Hall of Ma'at Heb Sed Celebration

The Hall of Ma'at is hosting their fourth annual Heb Sed on Thursday July
21st. Winners of quizzes will be able to select a book from a prize list,
with a grand prize going to the winner of the Internet Scavenger Hunt.
You do not have to be a member of Ma'at to participate in the Hed Sed
games.

Anyone wishing to participate in the scavenger hunt will find the list and
rules he
http://www.hallofmaat.com/read.php?1...329#msg-353329
and the prize list he
http://www.hallofmaat.com/read.php?1...467#msg-353467

The Hall of Ma'at is an online community that welcomes discussion on
topics of:

- ancient history and archaeology

- culture

- media

- science and technology

We very loosely interpret these topics but specifically exclude
discussions on contemporary religion and contemporary politics.

Membership in the Ma'at Community is not required to participate in
discussions but will allow you to send and receive private messages from
other members, and to optionally receive notices of new articles by email.
Membership is free of charge.

Governance Board of Directors

- Paul Heinrich

- Don Holeman

- Katherine Reece

- John Wall

- Doug Weller

It also hosts a large number of articles, many by well known academics.
Afrocentrism
Analysis: Multiculturalism, Cult Archaeology, and Pseudoscience
Analysis: Afrocentrist Linguistics
Analysis: Stolen Legacy (or Mythical History?) Did the Greeks Steal
Philosophy from the Egyptians?
Analysis: Comments on Pitfalls in Multicultural Science Education
Analysis: Spreading Scientific Illiteracy Among Minorities - Part II:
Magic Melanin
Analysis: Spreading Scientific Illiteracy Among Minorities - Part I:
Multicultural Pseudoscience

Americas
Research: Burying the White Gods
Research: Evolution and Multiculturalism
Research: The Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization: An Evolving
Hypothesis
Analysis: Goodbye Columbus? The Pseudohistory of Who Discovered America
Analysis: Robbing Native American Cultures: Van Sertima's Afrocentricity
and the Olmecs
Research: Earliest Human Remains in North America
Analysis: Tiwanaku: Alternative History in Action
Analysis: The Spanish Imposition

Ancient Astronauts
Analysis: Von Däniken's Chariots: A Primer in the Art of Cooked Science
Analysis: The return of Ancient Astronauts; Zecharia Sitchin Rekindles an
Old Pseudoscience
Research: Space Travel in Bronze Age China?
Analysis: Investigating the Sirius 'Mystery'

Antarctica
Analysis: Antarctic Farce

Bermuda Triangle
Analysis: Critical Reading, Careful Writing, and the Bermuda Triangle

Dating Methods
Analysis: Analysis of Hancock's Position Statement on C-14 Dating
Analysis: An Answer to Graham Hancock

Development of Civilization
Analysis: The Emergence of Civilizations to 500 BCE

Egypt
Research: The Stoned Age?
Research: The Narmer Macehead and Related Objects

General Methodological Problems
Analysis: Invisible Visitors: Explaining Archaeological Skepticism
Analysis: Nic Flemming's Channel 4 Encounter
Analysis: The Gentle Art of Myth Management
Analysis: Fingerprints of the Gods: A Review
Analysis: An Analysis of the Quality of Graham Hancock's Science
Analysis: Three Basic Principles of Archaeological Research
Analysis: Myth of the Open Mind
Analysis: Definition of Peer-Reviewed Journals: A Rebuttal to the Lunatic
Fringe
Analysis: The Absence of Evidence

Giza
Research: Giza Before the Fourth Dynasty
Research: The Wrong Question(or: The Myth of the Mystery of the Missing
Messages)

Numerology
Analysis: The Myth of Egyptian Pi
Research: Irrational numbers and pyramids
Analysis: Pick a Card, Any Card - How Hancock Finds Precessional Numbers

Orion Correlation Theory
Analysis: Longing for Leo
Analysis: Dancing with Lions
Analysis: The Orion Correlation and Air-Shaft Theories
Analysis: Astronomer Tony Fairall and Secret Chamber
Analysis: Astronomical Integrity at Giza
Analysis: The Sphinx Blinks
Analysis: Going Orion in a Circle(Or: The Challenging Cayce of 10,500BC)
Analysis: Pyramid Marketing Schemes
Analysis: Orion and the Giza pyramids
Analysis: Aldebaran and the Dashour Pyramids

Out of Place Artifacts
Analysis: The Coso Artifact: Mystery from the Depths of Time

Pre-Columbian Contact
Analysis: Gavin’s Fantasy Land, 1421: The Year China ...
Research: Plant Evidence for Contact Between Africa and the New World
Analysis: 1421

The Great Sphinx
Research: Geologic Study of the Sphinx
Analysis: More Sphinx Debate: He said, I say... James Harrell responds to
Robert Schoch
Analysis: Comments on the Geological Evidence for the Sphinx's Age
Analysis: More Sphinx Debate: He Said ... I Say
Analysis: The Sphinx Controversy: Another Look at the Geological Evidence
Analysis: Age of the Sphinx
Analysis: Notes and Photographs on the West-Schoch Sphinx Hypothesis
Research: Deterioration of the Stone of the Great Sphinx
Research: THE ARCE Sphinx Project - A Preliminary Report

The Lost Civilization
Analysis: An Evaluation of the Geological Evidence Presented By ''Gateway
to Atlantis'' for Terminal Pleistocene Catastrophe
Analysis: Review of Voyages of the Pyramid Builders
Analysis: The New Atlantis and the Dangers of Pseudohistory
Analysis: Tracing Graham Hancock's Shifting Cataclysm
Analysis: Book Review - Underworld
Analysis: The Fingerprints of Graham Hancock
Analysis: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age
Analysis: The Lost Civilization in Historical PerspectiveDéjà vu all over
again

Unforbidden Geology Unforbidden Geology: The Tomb of Sabu and the
Tri-lobed Ornamental Bowl
Unforbidden Geology: Ancient Egyptian Materials: Greywacke (schist)
Unforbidden Geology: Ancient Egyptian Materials: Diorite
Unforbidden Geology: Rock Properties: Why the ancient Egyptians can carve
rock with stone and copper tools
Unforbidden Geology: Date range of cylindrical beaker's forms, bands, and
rims
Unforbidden Geology: Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessel Making
Unforbidden Geology: Ancient Egyptian Copper Slabbing Saws
Unforbidden Geology: Ancient Egyptian Copper Coring Drills
Unforbidden Geology: Ancient Egyptian Tools and Methods
Unforbidden Geology: Unforbidden Geology


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Doug's Archaeology Site: http://www.ramtops.co.uk