Re: The Vinland Map's Ink

Eric Stevens wrote in message ...
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>On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 22:09:25 -0500, Tom McDonald
><tmcdonald2672@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> We have come a long way toward describing 'the process followed
>>to produce it' wrt the GP, taking all of its properties into
>>account.
>
>All of which is true but we are still far from being able to describe
>the process followed to produce it.

Not necessarily. A variety of plausible scenarios have been developed
within the limits of what was possible with known ancient Egyptian
technology, and the limits of what we can know without dismantling the
pyramid. One of them (or quite probably a combination of elements from
several) may be pretty much correct. With the VM, there are no plausible
mid-15th-century scenarios at all.


David B.


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