King Tut Returns To De Young huliq.com Take a look at an interesting article we found.
The Great Pyramid personal.psu.edu Take a look at an interesting article we found.
'Unlocking' a puzzling Pyramid scheme New York Daily News Take a look at an interesting article we found.
"Diary of a Nobody," is a wonderful satire of diaries and life in late 19th-century England. But it also tells us a lot about ourselves.
November 29, 2008
I've gone to my farm in Kentucky for the weekend. It's a great place to relax, do a little hard physical labor, and forget about the rest of the world. If you don't have such a place, I highly suggest you get one.
In the meantime, here's a little something that I found for you to read with your morning coffee.
See you on Monday.
J. Peterman
Share the Eye:
Nefertiti's Eye sherryart.com Take a look at an interesting article we found.
King Ramses II kingtutshop.com/ Take a look at an interesting article we found.
Fruit of the Nile fruitofthenile.com Take a look at an interesting article we found.
still thinking about today...
Well, I just logged on to say that tonight (it is now about half past Midnight) I looked at ALL 94 of JPeterman's (uploaded November 25) photographs. I had a few FAVORITES, as I also love photography and am fairly good as an amateur photographer myself! I REALLY LIKED numbers 43, 52, 71, 88, 89, and 90, both for their composition as well as the (ones of) portrayal of JPeterman the man. However, the few shots of Mr. Peterman's apparel where he is also modeling the live snakeskin 'hatband' I can only HOPE will not give me literal NIGHTMARES, as I am off to bed, now, FINALLY, and already have frequent nightmares about live snakes ANYWAY, for WHATEVER dark, psychological reason. . . .
do all the pyramids have this same inner spiral room? I doubt it. I think at some point presetn day scholars will have to admit, we have no clue how it was done, probably never will, just like the massive stones in Jerusalem, Machu Picchu and other places around the world. I never get sick of reading about Egypt, never will, I'm fascinated with the unknown, this will remain an unknown.
Dutchman said...
inside out or outside in. The building of them was amazing...and probably the greatest testimony to male ego. Does anyone remember the movie "Land of the pharaohs" probably the best great bad movie ever made. Joan Collins getting locked in at the last moment.
Gia said...
Yes, with Jack Hawkins I believe. Slow day today on the farm. Must be an advanced case of tryptophan.
Machinator said...
Being a classics person, it goes against the grain to trust Herodotus in something like this (him being the one to always attribute conflicts to personal insults or the gods not liking something someone inportant did I could go on and on) but I always liked his crane theory, that is until I read this article, the inside out theory makes good sense, even more so with the point made that there are no remenents of the exterior spiral the History Channel so loves animating for pyramids specials. But in the end, will we ever know for cetain, of course not, and that is what keeps me fascinated with the ancient world.
Napoleon, Elvis, and all the rest of the Martians built them as a prank, knowing that they would confuse future Earthlings. They had lots of cheap labour, and being smart about the ways of the universe, they were able to conceal every trace. That's not actually what I think. I just say as long as we're spouting theories, we might as well have fun.
I've always been fascinated by all things Egyptian; especially the Great Pyramids. I think it began after seeing my first Mummy movie when I was a child. I especially loved the ones with Boris Karloff. As a result, I've literally spent decades reading everything I could get my hands on to discover "who built the great pyramids". In addition to my reading, I also attended countless lectures on the subject, visited many museums and whenever possible I traveled to explore them first hand. After all these years of single minded dedication to solving this mystery I‘m still not able to say with absolute certainty who built the pyramids, but, I do think it was a guy named Eddy. (a loose reconstruction of a "fractured fairytale" as told by Steven Wright)
What I would really like to know is why nobody ever seemed to be able to just outrun all the reanimated mummies in the movies when they were so very slow and wrapped from head-to-toe. It was always take a step, drag a leg, take a step, drag . . . . . and they always caught their intended victims.
Peter Lake,
You had me going there for almost a whole paragraph.
But, as they say, seriously- I like it when the accumulated wisdom of science is simply: "Hey, we're stumped on this one." It seems. so-I don't know- honest.
I'm still trying to figure out how one could have an inclined interior tunnel inside a stucture that one hasn't built yet.... Inside of what? Imaginary outside blocks of empty space into which each 2.5 ton stone piece is fitted?
I suppose I should admit I was never very good at math, so I'm probably missing some point... (I sort of gave up on math after spending more than a week on quadratic equations -- and then discovering that they gave FOUR answers: two incorrect and the other two correct.)
Perhaps I'm simply missing something about the meaning of an inclined interior tunnel....
Stoney,
It would be so refreshing to hear any of our politicians own up to "We just can't figure this puppy out yet" instead of putting on an impromptu dog and pony show to divert our attention.
Unanswerable questions are the life breath of magic and I think that's all right.
Doc Nolan,
It's all in the angle of the dangle.
belleball said...
methinks we are lacking in the kind of imagination ancient engineers would have used to build something as mysterious as pyramids - perhaps it is as well that we live in this era and are content to puzzle over the past? Even legos leave me wanting and wondering...
my readings about pyramids are mostly limited to the 5th grade Sunday School lessons at our Unitarian edifice 20 years ago when we studied Akhnaten, plus the lives and times of archy and mehitabel which I have referenced previously - when mehitabel encountered the mummy who announced that he had been in this tomb for untold centuries and was dry as a sandstorm in the heart of hades and had spent the time there thinking, thinking, thinking...of beer.
Doc Nolan,
How about this scenario: "Alright men, we're going to stack this up and then pull out some of the inside ones to create an inclined interior tunnel."
"Hey, screw you Jakhnaton!"
I vote aliens...