Egyptian papyrus found in ancient Irish bog
Irish scientists have found fragments of Egyptian papyrus in the leather cover of an ancient book of psalms that was unearthed from a peat bog, Ireland's National Museum said on Monday.
The papyrus in the lining of the Egyptian-style leather cover of the 1,200-year-old manuscript, "potentially represents the first tangible connection between early Irish Christianity and the Middle Eastern Coptic Church", the Museum said.
"It is a finding that asks many questions and has confounded some of the accepted theories about the history of early Christianity in Ireland."
Raghnall O Floinn, head of collections at the Museum, said the manuscript, now known as the "Faddan More Psalter", was one of the top ten archaeological discoveries in Ireland.
It was uncovered four years ago by a man using a mechanical digger to harvest peat near Birr in County Tipperary, but analysis has only just been completed.
O Floinn told AFP the illuminated vellum manuscript encased in the leather binding dated from the eighth century but it was not known when or why it ended up in the bog where it was preserved by the chemicals in the peat.
"It appears the manuscript's leather binding came from Egypt. The question is whether the papyrus came with the cover or if it was added.
"It is possible that the imperfections in the hide may allow us to confirm the leather is Egyptian.
"We are trying to track down if there somebody who can tell us if this is possible. That is the next step."
O Floinn said the psalter is about the size of a tabloid newspaper and about 15 percent of the pages of the psalms, which are written in Latin, had survived.
The experts believe the manuscript of the psalms was produced in an Irish monastery and it was later put in the leather cover.
"The cover could have had several lives before it ended up basically as a folder for the manuscript in the bog," O Floinn said.
"It could have travelled from a library somewhere in Egypt to the Holy Land or to Constantinople or Rome and then to Ireland."
The National Museum in Dublin plans to put the psalter on public display for the first time next year.
Laura said:I want to know what really happened too, but I'm in more and more despair as I read on. I'm almost done with volume 1... and it's been a rough go, for sure.
His evidence about the triad of eclipses is, IMO, unassailable. And the zodiacs... and the dating of Revelations.
But, I don't think that history was made up as he describes it exactly. As Hildegarda said, it's a bit Russo-centric.
I'm going to keep reading and looking for clues.
CHRONO1-pp27 said:[...]
De Architectura by Vitruvius was discovered as
late as 1497 – according to N. A.Morozov ([544], vol.
4, page 624), the astronomical part of the book quotes
the periods of heliocentric planetary circulations with
the utmost precision! Vitruvius, an architect who is
supposed to have lived in the I-II century a.d., knew
these periods better than Copernicus the astronomer!
Furthermore, his error in what concerns the circulation
of Saturn differs from the modern value of the
period by a ratio of 0.00007. The error ratio for Mars
is 0.006, and a mere 0.003 for Jupiter, q.v. in the analysis
([544], vol. 4, pages 625-626).
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_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius said:[...]
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born c. 80–70 BC, died after c. 15 BC)
was a Roman writer, architect and engineer...
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_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus said:Nicolaus Copernicus (Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik; German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; in his youth, Niclas Koppernigk;[1] Italian: Nicolò Copernico; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.[2]
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle said:[...]
Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC)
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_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy said:[...]
Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; c. AD 90 – c. 168)
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From Picture on the left:
An early Baroque artist's rendition of Claudius Ptolemaeus.
Born c. AD 90
Egypt
Died c. AD 168 (aged 77–78)
Alexandria, Egypt
Occupation mathematician, geographer, astronomer, astrologer
Notice the Christianized form, holding the Cross of Christ...
done in the period of the Renaissance... Probably beautified
for his Geo. view and the full backing of the RC Church...
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages said:[...]
The term "Dark Ages" was originally intended to denote the
entire period between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance;
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Laura said:Oh, it gets much worse. Not only do we have Fomenko's revelations to contend with, there is now also "Cataclsym" by Allan and Delair. Highly recommended along with "Uriel's Machine" by Knight and Lomas.
Nienna Eluch said:Laura said:Oh, it gets much worse. Not only do we have Fomenko's revelations to contend with, there is now also "Cataclsym" by Allan and Delair. Highly recommended along with "Uriel's Machine" by Knight and Lomas.
There's two of Uriel's Machine listed on Amazon:
Uriel's Machine: Uncovering the Secrets of Stonehenge, Noah's Flood and the Dawn of Civilization by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas (2001)
Uriel's Machine: the Prehistoric Technology That Survived the Flood by Christopher; Lomas, Robert Knight (2004)
They kind of got the names mixed up on the second one.
Which one are you referring to?
Approaching Infinity said:Nienna Eluch said:Laura said:Oh, it gets much worse. Not only do we have Fomenko's revelations to contend with, there is now also "Cataclsym" by Allan and Delair. Highly recommended along with "Uriel's Machine" by Knight and Lomas.
There's two of Uriel's Machine listed on Amazon:
Uriel's Machine: Uncovering the Secrets of Stonehenge, Noah's Flood and the Dawn of Civilization by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas (2001)
Uriel's Machine: the Prehistoric Technology That Survived the Flood by Christopher; Lomas, Robert Knight (2004)
They kind of got the names mixed up on the second one.
Which one are you referring to?
I think they're just two editions of the same book, but I'm not absolutely sure about that.
Nienna Eluch said:There's two of Uriel's Machine listed on Amazon:
Uriel's Machine: Uncovering the Secrets of Stonehenge, Noah's Flood and the Dawn of Civilization by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas (2001)
Uriel's Machine: the Prehistoric Technology That Survived the Flood by Christopher; Lomas, Robert Knight (2004)
They kind of got the names mixed up on the second one.
Which one are you referring to?
What if written evidence in the Dead Sea Scrolls records megalithic history in Western Europe and provides the plans for a machine that could rebuild civilisation following a global catastrophe?
...
In Uriel's Machine Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas offer powerful new evidence that our planet was hit by seven mountain-sized lumps of comet, creating a series of giant waves that ripped across the globe.
Ottershrew said:Robert Lomas and Christopher Knight have written a total of four books together, as their website indicates.
“Uriel’s Machine” was their third book, and it seems to have a variety of subtitles. My copy, a British one, is subtitled “The Prehistoric Technology that Survived the Flood” and was published in 1999. Just to confuse things a little further, the page for “Uriel’s Machine” within the website gives the current subtitle as “The Ancient Origins of Science”. (You can select this page from the menu at the top-left of the screen.)
But, as far as I can see, they’re all the same book – and there’s no indication from the authors’ website that the most modern version is an updated or revised edition. And it's certainly not the case, as you may well have been wondering, Nienna, that “Uriel’s Machine” is the overall title of a series of books.