Re: Cocaine in ancient Egypt?

From: Hal (SpamThis1_at_gmail.com)
Date: 01/17/05 

Date: 17 Jan 2005 05:42:44 -0800

University Studies wrote:
> "Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:bmqlu0tts1mll0gfmf9obalt1r94biqd93@4ax.com...
> > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:04:03 -0000, "JMB" <jmb@utvinternet.ie>
wrote:
> >
> > >"Julian Richards" <see@sig.co.uk> wrote in message
> > >news:taglu0pkei4nlfjm4ea43uj3gfv2dllftr@4ax.com...
> > >> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:20:46 +0100, "Soren Larsen"
<sohela@tiscali.dk>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>>"Julian Richards" <see@sig.co.uk> skrev i en meddelelse
> > >>>news:unalu01shnekgl7p4d81d8amrlsoe2cqei@4ax.com...
> > >>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> One intriguing possibility that I have seen suggested is that
the
> > >>>> stuff went to Africa via China, ie "the wrong way around",
which
> seems
> > >>>> to me to be even more difficult.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Whatever the truth of the matter, the sailing technology of
the time
> > >>>> seems to be up to the job of such a crossing.
> > >>>
> > >>>What kind of vessel available in the Atlantic 1000 BC do you
think was
> > >>>capable of setting up a reliable trade link between Africa and S
> America
> > >>>with the necessary payload capacity?
> > >>
> > >> But does it have to be a reliable trade link with shipping of
heavy
> > >> goods? They are running drugs without any customs people trying
to
> > >> stop them. Drugs one way, gold going back the other with the
Egyptian
> > >> elite willing to pay top whack for what is otherwise
unavailable.
>
>
> One theory proposes that the Ancient Egyptians had owned land in
South
> America (well before the time of the Aztecs and Incas). So, under
this
> "ownership" theory it wouldn't be that Egypt had to send anything to
trade
> with South America. But rather, that Egypt had to simply maintain its
> outposts and keep shipping gold and cocaine back to Egypt. If this
theory
> holds true, then it would account for the eventual use by South
American
> natives of Egypt's highyl advanced stone cutting techniques, a
> hieroglyph-based language and more.
>
> Because Egypt wasn't the greatest seafaring nation of the time, (or
any
> time) we wonder if the immensely wealthy pharaohs would subcontract
out
> these seagoing tasks to the Phoenicians.
>
> This theory would make a lot more sense than UFO's showing up to
teach the
> Mayans and Aztecs, as all too many American TV documentaries have
proposed
> in the past. LOL
> UFOs do not exist
> http://members.fcc.net/workgroup5/sup/ufos.html
>
> From the website http://phoenicia.org/ships.html
>
> "Excellence of the arrangements
> A remarkable testimony to the excellence of the Phoenician ships
with
> respect to internal arrangements
> is borne by Xenophon, who puts the following words into the
mouth of
> Ischomachus, a Greek:[17] "I
> think that the best and most perfect arrangement of things that
I ever
> saw was when I went to look at
> the great Phoenician sailing-vessel; for I saw the largest
amount of
> naval tackling separately disposed in
> the smallest stowage possible. For a ship, as you well know, is
> brought to anchor, and again got under
> way, by a vast number of wooden implements and of ropes and
sails the
> sea by means of a quantity of
> rigging, and is armed with a number of contrivances against
hostile
> vessels, and carries about with it a
> large supply of weapons for the crew, and, besides, has all the
> utensils that a man keeps in his
> dwelling-house, for each of the messes. In addition, it is
laden with
> a quantity of merchandise which the
> owner carries with him for his own profit. Now all the things
which I
> have mentioned lay in a space not
> much bigger than a room which would conveniently hold ten beds.
And I
> remarked that they severally
> lay in a way that they did not obstruct one another, and did
not
> require anyone to search for them; and
> yet they were neither placed at random, nor entangled one with
> another, so as to consume time when
> they were suddenly wanted for use. Also, I found the captain's
> assistant, who is called 'the look-out
> man,' so well acquainted with the position of all the articles,
and
> with the number of them, that even
> when at a distance he could tell where everything lay, and how
many
> there were of each sort, just as
> anyone who has learnt to read can tell the number of letters in
the
> name of Socrates and the proper
> place for each of them. Moreover, I saw this man, in his
leisure
> moments, examining and testing
> everything that a vessel needs when at sea; so, as I was
surprised, I
> asked him what he was about,
> whereupon he replied--'Stranger, I am looking to see, in case
anything
> should happen, how everything is arranged in the ship, and
whether
> anything is wanting, or is inconveniently situated; for when a storm
> arises at sea, it is not possible either to look for what is
wanting,
> or to put to right what is arranged
> awkwardly.'"
>
>
Your prodigious output of crap to these newsgroups over the last few
days is aimed at pushing buttons. In this one post you got in the
Ancient Egyptians, South American natives(?), the Inca, Aztec and
Maya, the Phoenicians, UFOs, and a couple of ancient Greeks, all set in
some fantasy.
And what was that stuff you were spewing about copyright recently?
Your quoting at length here is pure hypocrisy.
I thought this was some kid. This is just a troll.

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