Brit-Am Research Sources (2 October 2016, 29 Elul, 5776)
Contents:
1. Does Chinese Civilization Come From Ancient Egypt? by Ricardo Lewis
2. Archaeological Discovery In Jordan Valley: Enormous 'Foot-shaped' Enclosures
3. 3D mapping of Scottish stone circles proves alignment theories By Cathryn McLauchlan
4. Dan I of Denmark and Dan of Ireland
5. Humor: Essay on Conspiracy Theories by Craig White
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1. Does Chinese Civilization Come From Ancient Egypt?
A new study has energized a century-long debate at the heart of China's national identity.
By Ricardo Lewis
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/09/02/did-chinese-civilization-come-from-ancient-egypt-archeological-debate-at-heart-of-china-national-identity/
Extracts:
On a cool Sunday evening in March, a geochemist named Sun Weidong gave a public lecture to an audience of laymen, students, and professors at the University of Science and Technology in Hefei, the capital city of the landlocked province of Anhui in eastern China. But the professor didn't just talk about geochemistry. He also cited several ancient Chinese classics, at one point quoting historian Sima Qian's description of the topography of the Xia empire, traditionally regarded as China's founding dynasty, dating from 2070 to 1600 B.C. "Northwards the stream is divided and becomes the nine rivers," wrote Sima Qian in his first century historiography, the Records of the Grand Historian. "Reunited, it forms the opposing river and flows into the sea."
In other words, "the stream" in question wasn't China's famed Yellow River, which flows from west to east. "There is only one major river in the world which flows northwards. Which one is it?" the professor asked. "The Nile," someone replied. Sun then showed a map of the famed Egyptian river and its delta, Â with nine of its distributaries flowing into the Mediterranean. This author, a researcher at the same institute, watched as audience members broke into smiles and murmurs, intrigued that these ancient Chinese texts seemed to better agree with the geography of Egypt than that of China.
In the past year, Sun, a highly decorated scientist, has ignited a passionate online debate with claims that the founders of Chinese civilization were not in any sense Chinese but actually migrants from Egypt. He conceived of this connection in the 1990s while performing radiometric dating of ancient Chinese bronzes; to his surprise, their chemical composition more closely resembled those of ancient Egyptian bronzes than native Chinese ores. Both Sun's ideas and the controversy surrounding them flow out of a much older tradition of nationalist archaeology in China, which for more than a century has sought to answer a basic scientific question that has always been heavily politicized: Where do the Chinese people come from?
Sun argues that China's Bronze Age technology, widely thought by scholars to have first entered the northwest of the country through the prehistoric Silk Road, actually came by sea. According to him, its bearers were the Hyksos, the Western Asian people who ruled parts of northern Egypt as foreigners between the 17th and 16th centuries B.C., until their eventual expulsion. He notes that the Hyksos possessed at an earlier date almost all the same remarkable technology - bronze metallurgy, chariots, literacy, domesticated plants and animals - that archaeologists discovered at the ancient city of Yin, the capital of China's second dynasty, the Shang, between 1300 and 1046 B.C. Since the Hyksos are known to have developed ships for war and trade that enabled them to sail the Red and Mediterranean seas, Sun speculates that a small population escaped their collapsing dynasty using seafaring technology that eventually brought them and their Bronze Age culture to the coast of China.
...the French philologist, Albert Terrien de Lacouperie, who in 1892 published the Western Origin of the Early Chinese Civilization from 2300 B.C. to 200 A.D. Translated into Chinese in 1903, it compared the hexagrams of the Book of Changes with the cuneiform of Mesopotamia and proposed that Chinese civilization originated in Babylon. The Yellow Emperor was identified with a King Nakhunte, who supposedly led his people out of the Middle East and into the Central Plain of the Yellow River Valley around 2300 B.C.
In some ways, Sun's current theory is an unintended result of the Chronology Project's scientific rigor. At the project's launch in 1996, he was a Ph.D. student in the radiation laboratory of the University of Science and Technology. Of the 200 or so items of bronze ware he was responsible for analyzing, some came from the city of Yin. He found that the radioactivity of these Yin-Shang bronzes had almost exactly the same characteristics as that of ancient Egyptian bronzes, suggesting that their ores all came from the same source: African mines.
Perhaps anticipating serious controversy, Sun's doctoral supervisor did not allow Sun to report his findings at the time. Sun was asked to hand over his data and switched to another project. Twenty years after the start of his research and now a professor in his own right, Sun is finally ready to say all he knows about the Yin-Shang and China's Bronze Age culture.
Although the public has mostly received Sun's theory with an open mind, it still lies outside the academic mainstream. Since the 1990s, most Chinese archaeologists have accepted that much of the nation's Bronze Age technology came from regions outside of China. But it is not thought to have arrived directly from the Middle East in the course of an epic migration. The more prosaic consensus is that it was transmitted into China from Central Asia by a slow process of cultural exchange (trade, tribute, dowry) across the northern frontier, mediated by Eurasian steppe pastoralists who had contacts with indigenous groups in both regions.
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2. Archaeological Discovery In Jordan Valley: Enormous 'Foot-shaped' Enclosures
Date:
April 6, 2009
Source:
University of Haifa
Summary:
"Foot-shaped" structures have been revealed in the Jordan valley and are among the earliest sites that archeologists believe were built by the ancient people of Israel. The structures are thought to be symbolic of the biblical concept of ownership.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406102600.htm
Note:
See:
Israelite Origins of the Picts of Scotland.
"Great News about the Ancient Picts in Scotland. Pictish Symbols in Light of the Bible,"
http://www.britam.org/Landro.pdf
by Asdborn Landro, Norway
Quote:
# The Picts built fortifications on hill ridges. Seen from above such fr=ortifications are often shaped like a giant footprint. Similar footprints are also tob e found in Israel today. #
See illustrations.
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3. 3D mapping of Scottish stone circles proves alignment theories
http://www.theleadsouthaustralia.com.au/ideas/3d-mapping-of-scottish-stone-circles-proves-alignment-theories/
By Cathryn McLauchlan / 23rd of June, 2014
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4. Dan I of Denmark and Dan of Ireland
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_I_of_Denmark
The Danish History, Book One[2]
 Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1150 - c. 1220), Gesta Danorum
Now Dan and Angul, with whom the stock of the Danes begins, were begotten of Humble, their father, and were the governors and not only the founders of our race. (Yet Dudo, the historian of Normandy, considers that the Danes are sprung and named from the Danai.) And these two men, though by the wish and favour of their country they gained the lordship of the realm, and, owing to the wondrous deserts of their bravery, got the supreme power by the consenting voice of their countrymen, yet lived without the name of king: the usage whereof was not then commonly resorted to by any authority among our people.
Of these two, Angul, the fountain, so runs the tradition, of the beginnings of the Anglian race, caused his name to be applied to the district which he ruled. This was an easy kind of memorial wherewith to immortalise his fame: for his successors a little later, when they gained possession of Britain, changed the original name of the island for a fresh title, that of their own land. This action was much thought of by the ancients: witness Bede, no mean figure among the writers of the Church, who was a native of England, and made it his care to embody the doings of his country in the most hallowed treasury of his pages; deeming it equally a religious duty to glorify in writing the deeds of his land, and to chronicle the history of the Church.
From Dan, however, so saith antiquity; the pedigrees of our kings have flowed in glorious series, like channels from some parent spring. Grytha, a matron most highly revered among the Teutons, bore him two sons, HUMBLE and LOTHER.
The Tribe of Dan are the Danes (Denmark) and the Irish
http://www.british-israel.ca/Dan.htm
The Milesians were a group of people who: "In old manuscripts of Ireland, the Milesians and the Danaans were of the same race. They came in batches from Greece and Phoenicia" (Dan, The Pioneer of Israel, J.C. Gawler, p.30).
Jacob also says that "Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel" (Gen 49:16). As quoted from the Pulpit Commentary earlier, Dan would be "...performing the office of an administrator among the People not of his own tribe merely, but also of all Israel" (emphasis added). After the early example of Charles Lynch, Irish immigrants quickly found employment in the police departments, fire departments and other public services of major cities, largely in the North East and around the Great Lakes.By 1855, according to New York Police Commissioner George W. Matsell (1811-1877), himself the son of Irish immigrants, almost 17 percent of the police department's officers were Irish-born (compared to 28.2 percent of the city) in a report to the Board of Alderman; of the NYPD's 1,149 men, Irish-born officers made up 304 of 431 foreign-born policemen. In the 1860s more than half of those arrested in New York City were Irish born or of Irish descent but nearly half of the City's law enforcement officers were also Irish. By the turn of the 20th century, five out of six NYPD officers were Irish born or of Irish descent. As late as the 1960s, even after minority hiring efforts, 42% of the NYPD were Irish Americans. Up to the 20th and early 21st century, Irish Catholics continue to be prominent in the law enforcement community, especially in the Northeastern United States. The Emerald Society, an Irish American fraternal organization, was founded in 1953 by the NYPD. When the Boston chapter of the Emerald Society formed in 1973 half of the city's police officers became members.Â
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5. Humor: Essay on Conspiracy Theories by Craig White
Extract:
.....But that is the way conspiracy theories 'prove' their points by through drawing 'lines' or supposed connections between people, organisations and events without solid proof. This is known as syllogism. Or as the online Oxford dictionaries states:
an instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn from two given or assumed propositions (premises); a common or middle term is present in the two premises but not in the conclusion, which may be invalid (e.g. all dogs are animals; all animals have four legs; therefore all dogs have four legs).
One such famous syllogism that is used to prove my point is:
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Why are fire engines red?
Well, books are red; magazines are read too.
Two plus two is four.
Four times three is 12 there and are 12 inches in a ruler.
Queen Elizabeth was a ruler and Queen Elizabeth was also a ship.
Ships sail in the sea and fish swim in the sea.
Fish have fins and the Finns fought the Russians.
The Russians were red and fire engines are always rushing.
And THAT is why fire engines are red.
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