From g2robert@watarts.uwaterloo.ca Sun Sep 30 12:05:27 2001 Received: from mailscan1.cac.washington.edu (mailscan1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with SMTP id f8UJ5QN55492 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 12:05:26 -0700 Received: FROM mxu4.u.washington.edu BY mailscan1.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Sep 30 12:05:25 2001 -0700 Received: from titan.golden.net (titan.golden.net [199.166.210.90]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with ESMTP id f8UJ5OQ28820 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 12:05:25 -0700 Received: from watarts.uwaterloo.ca (AS53-04-97.cas-kit.golden.net [209.226.187.97]) by titan.golden.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA24187 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:05:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3BB76EDC.5A8C1878@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:13:32 -0400 From: "G.I.C. Robertson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: On the Dispilio (mystery) tablets ... (sigh) References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010930112725.021a0c00@idirect.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit David Meadows wrote: > Further ferreting found a photo of sorts (taken from the Davlos mag > article) at: > > http://www.ancientgr.com/Unknown_Hellenic_History/Eng/Dispilio.htm > > ... it's not really helpful. I fiddled with it in photopaint and it didn't > help much. It looks like worm damage to me. > > ================================================================ > David Meadows Libertas inaestimabilis res est. > ================================================================ Did anyone else click on the link to 'Articles' on this page? It just gets better and better ... ======= THE GREEK MISSION AT PERU A scientific team from the National Polytechnics School departed at the 8th of July consisting of two Chemical Engineers and an Archaeologist in order to meet professor Enrico Mattievic, having as a goal the study of the material gathered by the mentioned professor and the on-the-spot study of those archaeological findings that show the presence of ancient Greeks in the area. Professor Enrico Mattievic, of Italian descendance, who teaches at the Lima University, after searching, gathering and studying archaeological material from the western parts of Peru (mainly Kousko and Tsavin De Huantar, has stated in his book 'Journey to the Mythological Inferno - America's discovery by the Greeks' (EKATH publications) among others the view that Tartara - the Gate of Hades- of ancient Greeks is located at Tsavin De Huantar, where our ancestor were visitors! Some of the indications are : a) Discovery of Medusa's head, the famous Gorgon symbol, in several locations of Peru. b) Existence since 1867 (!) of a series of articles in an Argentina magazine, that the Peruvian Alps Chuetsua language is based on ancient Greek! c) Discoveries of Greek art style amphorae d) Finally, existence of a book about the White God of the ancient Peruvians, that is regarded (by the Peruvian researcher that studied the relevant traditions) same as Apollonius Tyaneus ! SOURCE : ¨ TRITO MATI ¨ magazine, issue 63 (July-August 1997) page 8-10 ======= And, of course, some of those Nazca glyphs look suspiciously like symbols from Dispilio and/or Linear A and/or B, not to mention the Phaistos disk. Chariots of the Greeks ...? Best, George -- ============================= G.I.C. Robertson Department of Classical Studies University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada g2robert@watarts.uwaterloo.ca Tel. 519-579-6670 Fax 519-746-7881 .