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marduk wrote:don't you guys have google
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1905/19050670.htm

Forgive me but I'm confused Are you debunking minimalists links with this? The print dates on the articles would make the debunking before the findings Please what am I missing here?

I found this forum recently and was overjoyed to think I had found a forum where I could discuss recent finds with other like minded individuals. Then I spent the last week browsing through the different threads trying not to be dismayed by all of the personal attacks I read. I continued to come bac...

Beagle wrote:I like Mr. T also , but my biggest problem with the disk is not knowing for sure where it came from. There is just no real proof.

Exactly. No provenance means no proof. All we poor mortals can do is theorize and hope something similar gets turned up by a pro so we can dig up the truth.

If it was attached to a wooden shield or standard that might not have survived to the present. Depends on the ground etc. from the burial. Or the looters might not have thought the background necessary. I personally like the Mr. T theory

Okay, call be close minded but it just seems to me that the whole 'old civilization theory(which I don't recall hearing any evidence of) is a lot more unwieldy than ancient peoples sailing across the ocean in a KonTiki type boat(which I have heard plausible evidence for(unless that has been debunked...

For the last few days I have been what minimalist calls a lurker :oops: But I have so thoroughly enjoyed reading this discussion I had to register and ask you to please not stop now. I read the book so long ago I do not have any coherent views on the matter but am willing to dig around for a copy an...