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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wally: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by neo*geo: [b] Wally, do you want to be part of the problem or the solution? I have my opinions but I accept that there are other theories out there. It's not fair to call someone ignorant because they disagree with your theory. If you wan to be somewhere where everyone agrees with you didn't you say you have a forum on your own website? Why don't you stay there? [/b][/QUOTE] I see that you can't answer my questions. And you keep insisting, like those who wish to think that there's a debate here, that I am presenting MY theory. It is the Ancient Egyptians who are speaking here! If you want a debate then debate the accuracy of my presentation of their ideology! I seriously doubt that that will be forthcoming. [QUOTE]Originally posted by supercar: [b]Back to the AE art, we see flying objects that ressemble the aircrafts of today. This can only mean either the Egyptians were well ahead of their time, in terms of the technology, or they were making predictions of what was to come. Could there be any other symbolic meaning to those writings on walls?...[/b][/QUOTE] Boomerangs are probably the only heavier-than-air flying machine that existed in Ancient Egypt (eta; omomti; ga; thenea). Tutankhamen's tomb contained a collection of boomerangs of both the straight flying (hunting) and returning variety. These questionable glyphs you show are probably misread hieroglyphs or "a little prestidigitation." We surely would have found the remnants of a bunch of them by now, don't you think? [QUOTE]Originally posted by supercar: [b]Another issue is Hieroglyphics? I know little about this language other than the symbols of animals, people and tools. I am sure some words from Hieroglyphics remain today, but for the most part it seems like an extinct language. How are people able to draw solid conclusions on the meanings of these scripts? I hear some people today say they are experts on the symbols and the language, but it can't be ignored that these same people weren't in AE. To me, it is more like a guess work, which can result to misleadings or outright errors in the meanings of the scripts. So, how these historians are able to construct names and detailed historical events from these pictorial writings, is a wonder![/b][/QUOTE] It isn't historians, per se, who retrieve ancient languages, it is philologists and linguists. They have a scientific methodology which does include guess work, but it's theory-test-conclude. The Ancient Egyptian language is not an extinct language, rather more like a colonized one. The latest stage of this language is the Coptic language and it also has many relatives in non-Coptic Egyptian words, and in several other African languages. Here's an simplified example of a method: The "cartouche" hieroglyph was known to have contained the name or title of a king. Linguists knew that the Coptic word for "name" is "ran" (it is also "ran" in Yoruba). They then theorize that this cartouche represented the word "ran", and so on (test-conclude)... [QUOTE]Originally posted by supercar: [b]By the way, I've also noticed that many AE statues have their noses chipped off. Are these parts of the statues often built with such delicacy or what...what's up with that? [/b][/QUOTE] Come on now man, you KNOW what's up. And you do come up with some interesting topics. Maybe instead of continuing on from your original topic, you should post these as new topics. Just a suggestion... Also regarding your conundrum about colors used at Egyptian funerals - here's the Ancient Egyptian ideology regarding this. White = death and mourning Black = rebirth and rejuvenation [URL=http://www.geocities.com/wally_mo/coco_hues.html]http://www.geocities.com/wally_mo/coco_hues.html[/URL] [This message has been edited by Wally (edited 19 June 2004).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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