[blam]

So....they found a 3,000 year old map etched into some 120 million old rock. A map 3,000 years old is still interesting, huh....or is this all hokum. (Notice I posted under 'conspiracy')

[blam]

FYI, comments?

[another cricket]

Have you read "Forbidden Archeology" by any chance?

Their theory is that man has been around millions of years. A very different view of history.

a.cricket

[DKNY]

no photo's for documentation?

[RightWhale]

There was a story published in Biblical Archaeology Review [you can look it up] about a hole drilled in Siberia that went down to a huge chamber deep down. When they lowered a microphone, they heard the screams of the anguished souls condemned to hell. Remember that one?

This might be the same kind of story. Great stuff, though.

[white rose]

Now, this is a weird one. As far as I can tell, there's nothing about this story anywhere on the Internet, so it's hard to tell how on-the-level it is. Still, this claim is no stranger than that business about those Chinese stone disks that supposedly told of an ancient UFO crash.

[Swordmaker]

The article said the map was under a layer of porcelain... which is itself a artificial substance (a very fine clay is vitrified to make porcelain) and that the fossil mollusks were attached to the surface of the porcelain!

What I have a problem with is the fact that the one piece of what they think was an entire relief map of the world just happens to be a piece that matches the area in which it was found. Assuming a random breakup of the map by glaciation, this would be hard to swallow, given the very long odds.