(urth) New Wolfe Listing on Amazon

Pedro Pereira domus_artemis at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 4 07:32:59 PDT 2008


Possibly, yes, but not on a permanent, constant basis. More like isolated, pontual cases. I do believe there is evidence for early contact, just like eventually the academia had to recognize that the Vikings were in North America well before the the so called "discoveries" started by the Portuguese and later by the Spanish.  
 
Most of the cases Wolfe refers I'm not really familiar with them. He talks about the army of Yucatan arranged just like an Assyrian army. I'm not familiar with this so commenting would be folly on my part. But if Wolfe implies Assyrian Armies in the americas I doubt it pretty much. One just have to look at accounts of the Punic Wars to see that even moving a few boats between Sicily and North Africa was a gamble. Almost 50% of the time the fleet would either sank completely or just a few would survive. Compare that with vast, constant expeditions before Christ to the americas and I find it quite unprobable. But I would have to delve deeply into the evidence. 
 
The nicotine found in mumyes is certainly very compeling evidence of contact. I don't know what the official position regarding that is right now, if any. The roman sculptures in mexico I never heard of. Sounds great. Any links?
 
 
> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 20:34:41 -0400> From: brunians at brunians.org> To: urth at lists.urth.net> Subject: Re: (urth) New Wolfe Listing on Amazon> > You don't think that there was at least occasional transatlantic contact?> Seriously?> > > .> > > Yes, I read that some time ago. I disagree with his take, but he is free> > to use that in his books. I don't really consider that kind of stuff> > errors or historical mistakes. Just an opinion I don't agree with.> >> > Pedro> >> >> >> >> > Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:35:35 -0400From: matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.comTo:> > urth at lists.urth.netSubject: Re: (urth) New Wolfe Listing on Amazon> >> > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Pedro Pereira <domus_artemis at hotmail.com>> > wrote:> >> > I haven't read the Knight books (I'm not much into Arthurian kind of> > stuff), but I totally recomend the Soldier books. I was hopping that Sidon> > would take Latro to the fabled Egyptian Labirynth; unfortunately it> > didn't. There's a few things in the Soldier books that I think may be a> > bit wrong from a historical point of view though. Not really wrong, but> > questionable at least, but it's minor stuff.> >> > Well, I know Wolfe does have some slightly esoteric theories about ancient> > history - for one thing, he posits at least occasional transatlantic> > travel in the ancient world. I wonder how many "errors" are actually> > examples of Wolfe's advocacy for obscure theories.> >> > Link with Wolfe's thoughts on the ancient world:> > http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2tmhh/gwjbj3.html#diff> >> >> > -Matt> > _________________________________________________________________> > Explore the seven wonders of the world> > http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE_______________________________________________> > Urth Mailing List> > To post, write urth at urth.net> > Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net> > > _______________________________________________> Urth Mailing List> To post, write urth at urth.net> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
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