can i be a mystery?

anceint mysteries:

why did we go 2 days without a photoshop

Who is Darkman?

Who let the dogs out?

you can call me Mr. Ra, you can call me Mr. Ree, you can call me Mr. Mystery.

I copied this verbatim from the "Ancient Mystreries" webpage. Note the date attributed to the Wright Brothers first flight.


In 1898, in a tomb at Saqqara (located about 40 miles south of the Giza Plateau), a curious physical object was discovered (see photo ). It baffled the archaeologists who found it, who could only approximate the date of its internment (before radiocarbon techniques), as "about 200 BC." As the Wright Brother's public experiments in "heavier-than-air" flight were still almost a decade away, there was no general comprehension as to the potential nature of this object. So, it was labeled "wooden bird model," and routinely relegated (like a lot of other stuff!) to the basement of the most famous Egyptological Museum in the world, in downtown Cairo.

The best parts of that site are the guestbook entries...

Why is it that we have to pay $30 to fish in my state, but any of those nubnuts could breed without fine...

Ah, yes, another easily abused guestbook.

SFOTW: Nice guest book entry.

Though the author of this site does have some interesting theories, the presentation seems sloppy. If this stuff interests you I suggest picking up Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock, which is a book that goes into great detail about such theories, and he footnotes everything as well so it's evident he's just not blowing hot air. A very interesting read I'd say.

Smackiex!!

i was going to mention graham handcock!
i've never read fingerprints of the gods, i haven't had time for a book of that size
have you read mystery of mars?
not as good as (i've heard) fingerprints is, but it's shorter, and focuses more on the cydonia on mars, the pyramids across earth, and strange constellations
it's really very interesting

except the last half of the book gets somewhat boring, when he trails off onto the threat that asteroids have on earth. but it really opens your eyes, onto how real the danger is
you'de really be surprised how many close events we've had in just the last 200 years

At least the points made are succint.

"This looks like a launching ramp or something like that."

You just can't argue with the scientific something.

Unexplained links- how did they get there? the world may never know.

LordWatson

what is it that you are getting at?

In 1898, in a tomb at Saqqara, a curious physical object was discovered .....the wright brothers flights were still at least a decade away. The 200 bc date is for when they think the object was made.

That site wasn't all too bad. A bit simplified but he's got a good start.

Tre bumpn: I'm mentally retarded. I read the article and thought they meant that the Wright Brothers' flight was a decade after the initial interrment of the atrifacts in 200 BC. Me so stupid.

That is pretty strange though, that looks an awful lot like a plane. There are also glyphs (i don't have link) which show helicopters and other planes.

Ahhh here we are.

HAHAHAHA.
Farkers do better jobs at photoshopping than these clowns. Those hieroglyphs are ssooooooo doctored.

"Some theoretician's think that it is a 12-meter long glass structure." or it could be some dust on his helmet......

Tre_bumpn In your pic, in the upper right-hand corner....is that supposed to be an upside-down sperm whale with an impressive you-know-what?


Or do I just have a filthy mind?

Photoshopped? Ha...i wish. I can't photoshop anything, i just searched for it. I originally saw it on the discovery channel, and in numerous books. I have even seen pencil lead rubbings of them. This is just a small section of many that exist.

Its not my pic, so you can decide for yourself.

Wow... That crystal skull is beautiful!
Does anyone know if it's really some sort of crystal/glass, or carved out of amber?

The Tunguska Explosion... While the concerned website's author says the cause of the explosion of a mystery, the cause has been known for a while. It was a meteorite that didn't impace directly, but rather exploded some distance from the surface. The shock flattened trees and raindeer for miles around, but trees rather close to the blast center were still standing (although stripped of their branches and bark).

http://www.finart.be/UfocomHq/usabydos.htm

According to Egyptologists, those glyphs are just glyphs, not representations of the Gods' sky chariots or divine birds. If you see anything there, you are just an ignorant layman.

If you are interested in this crackpot stuff, visit www.enterprisemission.com or read any book by Zecharia Sitchin.

That is an interesting read blacksmithking, have you heard of anything debunking this?



I don't believe much of this kind of stuff, but it is a lot of fun to entertain the idea.

Leo, that skull is clear. I think the picture they show on the site has a light cast on it to make the color. The real skull was shown on the intro to arther c clarkes show. It is crystal clear.

What could be the Link between official, scientific NASA and a thousands-of-years-old religious mythology direct from ancient Egypt and the Pyramids?

Well, NASA used Orion on one of their badges. The Egytians also liked Orion: he was one of their chief gods (of course, under the name Osiris, not the Greek name ;-). It's not too strange: Orion is probably the clearest constellation in the sky. So what?


Graham Hancock is an idiot. He makes many many elementary mistakes (for example, a lot of his stuff assumes that the Ancient Egyptians used the same constellations as we do. They didn't. Orion/Osiris is a rare example of a constellation that both the Egyptians and the Greeks used).

Oh, and the Cydonia stuff is bullshiat too. It's a trick of the light. A more recent mission to Mars has rephotographed the Cydonia area at a different time of day: of course, the "face" doesn't appear. It's just a mountain.

So much of the human brain is dedicated to identifying faces, it would be a surprise if photos of the surface of Mars didn't reveal something that looked like a face.

NOT a photoshop...



www.spudstravels.com

Very interesting glyphs Tre_bumpn posted.Even if they aren't necessarily representative of sky god beliefs,I don't think the Egyptians were inclined to make frivolous designs like those.I think they were inspired by something.

Need I say... that website is STUPID?

To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke: Any sufficiently unexplained phenomenon is indistinguishable from crap.

The road to real knowledge by scientific methods and inquiry is wonderful enough. Why waste time looking at the 'unexplained' (read: insufficiently researched or incorrectly deduced) when there are so many useful problems to try and solve?

OK, off the soapbox.....

"Antic aircraftmodels of gold, some people think that they are insects but insects were never made of gold."

"This looks like a launching ramp or something like that."

AAhhahahahahaaahahahaa!!

"This wierd thing might have, like, been made by aliens, or something. Yeah. Huh-huh. Cool."

This man is a comedy GENIUS!
(Come on, he can't be serious......can he?)

"...blah blah...pyramid on Mars....blah.....The south face appears to be oriented almost exactly due south"

Ye Gods! The ancient martian civilisation had such advanced technology that they could almost exactly position structures where ever they wanted!

As for that frickin 'face' thing, go here to see the Mars Orbiter images of it next to the original.

Thanks OB1. THANKS FOR RUINING MY DREAMS!!! No, just kidding, cool to see what that all ended up being. Some little rippley thingies!

http://www.vgl.org/webfiles/mars/face/04-2001-1/4-01-face.htm

The "Face on Mars" looks like a face to me; however, it could also be just a mesa. I'd like to see more pictures of it, without having NASA photoshop them into "catboxes" before publication.

http://www.enterprisemission.com/catbox.htm

Tre_bumpn, I've never read anything that debunks the golden bird/insect and similar artifacts. Perhaps an ancient artist imagined or dreamed of an aircraft, or had a prophetic vision of one. Perhaps an artist saw one in use--if UFOs are really vehicles, then it follows that they wouldn't be limited to a modern phenomenon. Agreed, it's fun to think about such things. Unlike the arrogant Egyptologists ("you are all stupid!") mentioned in the first webpage I cited, I don't dismiss ideas just because they don't fit a current paradigm.

if it weren't ancient, then it wouldn't be mysterious

I'm so sick of this crap

i saw those egiptian glyphs of the helocopter and plane a while ago, and it was proven they were fake. definitive proof. I dont have a link but seriously folks, look at them, they are coming OUT of the wall, not chisiled in....

I like the "12 meter glass structure" reflected in Armstrong's helmet. It looks exactly like the leg of a lunar landing module to me, but then, I'm weird.

Mr_Apostrophe: Try looking to the left about an inch. It's not the big bright gold thing attached to the lunar landing module they're referring to. It's the two white things to the left of it. I bet they're TV antennas so the green moon aliens wouldn't miss any episodes of Gilligan's Island.

I think the cydonia stuff is all just tricks with shadows played on the eye.

Many other things are far more mysterious. Such as the giant line drawings, and even some crop cirlces.

They are so magnificent, it really makes you wonder how they are done from the ground. Some of the crop circles are so intricate and geometrically perfect, and they appear overnight.

There are many other far more interesting pics taken on the moon that would make you question us being there.

I prefer to just entertain the ideas myself rather than try to convince anybody of anything.

To hell with those glyphs, that is just the tip of the iceberg of "things weird" in this world, unexplained or not.

Are you referring to the Chibolton crop glyphs? Those things were beautiful.

I could discount the Cydonia pictures if there weren't multiple photos taken at different times of year with different optics that showed the same oddities.

Ever notice that the minute you mention these things, people post statements like "I'm so sick of this crap," or "(Come on, he can't be serious......can he?)" Evidently this kind of thought is a total waste of time, unlike editing pictures in photoshop threads.

Those aren't the exact ones i was talking about but they are great. Heres a site with some great pics and info from the recent wiltshire one.

If reading about this kind of thing is a waste of time, then i like wasting my time ;)

oh boy....whooops.
ok here it is for real

http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2001/MilkHill2/milkhill2001a.html