Post by shatnerswig on Oct 4, 2010 8:06:50 GMT 10
the ancient 8.8-ton slab of man made glass discovered in 1956 at Beth She'arim, south-west of Galilee.
Similar weights of glass have been manufactured in modern times, but only rarely and for very specialized purposes - like the lenses of giant telescopes. Also, in the pyramid at Dahshur, built by Snefru (c.2613-c.2498 BCE), there lies at the foundation a 35 ton slab of man made purple glass. Think on that for a while.
When faced with a find of cogged stone discs up to 6.5 inches in diameter in the Santa Ana River Valley, Ventura County, California, archaeologists fell back on the time-honored explanation of "ritual artifacts".
In this case, as in many others, the phrase is an admission of defeat. The plain fact is that no one has the least idea what the discs, which are more than 8,000 years old, were actually used for.
Once you begin to pay attention to what Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson aptly call "forbidden archaeology" (13) - finds that fail to fit the current paradigm and are consequently ignored, explained away or dismissed as fraud - a wholly new and unexpected picture of the ancient world beings to emerge:
A workable pregnancy test is described on a Babylonian clay tablet. It involved the insertion of a herbaly impregnated woolen tampon into the woman's vagina. When removed and treated with an alum solution, the tampon turned red if the woman was pregnant.
The Maya of South America knew how to drill teeth and repair cavities with metal fillings.
People were tailoring their own clothes as long ago as 20,000 BC. The implements they used have been found. Excavation of three burial sites at Sunghir, Russia, in 1964 showed the men interred there had worn hats, shirts, trousers and moccasins.
Excavation of the prehistoric mound of Catal Huyuk, in central Turkey, revealed linen textile fragments, apparently from a girl's skirt.
People who lived at Spirit Cave in northern Thailand seem to have been growing domesticated beans, peas, gourds and water chestnuts around 9000 BC.
In faraway Palestine at the same period, the Natufians are known to have used sickles, although it's admittedly difficult to decide whether they were actually planting grain or simply harvesting wild crops.
Map-making has a history of at least 12,000 years. A map was found in 1966 engraved on a mammoth tusk discovered at .
Mezhirich, in the Ukraine. It was dated to 10,000 BC and showed a local river flanked by a row of houses.
Pottery jars were in use by the same date. A fine example was discovered in the Ishigoya Cave, on Honshu, Japan. Other pots found on the island were 1,000 years older (11,000 BC),
Cheese-making, yogurt-making and wine fermentation were all known in the Stone Age, according to recent discoveries. (14)
Larger than life-size fingerprints are carved on a Neolithic dolmen on the Ile de Gavrinis, Brittany, France. Most of the carvings show fingertip patterns typical of those on modern police files.
Two are partial representations of palm prints. An article in the Chronique Medicale suggests the carvings may have been used as the ultimate identification references of tribal chieftains.
The earliest boomerang, a hunting weapon with very specific and unusual aerodynamic properties, is dated at 21,000 years of age. It was found not in Australia, but in Poland.
Oil lamps were made 20,000 years ago. They may have been used to light surgical operations on the human brain carried out at much the same time. There is an ancient tradition of anesthetics, such as controlled doses of mandrake, which rendered patients immobile and insensitive to pain.
Incredibly, copper was mined before flint in Serbia. There are prehistoric copper mines on Lake Superior, in California, Arkansas, New Mexico, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Georgia, New Jersey and Ohio, where prehistoric iron smelting furnaces have also been found.
Manganese was mined near Broken Hill in Zambia. Carbon dating of charcoal on the site indicates these mines were being worked 28,130 years ago.
In 1987, Birmingham University archaeologists, Lawrence Barfield and Mike Hodder, concluded that a mound of fire-cracked stones, excavated beside a stream in the city, had been a prehistoric sauna. Other similar sites have since been identified throughout Britain.
The horse was domesticated in Europe sometime before 15,000 BC. A cave wall drawing at La Marche, France, shows one clearly wearing a bridle. So does an engraving found at the Grotte de Marsoulas, and another from St Michel d'Arudy.
Archaeologists excavating tumuli on New Caledonia and the Isle of Pines in the south-west Pacific, discovered more than 400 man-made cement cylinders, 40 to 75 inches in diameter and up to 100 inches long. These cylinders, the purpose of which is unknown, were speckled with silica and iron gravel. Carbon dating showed they could be as old as 13,000 years.
There are paved prehistoric roads in Yucatan, New Zealand, Kenya and Malta.
There are 170,000 miles of underground aqueducts, thousands of years old, in Iran. There is a water tank in Sri Lanka with a surface area equivalent to Lake Geneva. "The greatest of these systems, of course is the Parakrama Samudraya (left)or the Sea of Parakrama, a tank so vast that it is often mistaken for the ocean.
It is of such a width that it is impossible to stand upon one shore and view the other side, and it encircles the main city like a ribbon, being both a defensive border against intruders and the lifeline of the people in times of peace. The Kingdom of Polonnaruwa was completely self-sufficient during King Parakramabahu's reign." ...Nationmaster.com
(4) In 1932, Captain G. E. H. Wilson wrote in "Man" of a forgotten civilization in East Africa's Rift Valley. Signs of this civilization stretched across what are now Tanganyika, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Northern Zimbabwe and included terracing, ancient canals, drainage systems, miles of roadways and an irrigation system that appears to have included the diversion of whole rivers.
In June 1940, Froelich G. Rainey and Magnus Marks began excavating a Neolithic site near Ipiutak in the Arctic Circle. By the time they uncovered the remains of some 600 houses, with indications that at least a further 200 remained to be excavated, they realized they had stumbled on a prehistoric metropolis.
The city was laid out on a logical grid and stretched for more than a mile. Artifacts and craft work discovered at the site were of "elaborate and sophisticated carving and ... beautiful workmanship".
The archaeologists were convinced their find could not represent any proto-Eskimo culture, and decided instead that the people who built this chilly city must have entered the area from elsewhere.
In 1928, the Geographical Review published a report on the discovery of ancient ruins on the site of Kevkenes Dagh, Asia Minor. This great isolated city, built by an entirely unknown culture, was three times the size of Boghaz Koi, the ancient Hittite capital. High-walled fortifications, 13 feet thick, enclosed an area of 1.5 miles by 1 mile.
Also in the 1920's came reports of the remains of cities, temples and monuments hidden in the wooded valleys stretching along the coastline through Honduras up to Yucatan. The remains were described as superbly carved monoliths and stones of immense size covered with ornaments and glyphs reminiscent of Egyptian, Indian and even Chinese art
Similar weights of glass have been manufactured in modern times, but only rarely and for very specialized purposes - like the lenses of giant telescopes. Also, in the pyramid at Dahshur, built by Snefru (c.2613-c.2498 BCE), there lies at the foundation a 35 ton slab of man made purple glass. Think on that for a while.
When faced with a find of cogged stone discs up to 6.5 inches in diameter in the Santa Ana River Valley, Ventura County, California, archaeologists fell back on the time-honored explanation of "ritual artifacts".
In this case, as in many others, the phrase is an admission of defeat. The plain fact is that no one has the least idea what the discs, which are more than 8,000 years old, were actually used for.
Once you begin to pay attention to what Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson aptly call "forbidden archaeology" (13) - finds that fail to fit the current paradigm and are consequently ignored, explained away or dismissed as fraud - a wholly new and unexpected picture of the ancient world beings to emerge:
A workable pregnancy test is described on a Babylonian clay tablet. It involved the insertion of a herbaly impregnated woolen tampon into the woman's vagina. When removed and treated with an alum solution, the tampon turned red if the woman was pregnant.
The Maya of South America knew how to drill teeth and repair cavities with metal fillings.
People were tailoring their own clothes as long ago as 20,000 BC. The implements they used have been found. Excavation of three burial sites at Sunghir, Russia, in 1964 showed the men interred there had worn hats, shirts, trousers and moccasins.
Excavation of the prehistoric mound of Catal Huyuk, in central Turkey, revealed linen textile fragments, apparently from a girl's skirt.
People who lived at Spirit Cave in northern Thailand seem to have been growing domesticated beans, peas, gourds and water chestnuts around 9000 BC.
In faraway Palestine at the same period, the Natufians are known to have used sickles, although it's admittedly difficult to decide whether they were actually planting grain or simply harvesting wild crops.
Map-making has a history of at least 12,000 years. A map was found in 1966 engraved on a mammoth tusk discovered at .
Mezhirich, in the Ukraine. It was dated to 10,000 BC and showed a local river flanked by a row of houses.
Pottery jars were in use by the same date. A fine example was discovered in the Ishigoya Cave, on Honshu, Japan. Other pots found on the island were 1,000 years older (11,000 BC),
Cheese-making, yogurt-making and wine fermentation were all known in the Stone Age, according to recent discoveries. (14)
Larger than life-size fingerprints are carved on a Neolithic dolmen on the Ile de Gavrinis, Brittany, France. Most of the carvings show fingertip patterns typical of those on modern police files.
Two are partial representations of palm prints. An article in the Chronique Medicale suggests the carvings may have been used as the ultimate identification references of tribal chieftains.
The earliest boomerang, a hunting weapon with very specific and unusual aerodynamic properties, is dated at 21,000 years of age. It was found not in Australia, but in Poland.
Oil lamps were made 20,000 years ago. They may have been used to light surgical operations on the human brain carried out at much the same time. There is an ancient tradition of anesthetics, such as controlled doses of mandrake, which rendered patients immobile and insensitive to pain.
Incredibly, copper was mined before flint in Serbia. There are prehistoric copper mines on Lake Superior, in California, Arkansas, New Mexico, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Georgia, New Jersey and Ohio, where prehistoric iron smelting furnaces have also been found.
Manganese was mined near Broken Hill in Zambia. Carbon dating of charcoal on the site indicates these mines were being worked 28,130 years ago.
In 1987, Birmingham University archaeologists, Lawrence Barfield and Mike Hodder, concluded that a mound of fire-cracked stones, excavated beside a stream in the city, had been a prehistoric sauna. Other similar sites have since been identified throughout Britain.
The horse was domesticated in Europe sometime before 15,000 BC. A cave wall drawing at La Marche, France, shows one clearly wearing a bridle. So does an engraving found at the Grotte de Marsoulas, and another from St Michel d'Arudy.
Archaeologists excavating tumuli on New Caledonia and the Isle of Pines in the south-west Pacific, discovered more than 400 man-made cement cylinders, 40 to 75 inches in diameter and up to 100 inches long. These cylinders, the purpose of which is unknown, were speckled with silica and iron gravel. Carbon dating showed they could be as old as 13,000 years.
There are paved prehistoric roads in Yucatan, New Zealand, Kenya and Malta.
There are 170,000 miles of underground aqueducts, thousands of years old, in Iran. There is a water tank in Sri Lanka with a surface area equivalent to Lake Geneva. "The greatest of these systems, of course is the Parakrama Samudraya (left)or the Sea of Parakrama, a tank so vast that it is often mistaken for the ocean.
It is of such a width that it is impossible to stand upon one shore and view the other side, and it encircles the main city like a ribbon, being both a defensive border against intruders and the lifeline of the people in times of peace. The Kingdom of Polonnaruwa was completely self-sufficient during King Parakramabahu's reign." ...Nationmaster.com
(4) In 1932, Captain G. E. H. Wilson wrote in "Man" of a forgotten civilization in East Africa's Rift Valley. Signs of this civilization stretched across what are now Tanganyika, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Northern Zimbabwe and included terracing, ancient canals, drainage systems, miles of roadways and an irrigation system that appears to have included the diversion of whole rivers.
In June 1940, Froelich G. Rainey and Magnus Marks began excavating a Neolithic site near Ipiutak in the Arctic Circle. By the time they uncovered the remains of some 600 houses, with indications that at least a further 200 remained to be excavated, they realized they had stumbled on a prehistoric metropolis.
The city was laid out on a logical grid and stretched for more than a mile. Artifacts and craft work discovered at the site were of "elaborate and sophisticated carving and ... beautiful workmanship".
The archaeologists were convinced their find could not represent any proto-Eskimo culture, and decided instead that the people who built this chilly city must have entered the area from elsewhere.
In 1928, the Geographical Review published a report on the discovery of ancient ruins on the site of Kevkenes Dagh, Asia Minor. This great isolated city, built by an entirely unknown culture, was three times the size of Boghaz Koi, the ancient Hittite capital. High-walled fortifications, 13 feet thick, enclosed an area of 1.5 miles by 1 mile.
Also in the 1920's came reports of the remains of cities, temples and monuments hidden in the wooded valleys stretching along the coastline through Honduras up to Yucatan. The remains were described as superbly carved monoliths and stones of immense size covered with ornaments and glyphs reminiscent of Egyptian, Indian and even Chinese art
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