Article Archive for June 2009
Rogem Hiri / Gilgal Refaim
I had not heard of this site before today, so I’m guessing a good few of yourselves haven’t either. It deserves more recognition, for it has a lot of interesting features:
as old as Stonehenge
concentric circles, just like Atlantis
immense size
astronomical alignments
a bunker in the middle, perhaps
Rogem Hiri (“Mound of the Wild Cat”) is the Arabic name for this site, and Gilgal Refaim* (“Wheel of Refaim”) is the Hebrew name. It is situated in the Golan Heights (Israeli occupied Syria) , 16 kms east of the Sea of Galilee, in the middle of a large plateau (32.908388°N 35.800581°E). Nearby there are also hundreds of dolmens.
It is made from an estimated 42,000 basalt rocks. There is no mystery as to how they built it, but it would’ve been quite an effort. The four concentric rings range from 50m in diameter and 1.5m wide for the innermost, to 150m in diameter and 3.2m …
Emmerich on 2012 Idea
Found at Yahoo Movies:
So how does Roland Emmerich end the world in his upcoming epic “2012″? “Pole reversal,” he said in an interview this week. “All kinds of stuff going on. But it’s basically major earthquakes and volcano eruptions which kind of cause this global flood.”
“We found this obscure theory of ‘Earth crust displacement,’ written in the ’50s by someone called Professor Hapgood. Albert Einstein wrote the foreword to his book. It pretty much [says] every X number of years the whole Earth’s crust shifts, all together. We thought that that was a great underlining theory that can explain why there can be a flood.”
And what is the director going to do in preparation for that fated date? When asked he said, “I’m a pretty down to earth guy. Even [though] I made movies about aliens, I don’t believe in aliens. And I don’t believe that the world will come …
Mount St Helens – Supervolcano?
Many 2012ers and EOTWers are aware of the potential of Yellowstone, the supervolcano that could in theory erupt again at any time, repeating the destruction it caused 640,000 years ago.
Although it is not yet proven, there is the possibility that Mt St Helens, which we all know is presently active, could be as dangerous as Yellowstone.
New Scientist reports:
The measurements revealed a column of conductive material that extends downward from the volcano. About 15 kilometres below the surface, the relatively narrow column appears to connect to a much bigger zone of conductive material.
This larger zone was first identified in the 1980s by another magnetotelluric survey, and was found to extend all the way to beneath Mount Rainier 70 kilometres to the north-east, and Mount Adams 50 kilometres to the east. It was thought to be a zone of wet sediment, water being a good electrical conductor.
However, since the new measurements show …
German Schoolboy Hit By Meteorite & Lives!
The size of a pea, by the time it reached him, it still managed to leave a 5cm scar on the hand of Gerrit Blank, and a 30cm-wide crater in the pavement.
While this is the sort of “happy story” that you sometimes get at the end of news bulletins, it is only so due to the fact he lived, and the rarity of the situation. If a town/city is ever struck my a large meteorite, it will be a tragedy.
In recorded history he seems to be the person who has come off best from such a cosmic collision. According to Wikipedia:
The only other human confirmed to be struck and injured by a meteor was 31 year old Ann Hodges, of Sylacauga, Alabama. She was struck while asleep in bed on November 30, 1954, after the meteorite punched through the roof of her home, smashed a wooden cabinet, and then bounced …
Urkesh Palace Pit = Bunker?
Those who have followed my thoughts probably know that my first instinct when I learn of an ancient subterranean structure is “bunker!”. It’s not a bad hypothesis, but very hard to prove. The problem is that the use as a bunker perhaps only lasted a few generations, and neglected to leave evidence – whereas subsequent uses may have been for longer, and left more evidence. A bunker that succeeded would most likely be emptied afterwards, and anything not removed, if at all, was likely to be organic or pottery. To put it bluntly, no bones.
Reading Archaeology magazine, July/Aug 2008, page 50, I found this, about a pit found next to Urkesh Palace, a pit that pre-dates the palace:
“unusual stone-lined pit… The pit’s large underground room has a square antechamber facing west and a deep circular pit… it was originally covered with a roof and had a single, easily closed …
