The brick ziggurats of mesopotamia are not not as old as some would claim though they are often associated with platforms and contructions which date as early as 7500bp. Following are the most notable old ziggurats:
Sialk - 2900bce - the oldest
Urnamu (Etemennigur) - 2100bce
Agargouf Tower - c. 1450
Chogha Zanbil - 1250bce
Ancient sources associate Urnamu's ziggurat with the Tower of Babel.
Upheavals in the Third Millennium BCE De Novo
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Meteor
Ah yes, just found the meteor article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... homef.html
Must have been tough on the locals.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... homef.html
Must have been tough on the locals.
Natural selection favors the paranoid
Thank you Cognite.
That meteor hit story was the one I was looking for when I found the N Y Times story about the hit in the Indian Ocean.
From yesterday's news page there are 3 more stories about big stuff happening all of a sudden in Peru. The space shot is great. It gives you an idea of the size and distance involved in planning and building something like this.
http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issu ... n-cult.php
http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issu ... s-peru.php
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsro ... 13_lrg.jpg
Whoever built this had records of what to look for and organizational abilities to construct things very far apart but tightly related. How long would it tack a runner to go from the observatory and get to one of the tower sites and say, in effect, "We need it about two handbreadths to the left?"
That meteor hit story was the one I was looking for when I found the N Y Times story about the hit in the Indian Ocean.
From yesterday's news page there are 3 more stories about big stuff happening all of a sudden in Peru. The space shot is great. It gives you an idea of the size and distance involved in planning and building something like this.
http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issu ... n-cult.php
http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issu ... s-peru.php
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsro ... 13_lrg.jpg
Whoever built this had records of what to look for and organizational abilities to construct things very far apart but tightly related. How long would it tack a runner to go from the observatory and get to one of the tower sites and say, in effect, "We need it about two handbreadths to the left?"
http://allafrica.com/stories/200706050712.html
Quote:
WHY IS ENKAI, THE Creator god of the Maasai, almost the same as Enki, who created the Sumerians, as well as Enoch, the Canaanite hero who stormed heaven, and Inca, the divine chief of the ancient Andeans?
Is it accidental that if you reverse the syllables of those names - a word-game which ancient societies played all the time - you get Ka'in of the Sumerians, Kainan of the Canaanites, Cain of Genesis and Chanes of Mesoamerica?
Are we back to mass migrations by the Elite class?
Quote:
WHY IS ENKAI, THE Creator god of the Maasai, almost the same as Enki, who created the Sumerians, as well as Enoch, the Canaanite hero who stormed heaven, and Inca, the divine chief of the ancient Andeans?
Is it accidental that if you reverse the syllables of those names - a word-game which ancient societies played all the time - you get Ka'in of the Sumerians, Kainan of the Canaanites, Cain of Genesis and Chanes of Mesoamerica?
Are we back to mass migrations by the Elite class?