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Voyage To Prove Pharaohs Traded Cocaine
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 5-30-2007
| Tom Leonard
Posted on 05/29/2007 6:47:52 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:47:54 PM PDT
by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:49:39 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
They said all the same things about Thor Heyerdahl
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:51:35 PM PDT
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: blam
Is it possible Cocoa grew in N. Africa 14K years ago? It was cooler and wetter then.
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:52:06 PM PDT
by
Dead Dog
To: blam
It wasn’t that they liked the high so much as they liked the smell...
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:53:37 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
To: Fedora
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:54:12 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
“An adventurer who believes that ancient man regularly crossed the Atlantic Ocean 14,000 years ago plans to recreate such a voyage in a 41ft raft made of reeds and eucalyptus tree branches.”
So....what’s this guy on?
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:55:10 PM PDT
by
decal
(Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives - the Progs have never figured this out.)
To: blam
So if he makes it how does it prove “that ancient man regularly crossed the Atlantic Ocean”?
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:56:56 PM PDT
by
bkepley
To: blam
Ping for later. (Got to turn on The Shield.)
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posted on
05/29/2007 6:58:18 PM PDT
by
NaughtiusMaximus
("Eat yer groatcakes, Porgy!" "Heavy on the thirty weight, Mom!")
To: Dead Dog
Botanists are pretty adamant that the Coca plant is indigenous to Peru and South America at least. Not too sure about Tobacco - but neither should have been available to Egyptians. Supposedly high trace levels have been found in ancient mummies. Not too sure how accurate that claim is.
To: bkepley
"So if he makes it how does it prove that ancient man regularly crossed the Atlantic Ocean?" Only proves that they could have, not that they did.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:07:13 PM PDT
by
blam
To: Dead Dog
"Is it possible Cocoa grew in N. Africa 14K years ago? It was cooler and wetter then." Maybe but, no-one has ever found any traces of it.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:08:39 PM PDT
by
blam
To: decal
So....with this new Peruvian marching powder the pyramids were really completed in 90 days with just a few guys.
That explains the Aardvark dude and his spoon.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:10:54 PM PDT
by
Covenantor
(Amnesty, it's all over but the lying.)
To: blam
Except in Egyptian royal mummies. Unless it was a museum caretaker smoking crack.
Which is the root of all this.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:11:34 PM PDT
by
Dinsdale
To: blam
Coca (not cocaine) and tobacco, but not chocolate or chiles? No tomato or potato?
Seems like very limited trade. Surely Egyptians would have shipped seed and not leaves if they were bright...
Does not entirely make sense. I have seen little real data on the “contamination” of mummies with these New World plant products, so I’m a little skeptical.
But if this guy wants to sail from Egypt to Peru, go for it!
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:14:50 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: blam
I’m sure I am about to get this wrong and will probably get flamed for this...
But, don’t the mormons claim that their book of mormon was written by blond haired blue eyed extinct people of south america?
Back on subject...kinda...I remember reading once that the russians claimed when they first discovered alaska, there were tall pale red haired vicious people living in crude stone fortresses that attacked them with arrows and catapults. They refused to surrender, so the russians killed them all. Even women and children fought like demons and were killed. My first thought was that these were the last remnants of the disappeared greenland vikings. I wonder if these fair skinned people all the way down to south america were the same.
To: decal
“It’s like kung fu,” the explorer said.
“The less you know, the better.”
Sailing across the Atlantic.........in a boat made of crap................at least he's taking this seriously....and he's looking for crew
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:19:14 PM PDT
by
singletrack
(..................................................................)
To: blam
"There's this 99.9 per cent certainty that it didn't happen, because we don't have evidence that it happened," said Kenneth Feder, an anthropology professor at the Central Connecticut State University. Well that's a college professor for you.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:20:19 PM PDT
by
Graymatter
(FREDeralist)
To: singletrack
“at least he’s taking this seriously....and he’s looking for crew”
No, I don’t think that’s what he’s looking for:
“Undeterred, Mr Gorlitz is trying to raise around £279,000 for the expedition.”
Expect unforeseen difficulties JUST as soon as the money’s in hand.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:23:12 PM PDT
by
decal
(Mother Nature and Real Life are conservatives - the Progs have never figured this out.)
To: blam
In 1970 Heyerdahl made essentially this exact voyage, sailing from the Mediterranean to Barbados in a reed boat, the Ra.
Odd the article would mention his Kon-Tiki voyage but not that of the Ra.
Except an article about an idiot repeating an already been there done that publicity stunt wouldn’t read too well, I guess.
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posted on
05/29/2007 7:25:03 PM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
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