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Ancient Inscribed Slab Brought To Light (Another Rosetta Stone - Three Languages)
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| 4-19-2004
Posted on 04/20/2004 12:18:46 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam
To whom it may concern,
Ptolemy III, the great and merciful, hearby declares:
When this stone is found, many years from now, the world will be Doomed, DOOMED!!
Also, it will be the fault of one man, George W. Bush.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:48:17 PM PDT
by
michigander
(The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
To: Doctor Stochastic
...along with the date 238 BC.Well, they do follow up with it was found "purely by accident."
To: Charles Martel
Well, they haven't found the Stargate yet....
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:50:40 PM PDT
by
John H K
To: blam
It shows a royal decree, written in ancient Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphs, that mentions King Ptolemy III Euergetes I along with the date 238 BC. It's the SAME three languages as the Rosetta Stone, and only has traces of the hieroglyphic portion. Thus, I doubt if this is much of a breakthrough for the linguists. (There are still some outstanding questions on the interpretation of some hieroglyphs, but this won't answer them.)
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:52:16 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
(Faster than a speeding building! Able to leap tall bullets in a single bound!)
To: blam
Sounds like another mission for SG-1.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:52:21 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Proud member of the right wing extremist Neanderthals.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Yeah, I was relieved to see it was Greek, Denotic, and Hieroglyphs instead of Greek, Denotic, and Goa'uld.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:53:11 PM PDT
by
John H K
To: blam
Is this from the Onion? The writer apparently has a real problem with dates.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:53:15 PM PDT
by
hopespringseternal
(People should be banned for sophistry.)
To: blam
Thanks for the interesting post. Perhaps you can answer a question I have (since seeing The Passion) that I have not been able to figure out. Jesus and his followers spoke Aramaic. Who spoke Hebrew in those days? Was Hebrew used only by the priests and Aramaic by the common people? I think the Torah was written in Hebrew, but I'm not altogether sure. In all of your reading, have you ever come across the answers to this question?
To: michigander
I have seen this before?????
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:54:55 PM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(<a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/" target="_blank">miserable failure)
To: blam
The Rosetta stone is not the only stone found with inscriptons in 3 different languages.
To: michigander
Translation: "To whom it may concern, Ptolemy III, the great and merciful, hearby declares: When this stone is found, many years from now, the world will be Doomed, DOOMED!! Also, it will be the fault of one man, George W. Bush."
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:55:08 PM PDT
by
Theo
To: michigander
Clever...very clever!
Anybody else get it?
To: John H K
...and Goa'uld If it had Goa'uld markings, do you think they would tell us? No.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:57:21 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Proud member of the right wing extremist Neanderthals.)
To: Theo
Just damn, Theo! You're too fast! hehehehehe...
To: michigander
Hehe... Word97 is the electronic Rosetta stone.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:58:59 PM PDT
by
Textide
To: Theo
It can't be real then. It would also have to blame Halliburton and the Skull and Bones.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:59:58 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Proud member of the right wing extremist Neanderthals.)
To: Airborne Longhorn
I did, I recognized Wingdings, and that looks like a good way to encrypt simple messages for fun. Nice thing is, it was easy to cut and paste into a blank Word document, highlight the text, and change the font into a readable one.
To: blam
Demotic ????
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posted on
04/20/2004 1:22:20 PM PDT
by
jpsb
(Nominated 1994 "Worst writer on the net")
To: blam
read later
To: bmwcyle
I have seen this before????? Probably not. But, even then, one needed to read the fine hieroglyphs.
At the bottom of the stone, almost imperceptible to the human eye, was this...
Vote for John F'ing Kerry in A.D. 2004!
It appears that King Ptolemy III was one of those foreign leader's endorsements Kerry was talking about.
Who would have pthought??
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posted on
04/20/2004 1:51:43 PM PDT
by
michigander
(The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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