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Thank you Professor Miano and Professor Natalie and Happy Holidays to you and your familes and your colleagues for extraoridinary videocasts that have broadened our knowledge and shown a light in the dark corners of our past.
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The fifth force for me is Sabine Hossenfelder! Thanks for your very informative and eye-opening videocasts--
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TIMES RADIO comes through loud and clear with a message from the battlefield which is really all of Ukraine with Yuriy Sak speaking from his heart and soul to the western world about something absolutely none of us armchair warriors could even begin to imagine. Can anyone imagine living next to a country that is trying to take over your country and so dug in that it would take dozens of bombers hours of time to blast away all the trenches and minefields and obstacles that have been put into place to stop Ukraine from taking back its own land?
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Thank you for mentioning the names of the great scholars who helped decipher cuneiform and other languages and have never had their names made public in a big way. Too often people who have contributed so much in helping scholars like yourself continue your research get lost and forgotten in the sands of time. These are people who spent a large part of their careers trying to unlock the secrets of the past. We're so lucky some of them were at least depicted in pictues i.i. drawn, painted or photographed. What is amazing is how some cultures have left us no indication of their language. Thanks to the Summarians and Persians and other cultures to have written down in text events in their everyday lives, it has enabled us to understand a lot more about what life was like all those milenia ago. If I'm correct, a clay tablet in cuneiform was used in the ancient world mostly to document specific transactions; someone selling a sheep for wheat or something they needed. If I'm not wrong, this was the first form of 'money' as coins came into existence later in the Greek culture. Every time we learn something about our past, something changes in our perception of the world in the present.
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Once again, Professor Miano, you have provided us with the information needed to show that Gobekli Tepe was most likely the result of a natural, gradual increase in knowledge from the hunter gatherer civlizations and I would imagine if time travel became a possible way to see it for ourselves, we would see the hunter gatherers as much more multi-dimensional with board games and all sorts of kit that has never made it to our time. They are getting labeled as nothing more than foraging tribes of people incapable of complex thought or imagination; the human mind I am sure back then was just as full of ideas as in the present day---and maybe even more so, because we have practically buried things like intuition whereas older civilizations probably relied on the sixth sense to get a lot things done. What probably was the case was that hunter gatherer tribes had elaborate settlements that followed the seasons i.e., followed the game and there was undoubtedly a sophisticated society albeit a traveling one, and these settlements were gobbled up by father time and nothing is left. Gobekli Tepe looks to me more like primitive hands were the architects of structures that I am sure were easily imagined, deftly constructed and nothing new to the people of the time. We must remember one thing that all of us can never know and that is that 'time' as we know it didn't exist. Languages probably only had the present tense. Building sites like Gobekli Tepe might have taken a century, but for the people of that era, there was no century, you simply drew your plans in the sand every day and worked until it was finished.
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Dear Mr Hartmann, Thank you for your excellent video casts. One thing that would make your counter arguments come across even better would be for you to remain calm, wait for the pause in the caller’s question or response, and in an even tone state your case. Raising your voice and getting emotional does not work on a video cast. You have the facts on your side. Long live press freedom.
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Professor Miano, you give great hope for future generations to have one of those ground-breaking discoveries in their time of an as yet undiscovered tomb of a king from ancient Egypt or an Egyptian pharaoh. It is amazing how many dynasties there were and how many tombs that have still not been discovered. What a wealth of knowledge of early civilization the Egyptians have left us. It must a very fascinating career studying the past and interpreting what has been found.
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It'a fascinating having more mental-food to digest into trying to figure out how the megalithic work was done and how the huge stones were moved and put in place with absolute precision. Thank you for an accademic perspective.
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Professor Miano, you have an excellent way of taking apart hypotheses that have been stuck like glue in my mind for a long time. Now, thanks to you, looking at archaeological treasures and cultures I thought were linked because both were from opposite sides of the globe and because they made similar things, your brilliant analysis forces me to take a step back to re-evaluate my original beliefs. One has to stay open to new ideas or risk being cemented into thinking that all has been said about a subject... It is hard to let favorite old ideas of historical events and ruins fall to the wayside when new evidence appears, but we must be willing to re-examine our fixed impressions and you are helping us move ahead on this subject...
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You are doing everyone a great service. One thing, I don't know if you have thought about it much, but one thing that keeps coming to my mind about assailants and people who turn into violent criminals is how does that happen? I suppose that is a naïve way of looking at all the people who commit crimes, but it beggar's belief that we all grow up in the same society and yet there are those who end up preying on others and ruining other people's lives by attacking them. A student of mine was in South Africa and she was in a restaurant with her husband and they were going to go out for a walk and the waitress said, 'Mam, you better take off that watch you are wearing." My student said, "But it's a Swatch and only worth a little bit of money." The waitress said, "They won't even ask you to give them your watch, they will hack your hand off with a machete and take it." When I heard that, it just made you want to throw up that someone would actually cause bodily harm in stealing a cheap watch. But this is our world, and we don't have another one.
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Thank you, Professor Miano, not only do you do remarkable videocasts, but you allow us to have an analysis of reliefs and carvings and the like by a historian and therefore, we have explanations that jive with the times these fantastic relics were created. In spite of your cracking of this former mystery, it is still with heavy heart in a way I am sure you understand, that we now have the true meaning of this carved panel at the Dendera Temple, because I am sure a lot of people were hoping beyond hope that it really was a light source and that there was a lost ancient civlization. However; once again, we must re-adjust our perceptions of past events thanks to your diligence and research and knowledge of ancient ruins.
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I'm commenting from overseas and what I see in Camden, New Jersey is the hidden face of our global economic system: consumer Capitalism. According to some sources, capitalism began in 1694 when The Bank of England issued the first bonds. In other words, we have been living under an economic system that was concieved when there were about a billion and a half people in the world. It's more than 3 centuries later and we're still using this antiquated economic system that has clearly run itself off the rails and can no longer take care of the majority of the population. It's a system that is made like feudalism on steroids. Denis Villeneuve is an example of why it's wrong for our times. Why Villeneuve? He's a science fiction director. Yes; but there's only room for one big fish in the pond. Because making money is the only thing that counts---everyone else gets to watch and once again---only one person is in charge. What no one seems to realize is that the people who live in Camden are good people trying to make a better life for themselves---just like all of us. It's a known fact that broken windows left unfixed and trash strewn everywhere is a magnet for people on the way down. But again, people on the way down shouldn't be condemned; they are only the one's who slip through the social net. Everywhere you look we see over and over again that capitalism is like a blanket that's too small and only covering a part of you at night in bed you when its cold. Whatever you do, a foot, a hand, a shoulder gets exposed to the cold---you can't sleep; you wake up miserable. The trouble is that we worship anyone who does manage to make it; in the USA there are 650 billionaires. They take up the spotlight and all of us blindly fall in behind them scratching our way to top and selling our souls to get a swimming pool in the backyard.
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This is a sobering re-think on what I had believed up until now was Graham Hancock's account of a global flood. I have to move the goal posts in my mind every time I hear an historical analysis by Professor David----
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Thank you Professor Miano for a very informing videocast on the world's earliest cities. We'll never know what life was like in the first cities all those millenia ago, but I've got a feeling that people lived in those cities in much the same way that people do today in our cities: the kids went to school, the father went to work, the mother took care of the home and cooked the food. Some people like myself believe there were doctors, lawyers and policemen and soldiers and kings and queens and every sort of profession we have today albeit without the diplomas and qualifications needed in modern times. It would be interesting to know what someone's dream was when they were young and starting out in life. What would their dreams have been for a good life? We might be surprised to see that their dreams mirrored our own.
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I think I speak for a lot of people about how having Professor Miano weigh in on what other researchers say about ancient Egypt's mysterious anomalies is great for getting input from people like the professor who spend their careers studying of the past. I can't wait to watch his three series from beginning to end. It's so important for all of us to have the accademic community giving their opinions, because what ever happened all those thousands of years ago will surely be discussed in forums and university classrooms and by alternative researchers and even average people for as long as the world as we know it exists. Egypt has the unfortunate problem of having a few thousand years without records of any kind. Egyptologists tell us that they are asking the same questions as the tourists do much of the time. No one really knows what the past was really like, but with professor Miano on board we are getting an educated guess that allows us to dismiss many myths that people latch on to without any research to back up their claims.
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Congratulations Professor Miano on presenting this fascinating interview with Dr Freeth who has a memory for names that defies belief and is a tribute to the memories of so many people whom he quoted that contributed in various ways to the research of the Antikythera Mechanism. It is amazing how much research has been done; it's like listening to a detective sifting through the facts to find out how a crime was committed. What we do know about ancient Greece and Rome is that less than 1% of all artifacts have come down to us. Sadly, so utterly sadly, hearing how the bronze was recycled of course means that mondern civlization has been robbed of artistic treasures and complicated devices that have been melted away for all time.
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Thank you Professor Miano for once again giving us new information. As an avid follower of Brien Foerster, I am now forced to concede that after only 8 minutes into your vocast, you have clearly demonstrated Mayan building techniques in a new manner than what I had thought.
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You are doing the world and your country a great service. This videocast on homelessness in California is the red flag we need to realize that our friend and long-time faithful companion consumer capitalism, has reach the end of the road---pun intended. I have invented the nuts and bolts of a start-up alternative economic model to replace capitalism called teknomix. It's in a book out now called The Treatise of Teknomix and it would make the problem of homelessness in America and around the world go away---for good. My idea is utopic, but I firmly believe it could be the seed for developing an alternative economic system that takes care of everybody. No one should have to live in sub-standard conditions because they are out of a job. Capitalism is like old technology that fails on the reality check. Everyone should have the same chance in life, not only people who are lucky enough to have parents with good jobs or enough money to put the kids through college.
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It's great to hear Professor Kline's work has a good review. I was expecting another debunking video where I would have to review what I thought was true from another source. What is fascinating about Kline's book is how civlization can hit a trip wire or some seemingly insignificant event can trigger the collapse of a civilization like a row of dominos. What Kline has shown us is that perhaps the invasion of Chinese troops into Taiwan, though far on the other side of the world could be the spark that ignites a global conflict. 129 nuclear missles are said to be what it takes to cause a nuclear winter by throwing up enough dust into the stratosphere to cut off the sun. We know that nuclear missles come with 40 warheads or more, so we can see that a limited firing of nukes from the major players could easily count up past 129 nuclear blasts in minutes. The only problem with 2021 compared to 1177 is that after the nuclear winter, there would be perhaps a couple of hundred Chernobyls which would be untouchable for centuries. Thank you Mr Miano for your honesty and scholarship and for a great review of a book whose subject that may come back to haunt us.
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This was one of the most informative vidcasts of ancient summaria that I have experienced. We finally understand from Dr Collins that what the cunniform texts are telling us has nothing to do with historical facts. This completely changes my mindset on this fascinating part of human history. But now there is only one problem: what really went on back then? Professor Miano... heeeeeeeeeeeeeelp!
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At timestamp 21: 54, I must comment on Dr Sweatman's criticism that Professor Miano has been slanderous to him. Professor Miano is analyzing Dr Sweatman's remarks without trying to denigrate Dr Sweatman's work. This may be an example of cultural differences and I urge Dr Sweatman to understand that at least from my perspective from a European point of view, I see no malice in Professor Miano's critique of Dr Sweatman's work. He is speaking a neutral language in that I have not heard one remark of his that is below-the-belt in any way, shape or form. Both Dr Sweatman and Professor Miano have completed higher education and have spent much of their time working on their hypotheses, and it's probably normal to feel rankled by someone criticizing work one thinks is spot on, but what I suggest is both of you gentlemen continue on with your work and forget your differences; there is too much unchartered territory ahead of us to be bothered with criticism.
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Ian Bremmer just keeps getting better at asking questions that provoke interviewees like Preet to provide us, the viewers, with solid, understandable in plain English, answers that show everyone beyond the shadow of a doubt, that former President Donald J. Trump has played his hand and he no longer has a joker to get him out of jail free. You don't have to ask the disgraced and now---fingerprinted--former president how serious he is taking these proceedings. His wears a mask with the face of man caught red-handed with his paw in the cookie jar. Well done Ian and Preet!
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Thank you for your excellent research and commentary about the Piri Reis map that has had alternative archaelogists pulling their hair out with joy at finding what they think is evidence of a lost civlization. You allow us all who are on the fence in so many of these debates to have a fresh point of view. What I think you have also done is to show to many young people that the study of history i.e. being a historian has so many dimensions and is a very interesting career that benefits the whole world.
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Please let me add this comment after watching the whole 3 hours of Professor Miano's video. I am obliged to side with the professor in that probably 95% of what I thought must have been achieved by an advanced civlization was indeed done by the workers of the time. All this time I have thought the giant circular saws must have been taken away by the advanced civilization as well as the other 'high tech' equipment, but as Professor Miano points out that surely some of the high tech material would have remained. What I think is the main element that we fail to recognize is that 'time' was not something that people constructing those structures even thought about. You simply worked until something was done. If it took 6 months of our time to cut through a massive stone, they probably never thought twice about going to work every day for half a year until it was done. Transporting huge stones must have been the same; they simply stayed with it until they got the stone moved. Lastly, we have to have a scientific team do the measurements on some of the sculptures and statues and boxes and give us all the data. I am happy unchartered X keeps going for more proof, but we have got to find a way to get a team of experts going over measurements and not just a handful of people. It's hard for me to see that an advanced civilization was not involved, but we have to accept that there are no tools left behind for one thing, and the expertise of the sculptors and builders of ancient times would probably surprise us as generations of the same family would be providing artisans, stone cutters, builders, craftsmen of astounding ability. What is perplexing is how all of their efforts came to a halt. Why would they have stopped building those magnificent structures?
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There is one person who can put to rest people having no trust in the media, and it is you, Ian. You tell it like it is and people believe you because they can see in your eyes: you have done your homework. You are a person who represents America like no other American, because you do not take the bait on any issue. You speak truth talkfrom your heart---and you deserve to be heard.
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The world owes Dr John Campbell and Dr Tim Spectre and the ZOE team a bouquet of thanks for your great work!
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Thank you for investigating the world of art. Fortunately everyone still has the right to one’s opinion. But Mark Rothko’s square spot paintings certainly have a place in modern art, but let’s get real. He may have listened to Mozart but he sure didn’t get influenced by him. Rothko’s art reflects more a bass and drum loop, going over and over and never changing. Peter Paul Rubens would be my choice as a reflection of Mozart’s music, the detail in Rubens’ early work is breathtaking in it’s intricacy and fine workmanship. Slapping on colors with a roller made Rothko an icon, Gerard Schroeder’s squeegee painting is another example of mechanically produced painting, but who am I to criticize their works which fetch hundreds of millions of dollars. Still, how long before one would get bored having a Rothko painting in one’s living room? Lastly, we see that ‘Beeple’, an artist who had been selling his digital paintings for a hundred bucks a crack, sold one for 69 million dollars on line. Boys and girls, it looks like the art world is becoming a mockery of itself.
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excellent balanced and honest reporting!
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@mightyoaks77 Grrrrrrrrrreat tp hear from you. Dunno 'bout you but I think the best things the ancients have done is leave us with these head-scratchers. Why do I say that? Imagine if we knew every single detail of what went down all those millenia ago. It would make life less interesting. The ancients are like a woman; no matter how well you think you know a woman, they always have a way of making you wonder what they really think of you.
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Thank you Professor Mianno, every lecture you give is a new arrow of knowledge in my quiver.
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We have to be thankful to have such a good historian and archaeologist and very open-minded person like Profressor Miano on the team of people trying to find out if things from the pastlike the lost labyrinth really existted---and all he wants is facts. Show him the facts and he is going to fight for you till kingdom come, but give him fantasy stuff and he is going to call it for what it is: hogwash. From Heroditus on down, it is obiious that the truth has evaded researchers, archaeologists, and thorough scientific analysis as to whether the labyrinth underground existed. Moreover, wishful-thinkers like de Cordier have been uncovered as false-explorers who have tried to be known for great discoveries they themselves have invented to be presented as real finds. Thanks to Professor Miano, we are obliged to accept the fact that the lost labyrinth may have existed, but it is still unaccounted for. There is no real proof. My guess is that the subterannean chambers will be discovered in the future, but in another location and probably a lot less spectacular than what has been written about them.
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