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Posted By engineer 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyA team of US archaeologists has discovered the ruins of a city dating back to the period of the first farmers 7,000 years ago in Egypt's Fayyum oasis, the supreme council of antiquities said on Tuesday.
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texangelwings8 months, 2 weeks ago
Good article, thanks engineer! I have always been fascinated in archeology! I like antiques!
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Goppy8 months, 2 weeks ago
I agree!
But I think I know bout this city. Its in the Bible.
This sounds liek the fabled city of Goppiedium. It was a thriving metropolis for decades.
Then, their leaders were infected with a strange disease, referred to in the Bible as Hypocriseeite.
Anyway, these leaders were so full of hubris, they rejected the traditional teachings and morals of the Egyptian folks.
They even took on new name - which never really caught on with the peoples . They called themeselfs Neo-Pyramidists.
They were a very war-liek folk. Prone to re-interpretin the teachins of the ancients in a pornographic way to suit their political bait-n-switch methods.
But they burned out after a short period of time.
They are survived in our lexicon.
Neo-Conservatives get their inspiration from this ancient tribe. And also Pyromanics.
Some poeple interchange the two. And then some calls em Pornos for Pyros.
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libsRfunny8 months, 2 weeks ago
"They were a very war-liek folk. Prone to re-interpretin the teachins of the ancients in a pornographic way to suit their political bait-n-switch methods."
WOW!!! I didn't know Democraps date back that far. Let's see: Civil War = Democrats got it going by whining after Lincoln won the 1860 election. WWI: Wilson (Dem) WWII: FDR (Dem); Korea: Truman (Dem)!!! Vietnam:: Kennedy/LBJ (dems).
Those Democraps are a war-luvin bunch!!
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AntiNeoCon8 months, 2 weeks ago
Goopy, how do you like the new spell-check?? :) Is it true they found a McDonalds Golden Arch in the rubble?
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blinkers8 months, 2 weeks ago
There's an old saying that "you never know where you really are until you know where you've been". This holds true for humanity itself. These fascinating archaeological discoveries certainly help us see where "we've" been.
Excellent thread, engineer -- good relief from the Edwards' story!
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Ratskii8 months, 2 weeks ago
During the latter part of the ice age the level of water in Mediterranean was much lower than now. I wonder if there are remains of cities under water that go much further back.
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Justice4All8 months, 2 weeks ago
Check out Leptis Magna in Libya. On the waters edge and much of it underwater buried by sand.
Legend/history has it that the bay sanded in covering the city, but parts are underwater. Either it sunk or the water level has risen.
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doggammit8 months, 2 weeks ago
"Good story , wish there was more details and pictures !"
Ditto!
Details? Always the problem with Zahi Hiwass' press releases. Go to his web site and it is a closed shop. No e-mail contacts. This is particularly frustrating to me since I delve specifically into the area of ancient Egyptian board games. I suspect profit and political motives lurk behind the scenes.
Nonetheless, its always gratifying to know that something new and significant has turned up once again in Egypt. Implications of this find are enormous. Thank you very much engineer. I look forward to more of the same
Meanwhile, somewhere in a deep dark hole, Bob Geldof, that paragon of human rights, is doing more nasty spadework for his "handlers"...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2064...
Fugging disgusting...
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truthiness8 months, 2 weeks ago
I find it fascinating that so much of ancient civilization os focused around the equator. aztecs/mayan, egyptian, mesopotamian, india, southern china.. I see the obvious climatic reasons, still it is fascinating.
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Endoscopy8 months, 2 weeks ago
This is funny. They are dating it before they have the items to date it. Dating in these types of digs is done by the pottery. They won't have the dating until they dig up enough of that. It has been found that the pottery of a period is the same in all places in a wide area.
Atomic dating going back that far is useless. It is pretty useless anyway.
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Mdiar8 months, 2 weeks ago
You know, all three of your posts were worth a laugh. I gave out negatives to the last two because it shows some real intolerance of other ideas and uses some very strong language. Endoscopy, though he may be incorrect, didn't state anything other then his belief that the dating was inaccurate. Funny, yes. Accurate? Probably not, Insulting? It was actually less insulting then Goppy's post above and I didn't even neg that until after I thought about it awhile (In the end rather then stating scientific inaccurate beliefs, it went on to insult an entire group of people. It did make me laugh though, I'll admit that, which is why I took so long to neg it. Hard to neg something you found funny). Just explaining the negs to the two of you. Don't want anyone thinking I was actually stating an agreement with Endoscopy about the dating, heh.
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blinkers8 months, 2 weeks ago
You do have a way with words, midleft. I am certainly left in no doubt as to your sentiments. Thanks for the specific info on carbon-dating, I did not have this information.
(I recall citing this scientific way of dating old things (no double entendre intended) to a visitor at my door wishing to interest me in some religious material about the earth's creation. When I told him that I believed the carbon-dating equipment was accurate, he retorted, "That's just faith").
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