasion under the Virgin Mary. Many rock art depictions show a series of crescents in the 3, 6, 9 and 12 o:clock position as though it were rotating.
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