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To: Islander7
almost 100 sites in Somaliland …painted around 4,000 years ago – one of the earliest known depictions of a mounted hunter…the quality of the paintings …extraordinarily well-preserved rock art…Other paintings are more mysterious – like the 2,000-year-old colourful images of the full moon

I can believe it.

Pardon me if this all seems too good to be true.

Fraud in archeology is certainly nothing new. This many new discoveries by one researcher in a short time with new never before seen depictions of animals and hunters, extraordinarily well preserved.

If it is too good to be true; it probably is not true.

6 posted on 09/18/2010 3:22:32 AM PDT by Pontiac
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To: Pontiac

You do know who that man on horseback is, right?


11 posted on 09/18/2010 4:29:50 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Pontiac

Hmm . . . I had not considered that. If you are wrong it is a great discovery, if you are right, it is a great movie plot.

See! It’s a win win.


12 posted on 09/18/2010 4:41:29 AM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Pontiac

#6, I don’t know why, Pontiac, but the first thing that I thought about this was “Yeah, right...”


14 posted on 09/18/2010 4:56:02 AM PDT by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Pontiac

Well, Somaliland has been closed to outsiders, and still is closed to outsiders.
For some reason archaeologists from Western Universities are adverse to threat of decapitation in their quest to discover previously undocumented ancient sites.


20 posted on 09/18/2010 8:24:19 AM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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