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Cave Paintings of the Altamira Cave and Lascaux Cave, to Hurrian Hymns
YouTube ^ | April 11, 2020 | MVD

Posted on 04/11/2020 4:33:07 PM PDT by mairdie

Cave paintings of the Spanish Altamira Cave and the French Lascaux Cave, to the Hurrian Hymns from "Music of the Ancient Sumerians, Egyptians, and Greeks." They're around 17,000 years old.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: altamira; carian; carians; caveart; cavepaintings; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; hurrian; hurrians; lascaux; musicvideos; urartian; urartians; urartu
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In her Plato Prehistorian: 10,000 to 5000 B.C. Myth, Religion, Archaeology, Mary Settegast reproduces a table which shows four runic character sets; a is Upper Paleolithic (found among the cave paintings), b is Indus Valley script, c is Greek (western branch), and d is the Scandinavian runic alphabet.
Mary Settegast Plato Prehistorian

21 posted on 04/11/2020 8:15:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Bob Ireland
Too right! And we hear about the Egyptians digging deep warrens in the Valley of the Kings with elaborate art and plaster work, but never hear about the fact that there is no suet from torches on the walls or ceilings - hundreds of feet underground.

Are you saying they not only had paint that lasted thousands of years (unlike paint today) but they also had light sources without smoke? Right? What are you REALLY saying?

22 posted on 04/11/2020 8:39:11 PM PDT by GOPJ (Best Video For Safe Virus-Free Food: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKx-F4AKteE)
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To: GOPJ
***What are you REALLY saying***

We time travelers have our sources... the truth will out. ;^)

23 posted on 04/12/2020 11:11:46 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Bob Ireland
We time travelers have our sources...

I like that...yes we do.

24 posted on 04/12/2020 2:56:13 PM PDT by GOPJ (Best Video For Virus-Free Food: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKx-F4AKteE)
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To: mairdie

Excellent, as always. So much better than a lot of scribbling that passes as “art” these days. Please, please,(although I do think you are sane so I’m sure you wouldn’t) don’t ever make a Basquait video.

Some of the animals, especially at Altamira suggest those found in centuries old Chinese scroll work. There’s something about the quality of the drawings and the limited palette of both.

In a little less than 20 years looking at hundreds of pieces by local artists I’ve seen ONE watercolor that could have come from those caves. The Ancient Artists really knew their stuff.

Hope you had a wonderful Easter.

Stay safe and thanks for sharing your special talents with us.


25 posted on 04/13/2020 2:18:57 AM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (The Fourth Estate is now the Fifth Column)
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To: SunkenCiv
I'm not down with the "savages" remark

IIUC, savage relates to behavior, not to intelligence or lack of sophistication.

26 posted on 04/13/2020 11:40:11 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed

Savege, compared with what, jihadists? The left? The 20th century?


27 posted on 04/13/2020 12:53:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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