Posted on 03/03/2014 1:25:38 PM PST by Renfield
An archaeologist says he discovered nine tiny scrolls with biblical text from the Qumran caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were unearthed, according to news reports.
The newfound scrolls, which date back to about 2,000 years ago, were hidden inside three leather tefillin cases, also known as phylacteries, traditionally carried by observant Jewish men, Italian news agency Ansa Mediterranean reported. These cases were first pulled out of the caves in the 1950s, but their contents apparently were not examined until now....
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I love that show! I think it is fascinating.
Were these men professionals? If so, then these were the first known pro-phylacteries...protection indeed.
All kidding aside, I have long wondered how much history is just laying around in a drawer somewhere waiting to be revisited.
But he never closes out on a subject. It’s always an investigation pointing in one direction and then he hops a plane across the country to look at something else and tries to connect the two items. Or he’ll see something real, like a petroglyph, and read WAY too much into it without considering more realistic options.
The Egyptian treasure in the mysterious mythical Grand Canyon cave was a prime example. The helicopter chick says that the FAA prevents them from flying below the canyon rim and he answers back with “so the government won’t let you take me to where I think the cave is?!?” And he wants us to believe that a cave that was too difficult for him to find and reach could somehow store tons and tons of Egyptian gold that was taken there at a time when Africans didn’t even know that our continent existed, then stored in this one cave that’s impossible to get to. Oh, and it’s supposedly big enough for 50,000 people to fit in.
I’m glad that you find it fascinating and I’m not knocking you at all, but the few episodes I saw made me believe that this guy has some serious mental issues and delusions of grandeur.
By the way, has he ever found a single legitimate ancient artifact? Or is he like the bigfoot hunters that keep chasing and never finding?
He investigates interesting artifacts that others tell him about. Can he or anyone prove that the things he investigates are actually true? How can anyone prove that carving on a rock wall is 100 years or 1000 years old? No one can but that doesn’t keep them from being interesting to consider.
“Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels – bring home for Emma”
Nice one. I recently read the book myself.
So what do the texts say?
Klatu Barunda Nectu
64 years is nothing - the Smithsonian has stuff in its basement not seen since Smithson put it there in the 19th Century.
OBVIOUSLY, there is a transatlantic link that the Egyptians knew about, which is how they secretly got their treasure to the inaccessible cave in the Grand Canyon.
We know this is true, because the Egyptians, via the hidden subway station under the Sphinx, is how they kept in contact with the other secret vimana base and city under the Himalayas.
We know the secret bases and cities exist, because there is no mention of them, thereby proving they are, indeed, secret!
IT’S A BLUEPRINT!
Nah, she’ll just fall thru it and babble about hallucinations.
Actually, you can determine relative age of stone carving if it is exposed to the elements. Differential weathering, growth of lickens, etc. Also, check out Gloria Farley’s book: “In Plain Sight”. It examines in great detail many rock drawings and writing in the US which could be several thousand years old and written in European and North African scripts. Especially, Celtic runes, Iberian and Libyan scripts. Also celebrating various old gods and godesses like Epona, Tanit, Anubis. Quite amazing and fascinating.
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