The Ice Age and the Fertile Crescent.

[Arrian]

Sort of related, maybe:

Is there any chance the Hyksos were the Hebrews?

-Arrian

[Boris Godunov]

That's an old theory, but I don't think it has much scholarly support. I think the most common belief is that the Hyksos were the Amalekites the Israelites encounter in the Bible.

[Arrian]

Old theory - hence a theory my Dad heard and found "neat" and told me about (he's 79). I'd never looked into it, but I figured some polytubby would give me a couple of lines on it. Thank you, Boris.

-Arrian

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Saint Marcus
there was even trade between south america and egypt in ancient times (judging from the cocaine samples in egyptian mummies).

Oh man, another one that gets his archeological information via the Discovery Channel... This is getting tiresome...

[Arrian]

Was that turn out to be lab contamination, Hueij?

-Arrian

[Boris Godunov]

There is other evidence of Egyptaic contact with the New World, albeit it quite circumstantial. There are statues in Central American that face towards Egypt that have features that are African, not typically Central American, and they predate any American civilization.

It's a fanciful theory, at least.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Arrian
Was that turn out to be lab contamination, Hueij?

-Arrian

You know what? I am not going to do endless searches on the net whenever someone makkes another dumb assumption any more. The answer is somewhere in the EEF archives. The lady that did those cocaine tests told us what really happened. Look somewhere during the last months of last year, I'm not going anymore...

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/4482/archeef.html

[Arrian]

Well EXCUSE me. I was just asking. I didn't ask for a link, or anything else.

**** off, then. Damn.

-Arrian

[Hueij]

**** off, then.

Okay, if you say so...

[Boris Godunov]

That was pretty unneccessary, Hueij.

Anyway, it's perfectly feasible that Egyptian explorers made it to South and Central America. We know that they were sailing all the way around Africa over 4000 years ago, so it's not too much of a stretch to see them crossing the South Atlantic and reaching Brazil and then sailing northward. It's at least believable.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
That was pretty unneccessary, Hueij.

Anyway, it's perfectly feasible that Egyptian explorers made it to South and Central America. We know that they were sailing all the way around Africa over 4000 years ago, so it's not too much of a stretch to see them crossing the South Atlantic and reaching Brazil and then sailing northward. It's at least believable.

I know, sorry. But it's kind of tiresome to keep discussing the same old bs over and over again.

Anyways, Egyptians sailing all the way around Africa? That's new to me, do you have a link?

[Saint Marcus]

so it's not true? that's the first time I've heard of that...

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Saint Marcus
so it's not true? that's the first time I've heard of that...

Of course you haven't heard it. TV programs that come up with sensational scientific "news" get a lot of advertisement money, programs that explain that that news was probably a bit overdone or just plain false don't...

[Saint Marcus]

can you please post a link then?

[Boris Godunov]

Hmm, seems not to be "all the way around," but at least around the Horn. It was c. 2300BC, under Pepi I and headed up by Henenu:

http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/timelines/topics/exploration.htm

"Punt" is believed to be the Horn.