Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
It looks like we Homo sapiens may be much older species that previously understood to be.

Careful, or we’ll be joining Graham Hancock in talking about a long lost civilization and the so-called “Annunaki.”

You wonder how the Egyptians were able to move such large stones from the quarry site to the construction site?…[Read more]

Simon,

They would have had landmarks on the land by which to compare the movements of the stars. I’m sure they would have been fascinated with what was going on in the sky, regularly, year after year.

Very true. And a simple stick perpendicular in the ground casting a shadow on the ground was the first sun dial to determine daytime hours, a…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
If there were diagrams, we would be finding at least some of them.

There are loads.

Unseen wrote:
Your comment about Stonehenge seems to imply that it was used as a diagram of sorts… to pass along astronomical knowledge? If so, how did that designer (or designers) of Stonehenge gain the knowledge needed to do the alignment c…

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Reg,

Please, nobody mention Graham Hancock or his Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse where he misrepresents archaeology and undermines Indigenous heritage. He tends to creep into these conversations.

It’s high time that someone “Just ask questions” back to Joe Rogan, Graham Hancock, Erik Van Däniken, and others like them.

For instance, if it…[Read more]

It looks like we Homo sapiens may be much older species that previously understood to be.

Simon,

Surely they had all sorts of diagrams, and they had Stonehenge, which among other things is aligned with the Sun’s solstices and equinoxes.

One thing they could have done without writing would be to make a model of what they wanted on the ground, put stakes in at various points on the model, then used strands of cordage of equal length t…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
Many of these cultures, so far as we know, didn’t really have an effective way of documenting their knowledge and discoveries, so was astronomy carried on by an oral tradition? We may never know.

Surely they had all sorts of diagrams, and they had Stonehenge, which among other things is aligned with the S…

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