[blam]

GGG Ping.

American Drugs In Egyptian Mummies

[xcamel]

They said all the same things about Thor Heyerdahl

[Dead Dog]

Is it possible Cocoa grew in N. Africa 14K years ago? It was cooler and wetter then.

[weegee]

It wasn’t that they liked the high so much as they liked the smell...

[decal]

“An adventurer who believes that ancient man regularly crossed the Atlantic Ocean 14,000 years ago plans to recreate such a voyage in a 41ft raft made of reeds and eucalyptus tree branches.”

So....what’s this guy on?

[bkepley]

So if he makes it how does it prove “that ancient man regularly crossed the Atlantic Ocean”?

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Ping for later. (Got to turn on The Shield.)

[DBrow]

Coca (not cocaine) and tobacco, but not chocolate or chiles? No tomato or potato?

Seems like very limited trade. Surely Egyptians would have shipped seed and not leaves if they were bright...

Does not entirely make sense. I have seen little real data on the “contamination” of mummies with these New World plant products, so I’m a little skeptical.

But if this guy wants to sail from Egypt to Peru, go for it!

[mamelukesabre]

I’m sure I am about to get this wrong and will probably get flamed for this...

But, don’t the mormons claim that their book of mormon was written by blond haired blue eyed extinct people of south america?

Back on subject...kinda...I remember reading once that the russians claimed when they first discovered alaska, there were tall pale red haired vicious people living in crude stone fortresses that attacked them with arrows and catapults. They refused to surrender, so the russians killed them all. Even women and children fought like demons and were killed. My first thought was that these were the last remnants of the disappeared greenland vikings. I wonder if these fair skinned people all the way down to south america were the same.

[Graymatter]

"There's this 99.9 per cent certainty that it didn't happen, because we don't have evidence that it happened," said Kenneth Feder, an anthropology professor at the Central Connecticut State University.

Well that's a college professor for you.

[Sherman Logan]

In 1970 Heyerdahl made essentially this exact voyage, sailing from the Mediterranean to Barbados in a reed boat, the Ra.

Odd the article would mention his Kon-Tiki voyage but not that of the Ra.

Except an article about an idiot repeating an already been there done that publicity stunt wouldn’t read too well, I guess.

[freekitty]

I wonder if my pharoah hound’s ancestors went along for the ride? You know they are sight hounds.

[Ken H]

He is also looking for more volunteers to sail with him in July.

Although he does not have a sailing licence, Mr Gorlitz will be steering the vessel himself.

"It's like kung fu," the explorer said. "The less you know, the better."

Well, sure! I'll sail across the Atlantic Ocean with him...

[SunkenCiv]

German man hopes to sail raft made of reeds across Atlantic
Newsday | May 28, 2007 | author
Posted on 05/28/2007 10:51:52 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1841205/posts

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