Thousands of miles sailing and by feet
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Topic: Thousands of miles sailing and by feet
Posted By: max
Subject: Thousands of miles sailing and by feet
Date Posted: 23-Apr-2012 at 12:22
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I’ve stumbled upon a great article about guys that call themselves “reenactors” and do some kind of historical experiments ( http://middleagestoday.com/en/clublife/360 - ). They’ve
organized the campaign to prove that description of some significant historical
campaigns is accurate, and they plan to do it again! This time they’ll sail and
march for 2 months, which I believe is quite impressive. Do you
think it makes sense? |
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Posted By: Centrix Vigilis
Date Posted: 23-Apr-2012 at 17:35
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Interesting looking link. Welcome to the forum. ------------- "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" S. T. Friedman Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it's probably true' |
Posted By: Nick1986
Date Posted: 23-Apr-2012 at 19:11
Cool. Sounds like a modern-day Thor Heyerdahl
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Posted By: kangarooistan
Date Posted: 06-May-2012 at 18:56
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sounds interesting , I have often wondered why nobody has yet tried to recreate the westward journey as described in the older versions of the ancient Egyptian pyramid texts , I understand most people assume this journey was only symbolic and indeed it seems to have become impossible once the rains deceased '' about'' 4000 years ago , but having examined the text and the route thy describe it is in my opinion a real journey westward , over land and water , to a point where the sun rises , east of Egypt , I have examined the landscape of the period when the pyramids first document this journey , 5000 years ago it was much wetter in the deserts , and combined with increased river flow , using ocean currents and wind the journey as described in the Egyptian pyramid texts was easily possible http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_maps/ocean_currents_1943.jpg The Book of the Dead is the modern name of an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_funerary_texts - ancient Egyptian funerary text , used from the beginning of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Kingdom - New Kingdom (around 1550 BC) to around 50 BC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Dead#cite_note-0 - [1] The original Egyptian name for the text, transliterated rw nw prt m hrw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Dead#cite_note-1 - [2] is translated as "Book of Coming Forth by Day". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Dead#cite_note-2 - [3] Another translation would be "Book of emerging forth into the Light". The text consists of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person's journey through the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duat - Duat , or underworld, and into the afterlife. The Book of the Dead was part of a tradition of funerary texts which includes the earlier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Texts - Pyramid Texts and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_Texts - Coffin Texts Despite draining into the Caribbean Sea, the Pacific Ocean is near enough to be seen from the mountains of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ometepe - Ometepe (an island in the lake). Before construction of the Panama Canal, a stagecoach line owned by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Vanderbilt - Cornelius Vanderbilt 's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_Transit_Company - Accessory Transit Company connected the lake with the Pacific across the low hills of the narrow Isthmus of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivas - Rivas . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nicaragua . IMHO its easy to imagine the journey as described '' was a real trip '' , that the ANCIENT EGYPTIANS made , or could have easily made , to the other side of the planet during the wetter period that then prevailed . Once you actually ''start looking'' , the actual evidence that they did indeed regularly sail around the globe , and recorded this journey withing the ancient text , slowly emerges , actually sailing due west from Abydos across the present deserts to emerge via the Niger river into the Atlantic , then crossing the americas via lake Nicaragua . all the while simply following the natural currents like many ''solo sailors '' do today http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_maps/ocean_currents_1943.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_Boats_%28First_Dynasty%29_%E2%80%93_Abydos The Neolithic Subpluvial — sometimes called the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene - Holocene Wet Phase — was an extended period (from about 7500-7000 BC to about 3500-3000 BC) of wet and rainy conditions in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate - climate history of northern Africa. It was both preceded and followed by much drier periods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Subpluvial ------------- kanga ===== |