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Celeste_0211 t1_ix1sbox wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in How to explain similar symbols/motifs which are found around the world? by aykavalsokec

After a quick research, the man I was talking about is named Graham Hancock and he's not even a professor, just a journalist and writer.

In the documentary, I do admit that he had some interesting observations and raised pertinent questions about Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. However, he lost all credibility when he seriously talked about an ancient continent named "Kumari Kandam", which would be located in present day Indian Ocean, spanning from Madagascar to Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Without dropping the name, he was definitely refering to Atlantis. That was, and still is, pure fantasy and Indian nationalist propaganda to me.

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Swiggy1957 t1_ix1lilw wrote

Reply to comment by big_tom in A Medieval Gold Wedding Ring Found in the Mud Worth Is Thousands by max-venum

Ah, but the rarity of this ring is that it is GOLD.

This was at a time when gold was, well, worth it's weight in gold. The only ones that could afford a gold ring were those of wealth: nobility, royalty, high ranking church and military members, and, of course, rich merchants. Wedding rings of that era were often made iof Iron so they wouldn't be destroyed when the lady of the house cleaned, cooked and did other various chores around the place.

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Celeste_0211 t1_ix1gru8 wrote

Reply to comment by bertiewooster_swgoh in How to explain similar symbols/motifs which are found around the world? by aykavalsokec

Funny enough, I watched a french documentary on TV not so long ago featuring Graham Hancock. I was midly interested until they started to go "Woooo all those archeological sites across the world are located on the same line and the distance between these two sites is the same than the distance between these two other sites and if we multiply that distance by two and divide it by 3 we get Pi ! Coincidence ? I think not!". They deadass put their phone on a specific rock in Eastern Island, opened an app that showed how the magnetic field didn't make sense at this precise location and presented it as a scientific experiment.

It was like watching those silly conspiracy theories videos from early 2010's YouTube but on TV on a major channel. Absolutely astonished that this is allowed.

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