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Originally posted by grobi77
reply to post by lonewolf19792000
Sure, Hitler only rotated it 45° (I hear, he did it because this way it's more dynamic)
But it didn't seem to bring him fortune
Did ancient architects know the dimensions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun? Were they capable of surveying vast distances with pinpoint precision? Did they encode their advanced understanding in monuments and units of measure? Are the second, foot, mile, nautical mile, and even the meter sacred measures from the distant past? Why do many of the world’s religions encode the same geometry in their most sacred symbols and temples? What does the Kaaba really symbolize? How are Stonhenge and the Dome of the Rock connected? Why do measurements of many disparate phenomena converge on a few specific numbers and ratios?
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by davethebear
Whats amazing to me is that the more I see Roman designs and architecture the more I realize they really did have their act together.
Originally posted by JDmOKI
reply to post by SLAYER69
The mosaic could be Byzantine... right? They were the last "Romans" and held many greek and roman traditions until they were destroyed by the Ottoman Empire. I don't have time to read the article, do the have an assumed date?
Originally posted by BurningSpearess
Several posters have mentioned ties of the Byzatines/Romans, and the church.
Below are the most amazing mosaics I have seen as far as detail, color and significance (map!) but who knows?
Maybe this site in Turkey will be competitive with my finds in the future....
S/F; thanks for sharing the discovery...
In the "holy lands":
198.62.75.1...
--sorry website a bit commercialised--edit on 19-9-2012 by BurningSpearess because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Whats amazing to me is that the more I see Roman designs and architecture the more I realize they really did have their act together.
Originally posted by FriedBabelBroccoli
[Is that an Arabic zodiac on the floor? That looks like the planet Saturn above the phoenix/Ophiuchus found in the center.
How would they know about the rings of Saturn? But then again the hexagram has long been a symbol of Saturn and we only recently discovered the hexagram storm on Saturn's pole.
Really makes you think about what the ancients knew. I mean the pantheon in Rome used reinforced concrete which was lost and rediscovered long after.