Posted on 08/16/2005 1:39:57 PM PDT by jb6
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I love this stuff! I have a library full of books on this subject. But for me, the more I've read, the less satisfied I am with my conclusions.
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As usual, one photo is enough to debunk these myth-builders....Smooth shaft? Not everywhere...
In other places along this passage, you can clearly see it was built up with blocks (you can even see the joints in the blocks) rather than drilled out of rock.
Simple, the physical engineering was easy while the social engineering - Western Civilisation - took a lot longer to get right.
What a stoopid attempt at an argument. If men took wolf pups and raised them as pets, there wouldn't be a wolf pack to attack it. DUH....
Actually the way wolves turned to dogs was proven in Russia by the domestication of foxes over about a 50 year period. They now sell domesticated foxes who have both dog/cat behavior traits.
Silly. I thought everyone knew that Dmansi is the source of civilization.
Interesting article but what does "We stand today at an unprecedented turning point in human history" mean? And what is this unprecented turning point?
I lay it all down to beer and wine. Think about it, wine would have formed natuarlly, so the first group comes alone finds it gets drunk, figures out that it grows in this area and you need to help it grow and from there on civilization explodes....all so that we can now get tanked at any time.
One other thing. a straight line is easy to make with a beam of light. And a simple beam of light can be made from the reflection of a mirror. So it's not all the big a deal that the walls were straight.
Neither of these is historical. They are interesting in themselves, but the break with modern society is complete.
This really piqued my interest a few years back...
http://www.crystalinks.com/ancientaircraft.html
Supposedly it was debunked as natural erosion of the original carvings...but still...it's eerie.
I had an enigma once, really cleaned me out...
"One other thing. a straight line is easy to make with a beam of light. And a simple beam of light can be made from the reflection of a mirror. So it's not all the big a deal that the walls were straight."
My back yard wood deck, built by me (another amazing feat of civil engineering which will be studied for generations—or maybe not), I found a miraculous method for marking a straight line: tightly strung string! Yes, I do not mean to brag, but I was (am) centuries ahead of my time.
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Yet another topic in the article way off the truth.
Traces of primitive drains and cess pits date back as far as 6000 B.C. Some of the earliest findings come from excavations in the Indus Valley of what is now Pakistan, where buildings from the ancient cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa were found with latrines and drains beneath the floor.
Similar structures have been identified from about the same time some 1500 miles away in ancient Mesopotamia, often referred to as the cradle of western civilization. Earthenware pipe was made by joining bottomless ceramic pots end to end, and sealing them with bitumen, an early tar-like substance. Cess pits were similar in design to a modern septic tank. Deep shafts were dug in the earth, and lined with loosely packed gravel and broken pottery. Solid waste gathered in the pit, while urine was allowed to seep through to the earth.
The earliest identifiable flushing toilets have been found in the ruins of the palace of King Minos on the island of Crete, circa 1500 B.C. Rain water or water from cisterns traveled though conduits built into the wall to flush away the waste from a master bathroom presumably belonging to the monarch, as well as several other toilets located within palace walls.
Ruins of homes in ancient Egypt display small private, detached rooms presumably used as privies. Waste apparently was carried away by water running through man-made channels from nearby rivers.
Once they had mastered the first priority of waste elimination, early plumbing engineers turned their attention to supplying convenient fresh water for drinking and bathing. The earliest aqueducts seem to have sprung from lessons learned in irrigation and canal building. The ancient Egyptians grew crops with water imported from the Nile River. Mesopotamian engineers, almost from the beginning of their remarkable 26-century civilization, built and maintained canals for both irrigation and to control regular flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
For pure water, the Egyptians depended on wells. The famous “Well of Joseph” near the Pyramids of Gizeh required workers to dig through 300 feet of solid rock. As in most primitive societies, such amazing feats were made possible by a virtually inexhaustible supply of slave labor.
In Mesopotamia, the renowned “Hanging Gardens” of Babylon was an engineering feat so remarkable that the ancient Greeks deemed it one of the “Seven Wonders of the World.” Trees and plants grew atop terraced walls and platforms that stretched as high as 350 feet in the desert climate. Water was believed raised from the river by a series of “shatufs,” or clever water wheels that revolved by the force of current. Buckets on a wheel were filled and set in motion by the stream. As a bucket got to the top of its spin, water fell out into a trough, which dispersed it where needed.
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