To sorta get back on topic......
For those of you who might be interested in alternative theories on the Ark, there is a new fiction novel out called: The Ark, by Boyd Morrison.
I won't spoil the storyline for those who wish to read it, however, he uses some actual ancient translations of Genesis to arrive at the theory that the Ark was not actually a waterborne vessel at all, but something else entirely......in purely engineering and scientific terms, his explanation makes a great deal more sense that the currently-held religious interpretation.
It's a great read for those interested in archaeological and ancient language thrillers.....
doc
Doc, some time in the past as a kid I read about a theory on the Grand pyramid in Readers Digest.--1960 perhaps.
It was a theory that the Grand pyramid came first and then the other lopsided pyramids came later as the Egyptians tried to replicate the big one made by others that came before them.
The theory was that somehow, like Joseph and his coat of many colors that interrupted the kings dreams, some one for told the great flood.
So the people that lived in that area may have spent 200 years building the grand pyramid not as a tomb but as a shelter from the flood.
The pros for this is the lack of hieroglyphics, the unnatural air shafts, the area that has a huge very deep hole that could have channeled rising water into the outside.
Some say the Spinx was from the same century, yet that red headed archaeologist that had a couple specials on the Discovery Chanel showed without doubt that a great deal of the Spinx was destroyed by hundreds of years of water erosion.
Yes I know Readers Digest is not in any way a scientific journal, but over and over again as I remember SOME articles I read back then from my grandparents library I find a few things that modern science says it has discovered ----but the theory was published in Readers digest 40 years ago.
Only problem with reading Readers Digest was in 1969 when I read an article on the Sins System and then took a tour of a SSBN and asked about the system.
No one from the cook to the Captain knew this information had been declassified and were it not for the fact that a copy of Readers Digest was on the Ward Room table, I may have had to spend a night in unpleasant conditions.
