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Got it Min, Thanks.

Enjoy.

Min, about how long is the French Revolution? I plan to watch it tonight.
All of the good TV channels are still on Holiday break it seems.

90 minutes...without the commercials.

Thanks, it was good. Straight history without a lot of frills. Much better than Simcha.

I am way behind on watching all of this stuff, but I skipped ahead to the French revolution last night. I enjoyed the show for the most part and actually learned something new. I had never heard about the Marat worship before, interesting to say the least. Unlike the show, I believe the French revolution ended with the rise of Napoleon. But that is just a personal opinion.
My partner would like to know why the peasants were constantly picking up pieces of wood in the forests. Maybe just for affect? The contrast between them and the aristos was quite well played.

Firewood?

A short time ago Bruce posted an article about satellite technology detecting lost Mayan ruins.

That very things is being shown tonight on PBS on the Nova Science show.
Other areas' PBS may be different from mine.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17328478/site/newsweek/

This week the Discovery Channel, together with HarperSanFrancisco, announces the release of "The Jesus Family Tomb," a television documentary and a book that aim to show that the tomb next door to Tova Bracha's apartment, located in a nondescript suburb called East Talpiot, is, well, the family plot of Jesus Christ. Spearheaded by a well-known TV director named Simcha Jacobovici, and produced by "Titanic" director James Cameron, "The Jesus Family Tomb" is—both in book and movie form—a slick and suspenseful narrative about the 1980 discovery of a first-century Jewish burial cave and the 10 bone boxes, or ossuaries, found therein.

Check this out gang.
I'm up way too late, I've been reading on Tiwanaku, and this popped up on my home page.

You're gonna love it.

http://archaeologica.boardbot.com/viewtopic.php?t=1085
its already been posted

http://archaeologica.boardbot.com/viewtopic.php?t=1085
its already been posted


(I put this here since Beags doesn't read certain posts)

I put this here since Beags doesn't read certain posts

ya
just the ones that match what hes already deduced with his imagination
and never ever the facts

Beagle wrote:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17328478/site/newsweek/

This week the Discovery Channel, together with HarperSanFrancisco, announces the release of "The Jesus Family Tomb," a television documentary and a book that aim to show that the tomb next door to Tova Bracha's apartment, located in a nondescript suburb called East Talpiot, is, well, the family plot of Jesus Christ. Spearheaded by a well-known TV director named Simcha Jacobovici, and produced by "Titanic" director James Cameron, "The Jesus Family Tomb" is—both in book and movie form—a slick and suspenseful narrative about the 1980 discovery of a first-century Jewish burial cave and the 10 bone boxes, or ossuaries, found therein.

Check this out gang.
I'm up way too late, I've been reading on Tiwanaku, and this popped up on my home page.

You're gonna love it.

One gospel "Matthew" indicates that the family was from Bethlehem. A second gospel "Luke" indicates they were from Nazareth (which apparently did not even exist early in the first century!). The other two gospels can't even be bothered with a nativity story. Nonetheless, at the end the authors finally get down to the point: Why would a "family tomb" be built in Jerusalem for a family which resided in either of those towns and how could a poor family have had a tomb at all?

Thanks for the link, Beags. I'll send it on to Arch. He'll go ballistic.

I haven't a clue who edits Wiki Min but they qualify your statement about Nazerath not existing that early. If it didn't then Luke must have been written much later of course. On a purely logical basis a large family tomb for a poor family is not unique in Judaism, there tends to be a form of one up man ship in some of these things. Some Victorian grave yards over here represent a sizeable investment in time and money for the deceased's family.
Of course IF the tomb is as claimed then the answer is in the bible that the tomb was given for Jesus's burial by a 'rich man, Joseph of Arimathea who was himself a desciple of Jesus.'

The christian tradition says Jesus was born in Bethlehem but the family fled shortly later and went to Egypt due to threats from Herod. Upon his death, they returned to Nazareth or what ever area later was to be known as Nazareth. The only reason they were in Bethlehem in the first place was for a census, in which Joseph had to return to the city of his birth (of course Bethlehem was known as the 'City of David' and so it fulfilled a prophecy). Joseph's adult residence was probably the Nazareth area.

Has anyone ever reported any bones or other material in these coffins?

(not sure which of the three threads I should be posting to)