Uf dah?
1 posted on
11/25/2003 6:25:38 PM PST by
Pharmboy
To: Pharmboy
Cool!
2 posted on
11/25/2003 6:40:44 PM PST by
tiamat
("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
To: blam
Ping
3 posted on
11/25/2003 6:48:53 PM PST by
LPM1888
(What are the facts? Again and again and again -- what are the facts? - Lazarus Long)
To: Pharmboy
I can't bring up the picture. Maybe the web site is overloaded.
4 posted on
11/25/2003 6:50:09 PM PST by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Pharmboy
In other articles, there's debate because the Vikings couldn't have mapped the world in such detail. I don't know why not. They were known for their travels and it's been proven through various digs they were in the New World before Columbus. Heck, Chris was met on the beach so he obviously wasn't the first.
To: Pharmboy
" Some scholars have speculated that Columbus could have used the map to find the New World in 1492."
Find the "New World"? I thought Columbus was lost.
12 posted on
11/25/2003 7:02:23 PM PST by
elli1
To: Pharmboy
The university has not taken a position on its authenticity. Several years ago I attended a dinner at Yale where I sat next to an official from the Yale Library. I asked him about the Vinland map. He said that he had participated in tests on the map using a proton beam and based on those tests the map appeared to be genuine.
To: Pharmboy; LPM1888
15 posted on
11/25/2003 7:15:35 PM PST by
blam
To: Pharmboy
I see no reason why it couldn't be authentic.
We now know the Vikings established settlements in Canada centuries before Columbus.
I have heard there is some evidence that Portuguese fisherman were fishing off Newfoundland during the late Middle Ages.
Given Columbus' maritime experience, he must have heard some versions of these stories, and perhaps even seen maps of North America.
18 posted on
11/25/2003 7:29:04 PM PST by
WackyKat
To: Pharmboy
Which way is North?
27 posted on
11/25/2003 8:20:53 PM PST by
chudogg
(http://chudogg.blogspot.com)
To: Pharmboy
McCrone takes another one on the nose... posthumously.
To: Pharmboy
37 posted on
11/25/2003 10:41:59 PM PST by
Consort
To: Pharmboy
Oh sure, proof that they listened to their geography teachers, (unlike me) and they drew a kick a** map.
48 posted on
11/26/2003 2:33:17 AM PST by
Cate
To: Pharmboy; blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach; SunkenCiv; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; ...
Thanks Pharmboy. Adding this well after the fact. Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)
53 posted on
03/25/2005 7:59:59 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(last updated my FreeRepublic profile on Friday, March 25, 2005.)
To: Pharmboy
This map shows Greenland to be an island. A fact that wasn't known until hundrds of years after the supposed creation of the map.
54 posted on
03/26/2005 4:44:03 AM PST by
curmudgeonII
(I've had amnesia once...or twice.)
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