From dmeadows@idirect.com Sat Aug 24 06:23:31 2002 Received: from mailscan6.cac.washington.edu (mailscan6.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g7ODNUeY062250 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 06:23:30 -0700 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan6.cac.washington.edu ; Sat Aug 24 06:23:30 2002 -0700 Received: from quark.look.ca (quark.look.ca [207.136.80.22]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.06) with ESMTP id g7ODNTbq029461 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 06:23:30 -0700 Received: from on-ham-a53-03-70.look.ca ([216.154.52.198]) by quark.look.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17iasa-0005W0-00 for classics@u.washington.edu; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 13:23:05 +0000 Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 09:25:53 -0400 From: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.60q) Personal Reply-To: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <451602105.20020824092553@idirect.com> To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: big time tan/frivolous/too-much-time-on-my-hans MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Salve, There's probably some on this list who have seen the claims that a glyph at Abydos actually represents an ancient helicopter ... the Forteana list drew my attention to the Temple of Edfu, which supposedly resembles a computer CPU: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2900/edfu-cpu.html Now looking at the reasoning behind this, it strikes me that the Forum of Trajan is an even better candidate, but of course, all this means is that the ancient Romans stole CPU technology from the Egyptians. dm ================================================================ David Meadows Libertas inaestimabilis res est. ================================================================ mailto:dmeadows@idirect.com http://www.atrium-media.com ================================================================ .