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Originally posted by Danbones
You are reading the lost library of alexandria right now..
As Edgar Cayce said it would be found at the foot of the sphinx, which just before the internet was made available to the public, the pyramids at Giza brought the idea to the fore that the status quo regarding publicly available information was ummm.... questionable.
Originally posted by FoxStriker
I have a feeling that to the victor goes the spoils...
I think that the knowledge that was contained in the Library of Alexandria was carted away...
or sealed somewhere safe by the Egyptian...
Originally posted by FoxStrikerThese Roman Conquerers were no fools... they were masterminds like the 7 Elite and Puppet Bilderburg Group. I think they understood that knowledge was Advantage, Power and Control.
It seems like the most logical thing to do was take it back to Rome and and have it known among a few Elite to use if it was ever needed...
Just a Theory of course...
but then again... the late empererors were fearful of the masses.... so any city or establishment resembling free thought and knowledge was probly deemed dangerous to the Roman Empire... Guess a good scroll burning was in order.
Fox.
The library seems to have been maintained and continued in existence until its contents were largely lost during the taking of the city by the Emperor Aurelian (270–275), who was suppressing a revolt by Queen Zenobia of Palmyra ( ruled Egypt 269-274 CE ).
Originally posted by bekod
always wondered what man would do with such knowledge, how to build the pyramids,
how to make light 101 using clay and iron, you too can make a sun blade, cut stone like a pro, pocket map of Atlantis with must see sites,
Where would we know if we had this knowledge?
Originally posted by triplescorpio
very rich my freind
where would we be now if the library was never lost what would we know how much different would our existence be?
where would we be now if the library was never lost what would we know how much different would our existence be?
Originally posted by Shadowfoot
Modern science disnmisses completely out of hand many many discoveries as they dont match up with their presently construed theories. There wouldnt be a "Forbidden Archeology" if mainstream academia could open up their minds to new ideas.
Originally posted by Shadowfoot
The German fellow (forget his name) who found Troy went through the same bashing, but look he found it.
Based on the work of a British archaeologist, Frank Calvert, who had been excavating the site in Turkey for over 20 years, Schliemann decided that Hissarlik was, in fact, the site of Troy. In 1868 — a busy year for Schliemann — he visited sites in the Greek world, published Ithaka, der Peloponnesus und Troja in which he asserted that Hissarlik was the site of Troy, and submitted a dissertation in ancient Greek proposing the same thesis to the University of Rostock. He received a PhD in 1869[8] from the university of Rostock for that submission. Regardless of his previous interests and adventures, Schliemann's course was set. He would take over Calvert's excavations on the eastern half of the Hissarlik site, which was on Calvert's property. The Turkish government owned the western half. Calvert became Schliemann's collaborator and partner.
Originally posted by Shadowfoot
This library held many many tomes tablets etc...things that were perhaps not translatable even in their days by the people who housed them at the library. The Library at Alexandria was commisioned by Alexander and continued with the Ptolemies who took over following his death.Writings and inventions etc.. were brought from all corners of the known earth and from distant past.
Surely a large portion was undeciphered and held a great deal of unknown history and science.
Originally posted by Shadowfoot
To simply dismiss the unkown as unimportant is absolutely laughable.
Originally posted by triplescorpio
where would we be now if the library was never lost what would we know how much different would our existence be?
Originally posted by Harte
Originally posted by Shadowfoot
To simply dismiss the unkown as unimportant is absolutely laughable.
To elevate nothingness to the level of astonishment is what is laughable here.
Originally posted by Esoteric Teacher
Originally posted by Harte
Originally posted by Shadowfoot
To simply dismiss the unkown as unimportant is absolutely laughable.
To elevate nothingness to the level of astonishment is what is laughable here.
physics is one thing i may be ignorant about, but haven't dozens of countries contributed to the CERN institute and their hadron collider thingy which has spent $10 Billion on trying to prove the existance of a particle that has no mass and no structure, essentially... nothing?
no offense to math or anything, but how far is the Steven Hawkings from their destination if it is no longer measurable with numbers, numbers and letters, or numbers letters and symbols?
as for the library. i've often wondered about it myself. i remember reading and/or hearing that it was estimated that the loss of the library of alexandria may have set us back a thousand years. not sure how true that is.
as for inventions recorded in the library... i think some people used to keep knowledge of their inventions from those in power out of fear that they would find a way to use it as a weapon, which usually is not the inventors intentions.
Leonardo and many inventors used to record their inventions and thoughts in code or encrypt them somehow, to help keep them secret (seek writ).
Originally posted by schuyler
The thing is, the library at Alexandria was a duplicate. Any ship which came to port had its books (scrolls, mostly) temporarily confiscated. Scribes copied the books, kept the originals, and sent the copies back to the ships which sailed merrily away. So, although the collections at Alexandria represented a consolidation of much knowledge in one place, almost by definition the collections were not unique. The knowledge in these collections was not so much lost as dispersed.
Originally posted by triplescorpio
reply to post by ShadowRamesses
i really beleive that the vatican has knowledge that could help us all and are holding out