To: the scotsman
1200 year old secrets? Seems like the author isn’t good at math. If the city is from 800BC then it is 2000+800 = 2800 years old (not 2000 - 800 = 1200)
4 posted on
05/01/2013 7:45:21 AM PDT by
mathprof
To: mathprof
“...swallowed by the sea, probably around A.D. 700...”
5 posted on
05/01/2013 7:51:37 AM PDT by
Repeal The 17th
(We have met the enemy and he is us.)
To: mathprof
And if it was covered by the sea in 700 AD, then it has been a secret for only 700 years.
6 posted on
05/01/2013 7:52:16 AM PDT by
mbarker12474
(If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
To: mathprof
1200 year old secrets? Seems like the author isn’t good at math. If the city is from 800BC then it is 2000+800 = 2800 years old (not 2000 - 800 = 1200 The author is saying it became a secret when it vanished in about 700 AD. The math is still bad by 100 years
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