Hmmmm... mysterious...
Bang a gong ping.
They can’t explain it?? Perhaps some Grant Money will help them to ponder....and ponder....and ponder..
its says D R I N K M O R E O V A L T I N E
Scientists are trying to translate
Be noble/Not a knave/Tutankhamen uses/Burma Shave.
Single lines? multi lines? Maybe it was kpimps rating khors.
Um yeah,.,,,the locals said it was old past their grandfathers time...that would put it around 1920.
/snark
Hmmmm... mysterious...
This would be a cool thread if there were PICTURES!
Stargate tech manual.
I've been telling them for years that a right-click
will pull down a whole new menu, with time travel options.
Does anybody listen? Hell-to-the-no.
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that's right, no human would stack books like that
Get James Spader involved!
Rock gongs?!? Seriously?!? Where I come from, we call them rocks. How do they know that the ancient Egyptians used them to make noise? They could have been target practicing with their slings.
Odd concept of "new".
On another note, "before the time of our grandfathers" would be perfectly apt for something 5000 years old in many cultures - not everyone measures time in finite little bits.
So. You're telling us that before there were...
rock songs
rock bongs
rock throngs
and rock thongs
there were rock gongs -- rock-on-rock rockin'!
That rocks!
Some of their interpretations were imaginative to say the least.
We’ll see what Tony Peratt has to say. At least two of the images have elements that look like some of the rock art from around that world that depict plasma instabilities. Too bad that of the dozens of images they put up only five!
They can’t explain it??
You mean it isn’t etching, pecking, intaglio, basrelief, scratching/scraping, incising, etc?
The "oldest rock art we found are the spiral motifs," said Karberg, which, as their name suggests, twist up in a way that is hard to interpret. Similar drawings have been found in the Sahara Desert.A second set of geometric drawings, probably a bit younger than the spirals, is "hard to describe," Karberg said. They consist of "amorphous patterns which are not circular. ... It looks like an irregular-shaped net," Karberg said.
They were created at a time when Africa was a wetter place, with grasslands and savannah dominating Sudan; people were moving to a lifestyle based on animal husbandry and, in some instances, farming.
Understanding what these drawings mean is difficult. 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."
These artifacts are as safe as a Buddah Statue in Afghanistan....
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....
The pictured rock carvings are mostly relatively recent - an Islamic (?) crecent moon, Sir George and the dragon and a Christian church.
