Re: Cocaine in ancient Egypt?

From: JMB (jmb_at_utvinternet.ie)
Date: 01/17/05 

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:11:38 -0000

"University Studies" <gov-statistics@no.spam> wrote in message
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--SNIP--

>
>
> 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.

And where did this theory originate?

> 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,

What Egyptian stone cutting techniques? The techniques the Americans used
where nothing like those the Egyptians used.

> a
> hieroglyph-based language and more.

There is no such thing as a "hieroglyph-based language". They didn't have a
bunch of hieroglyphs and think to themselves "Oh, we must creat a language
to go with those". They had a language, and created a writing system to
communicate with. A couple of thousand years later, a relatively modern
person seen that writing, and called it "hieroglphic". The actual writing
is nothing like the Egyptian writing system refered to as hieroglyphic.

>
> 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.

And if they did, why didn't they write about it? The Pharohs liked to boast
about everything else, why not this?

>
> 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

But proving that UFOs don't exist has nothing to do with supporting your
claims above.

>
> 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.'"
>
> 

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