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The Herculaneum Scolls....

Watching a documentary on TV right now about this, but here's a good article that explains it.


When Mount Vesuvius erupted, it covered not just art and humans in well preserved states, but also a library of ancient literature.

They found like a thousand charred scrolls in the 1800s but many were thought to be just bits of charcoal and thrown into the ocean (idiots). But they eventually realized they were charred papyrus scrolls.

For the following 200+ years tho it's been impossible to open them they crumble like fragile butterfly wings.

Fpr 20 years an American computer scientist invented a machine that can potentially virtually unravel the scrolls....a machine/ai that can decipher faint carbon-based ink from papyrus that has been itself carbonized.

Anyway it's still mostly a mystery, tall task.
 

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Hancock is full of chit always has been.

"We don't have time to go right into this", that's his answer to all hard questions.

I always thought Grahame read "chariots of the gods' and has tried to copy it.
 
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Hancock is full of chit always has been.

"We don't have time to go right into this", that's his answer to all hard questions.

I always thought Grahame read "chariots of the gods' and has tried to copy it.

I agree.

I was very disappointed in his retorts to little Indy.

After 30 Years of dismissal he finally gets his chance to debate a genuine archeologist and state his case.

All we heard were crickets.

“ you haven’t explored enough sites around the globe” was one of his most repeated replies.

lil Indy shoots off a long list of excavation sites numbered in the 10s of thousands and those facts barely register with Hancock.

I think he was in complete shock from
about 10 mins in couldn’t counter the avalanche of data that Dibble delivered.
 
And that was a God awful movie.
But anything is better than BS Hancock.
He's so appropriately named.
Too bad Trump was labelled hancock
What is it that offends you so much about him? Surely his theories about pre ice age civilisations, younger dryas, cataclysmic flooding events etc at least worth some consideration?
 
I agree.

I was very disappointed in his retorts to little Indy.

After 30 Years of dismissal he finally gets his chance to debate a genuine archeologist and state his case.

All we heard were crickets.

“ you haven’t explored enough sites around the globe” was one of his most repeated replies.

lil Indy shoots off a long list of excavation sites numbered in the 10s of thousands and those facts barely register with Hancock.

I think he was in complete shock from
about 10 mins in couldn’t counter the avalanche of data that Dibble delivered.
Meanwhile in reality it was Dibble that was full of it as it turns out.
 
Anyone watch this super mega ancient civilisations debate between Hancock and a strange little man called Flint Dibble?

Every minute of those 4 hours 23 mins is magical. Never has so much been discussed with so much contempt in the air.


Thanks for posting. Fascinating. Also very heated. You can tell both Dibble and Hancock are lying about character assassinations and lying about secret agendas or claims, protecting their own interests etc. Rogan as always is clearly objective.
 

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I'd not heard the legend of Kumari Kandam before. It's a mythical sunken continent believed to have existed in the Indian Ocean, south of present-day India, and is often associated with the ancient Tamil civilization. It has so many parallels with the Atlantis myth. While considered a mythical place in Tamil literature and folklore, there's no scientific evidence to support its existence as a continent. It's impossible with our modern understanding of plate tectonics for a continent to disappear in the short time frame required by the myth. Low lying islands or shoreline could certainly be flooded as the glaciers melted, I think this is probably what really happened and it destroyed an early Tamil civilization, which has been made grander with the retelling overtime. We know the sea level has risen around 120m since the glaciers started melting, I'm sure there is a lot of 'prehistory' lost in those depths, a continent, no.

This is a short and slightly sceptical video about it, most of the videos treat it as if fact, despite the lack of evidence.



The Wikipedia article is a rather poor one, being caught up with Tamil nationalism and lacking rigour.
 
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