lastman456

It can't be that urgent. Any mail would be 2,000 years late and evenfor the U.S. post office that would be pretty late.

After watching the PBS special on unrolling the Dead Sea Scrolls I have to think that any attempts to unroll deep fried paperwork to be extremely risky, and if its not done right its probably irretrivably damaged. That would be reason enough to go slowly and wait until the right technology came along to make it happen. If anyone ever read Champoleon's accounts of unrolling ancient scrolls, they wouldn't be in so much of a hurry.

Wow.

Honestly, I am surprised at the number of articles that continue to laud the idea of Egyptian international trade as though it is a new subject. While I lived in the Middle East, including Egypt, the museums were full of objects that were detailed as having come from foreign countries. News, the root word of which is new, should bring us things that we don't know. That the oil came from many sources is news. That Egyptians traded across the region is not.

Don't get me wrong. I'm for a full disclosure of the truth, but there is the truth and then there is the "truth." In creating "good" history one must becareful to always give evidence only the weight it deserves. Adding spin to real evidence badly devalues it. That spin is my concern. Not the evidence.

Can someone explain how you make the jump from one small church in a place so out of the way they are just noticing it to the full Christization of the whole country. What is it they are reaching for, there. Don't we get enough revisionist history as it is?

Pay attention to the modern athlete and all the times they have gone on strike despite their healthy salaries. It is not so hard to imagine gladiators getting spoiled that way. As to slaves revolting merely because they are slaves, you are putting a modern emotion on a very old tradition. Slavery was common and accepted, few slaves even considered freedom as an option. Yes, I said accepted, even by the slaves. The idea of personal freedom as we consider it is very 20th century.

Pay attention to the modern athlete and all the times they have gone on strike despite their healthy salaries. It is not so hard to imagine gladiators getting spoiled that way. As to slaves revolting merely because they are slaves, you are putting a modern emotion on a very old tradition. Slavery was common and accepted, few slaves even considered freedom as an option. Yes, I said accepted, even by the slaves. The idea of personal freedom as we consider it is very 20th century.

There have been findings in Egypt in recent past that indicate an older civilization, perhaps as old as 10,000 b.c., which have archeologist hollaring back and forth...It will be interesting to see how this information works in the mix.

Will these eurocentric interpertations of Jesus never end. What happened to the brown bushy hair described in the bible? If this is a reliable forensic description of the face in the shroud then it does more to support the medivial european orgin than it does give us insight of a 2000 year old semitic face. The cg face might not be popular with most euro/american christians, but it is a much more faithful forensic description of a real living human being.

Having picked up pieces of petrified trees off the ground in the Libyan Sahara and observed the hundreds of now dry riverbeds in southern Egypt, climactic weather change doesn't seem all that startling. In geology classes it was a well known and often discussed topic. However, these finds seem to suggest that these changes were quite sudden and rather harsh. Since astronomers have long been predicting that there is a large comet that routinely passes very close to earth, which may account for the change in polar positions that happen routinely, perhaps the phenonom are linked. A comet or asteroid passing close enough to earth could affect the magnetic fields which might cause signifigant climate changes. And the good news is that we might live long enough to decide these theories for ourselves. Perhaps this will prove interesting.