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Model of mummy's head made without unwrapping
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This story in World Science has a cool picture. Basically they used CT scanning to create a 3D model of a mummy's head without unwrapping a stitch of the mummy. [link] Looks very lifelike, just as if the guy is asleep. The details are shown down to the mole on his forehead.... more »
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Blind Vigilantes
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Blackhole lists offer dark prospects By Bret A Fausett New Architect August 2002 Most of the email I receive these days is spam, yet I've never purchased anything advertised in a piece of unsolicited commercial email. I'm not even sure that I've ever clicked on a link sent to me in a piece of unsolicited commercial... more »
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Wilkens' Troy in England and Homer's language
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...'ignoramus' and 'liar' but a particularly well-informed poet, whose works now turn out to contain an unsuspected wealth of information on the Bronze Age history of England and the Continent, about which nothing was known until now. But we still have to deal with the often heard argument that Homer's epics concern Greek history because his... more »
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Wilkens' Troy in England and the archaeological evidence for Homer
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This thread will be more rambling as I find evidence. Rather than try to show why Wilkens is wrong about England I'll concentrate on his claim that Homer was not writing about the Eastern Med. This doesn't require reliance on Wilkens obviously. As Wilkens also argues the Odyssey should not be thought of as in the... more »
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Did Jesus know Latin ?
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..."And then some"? Of what languages are you aware that are unknown to mankind? After all, even the language of the angels was known to John Dee, for one! ;) --Odysseus
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Did Jesus know Latin ?
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...It's all open to speculation, but Greek was the lingua franca of that part of the world at the time, so to that extent it is not surprising that he would know some Greek. Denis
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Augustus's "minnows and Suetonius
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...The bit about Julius Caesar being the bisexual lover of some king always struck me as a bit suspect. And Augustus's "minnows" is there any confirmation of that outside Suetonius ?
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