[SunkenCiv]

The Mold Cape, found in Wales and the four gold hats look as if they belong together. The cape and hats were all made from a single sheet of gold, and all share a similar pattern of decoration. The cape dates from about 1900-1600 BCE, and the hats date from 1400-800 BCE Despite the time difference between the hats and the cape, the similarities indicate a shared culture and knowledge. [Jaunting Jen 'blog, pic attributed to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold_cape]

[arrogantsob]

That is one of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen.

[rfp1234]

[Ken H]

Gold is heavy. I wonder how much they weighed.

[robowombat]

So that is the origin of the conical hates decorated with zodiac signs that sorcerers are always depicted as wearing. Those condemned to the flames at Auto-de-Fe’s also wore conical paper hats decorated with pictures of Satan and flames. A connection would seem suggested as wizardry was a mortal sin and heretical.

[equaviator]

"The wizards of early Europe wore hats of gold intricately embellished with astrological symbols that helped them to predict the movement of the sun and stars"

No, a hat of gold did not help them or anyone else predict the movement of the sun and stars but if they were alive today they'd still want you to believe it did.

[drpix]

The article's lack of photo(s) was a major shortcoming. I believe these are the hats:

Impressive!

[Hot Tabasco]

The wizards of early Europe wore hats... embellished with astrological symbols

[ckilmer]

I’m reading an interesting book called Discovery of Middle Earth by Graham Robb.

Its a story of the celts. The book ties them to the ancient greeks. their gods were very similiar. Hercules was central to them. the druids were not just a blood sacrifice cult. they were also hugely scientific. their astronomical formulas were much similar to the hats mentioned here. julius caesar was able to easily make his way through gaul and england because the roads were all already neatly laid out.

the interesting thing here is that this books dates the celtic civilization to only about 600 bc. they were invaders who mixed with the locals. (unlike the germans who had lived in the forests for a long time.)

these discoveries make it sound like the locals were already pretty advanced when the celts arrived

[P.O.E.]

There’s a fine line between dunce cap & wizard hat.

“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

- Shakespeare

[super7man]

[RedMonqey]

...discovered that the 1,739 sun and half-moon symbols decorating the Berlin cone's surface make up a scientific code

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[Aliska]

Check out Coast to Coast at the usual link. Egyptian pyramid researcher is going to be on.

https://cheopspyramid.com/

Host Jimmy Church, guest Manu Seyfzadeh

I'm so fed up with accidentally flushing my posts. Was going to make it neater. Had to invert colors just long enough so I wouldn't copy white text, switch them back. Then was going to embed the link like C2C has it and lost it.

[Professional Engineer]

Worn by this guy.

[TaMoDee]

Note the label on the back.
It says: CARTIER - Paris

[Covenantor]

Interesting....however my conical wizards hat made of a metal foil unknown to to the ancients, aluminum, "suggests almost conclusively" (quote from article) that logarithmic tables just might have been beyond the wizards skill set.

But then again, once the speculation reaches the point of introducing Time Lords, anything becomes possible...

"Such figures, referred to as "king-priests", were held to have supernatural powers because of their ability to predict accurately the correct time for sowing, planting and harvesting crops." "They would have been regarded as Lords of Time who had access to a divine knowledge that enabled them to look into the future," said Wilfried Menghin, the director of the Berlin Museum which has been carrying out detailed research on a 3,000-year-old 30in high Bronze Age cone of beaten gold that was discovered in Switzerland in 1995 and purchased by the museum the following year."

That suggests almost conclusively that the Dr. Whos of the day traveled forward in time to encounter John Napier, culturally appropriated the secret knowledge of his concept of logarithms along with the basic arithmetic functions of multiplication tables and long division, of which there is little or scant evidence produced in support of the Lords of Time theory. A theory that the article "suggests almost conclusively that the wizards magical agricultural logarithmic tables were employed for 500 to 800 years.

How does that compare to every other ancient agricultural society marking planting/growing/harvesting seasons which were bereft of this hidden knowledge?

On the other hand, not having been of fan of he BBC series "Dr Who" my Aluminium foil Wizards Conical hat might not be attuned to the frequencies necessary to receive the Divine Data. Not enough bandwidth. I do concede that our current era teems with dickheads professing to have divine knowledge necessaryfor the governance of our society. Damn good thing we have Donald Trump to check them for the moment.