Posted on 05/25/2013 6:42:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
This circular structure, detected in a sonar survey of the Sea of Galilee, has archeologists baffled. The cone-shaped structure sits on the seafloor just south of the old city of Tiberias and was first discovered in the summer of 2003.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
Galilee Drought Uncovers Oldest Village In The World
Sunday Times (UK) | 9-23-2001 | Dina Shiloh
Posted on 09/24/2001 1:40:07 PM PDT by blam
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Better than leaving the cloaking device on and running down the batteries is to sink your saucer in a lake and cover it with some boulders to keep it down and out of the hands of the natives.
Since the mean depth of the Sea of Galilee is less than 100 feet why has no one visited this “structure”?
Formation processes at the Ohalo II submerged prehistoric campsite, Israel, inferred from soil micromorphology and magnetic susceptibility studies
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gea.10069/full
“Close inspection by scuba diving revealed that the structure is made of basalt boulders up to 1 m (3.2 feet) long with no apparent construction pattern,” the researchers write in their journal article. “The boulders have natural faces with no signs of cutting or chiselling. Similarly, we did not find any sign of arrangement or walls that delineate this structure.”
It has always been known to the locals, and it is similar to other underwater rock piles in the Galilee. Story should be titled, “Bait for Grant Money”. There was another round of publicity for this about six weeks ago.
Bait for Grant money, you got that right.
Mothership...?
Did you read the article?
Divers have since been down to investigate, they write in the latest issue of the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.
the origional tower of babel?
link to orginal February article .pdf:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1095-9270.12005/pdf
Ooooppps
Truith be told, it is the nose structure which broke off of the ‘face on Mars’ and plummeted to earth
Wow, neat. Can’t wait to read what they have discovered.
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