The Old World is a reference to those parts of Earth known to Europeans before the voyages of Christopher Columbus; it includes Europe, Asia and Africa.
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circumspice
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by circumspice » Tue Dec 24, 2019 12:09 am
Of course, there is the group who say that stones weren't used and that the Egyptians invented concrete long before the Romans!
Only one problem with that theory... They've failed to identify any concrete. The blocks have been identified as sandstone, limestone & granite. Unless they have x-ray vision & have found unexposed concrete... I know! Maybe the concrete blocks were disguised as sandstone blocks! Brilliant! 
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Minimalist
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by Minimalist » Tue Dec 24, 2019 8:23 am
They've failed to identify any concrete.
Stop trying to shoehorn facts into their fantasy. You can be such a killjoy, Circ!
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by circumspice » Tue Dec 24, 2019 12:08 pm
"Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, and, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer." ~ Alexander Pope
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by circumspice » Fri Dec 27, 2019 12:50 pm
Egypt is not the only ancient civilization that has unexplained enigmas. How about a 7,000 year old Greek statuette carved from granite without the aid of metal tools? My one burning question is how the archaeologists determined the age of the statuette since it has zero provenance... Stylistic similarities with other firmly dated objects? They didn't elaborate in the article.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38967924
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reu ... SKBN15S14B
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by Simon21 » Fri Dec 27, 2019 2:44 pm
There is a good book which looks at the construction of the Stonehenge trilothons.
It examines various different methods and concludes that brilliant as the various suggestions are the builders might have used all, or none of them.
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by Simon21 » Fri Dec 27, 2019 2:47 pm
The statue looks like a Henry Moore reject.
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by Minimalist » Sun Dec 29, 2019 9:06 am
Looks more like a duck to me.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
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