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Ancient Inscribed Slab Brought To Light (Another Rosetta Stone - Three Languages)
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| 4-19-2004
Posted on 04/20/2004 12:18:46 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:18:50 PM PDT
by
blam
To: farmfriend
GGG ping.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:19:34 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
...along with the date 238 BC. How prescient! (Perhaps a date that would be equivalent to 238 BC.)
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:22:26 PM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: blam
Multiculturalism is good... for archaeologists looking at the relics of the fallen civilization.
To: blam
and right in the middle of the stone it says.....all your base are belong to us!!!
To: blam
" ... along with the date 238 BC."H.G.Wells must've landed for a short time in his time machine and left a copy of the Bible.
How else could this be?
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:24:35 PM PDT
by
knarf
(A place where anyone can learn anything ... especially that which promotes clear thinking.)
To: blam
...The Rosetta Stone, named after the site where it was discovered in 1977,...The author does seem to have trouble with dates. (There's some online services that could help him.) The Resetta Stone was neither discovered nor named in 1977. It was found in 1799.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:25:13 PM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Doctor Stochastic
The Rosetta Stone, named after the site where it was discovered in 1977, More interesting was President Carter's reaction to Napoleon and his French Army marching through Egypt that year. (or maybe the author meant to type 1799)
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:26:12 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Clinton, advised by Dick Clarke, did nothing. - Ann Coulter 4/1/04, How 9-11 Happened)
To: blam
People in 238 BC marking a stele with that date certainly shows remarkable foresight.
Joking aside and just out of curiosity, it would have been interesting for them to say exactly how these people calculated and wrote the date. But I guess that's beyond what the writer could manage.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:27:05 PM PDT
by
katana
To: blam
The Rosetta Stone, named after the site where it was discovered in 1977.I think the author has some dates confused. The Rosetta Stone was found in 1799.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:27:46 PM PDT
by
68skylark
(.)
To: blam
The Rosetta Stone, named after the site where it was discovered in 1977 Actually, 1799.
I think this article is a joke. Someone has been had.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:30:56 PM PDT
by
Pete
To: blam
This is an interesting find, but nowhere near as revolutionaly as the Rosetta Stone. The three languages, Greek, Demotic (Common Egyptian "hand writing"), and hieroglyphs are all well understood today. At the time of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphics were indecipherable.
To: blam
Interesting article, but I think we all had the thoughts regarding the dates.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:32:43 PM PDT
by
Eva
To: blam
What's the difference between this and finding both a nickel and a quarter in the couch cushions?
To: blam
Bump for later read.
Another win for the Kennewick Man scientists.
The story, "Scientists win another battle over Kennewick Man," has been posted to our site at:
Kennewick Man(click here)
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:33:41 PM PDT
by
Spunky
("Everyone has a freedom of choice, but not of consequences.")
To: blam
So, the Germans are digging in Egypt again, huh? That always makes me suspicious. ;-)
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:36:19 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: Old Professer
"What's the difference between this and finding both a nickel and a quarter in the couch cushions?"
Ummm...finding a nickel and a quarter would be a far-better investment of my time than was reading this article?
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:37:05 PM PDT
by
Blzbba
To: katana
In the ancient world, dates were usually expressed as the ordinal year of the current king's reign, i.e., "in the seventh year of Ptolemy's reign...". Archaeologists use these dates like tree-rings to work out a chronology system.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:39:08 PM PDT
by
Renfield
To: Old Professer
What's the difference between this and finding both a nickel and a quarter in the couch cushions? 30 cents?
To: Doctor Stochastic
LOL I had a question but your post took care of it.
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posted on
04/20/2004 12:43:24 PM PDT
by
Ditter
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