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8February2010

PaleoBabble Named to Top 50 List

Posted by MSH under: Announcement.

PaleoBabble has made this list of the top 50 biblical history blogs. Check out the list!

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4February2010

Adam’s Body Discovered in Noah’s Ark Which Was Discovered Decades Ago

Posted by MSH under: Aaaarrrgghh! Award; Cult Archaeology; Wacky Bible Interpretation.

And you missed it.  Me, too.

This steaming pile of paleobabble reads exactly like the classic “I had proof of aliens but the government came and took it away” stories that are ubiquitous on the web.  This is another Aaarrrgghhhh! Award nominee. (I’ll have to get around to judging those soon).

The “beauty” of this sort of story is that it is both completely unverifiable and completely unfalsifiable. No one except those who put out the story have names. What a piece of research!  What heroic whistleblowers! Proof, please.

I’m betting the Smithsonian moved Adam’s body to AREA 51.  Elvis is night security there.

Just remember: sanctified illogic and chicanery is still illogic and chicanery.

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1February2010

Mainstream Media Stumbles Across Fact-Based Story About the Incas

Posted by MSH under: Ancient Legends; Ancient Sites.

In a stunning turn of events for mainstream journalism, factual material about the Incas has surfaced in an internet news article. (Usually it’s claptrap about what some speaker says at a conference dedicated to aliens and “earth mysteries”).

Archaeologists announced today that a 1000 year-old temple presumed to be mythical has been discovered in Peru.  I can hardly wait until some yahoo discovers “space ship glyphs” on it.

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27January2010

Shroud of Turin: Another Update

Posted by MSH under: Jesus.

Readers might recall this post from a little over a month ago about the discovery of a burial shroud in situ from Jesus’ time period. Here’s an update on that shroud and the implications for the famous Shroud of Turin.

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22January2010

More Fun with Zecharia Sitchin: Looking for Rocket Ships in Sumerian Texts

Posted by MSH under: Ancient Astronauts; Sitchin.

Squint real hard, you might see them.

This video is longer (19:00) because I go through the major lexical resources for Akkadian and Sumerian — all publicly accessible — to show that (surprise!) Zecharia Sitchin’s translations (”rocket ship”; “fiery rocket”) for SHU.MU (shumu) in Sumerian and Akkadian are bogus.

Enjoy (or grind your teeth).

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22January2010

Fun with Zecharia Sitchin: Let’s Search for the Anunnaki

Posted by MSH under: Ancient Astronauts; Sitchin.

Okay, this probably isn’t going to be fun (especially to followers of Zecharia Sitchin), but I’m trying.

Those of you who know of Sitchin and his work know that one of his major claims is that the Sumerian deities, the Anunnaki, were actually extraterrestrials. That’s right . . . aliens. Sitchin has published millions of copies of his various books that detail how the Anunnaki are from a planet (or is is a ship?) called Nibiru. And the really cool thing is that all this is right there in the Sumerian texts!  Uh . . . well . . . no it’s not.  Despite the fact that the New York Times ran a story on Sitchin just two weeks ago (he’s 89 now) and he says “I’m not making this up; it’s in the texts,” he IS making it up (hope you’re not shocked).

But how can I prove this to you, my dedicated PaleoBabble readers? (Wracking my brain . . . ). Oh, I know. There’s this website called The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL) . . . that lets you search for Sumerian words.  Maybe that will help.

Yeah; it helps. This is the place where any loyal Sitchinites who come across this post may want to leave. Truth is about to send the Anunnaki home.

It ain’t exciting, but here is a video of me searching the ETCSL for the word “Anunnaki”. If you want a PDF of the search results, here it is. Better yet, after you watch it you can head over to the site and repeat the search so you can know by experience that I’m not the one making things up . . . that would be someone else.

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16January2010

Caribbean Structures and Google Earth

Posted by MSH under: Ancient Sites; Ancient Studies & Technology.

A PaleoBabble reader (Wes) provided some Google Earth coordinates for the alleged undersea city structures I blogged about recently. I plugged in the coordinates and here are two images. Pretty interesting. I have no experience reading satellite photos, but the features are clear.

Here’s what you get with the coordinates:

Here’s a closeup:

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15January2010

Jesus Tomb Epigraphy

Posted by MSH under: Jesus; Jesus Tomb.

Not sure when this was published (don’t see a date), but it’s a good discussion from a trained, expert paleographer (Christoper Rollston was trained at Johns Hopkins).

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14January2010

New Gospel of Judas Fragments

Posted by MSH under: Gospel of Judas; Jesus; Manuscripts and Textual criticism.

You can read the short post on the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog here. I recommend clicking through to the links, especially to April DeConick’s blog. April, as readers may recall, is strongly opposed (for very coherent reasons) to the notion that the Gospel of Judas presents Judas a hero.

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11January2010

Mayan Elder Fed Up with 2012 Buffoonery

Posted by MSH under: Mayan 2012.

The best thing about this piece is that the Mayan elder has had enough of the nonsense. The worst thing about it is that the “journalist” seems determined to milk some truth from the hysteria turnip.

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