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Ok, but I thought I heard that some of the structures they have uncovered have no inscriptions. Are somewhat plain? Didn't they write on just about everything they built? Now I am in a place I know very little. I am better at "what if" thinking.
Originally posted by Hanslune
The age old problem (well about hundred and fifty years) How far do you go?
Many of these structures are on limestone or other bed rock. those that are not have tended to disintegrate.
Egypt is one of the best documented an explored areas in the world. Its been looked at extensively for over 200 years.
As of the moment only part of the enclosure of the Sphinx is thought to (maybe) older than thought.
We'll get a better picture in 10-15 years as the various field surveys are completed and the reports come in.
But at the present time nada on unknown civiizations.
Cheese
Cheese is an ancient food whose origins predate recorded history. There is no conclusive evidence indicating where cheesemaking originated, either in Europe, Central Asia or the Middle East, but the practice had spread within Europe prior to Roman times and, according to Pliny the Elder, had become a sophisticated enterprise by the time the Roman Empire came into being.
Proposed dates for the origin of cheesemaking range from around 8000 BCE (when sheep were first domesticated) to around 3000 BCE. The first cheese may have been made by people in the Middle East or by nomadic Turkic tribes in Central Asia. Since animal skins and inflated internal organs have, since ancient times, provided storage vessels for a range of foodstuffs, it is probable that the process of cheese making was discovered accidentally by storing milk in a container made from the stomach of an animal, resulting in the milk being turned to curd and whey by the rennet from the stomach. There is a widely-told legend about the discovery of cheese by an Arab trader who used this method of storing milk. The legend has many individual variations.[3][4]
Cheesemaking may also have begun independent of this by the pressing and salting of curdled milk in order to preserve it. Observation that the effect of making milk in an animal stomach gave more solid and better-textured curds, may have led to the deliberate addition of rennet.
The earliest archaeological evidence of cheesemaking has been found in Egyptian tomb murals, dating to about 2000 BCE.[5] The earliest cheeses were likely to have been quite sour and salty, similar in texture to rustic cottage cheese or feta, a crumbly, flavorful Greek cheese.
Cheese produced in Europe, where climates are cooler than the Middle East, required less aggressive salting for preservation. In conditions of less salt and acidity, the cheese became a suitable environment for a variety of beneficial microbes and molds, which are what give aged cheeses their pronounced and interesting flavors. Cheese has become the most popular milk invention.
But if we are talking about forbidden AE then
what could be discovered is speculated as not to exist before it has even been tryed.
stop that, you are making me hungry.
Originally posted by Hanslune
It may have been and probably was after the domestication of sheep around 10000 BP.
But the storage of large amounts of grain and cooking requires a pottery vessel that can withstand wet and rodents. The story of the move from pre-pottery neolithic to the pottery neolithic is one of the fundamental movements of civilization.
Cheese
Cheese is an ancient food whose origins predate recorded history. There is no conclusive evidence indicating where cheesemaking originated, either in Europe, Central Asia or the Middle East, but the practice had spread within Europe prior to Roman times and, according to Pliny the Elder, had become a sophisticated enterprise by the time the Roman Empire came into being.
Proposed dates for the origin of cheesemaking range from around 8000 BCE (when sheep were first domesticated) to around 3000 BCE. The first cheese may have been made by people in the Middle East or by nomadic Turkic tribes in Central Asia. Since animal skins and inflated internal organs have, since ancient times, provided storage vessels for a range of foodstuffs, it is probable that the process of cheese making was discovered accidentally by storing milk in a container made from the stomach of an animal, resulting in the milk being turned to curd and whey by the rennet from the stomach. There is a widely-told legend about the discovery of cheese by an Arab trader who used this method of storing milk. The legend has many individual variations.[3][4]
Cheesemaking may also have begun independent of this by the pressing and salting of curdled milk in order to preserve it. Observation that the effect of making milk in an animal stomach gave more solid and better-textured curds, may have led to the deliberate addition of rennet.
The earliest archaeological evidence of cheesemaking has been found in Egyptian tomb murals, dating to about 2000 BCE.[5] The earliest cheeses were likely to have been quite sour and salty, similar in texture to rustic cottage cheese or feta, a crumbly, flavorful Greek cheese.
Cheese produced in Europe, where climates are cooler than the Middle East, required less aggressive salting for preservation. In conditions of less salt and acidity, the cheese became a suitable environment for a variety of beneficial microbes and molds, which are what give aged cheeses their pronounced and interesting flavors. Cheese has become the most popular milk invention.
From the wiki
Cheese
Just think what they might find. More knowledge or artifacts. Or unpainted hallways.
Originally posted by Hanslune
Metallic handles? I don't recall that could you provide a link please?
What tools could to this? Also many of the vases had hollowed out internal shoulders! Some had extremely long fluted narrow necks with fat hollowed out bellies, microscopic vials, occasional strange wheel shaped objects cut out of metamorphic shist with inwardly curved lips planed down so fine that they were translucent. We absolutely could not duplicate this today!!
Stoneware such as this has not been found from any later era in Egyptian history - it seems that the skills necessary were lost.
Some delicate vases are made of very brittle stone such as schist (like a flint) and yet are finished, turned and polished, to a flawless paper thin edge - an extraordinary feat of craftsmanship.
Robert Francis - Photos and commentaries describing tube drilling, sawing and lathe work visible at Giza and in the Cairo Museum.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Alright, since PhotonEffect is sharing some excellent material, I´ll place an addition to this ever growing thread as well.
For the skeptics who say that "winged serpent" type symbology only exists in the ancient americas, this is an AE papyrus from the Louvre Museum in Paris:
What is their take on that papyrus? what do they think it means? The context?
[edit on 5-6-2008 by Skyfloating]