History Forum / General / Ancient History / December 2004

We have been busy setting up charity bank accounts to collect any
monies that people are willing to donate to the terrible disaster
that happened in South East Asia
A brief donation page has been set up (a webwriter is busy writing a

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While on Christmas leave I saw a
Discovery channel documentary on a
geared mechanism found in a shipwreck

David Read is talking about HIS OWN punctuation, grammar and syntax
errors in the REVIEW at the website -- not Gans's errors in his ARTICLE
in an Ashgate BOOK, which we have not seen.
Do read more closely.

Stonehenge was not built by the White Druids. It was not built by the
Romans. Who built Stonehenge?
In early British history, mention is made of ancient races like the
Tuatha De Danaan, the Firbolgs and the Formorians.

It's a hoax, but the following has not been discovered until now, AFAIK:
The text of parchment 1 of the Rennes-le-Chateau parchments has been copied
from Codex Bezae, an Old Latin/Greek Diglot from the 5th CE.
This nullifies certain theories that the differences to the Vulgate are ...

The books I've read take a different tone with the classical world
than other periods. While historians are quick to debunk the heroic
pretensions of the Medieval Crusaders and British colonial masters, and
expose the brutality they concealed, there seems to be many apologists

Can it be done ?
Are the Greek lines of Homer on the Perseus website arranged so that they
start and end the way they should be sung or do they need to be rearranged ?
This is an example from

http://www.amywelborn.com/reviews/pullman.html
Philip Pullman
His Dark Materials
For this month's look at books, let's begin by playing a game.

is it the herod who built masada?

Iosipos ( a Jew scholar of 1st c AD ) wrote: " ¸ëëçí ùí, åé Ìáêåäþí "
that is "if you are Greek then you are Macedonian"
I just heard it in 4E TV channel of Thessaloniki's Church.
Can anyone look for the passage on Iosipos' writings ??

is from Codex Bezae! Da-Vinci Code ...
Have a look here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/textualcriticism/message/311

Why are ancient Israelite Iron I & II skeletal remains being ignored?
Are there no such remains?
Some jews ( http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2554 ) have
apparently entered into an instantaneous psychologically blissful