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Subject: Re: Learning Hieroglyphics -- From: Marc DIEBOLD
Subject: Leader of Mysteries -- From: kamanism@tcp.co.uk (Anti Christ)
Subject: Re: Egyptian junkie pharaohs -- From: stjg@wpo.nerc.ac.uk (Gonzo)
Subject: Re: Noah's Ark Rebuttal (part 1) - Rev. Baugh -- From: pspinks@vegauk.co.uk (Paul Spinks)
Subject: which mummies were made into Caput Mortem? -- From: Betty Cunningham
Subject: Re: 200 ton Blocks -- From: Jiri Mruzek
Subject: Re: 200 ton Blocks -- From: Jiri Mruzek
Subject: Re: Baalbek & 200tons, Final Perspective -- From: Jiri Mruzek
Subject: Re: Pyramids and Aliens -- From: Jiri Mruzek
Subject: Re: 200 ton Blocks -- From: Jiri Mruzek
Subject: Re: 200 ton Blocks -- From: Jiri Mruzek
Subject: Re: Conjectures about cultural contact -- From: skupinm@aol.com (SkupinM)
Subject: Re: The Minoan Linear A Language? -- From: "Alan M. Dunsmuir"
Subject: Re: Nur el-Din - the light fades -- From: grenvill@iafrica.com (Keith Grenville)
Subject: Re: Pyramids and Aliens -- From: "Ann McMeekin"
Subject: Re: help with hieroglyph -- From: c.corbo@mix.it (Corradino Corbò)
Subject: bats -- From: hagit
Subject: bats -- From: hagit
Subject: Re: Pyramids and Aliens -- From: "Ann McMeekin"
Subject: Re: Conjectures about cultural contact -- From: Randal Allison
Subject: Re: Spiral ramp on GP (was: Neolithic Stonehenge road? -- From: Martin Stower
Subject: Re: New Pharohs tomb found? -- From: Mike Yates
Subject: Re: New Pharohs tomb found? -- From: Saida
Subject: Re: Pyramids and Aliens -- From: "Ann McMeekin"
Subject: Re: 200 ton Blocks -- From: Jim Rogers

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Subject: Re: Learning Hieroglyphics
From: Marc DIEBOLD
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:13:35 +0200
NeilUnreal wrote:
> 
> (I also got a copy of Budge's dictionary, though I realize that it is not
> considered accurate -- but it was at the used bookstore and the price was
> right.
This dictionnary is on old one, but considering that you are a beginner,
it is the best choice you could do!
Not only because of it's price.
You will find each word written in all its forms or variants, wich is of
great help for a beginner.
Faulkner's dictionnary is recent but more concise and you may not be
familiar finding a word.
Have you bought Budge's reading lessons? Dover publications printed a
lot of inexpensive books, most with hieroglyph texts.
Good luck.
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Subject: Leader of Mysteries
From: kamanism@tcp.co.uk (Anti Christ)
Date: 17 Sep 1996 07:35:41 GMT
am@rtel.co.uk    says...
>Profuse apologies if I have upset the delicate sensibilities of the
>contributors to this newsgroup by asking such a simple question.
>Ann McMeekin
>Section Leader for Mystic Places on Compuserve's Mysteries Forum
***next time Ann, come in fighting from the start,
   then you wont get punched out so quick.
   This is after all a meeting ground for high intellects of
   university and international author status, and they *DONT* like
   "simple questions" one little bit :)                   kaman.
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Subject: Re: Egyptian junkie pharaohs
From: stjg@wpo.nerc.ac.uk (Gonzo)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 07:46:27 GMT
Chris Carlisle  wrote:
>Would someone clarify whether what was found was coca or cocaine?
>I doubt if the chemical signatures are identical.
>
>Kiwi Carlisle
>carlisle@wuchem.wustl.edu
Cocaine was specifically stated - this produced the correct spikes in
the chemical analysis. Coca is just the main plant in S. America that
contains it. (I would presume it would show the same signature -
although maybe tnot to the same degree.). The Indians of S.America,
chew the coca leaves, with lime or such (acidic) to extract the stuff
from the leaves.
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Subject: Re: Noah's Ark Rebuttal (part 1) - Rev. Baugh
From: pspinks@vegauk.co.uk (Paul Spinks)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:20:02 GMT
On Sun, 15 Sep 1996 02:40:20 GMT, Dave Washburn wrote about
"Re: Noah's Ark Rebuttal (part 1) - Rev. Baugh":
> "littlejo@comm.net"  wrote:
> >Subject: Re: Noah's Ark Rebuttal (part 1) - Rev. Baugh
> >On Mon, 09 Sep 1996, Doug Weller 
> > stated
> >In article <50vctq$1i4@news.tcd.net>
> ><       dwashbur@wave.park.wy.us (Dave Washburn) wrote:
> ><> pspinks@vegauk.co.uk (Paul Spinks) wrote:
> [snip]
> ><>And people should believe you as opposed to
> ><>someone else because...?
> 
> > > > 
> >His phony credentials and unsubstantiated and false
> >claims are well documented in published articles and
> >web pages.
> 
> [more snip]
> 
> I find it interesting that nobody seems to want to answer my actual
> question...shall I try it again?  I have no reason to believe Baugh,
> and I never said I did.  My question is, why should I believe Paul
> Spinks over someone else?
Because:
(a) I'm not trying to make money or a reputation from the issue
(b) I can recognise rocks when I see them (you'll have to take my word),
or (c) you are able to excercise a little common sense about the matter.
Paul (pspinks@vegauk.co.uk)
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Subject: which mummies were made into Caput Mortem?
From: Betty Cunningham
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:25:21 +0100
I used to order paints for a large retail art supply house, several
years ago.  Some of the fine art oil colors (especially a brand that
used many European artists' original paint recipes such as Vermeer's and
Rembrandt's) listed some pretty exotic colors.  I've looked up the
historic recipes for several colors in THE ARTIST'S HANDBOOK which is
incredibly useful. 
   It describes the original source of INDIAN YELLOW (watercolor) as
from the urine of cattle fed solely on mango leaves.  And so on....
  But one color I'd looked up was CAPUT MORTEM, (sort of a brownish
purple) an oil color from a Dutch company, which in THE ARTIST'S
HANDBOOK describes as being made from burnt muummy wrappings, and
originating in use during the Victorian era.  
  I've wondered since then, which mummies did they use?  Certainly not
the hard-to-find human remains?  I suspected that they used the sacred
mummies of animals which would have been far more numerous. 
   I think it's synthesized by some ferrous oxide now days.
just curious if anyone knows more......
-Betty Cunningham
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Subject: Re: 200 ton Blocks
From: Jiri Mruzek
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 02:00:10 -0700
Matt Kriebel wrote:
> Jiri Mruzek (jirimruzek@lynx.bc.ca) wrote:
> : All of them - and still some room left?
> : I am a European, but ALL the buildings in Europe PALE (pun intended)
> : in comparison to the Pyramid.
> In size yes, if those structures were to fall apart they would fall into a
> pile not unlike a small pyramids. In fact, a misshappen pyramid is such a
> simple structre that the only thing impressive about the great pyramids is
> their sheer size.
Note how you belittle the technical achievement behind the Pyramid.
> :That makes me racist, as the rest of
> : your post had suggested?
> Yes, becuase what you're saying is that your ancestors were capable of
> building things but Egptian ancestors couldn't. Sounds pretty damnn racist
> to me.
C'mon, you little Goebbels, when did I say that? I never said that
my ancestors were better, smarter, or more capable in architecture
than the Egyptians, or anything like that at all'.  I didn't even speak
of my ancestors' building anything - they lived in a yog-urt.
You simply made this up - how low!
> : Listen, buddy, U brought these accusations up, so remember:
> : Just a predisposition to toying with the term signals a racist,
> : or a supressed racist.. I only know one super-race of Humans.
> : Typologies like black, white, yellow, brown, and red serve only
> : purposes of quick, peremptory identification in the course of some
> : description, where it may, or may not stand in the first place, in
> : the order of importance. For instance, if someone is 7-feet tall,
> : you will most likely start the description of such an individual with
> : this characteristic, and not with the fact that the oner is of this
> : or that color, or is bespectacled, and has a big nose.
> : Ergo:
> : YOU DARE TO CALL ME RACIST? - You unfortunate idiot..
> I never said you didn't love your fellow man or accuse you of burning
> crosses on someones lawn. I pointed out that your claims are weakening
> human, and personal history by removing ancient Egypts most lasting
> accomplishments.
And called me racist..  But, wasn't it you who said: > In fact, a 
misshappen pyramid is such a > simple structre that the only thing
impressive about the great pyramids is > their sheer size.
Who's knocking the Pyramid? The Egyptians' achievements?
> : There, my coin covers your small change, for isn't racism just part
> : to Stupidity in general?
> Gee, I always love when a crank winds up to accuse his detractors of being
> NAzi's.
Sure, Nazis love hearing of his kin. 
> : so by directing
> : my protest at you, I am definitely Not being racist.
> Ah, I see, so in other words you think that: "If I attack the guy with the
> Germanic-sounding name, I will prove I'm not a racist"
I am not a racist, Germans included.
> Well, just a little hint before you start spouting the old  =
> Nazi! attack. 'Kriebel' is Silesian, as in Polish, got it?
I compare you to a Nazi because of your intellectual dishonesty. But if
you wish, I will compare you to Brezhnev, or Yeltsin. A crank can crank
it up for all it's worth.
Jiri Mruzek
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Subject: Re: 200 ton Blocks
From: Jiri Mruzek
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 19:46:43 -0700
Kevin D. Quitt wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Sep 1996 04:52:26 GMT, sphinx@world.std.com (SPHINX Technologies)
> >Now how would you go about doing the same trick with the 1200-ton blocks
> >mentioned by another poster?
> Bigger wheels, perhaps more than just two on the ends, and a lot of people
> pulling on ropes.  Again, the pyramids weren't built on beach sand.  The
> soil is sandy, but hard.  When you bring water to it, it'll grow crops, and
> sand won't do that.
What a ridiculous idea. Imagining it in one's head is just
like going to comedy movies.
Laurel nad Hardy go riding a 1,000-ton vehicle on four fat tires.
As soon as they ride onto the surface of Giza, which looked firm
enough when they passed this way before on camels - the "firm"
ground gives way, and they sink out of view.
namon
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Subject: Re: Baalbek & 200tons, Final Perspective
From: Jiri Mruzek
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 00:57:11 -0700
Anti Christ wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> Many thanks for the details about Baalbek (copied below).
> Since i started the thread several months ago, wondering
> how the Ancients managed to shift such huge blocks, yours
> is the very first reply which somehow gave an impression
> of Credibility derived from the basic facts of the location.
> I can now actually visualise the Romans doing the job purely
> by manpower and ingenuity of Leverages, and at a stroke the
> (my) entire problems of Egyptian constructions are equally
> reduced to the mundane, even tho still amazing as
> demonstrations of their *NON* primitive stature as engineers.
Can you visualize the Pyramid construction then?
> Thanks also to people like Steve Whittet (also for the reply
> about Punt which i forgot to acknowledge :), for their
> calculations and assurances, tho somehow all previous replies
> lacked the graphic impact which this one from Germany captured.
> It only remains to wonder, what sort of psychological impediment
> is it exactly which creates the tendancy in humans towards
> disbelief in mundane solutions, and a readiness to jump towards
> "Alien /Atlantis" type proposals ?
Nice turn-around, Kaman. Now, you speak a new language, and
already you are into psychological impediments. I presume that
you are quizzical about yourself - as you once were.
Let's just bear this connection in mind: the psychological
 impediment leading to readiness to jump towards Alien/Atlantis
type proposals..
I propose that we call this psy. impediment - imagination, and
condiment instead of impediment.
> This is no triviality of a question, since more than half the
> entire planetary population are *afflicted* by "religious" style
> beliefs (dont ever forget that "god" is little short of a
> Giant Alien as well, since most believers *seriously* think of
> "him" as an External Spirit somehow lurking both "out there"
> as well as "everywhere and internal").
> Are they all "mad" (ie mentally disfunctional) ?  
Only when whipped into mass frenzy by some flaming fanatic.
> How come
> the "forces" which sometimes seem *so* tangible and active,
> as tho of a "black magic" nature, are *so* widespread ?
Like the ghoulish ways of carrion-eating?
> We are not dealing with half a dozen idiots on the planet,
> but with several BILLION "idiots" - all chanting daily to "gods"
> of various types. 
Chanting hurts no-one. Belief in God hurts no-one per se, as well.
>*AND* - MILLIONS of those billions also have
> Degrees awarded via modern "education" systems dont forget.
> THOUSANDS of the of the greatest minds in history have babbled
> about "god" and Eden /atlantis in their lifetimes, - were they
> all "mad" as well ?
Crazy, yes - mad is too strong a word.
> It is far too glib for hard-line sceptic Archaeological
> "scientists" to dismiss this aspect of human tendancy, even tho
> scepticism does have great Virtues in supressing the "forces",
> it still does not explain them. Such people have only to look
> at the thoughts of their very own "bosses" at work (Deans,
> professors, Supervisors, whatever) to notice that half of THEM
> also believe in "god" and thus in Aliens, and thus (almost) in
> Eden /atlantis etc. 
It's Atlantis, amigo.
> A fine line indeed betwixt madness and genius.
> I often use the pseudonym "Anti-Christ" myself in an effort to
> drive away Babbling drivel in my head proclaiming christ will
> solve everything, since ive seen that such thoughts tend to
> INTERFERE with intelligence and produce wimps and "miracle"
> seeking fools out of humans,- even tho, i (like the millions)
> still do not rule out "gods" and (some form of) Atlantis.
It all depends on who do you think your God is, and It wants you
to do. For instance, when I read the Bible, it seems to encourage
critical thought, and striving for knowledge of the scientific
kind. If the Bible makes such an impression on me, why couldn't
it impress others similarly?
Geez, give God a chance.. it could be a good investment.
> So it was with the Egyptians - and ever has been with humanity,
> and i still say that the Great Pyramid represents so much *MORE*
> than a mere pile of stones. 
That's the term seen in scholarly books, which I despise cordially -
the Stone-Piles - because it is so remote to reality.
Pile implies lack of design and random actions.
 To me every brick of it speaks of
> their Attempt to rationalise these very problems of "the Gods"
> in human Psyches, and a great deal has yet to be learnt from the
> Orionic Pyramid Fields as an overall site of incredible cleverness
> of Thought on a par even with Relativity in terms of its
> depth and scope. They did not have technology in our sense of
> bombs and electronics,
The upper echelons of initiated "priesthood" may have had in
their possession an inheritance from Atlantis, which might put
our electronics to shame. Can't you theorize of Forbidden Science,
such as had destroyed Atlantis, when made into a tool of war?
> but they certainly had an Awareness of
> "mind forces" which we (Psychologists in general) seem to have
> trivialised, yet with no real progress since those Ancient days.
And which an absolute majority of Egyptians had trivialized as well,
how could we not consider this aspect of it? It's what always
happens, when the masses consume knowledge.
> If "science" is ever to become the Supreme Mode of thought which it proclaims
> itself to be (and which i personally strive to pursue),
> then it must eventually INCLUDE rationalisation of all these
> "mind problems", and not supercilliously dismiss them as
> irrelevant /too difficult or unworthy of attention.
> The average human (and Archaeologist) will never get anywhere
> near a nuclear reactor, nor understand one, yet they *WILL*
Nuclear reactor? Like a rhino, it's powerful but not too spiritually
complex. Nuclear reactors are relatively easy to construct (but
hard to operate safely over their entire life-cycle).
> have to learn to control their own MIND, and that in its way
> is just as Daunting, indeed even MORE daunting,
> since science by admission hasnt worked it out yet.
> But maybe the Egyptians had more ideas than even we on that subject.
No, we have heard all the ideas, we just can't pick the right ones..
For mind control over itself, and the body - learn from the Buddhist
monks - they are the top scientists in this particular field.
> Frank_Doernenburg@do2.maus.ruhr.de
> (edited) says:
Strange, I thought I'm getting everything sent to sci.archy, but
I haven't seen this particular post. Does anyone know if he has
answered my last post in the Spiral Ramp-thread? If he has, I'd
like to see it.
> }The stones in Baalbek are not as heavy as claimed by many authors.
> }The three actually moved weigh just under 800 tons each, and
> }only the not-moved block in the quarry weighs about 1000 tons.
Actually, I think you make them a little lighter. I have read that
they (the Trilithons) weigh about 900 tons each..
> }The stones were transported over a path only 600 meters length
Literature gives "almost a mile". Six-hundred meters is not even 
a half of that. Thus it appears to me that you are doctoring your
knowledge, as it comes out.
> }and about 15 meters *downhill*. The quarry is 1160 meters high, and
> }the temple 145 meters. 
Who are you kidding? Either I don't understand English, or there
is a big discrepancy here. Just the vertical difference between
the sites you give is 1,015 meters. It just doesn't dovetail
with your 600 meters figure. C'mon, Frank, which is it? How did 
this garbage of yours impress Kaman, I don't know.
> So it was easy to keep the stones on an even
> }level to their final resting place and it was uneccesary to lift
> }them about 7 meters as some authors claim.
What do you mean by this arcane conjecture? Did they built a level
ramp to the site, according to you? This act would have to be
subsequent to the construction of the lower levels of the wall, 
in which we find these stones..
> As you might know, Rome is the city with the most obelisks outside
> }of egypt. They stole the things by the dozen and took them home.
> }The heaviest known obelisk weighs 510 tons, and it was transported
> }some 1000's of *kilometers*. 
This I didn't know. However, because my experience with you has 
demonstrated to me that you cannot be trusted as a source of 
objective information, you bet that I shall pore over this Marcellinus
Comes, and other sources on architecture of Rome, as soon as I get a
chance.
> This transport was documented by the
> }roman author Marcellinus Comes.  The romans even left detailed
> }paintings and reliefs about the ways to move such things : as on the
> }bottom of the Theodosius-obelisk in Istanbul.
> }They used "Roman-patented" winches, in German called "Göpelwinden"
Pardon me for interrupting, but such winches aren't permitted the
Egyptians, as you well know. The Science of History, just won't hear
such "heretical" ideas, since it won't hear of Egyptian screws, or
hydraulic machines, hi-performance winches, etc. So, if you propose 
that the Egyptians had such relatively Hi-Tech machines, you have 
one foot in my camp, and you don't even know it. Thus, you oppose
the mainstream scholars here. But, miraculously, they are not 
pointing this transgession of yours out. Must be that your actions
suit their own aims for the moment.
> }which work with long lever ways. To move a 900 ton stone, they needed
> }only 700 men. The transport was slow, about 30 meters a day,
I wish, you told us where this is from - are you quoting a source,
or did you work it out yourself?
> because
> }they had to dismantle and rebuild the winches every few meters,
> }to pull the obelisk with maximum torque. But in Baalbek, where they
> }moved several blocks, maybe they built an alley of winches, where
> }they passed the block from winch to winch.
30 meters a day is 900 meters a month, 10,800 meters a year, or 
one-thousand kilometers a century. Double the distance traveled for 
the lighter 510-ton obelisk (BTW, what is its name? It's got to have
a name - at that heft - shaped stones earn their own  names like 
Hadjar-el-Gouble) and still, something is not right.
And as far as I know, science doesn't ascribe sea-going ships of such
tonnage to the period. Are you blasphemying again? :)
> }But its irrelevant, because they needed only three weeks per block,
> }and that's OK. 
I interrupt again to announce to you that it's not OK in the case of
taking such a stone to Rome. It takes one millenia to do the same,
as according to you, remember?
 }Oh by the way, the Romans worked a few hundred years
> }on the temple, until the project was finally canceled.  }Bye,  }FD
Not so fast, you little devil :) - you don't escape me so easily.
I must pose the same question from the last time, which you
haven't answered!!! Isn't it logical that if Romans could quarry
and shape and move 900 and 1,200-ton (1,400?) stones at Baalbek -
then wouldn't they have performed the same stunning feats for the
benefit of Rome? Wouldn't they have decorated Rome with such stones?
I say that it makes sense that they would. Some things are just
that self-evident, or seem to be, till someone finds a good counter,
but I have yet to see one.
As for you Kaman, if you are bothering to check my word out at all,
don't I cause that gnawing doubt in your mind to come alive once more?
Must I remind you that FD hasn't even answered this question
satisfactorily yet, and he ignores a lot of other good questions.
Why don't you ask him about the predynastic granite vases, or has
that problem become trivial to you? How?
> ***very informative Frank - thanks :)
>    So (visible) aliens didnt build the GP after all !
So, the Romans  didn't move the Trilithons after all!
They never even as much as tried to. Obviously, judging from 
the news that FD brings to us here ( I am willing to search this 
info out, and if it is true, I shall never deny it), the Upper
Limit of the Roman technology (which I have never denied had 
existed) was 510-tons! 
You see, there were yet heavier obelisks in Egypt available
for pilfering, as Tompkins makes a mention of them, but doesn't
think it important to give a reference to its exact location.
Yet, I suppose that as always, Tompkins is well informed.
Therefore, if he makes a mention of a 1,000 ton obelisk, and
it's not in Rome, Paris, or New York - then it must be still
in Aegypt! 
Therefore, the Romans couldn't steal it! They didn't have
the technology..
Who did? Baalbek was an old sacred site millenia before Romans.
There was an old shrine at the site! (Does this prove something
about the German excavations from the early twenties, which found
no signs of prior activities? Does it make them look highly
suspect?)
The Trilithons were part of the old site.. Just ask yourself:
Why were there only three Trilithon blocks in the entire Roman 
Empire? And why not in Rome? 
Baalbek's name is a proof that there was an old structure there.
Its name proves it - Baal used to be a God long ago.. 
We know, it was the Old ones (Pre-Roman ones), who had delighted
in applying Stella's Pyramid Laws. Thus, the Trilithons, and the
Hadjar-el-Gouble block, weighing definitely at least 1,000 tons
wouldn't be out of character for the Pre-Romans. 
At any rate, Kaman, FD's novel info has nothing to do with the 
Pyramid, or the Old Kingdom period. You're taking a giant leap 
to conclusions.. But, do as you wish.
>    but that does not stop the search for Atlantis, since in a way
>    that word stands for *ANY* ancient civilisations not yet found.
I also said that it stands for the creators of the Science-Art,
and of the Seal of Atlantis.
Do you throw my discovery to the dogs, Kaman? If you are so 
quizzical, and knowledge thirsty - why don't you pore through
these ancient mathematics while thinking intensely? You know
my claims, and you know that I claim to have made no mistakes in
my geometrical analysis. If I did, many skeptics would have aired
any such mistakes out, thus taking my moral right to speak here
the way I do now. Or, do you really think that I am so arrogant?
Ignorant? Racist? A great pretender? A megallomaniac? Atlantomaniac?
Pyramidiot? A little monkey dancing with the fireflies?
>    If you havent already read them, i recommend the books
>    "Keeper of Genesis" and "Orion Mystery" for some stimulation,  kaman.
I have more important proof of Ancient Lost Science than all
of those books put together. Especially, if you consider, how
many more surprises must be in store in the rest of the Magdalenian
legacy from the site La Marche (near Chateaux aux Rennes - voila 
mysteries, and sacred designs intersect), as out of its 1,500 
exquisite engravings I have only seen about a dozen.. 
Don't look at me like that - these materials are extremely hard to get!
Read up on the intrigue involving the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, the 
French cultural attache in Vancouver, and me, on my webpages under
Articles.
Jiri Mruzek
***************************************
Just say Baalbek, and watch the skeptocrits tumble like weeds..
(except for FD - who is just too much of a heavy :) 
Never say die..
Hail Atlantis - the mother of Modern Science!
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Subject: Re: Pyramids and Aliens
From: Jiri Mruzek
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 01:50:37 -0700
Ann McMeekin wrote:
> > Ths is a troll, correct?!?!?
> Actually, no, unless asking for information is a troll, in which case I am
> guilty as charged.  Having only subscribed to this newsgroup in the last
> week, I found myself faced with what appeared to be the middle of a few
> threads and discussions, and was curious to find out what I had missed,
> the idea being that if I knew what had gone before, not only would the
> threads make sense, but I could join in the discussion if I so wished
> without either making an uninformed comment, leaving myself open to
> "flaming", or re-dressing statements previously covered.
> Profuse apologies if I have upset the delicate sensibilities of the
> contributors to this newsgroup by asking such a simple question.
> Ann McMeekin
> am@rtel.co.uk
> 100702.75@compuserve.com
> Section Leader for Mystic Places on Compuserve's Mysteries Forum
> GO MYSTERIES
Ann, 
Compuserve, you say? Look over your shoulder to:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jiri_mruzek/
If you've got the fuel to think for a long time..
Re: this thread, just relax, Ann. Everything is as it should.
Your very signature enrages some around here. Section leader is 
alright, of course, but Mystic and Mysteries don't exist ITDHO !
Right there - you are a bad student, and "they" - one by one - are
just letting you know their pretended displeasure at having to set
your information aright, to remove the countless veils from your
eyes, to discuss your chances of mental recovery by the virtue of
reading what they recommend to you in long lists of sources, which
have nothing whatsoever to do with the gist of the matter - that
there are mysteries in our prehistory, and even modern times, such
as the strangely looking, and strangely formed Cydonia.
It makes me wish, I had reliable coordinates for everything there,
so that I could apply whatever expertise I have in such matters,
to Cydonia, as I am not a real mathematician, but rather a kind 
of detective in matters of Magdalenian and Nascan Science-Art.
I cannot ignore what Hoagland announces. His theories remind me
of my own, when it was in a state of infancy. Except, my theory
has grown up, ( just watching the process of how it grew by filling
in blank spaces between seemingly unrelated problems, which were
there from the very first - is the best proof of the reality of 
my findings) and his is at a stifled stage, because of a dire 
lack of data. 
Specifically, at Cydonia, I would look for the Seal of Atlantis 
(see my pages). 
I would be surprised if there were true sacred geometry there, 
but not a version of the Seal of Atlantis.
But is there anything out there at Cydonia? I for one don't know..
Jiri Mruzek - foreign legionnaire of English
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Subject: Re: 200 ton Blocks
From: Jiri Mruzek
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 18:25:35 -0700
Matt Kriebel wrote:
> Jiri Mruzek (jirimruzek@lynx.bc.ca) wrote:
> : We have discussed the subject of various methods of building the Great
> : Pyramid, when you show up and claim that we have no open interest in
> : all manners of such possible construction by LO-Tech methods.
> : How dare you?
> : FYI, it is the present consensus of historians that the Ancients, and
> : namely Egyptians had only so much knowledge, and so much technology,
> : and nomore!
> And as has been pointed out time and time again in this thread, that 'only
> so much knowledge' is all that is needed make such objects. I notice that
> have failed to answer those who have given effective methods, only mocked
> them instead.
You are just making claims without backing them up. I am well aware 
of all the apparently feasible approaches to building the Pyramid,
we have seen proposed here. All of these proposals had some flaws.
A good, believable How To Build the GPOG script has yet to be produced.
Ramps, either straight, or winding don't work, each for a different
reason: Straight ramp - too much volume - no material evidence.
        Side-ramp - The casing blocks had to be put in place first,
and you cannot affix the side-ramps to the mirror smooth mantle.
        Mechanical devices such as cranes and derricks do not come
into consideration either, because steel wasn't available.
These categories cover all proposals of Lo-Tech we have seen.
Issues of Accuracy and Workmanship.
The claims to the Pyramids incredible architectural accuracy are 
never disputed. It beats the accuracy standards of the great Medieval 
cathedrals. 
Mathematics and Units of Measure
The Pyramid  just happens to have a unique shape, which makes it
a classic, gives it the patented pyramid-power, and incorporates
both the Pi and Phi constants. 
The Pyramid just happens to be so placed and oriented, and contains
such details of construction, that it appears to suit a system
indicating unsurpassed knowledge of geography and astronomy, which 
by the way, is being summerily denied by skeptics.
> : Some of us point to the intellectual level inherent in the Great
> : Pyramid,
> : and other ancient wonders, in a  constructive approach to history.
> 'Contructive appraoch' mean you are the mighty prophet whgo will unlock
> hidden secrets in odd rations and measurements,huh? I took a peek into
> your website and would have laughed had it not bee so tragic. I didn't get
> any further that your Nazca monkey nonsense, but  it becomes pretty
> obvious you are a mathematical/archeaological crank who find messages in
> any ratio or shape you can find. 
Where is your real (expert) criticism of the real-world mathematics 
found on my web-pages? Huh? Your rant doesn't help your cause.
Good of you to mention the Nasca Monkey design - because it is EASY
to prove that this design is engineered with great mathematical
knowledge and stunning accuracy. 
Doubters may want to check out:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jiri_mruzek/
>Ergo the 'intellectual level' in the
> pyramid is, in your own writing, not the wonder of engineering it is, but
> rather a mass of numbers and measurements that *you* get to unlock and
> then consider yourself to be an equal to alien intellences, right?
> : > What it all boils down to is that one is insisting that someones ancestors
> : > didn't have the brains or skill to move big heavy rocks and make a pile
> : > out of them. You'll notice that few 'alien advocates' rarely suggest that
> : > technically magnificent european structures (Hia Sophia, for ionstance)
> : > were built by aliens.
snip
> Hurts your little racist crank theories doesn't it?
snip
> Awww, poor Jiri, does it hurt that your 'constructive appraoch' may really
> be little more more than an ego-satisfying glory-hunt that tells many
> races that their ancestors were too dumb to build things?
You are still full of it. That's what you tell them, not I..
namon
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Subject: Re: 200 ton Blocks
From: Jiri Mruzek
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 01:41:45 -0700
Kevin D. Quitt wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:03:57 -0700, Jiri Mruzek 
> wrote:
> >    Pushing a small car (on wheels with steel bearings, and weighing
> >    a ton at most) is as hard, as rolling a 10-ton wheel!
> >This claim is an obvious lie. One thing about such 10-ton
> >wheels - they are not perfectly round, and therefore aren't
> >well balanced!  This will create problems, when the heaviest half
> >will be at the low point of rotation.
> >My expert opinion: You got the idea from the "Flintstones" show!
> >At any rate, this show abounds in similar cartoon-suitable "ideas".
> First, the wheels aren't 10 tons, what they're carrying was.
There, you found a technicality. Congrats! I thought that we had
to think about turning the whole thing..
> Second, cars have rubber wheels which have a lot more rolling friction than
> hard wheels.
Ten times as much weight remains the decisive consideration.
Modern tires roll easily, and their rubber is quite hard. 
> Third, it's no harder to make a large wheel round than a small one.
Then make me a wheel mile-high!
> Fourth, balance doesn't matter, because the wheels turn at very low speed.
Spin a top. It only falls after losing the speed of rotation.
At lower speeds, balance is the most important factor.
> Fifth is the difference in leverage between you brute force pushing on a car
> and pulling on properly placed ropes.  You have a problem understanding
> simple machines?
No. But i have a problem with what the diff is between brute force in
either pushing or pulling. Some cars seem to have been made for
pushing..
> First of all, do you think only scientists work for NASA?  You think they
> don't have firefighters, trash collectors, drivers, and every other
> blue-collar trade imaginable?
And they are all given a free account with nasa.gov.? I don't think so.
> Second of all, yes, NOW I make a living as a scientist, but that doesn't
> mean it's the only thing I can do or have done.  Maybe when you make it to
> twelve (either mentally or physically) 
Insult noted.. Mr. Scientist
> you'll understand that a person
> doesn't ever have to be just one thing in their life.  On the other hand,
> maybe you wont.
Since I was a baby all my life in your opinion - why not?
> >Very realistic - we all have access to quarries in our backyards
> >just like you!
> Perhaps not, but you could use a large stone to get the idea.
A large irregularly shaped stone? Really?
> > But, I have worked in a couple of quarries, and
> >nowhere did I see 10-ton rocks, there.
> And what kind of quarry did you work in?
Both quarries produced gravey.
> >What quarry produces 10-ton blocks, which it moves by your method?
> None of the commercial ones do; they'd be stupid to, since it's much more
> efficient to use modern machinery.  Now that I've said that, I know of
> private quarries that do use this technique, because a simple winch attached
> to the front of their truck is more than sufficient to move stones that size
> and larger up out of the quarry.  In fact, if you dig up OMNI from some of
> the early years, they have a picture and a story about somebody (back east
> I believe) who uses this technique.
Should I search through the first decade of OMNI? Thanks.
> >Where is this block you spoke about? Perhaps, we can get an
> >investigator on the site..
> 
> It's in Israel, on a kibbutz in the Golan area, acting as a capstone for an
> air-raid shelter.  Of course, you'll have to go down through 5 or 6 meters
> of dirt, first.
Why, I'm not a bomb..
> >What gave you the idea?
> Some of the wooden objects I've seen in displays of items taken from the
> tombs, that look rather like parts of cradles except they're not shaped
> quite right for it.
It's rather tough to look like something, when not being shaped quite
right for it. You must have a lot of fantasy. 
> >Where are the witnesses, etc?
> On the Kibbutz
> >Conclusion: In absence of any evidence whatsoever, we have to
> >suspect that you Kevin Quitt are an unscrupulous prevaricator.
> If you had any brains at all, you'd realize that the method will work as
> stated whether or not I've done what I've said, and *that's* the critical
> piece of information.  It doesn't matter whether I've done it (altough I
> have), but rather that it can be done.
I still doubt your word very much. 
For one, you have hidden the wheel under six feet of dirt,
for two, you claim to have had no help. ON a kibbutz, it is unlikely.
I just don't envision you doing this. 
You saw the idea in OMNI, or saw it applied by a truck with a winch,
as you mention. Don't they have those on kibbutzes? Sure?
> >When I want to tell people about something extraordinary like
> >prehistorical mathematics, I back my words up with a Web-site,
> >where my proofs are available to everyone to check out.
> So I've seen.  Humorous, if simple-minded.
Insult noted. That's for sure.
> >The fact
> >that there are no skeptical critics (skepto-crits) using my
> >materials proves to you that I have something real there..
> No, it merely demonstrates that nobody in their right mind can be bothered
> to pay any attention to it.
Insult noted. Your attitude is evidently a mere excuse for being
unable to muster any sensible criticism whatsoever. You're
mired in typical Denial. Pleasant wallowing..
namon
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Subject: Re: Conjectures about cultural contact
From: skupinm@aol.com (SkupinM)
Date: 17 Sep 1996 08:05:45 -0400
An additional artifact that proves the Polynesians' maritime prowess is
the Malgache language, spoken on Madagascar; Malgache has been traced to
Dayak areas on Borneo, so the distance of this westerly migration is
comparable to the easterly one(s) correctly cited by Yuri in a previous
post.  
This is all in the libraries; ach, the curse of specialization!
vale
Mike Skupin
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Subject: Re: The Minoan Linear A Language?
From: "Alan M. Dunsmuir"
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 06:18:50 +0100
In article , ayma@tip.nl writes
>The Minoan scripts and that of Phaistos are Anatolian in decent,
>but in the case of Linear A it was used to write a Semitic language.
>The references I gave, Best&Woudhuizen;, make that clear.
>So there is no contradiction between your statement about script and
>Henry's opinion about language.
Best & Woudhuizen is a totally unconvincing fantasy.
-- 
Alan M. Dunsmuir
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Subject: Re: Nur el-Din - the light fades
From: grenvill@iafrica.com (Keith Grenville)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 96 09:17:44 GMT
    > Muhammad Diyab, a 25 year old unemployed Egyptian, hid in a sarcophagus within the Museum at 
    > closing time and, after everyone had gone home, emerged. He made for the Tutankhamun room where he 
    > spent the night prising open glass exhibition cases and stashing various valuable articles in the 
    > cistern of a toilet on the same floor.
Something isn't right here - the Tutankhamun Room containing the gold and the ceremonial dagger is in a 
1st floor room where a large, powerful iron-barred gate closes the room to the rest of the upstairs 
gallery.  How did this 25 year-old get into this room?  Did he have a key?  Was there a connection with 
any of the security guards?   Incidentally, there is not a toilet on the same floor - it is on the 
landing of the staircase, halfway between the ground floor and the 1st floor.
    > He kept back the ceremonial dagger of Tutankhamun which he secreted in his sock shortly before 
    > opening time the following morning. As the day's tourists were pouring in, Diyab was leaving 
    > looking a little tired and dishevelled from the night's looting, a fact not unnoticed by an astute 
    > security guard. He was stopped, searched and 'persuaded' to confess all. He led guards to the 
    > toilet, from where he had intended to retrieve the objects after a wash and shave and a few hours 
    > sleep at home.
    > 
    > Three years ago a similar event took place, and Nur el-Din was sacked after not taking the 
    > necessary precautionary measures, which allowed last week's incident to take place.
    > Nur el-Din has been replaced by Dr Ali Hassan whose declared 'first job' is to install an intruder 
    > alarm.
    > Reported by Dave Goode, Publisher & Editor of AA&ES; Magazine, co-owner of the Ancient Wisdom 
    > Mailing List. Details and pictures of this story in November edition of AA&ES.;
    > 
    > DaveGoode@dial.pipex.com
    > 
    > http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/aaes/
    > 
    > 
The lack of security in this Museum is quite obvious - and one of the easiest ways of entering could be 
through the roof skylights!  A rope ladder is all you need!  
----
Keith Grenville
Cape Town, South Africa
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Subject: Re: Pyramids and Aliens
From: "Ann McMeekin"
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 12:29:43 +0100
Jiri, 
> Compuserve, you say? Look over your shoulder to:
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jiri_mruzek/
> If you've got the fuel to think for a long time..
I would gladly visit your homepage if I could, but I can't at the moment,
due to lack of access to a web browser.
> Re: this thread, just relax, Ann. Everything is as it should.
> Your very signature enrages some around here. Section leader is 
> alright, of course, but Mystic and Mysteries don't exist ITDHO !
I'm not sure what you mean by ITDHO, but I think you'll find that the
Mysteries Forum DOES exist (if you use MYSTERIES as your GO word), and
within that forum, is Section 11 - Mystic Places, for which I am the
section leader.  I notice your homepage is on compuserve and am presuming
that you have a compuserve account, if so, please feel free to look in on
the forum at any time.  Although, I have a feeling that the content, such
as it is at the moment, would probably be too simple for your tastes.  The
forum has only been in operation for a few months now, and what I have
been attempting to do, is to find out facts and theories - along with what
has been published in various books and magazine articles - and from
there, to come up with topics for discussion whereby the information I
post is as up to date and well informed as I can make it and to make it
accessable to someone who isn't as "educated" or a professional in the
field but just finds that he or she is interested in the subject.  I fail
to see the reason why identifying myself as a section leader on compuserve
would enrage anyone -- I freely admit that I am no expert in archaeology,
and as such, would presume that people would rather I had my facts
straight when framing discussion topics, than to spout nonsense.
The point of the exercise was information gathering, nothing more, nothing
less.  I didn't volunteer any opinions, merely asking for a recap of the
start of the thread - in which I believe it was suggested by a number of
different people that humans could not have moved the blocks to build the
pyramid.  Only after checking all the facts and drawing conclusions from
them would I offer my opinions on ANY subject.
-- 
Ann McMeekin
am@rtel.co.uk
100702.75@compuserve.com
Section Leader for Mystic Places on Compuserve's Mysteries Forum
GO MYSTERIES
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Subject: Re: help with hieroglyph
From: c.corbo@mix.it (Corradino Corbò)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:23:16 GMT
Richard Barnes  wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>--------------3C694AA75C46
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>can someone help me with the meaning of these hieroglyphics?
>see attached 'gly1.gif' file.
Dear mr. Barnes,
I tried to download the attachment file, but I didn't manage to do it.
I'd like to help you, but you must help me in reading the
hieroglyphics text.
Keep in mind that I use Inscribe 1.1 for Windows 3.1
Kind regards
Corradino Corbò
E-Mail: c.corbo@mix.it
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Subject: bats
From: hagit
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:12:17 GMT
we are from israel and we study about bats.
we want to know about fertilizer made of bats secretions.
thanks,
hagit and her team.
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Subject: bats
From: hagit
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:12:38 GMT
we are from israel and we study about bats.
we want to know about fertilizer made of bats secretions.
thanks,
hagit and her team.
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Subject: Re: Pyramids and Aliens
From: "Ann McMeekin"
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:50:51 +0100
> The problem is this:  you offer an argument from incredulity.  
> That is, you feel (for whatever reason) that the ancients
> *couldn't* do something, even though the alternatives are far
> more "out" than simply accepting that they could and then
> asking how.
I'd appreciate it if you could point out to me exactly where I offer this
argument.  I don't recall offering any opinions on the subject one way or
the other.  
> There are many, many, structures dating from ancient times in
> which, by our standards, very large blocks of stone were moved.
> These exist not only in Egypt but in many other places as well.
> On sci.archaeology we see posts like yours very frequently, usually
> by kooks who have already decided that the Earth is occupied by
> little green men who control everything.  Such statements are
> usually examples of the stators feelings of inadequacy.
> I do not mean to preach, but if you were really interested in
> how the pyramids were built, you might have asked.
I don't mean to seem prickly about this, but I object to being patronised
in this manner.  You presume that I am not in possession of adequate
intelligence to draw my own conclusions given the available facts, and at
the same time, place me in a 'pigeon-hole' as it were, without knowing
anything about my personality or opinions.
With all due respect, I suggest that you take the time to read posts
thoroughly before responding.  When you do, you will see that I have not
yet offered any opinion on whether the "ancients" could or could not build
such a structure, when and if I do, please feel free to make the comments
you deem necessary.
-- 
Ann McMeekin
am@rtel.co.uk
100702.75@compuserve.com
Section Leader for Mystic Places on Compuserve's Mysteries Forum
GO MYSTERIES
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Subject: Re: Conjectures about cultural contact
From: Randal Allison
Date: 17 Sep 1996 15:21:49 GMT
yuku@io.org (Yuri Kuchinsky) wrote:
>Randal Allison (rallison@mail.myriad.net) wrote:
>: yuku@io.org (Yuri Kuchinsky) wrote:
>

>: Given the propensity of Native American groups throughout the Americas to 
>: borrow those things from other groups which they feel are beneficial, and 
>: this includes new vocabulary, where are the linguistic reminders in the 
>: Central American groups' languages?
>
>Such linguistic reminders remained. I have to go back to the volumes I
>cited already, but they've been pointed out among the names of plants,
>and also names of sailing craft. The sailing craft of the West Coast S.
>and N. American natives were _remarkably similar_ to the ones of Asia and
>Oceania. The linguistic connections are especially clear in the case of
>N. American West Coast tribes (Washington State and Brit. Columbia). In
>this case, the diffusion is pretty well obvious.
>
   You are citing examples of similarities from the west coast of the 
Americas. How do these fit in with eastern groups such as the Olmec, Maya, 
Toltec, and groups like the Arawak and Caribe which they were in contact 
with in the circum-Caribbean region? What things travelled back from this 
region to the Pacific? You mentioned the introduction of the sweet potato, 
*Ipomea batatas* as a "silver bullet" for trans-Pac contact. What about 
corn, *Zea mays*, a much more highly prized commodity, and the cornerstone 
of the diet for vast numbers of Native Americans, including the peoples of 
the circum-Caribbean region? Is there evidence of this status crop being 
introduced into the Pacific at roughly the same time?
Regards,
Randy
-- 
_______________
Randal Allison, Ph.D.
   ---Never use a big word when a diminutive alternative will suffice---
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Subject: Re: Spiral ramp on GP (was: Neolithic Stonehenge road?
From: Martin Stower
Date: 17 Sep 1996 14:01:41 GMT
Jiri Mruzek  wrote:
>Frank Doernenburg wrote:
[snip]
>> With 30 kilograms dragging force I could easily climb 4 deg. with a speed of
>> some kilometers per hour. And now its time to get to Mark Lehner and his
>> experiment. You fabulated about thousands of workers Lehner used. I have his
>> video documentation here and looked at it again. He definively used 14 quarry
>> men and 30 farmer from around to simulate tha typical worker mix suggested
>> during the construction.
>
>Don't be arrogant! The TV film here said that fifteen-thousand strong 
>workforce was engaged on the task for three months, and yet has managed
>to built only the equivalent of the part missing from the top of the 
>pyramid. I'm sure, others will remember this part too.
Take 15,000 workers.  Give each of them an area of just two square feet
to stand in (which is packing them pretty tight).  They'd fill an area
of 58 x 58 yards.
The pyramid built by Lehner's team covered a base of 9 x 9 yards.
If 15,000 workers had been on the site, they'd have formed a large crowd
around the pyramid - most of them unable even to get near it.
Martin
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Subject: Re: New Pharohs tomb found?
From: Mike Yates
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 13:36:43 +0100
In an article dated Tue, 17 Sep 1996 03:35:34, Greg Reeder
 writes
>Some of my sources believe it is an internet fraud. What do you 
>all think?
Fraud or not, it made the main national TV news here in UK. It was said to
have been discovered several decades ago by an Egyptian who promptly
bought the land and built his house over it. They did not say if this was to
protect it or to plunder it or why it has now come into the news.
-- 
Mike Yates         Frome   Somerset   England
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Subject: Re: New Pharohs tomb found?
From: Saida
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:14:20 -0500
Greg Reeder wrote:
> 
> Xina  wrote:
> >Can any of you substantiate or refute a rumour that I have heard floating
> >around?
> >
> >
> >Supposedly, the Egyptian authorities have found the tomb of a pharaoh near
> >the
> >Valley of the Kings in the ancient capital Luxor, the government
> >newspaper al-Ahram said. The pharaoh has not yet been identified but
> >he belonged to the 19th dynasty, which ruled Egypt between 1320 and
> >1200 BC, the "silver age" of the pharaonic empire.
> >
> >Is there any truth to this rumour.  I havent herd anything lately and I
> >was given a bogus web site with the message in one of my mail lists.  Does
> >anyone have any idea as to who the Pharaoh found may be or if there is any
> >truth to this rumour?  Ive been away for a while.
> >
> >Thanks in advance!
> >
> >Xina
> >
> >
> Dear Xina,
> I too have seen references to this suppossed find. There are problems
> with it. Some  claim the find is in Qurna OUTSIDE the Valley of the
> Kings. Some say two columns are at the entrance to the tomb with statues
> of the king and queen on or forming the columns. And a spiral stair case
> leading down to the burial chamber! All unlikeky and unprecedented. Maybe
> Saida can help with the next problem. The pharaoh of this tomb is from
> Dynasty 19. Are we missing any burial sites for any king of the 19th
> Dynasty? Some of my sources believe it is an internet fraud. What do you
> all think?
> 
> --
> Greg Reeder
> On the WWW
> at Reeder's Egypt Page
> ---------------->http://www.sirius.com/~reeder/egypt.html
> reeder@sirius.com
If there is a tomb, it is unlikely that it could be that of a XIX 
Dynasty pharaoh. They all seem to be accounted for.
Ramesses I       #16
Seti I            17
Ramesses II        7
Merenptah          8
Amenmesse         10
Set II            15
Siptah            47  
The tomb of Ramesses VIII of the XXth Dynasty is missing, however...
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Subject: Re: Pyramids and Aliens
From: "Ann McMeekin"
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:57:21 +0100
> Try my pages at
> 
>     http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~martins/Pyramid/
> 
> which are of course really, really good . . .
> 
> I'd suggest also consulting Deja News,
> 
>     http://www.dejanews.com/
> 
> for previous discussions on this group about the pyramid topic.
Thank you.  That's exactly the sort of reply I was looking for from my
original post.
Sadly, I don't have web access just now, but I will check up on it as soon
as I get a chance.
-- 
Ann McMeekin
am@rtel.co.uk
100702.75@compuserve.com
Section Leader for Mystic Places on Compuserve's Mysteries Forum
GO MYSTERIES
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Subject: Re: 200 ton Blocks
From: Jim Rogers
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:49:28 -0600
Jiri Mruzek wrote:
> Matt Kriebel wrote:
....
> > And as has been pointed out time and time again in this thread, that 'only
> > so much knowledge' is all that is needed make such objects. I notice that
> > have failed to answer those who have given effective methods, only mocked
> > them instead.
> 
> You are just making claims without backing them up. I am well aware
> of all the apparently feasible approaches to building the Pyramid,
> we have seen proposed here. All of these proposals had some flaws.
> A good, believable How To Build the GPOG script has yet to be produced.
> 
> Ramps, either straight, or winding don't work, each for a different
> reason: Straight ramp - too much volume - no material evidence.
>         Side-ramp - The casing blocks had to be put in place first,
> and you cannot affix the side-ramps to the mirror smooth mantle.
That would make no sense. Save the facing stones for the very end, they 
are much thinner and lighter, and struggle with more difficult methods 
to elevate them into place. 
>         Mechanical devices such as cranes and derricks do not come
> into consideration either, because steel wasn't available.
> These categories cover all proposals of Lo-Tech we have seen.
You don't need steel to build scaffolding to ratchet a heavy weight up 
a little at a time. 
> Issues of Accuracy and Workmanship.
> The claims to the Pyramids incredible architectural accuracy are
> never disputed. It beats the accuracy standards of the great Medieval
> cathedrals.
Pretty clever, those Egyptians, eh? 
> Mathematics and Units of Measure
> The Pyramid  just happens to have a unique shape, which makes it
> a classic, gives it the patented pyramid-power, and incorporates
> both the Pi and Phi constants.
One things about ancient Eqypt is clear, they knew quite a bit 
about geometry. Unique shape? It is a very natural, stable shape. 
And Pi is a universal, useful ratio -- why *shouldn't* they have 
discovered and used it? 
> The Pyramid just happens to be so placed and oriented, and contains
> such details of construction, that it appears to suit a system
> indicating unsurpassed knowledge of geography and astronomy, which
> by the way, is being summerily denied by skeptics.
....
Because all you and others have done with this is point to 
coincidence as "proof" of intentional design. 
Jim
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