Posted on 01/06/2007 12:30:02 PM PST by blam
Tels (hills) are actually hundreds and thousands of years of building on top of the previous structure, oft time, mud bricks which eventually 'melt' forming hills.
Thanks for "Tel"ing me. I always enjoy your posts.
Regards.
...but they won't know what to make of it since it wasn't mentioned in the Koran...
Very interesting. Thanks.
Too late. I just sent him the thread...
This problem was once analyzed by a philosopher named Lodermulch. The theory is that for every square foot of ground, approximately one and one quarter of a million men have died and laid down their dust, thus creating an increasingly thick layer of ancestral sediment, up to 1/2 mile thick in some areas, upon which it is sacrilegious to walk. See "Eyes of the Overworld" pp 121-122 for a deeper analysis and religious implications of this phenomenon.
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