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Sounds like the same scientific method used by Algore to prove global warming.
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Wouldn't the rotation of the earth's axis over 26,000 years cause a change in where the sun set relative to the temple. If I am correct, then he should be able to calculate when the sun would have risen in the correct place and calculate the date of the temple.
I also discovered some interesting references to Dilman in Gloria Farley's book "In Plain Sight: Old World Records in Ancient America" regarding correlation between certain sacred images in Dilman and some found in "amerindian" sites in the USA.
Holy Cow - why isn't this in Breaking News??!!??
"...there is in the Talmud the information that the Temple of Solomon was built so that on the equinoctial days of the year the direction of the rays of the rising sun could be tested. A gold plate or disc was affixed to the eastern gate: through it the rays of the rising sun fell into the heart of the Temple."
Page 336 Worlds in Collision.
The eastern gate of the Temple of Jerusalem was no longer correctly oriented after the cardinal points had become displaced. On his accession to the throne following the death of Ahaz, Hezekiah 'inaugurated a sweeping religious reformation."
"he in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them."
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Dilmun, sometimes described as "the place where the sun rises" and "the Land of the Living" is the scene of a Sumerian creation myth and the place where the deified Sumerian hero of the flood, Ziusudra (Utnapishtim), was taken by the gods to live for ever.
There is mention of Dilmun as a vassal of Assyria in the 8th century BC and by about 600 BC, it had been fully incorporated into the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Dilmun then falls into deep eclipse marked by the decline of the copper trade, so long controlled by Dilmun, and the switch to a less important role in the new trade of frankincense and spices. The discovery of an impressive palace at the Ras al Qalah site in Bahrain is promising to increase knowledge of this late period.
Otherwise, there is virtually no information until the passage of Nearchus, the admiral in charge of Alexander the Great's fleet on the return from the Indus Valley. Nearchus kept to the Iranian coast of the Gulf, however, and cannot have stopped at Dilmun. Nearchus established a colony on the island of Falaika off the coast of Kuwait in the late 4th century BC, and explored the Gulf perhaps least as far south as Dilmun/Bahrain. From the time of Nearchus until the coming of Islam in the 7th century AD Dilmun/Bahrain was known by its Greek name of Tylos. The political history for this period is little known, but Tylos was at one point part of the Seleucid Empire, and of Characene and perhaps part of the Parthian Empire. Shapur II annexed it, together with eastern Arabia, into the Persian Sasanian empire in the 4th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilmun
This is an intresting articel becasue very little is known about pre-Islamic Saudi Arabian history.
The Muslims aren't interested in anythng that happened before Mohammad except to condemn it and have in the past actively discouraged archaeological investiagtions in the "Kingdom".
Saar ‘holding the secret of Dilmun’
Gulf Daily News | June 21st 2007 | Rebecca Torr
Posted on 06/29/2007 12:48:11 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1858386/posts