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originally posted by: DerBeobachter
a reply to: Peeple
When i first saw this, years ago, i was stunned, and i am till today!!!!!
originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: DAVID64
No. I just don't dismiss it.. If the hieroglyphs were fake how come there was a pathway discovered nearby? Scans showed it's leading to a grave.
And I spent hours looking into it, didn't cost me a cent...
originally posted by: Byrd
originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: DAVID64
No. I just don't dismiss it.. If the hieroglyphs were fake how come there was a pathway discovered nearby? Scans showed it's leading to a grave.
And I spent hours looking into it, didn't cost me a cent...
But can you read hieroglyphs? I can. I'm taking courses in Egyptology from the University of Manchester England (with real Egyptologists.) The symbols on that rock wall are sometimes copied from real texts but mostly copied from tourist junk. Many are not Egyptian hieroglyphs and many are written backwards. It wasn't a picture-rebus writing, as many people try to make it out to be.
Think of today's Chinese language with its hundreds of symbols. Egyptian hieroglyphs are similar to those.
Why fake it? These are called "pious frauds" in academic circles. en.wikipedia.org... - although they don't attempt to show a Biblical figure was involved, people are attempting to "prove" their ideas... and in some cases they're simply doing graffiti of their favorite symbols. Or favorite imagined symbols.
Also, the collection of symbols grew from the time that the park ranger discovered the perpetrator making the first symbols. People visited, added their own.
originally posted by: punkinworks10
A little of topic,but sisnce you brought up pious frauds, I have just read a couple of articles in a major regional news paper, from their native American History writer, and i have learned some interesting things.
There are a couple of rock inscriptions in the south east that appear to have been in non native american script and language and have been labeled pious frauds.
But new genetic evidence and newly acknowledged old world records show that one inscription is a hebrew marriage vow in Ladino and dates to the early 17th century.
In course of chasing down this rabbit hole I ran across a historian whom has found early 16th references to spanish jew and moor prospectors being in georgia and the carolinas, as early as the 1530's, exploiting the same gold and silver veins the maya were trading for.
And the genetic evidence shows that cherokee, in georgia, have a slighlty different DNA profile from there creek neighbors, and have small amounts of MtDna markers for shepardic jews and north africans(Moors), yet their neighbors dont and the cherokee in OK, have reduced amounts of those markers.
Im kinda trying to gather enough of the circmstantial evidence for the Cherokee being a tribe composed Creek and Ladino and Moorish ancestors, to do a thread on.
The notion that non catholics, escaping the tyrany of the Inqusition sought refuge in the new world, during earliest phases of settlement really changes how we should look at some of these anomolous inscriptions ,a nd maybe they arent all junk.
originally posted by: LABTECH767
a reply to: Peeple
Alternative solution's do exist, the obvious alien mask and ufo disc's are genuinely something to think about but the Isis statue complete with sun disc head dress may be more down to ancient ambassadorial link's between the ancient Chinese nation and ancient egypt, or even religious contact.).
originally posted by: LABTECH767 The Disc's, Alien's etc indicate either they have been here or visited a very long time and maybe they were actively worshiped as deity's by some tribe's and culture's, either way extremely interesting, some also believe that many UFO's are demonic or spiritual in nature so that must also be born in mind?, demonic and spiritual can also of course be re worded as other dimensional and the human race has always it seem's believed in Spririt's (other dimensional being's).
originally posted by: LABTECH767
a reply to: Marduk
I would be lying if I said you did not make a very good point, artifact's can indeed be counterfeit, however without proof it is a fake it will remain in the GREY area.
originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: UniFinity
Hancock, Bauval, van Däniken, etc. always rub me the wrong way. I always feel like they're doing the woo-archeology more harm than good.
That's what I liked about the presentation of Dona, he doesn't seem to be so biased, more curious.
But that's just me, wtf do I know, right?
Luckily I can watch him in German. His English is also driving me nuts, I always hear legions, when he says legends.
originally posted by: UniFinitybut Hancock seems okey ... for me.
I like about him, that he admits and knows he don't know for sure, but evidence seem to point to this and that. He at least seems honest and curious to find out real story behind history.