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Well it was designed to sweep out bourgeoisie ideas and support the concept of class struggle in ancient societies. The East German's archaeologists who grew up in such a system have written about it. I always think of how it worked when people bringing up suppression of archaeological ideas -
Originally posted by intrptr
reply to post by Hanslune
Well it was designed to sweep out bourgeoisie ideas and support the concept of class struggle in ancient societies. The East German's archaeologists who grew up in such a system have written about it. I always think of how it worked when people bringing up suppression of archaeological ideas -
Reinforcing the adage that the historical record is tainted because of "ideology".
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by SLAYER69
I think I'd rather a library, or the sorts of which, be found at Gobekli Tepe. Although it would most likely be of some forgotten language, thousands of years died out and would take years to decode. It would be interesting to find writings somewhere that matched up to any one of the anomalous writings found thru the ages, that have not been deciphered for lack of reference.
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by Hanslune
What I want to know now is which one of us misspelled deciphered decyphered ?
Originally posted by Hanslune
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by Hanslune
What I want to know now is which one of us misspelled deciphered decyphered ?
WELL that would have been me but I have cleverly edited the MSG so no one will be the wiser, ER, oh dang wait
Because I've done research in 18th century Indian warfare I knew the answer immediately- it was to keep elephants from ramming down the gates...
Originally posted by intrptr
reply to post by Hanslune
Because I've done research in 18th century Indian warfare I knew the answer immediately- it was to keep elephants from ramming down the gates...
So the spikes weren't on the top of the gates but sticking out the sides? Elephants would push with their heads against the flat of the gate, I guess...
Originally posted by intrptr
reply to post by Hanslune
Thank you, a picture is worth a 1000 words isn't it? Surely stopped elephants. They even looked bent like some still were forced to try by their "Mahouts".
If I might what were those other "religious" explanations for those spiked barriers?
Originally posted by Xieon
Another great piece of history to be put into the archives, and thankfully the information about this find is now public. Most of humanities true treasures are not allowed into the public domain.