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To: elmatador who wrote (17842)	4/5/2002 8:27:04 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Respond to of 74559

It's not US as much as press by its own very nature (which is recording, not time/times per se, but changes, coming with the moving clock hands): "it took 5My to fill up the basin with sediments" - yawn, even in National Geographic. "Somewhere around 7000BC, an event of cataclysmic proportions bla bla bla" - Hey, this is interesting! -. You get the (same) idea. So the following was a meme archaeology.about.com; ...fitter than some others. dj

To: elmatador who wrote (17842)	4/5/2002 10:46:29 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

True, but it's not just that. A lot of archeologists in the Middle East are looking for evidence that the Bible is true, so finding evidence of a massive flood is something they would like. At any rate, the Black Sea is peculiar, and there are extremely well preserved ships and villages in the unoxygenated deeps. nationalgeographic.com Every so often one reads that something in the Bible was proved true. I think I remember reading about a boat that was found on a mountain that proved there was a flood, but I don't think anything ever came of that. I liked Jay's link to the Chinese map. Too bad it isn't true, it's a lovely story. Yesterday I learned that the Arabs did not invent the concept of zero. They got it from India, but the earliest known use of zero was in Indo-China, by which I assume the author meant Viet Nam. The numerals we call Arabic also were borrowed by the Arabs from India, as well as the system of place-notation, which was invented in China. Apparently the Arabs did not like using the numerals we call Arabic, because they are difficult to write if you write from right to left, as the Arabs do. The Arabs used these numbers in science, but not commerce.