How the ancients navigated

[Hanslune]

...and run straight into the Sargasso Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargasso_Sea

Game over.

Also, pyramids weren't built on beaches.  In the New World, they were the centers of important towns, many miles to the interior, and surrounded by jungle.  You could spend a lifetime sailing around the coast and never see one.

There is Tulum but constructed around 1250 AD doesn't have a pyramid but a structure you can see from the sea, called the Castillo, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...-Tulum.png. but kinda out of line to what that person is talking about

[Byrd]

There is Tulum but constructed around 1250 AD doesn't have a pyramid but a structure you can see from the sea, called the Castillo, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...-Tulum.png. but kinda out of line to what that person is talking about

Yeah.  By 1250, navigation was rather better than "sail south until the butter melts."

[Hanslune]

Yeah.  By 1250, navigation was rather better than "sail south until the butter melts."

Yeah the currents https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2X3K9DM/map-of...X3K9DM.jpg don't really help on a theoretical straight course, neither do the winds

[Harte]

I came across this gem of an interview well worth keeping an eye on where the archeologist has done a DNA study of the nicotine found in the Egyptian mummies. and has researched the possibility that the botanic species could have come from nowhere else but the Americas. It gets more interesting as he built a predynastic boat and sailed it around the Med> and even from New York to the Azores or nearly  Azores as damage caused the boat to be weakened structurally to the point where the storms had finished it off.
 The interview suggests that the pyramids on the Azores and the canaries were markers which line up with other pyramids over the horizon so look like they were for navigation purposes. He quotes some interesting findings which seem to suggest that there was a trade route across the Atlantic which was well established. It's a good watch if you have the time. Ancient Technology Podcast - Sampling Khufu's Cartouche, Cocaine in Mummies | Dr. Dominique Görlitz

Dominique Görlitz is not a doctor, nor is he an archaeologist.
He's a former high school teacher and was involved in the theft of paint from one of the cartouches in the Great Pyramid.

Seems this wouldn't quite be a "gem" of an interview.

On the other hand, he is fairly knowledgeable concerning ancient boat building, considering that he's entirely self-taught.

Harte

[annonentity]

All charges were dropped after the before and after photo of the cartouche showed the same damage. He never touched the cartouche. It was another mark he was given permission to scrape. Why do you post an obvious lie, you are always saying do your research , how about you doing some?.
If he is not a doctor then what are the two PHD, doing in his name?

[Harte]

All charges were dropped after the before and after photo of the cartouche showed the same damage. He never touched the cartouche. It was another mark he was given permission to scrape. Why do you post an obvious lie, you are always saying do your research , how about you doing some?.
If he is not a doctor then what are the two PHD, doing in his name?

He's a former High School teacher. Easy enough to check, but you obviously don't want to know.

Harte

[Hanslune]

All charges were dropped after the before and after photo of the cartouche showed the same damage. He never touched the cartouche. It was another mark he was given permission to scrape. Why do you post an obvious lie, you are always saying do your research , how about you doing some?.
If he is not a doctor then what are the two PHD, doing in his name?

https://www.facebook.com/dominique.gorli..._education, he appears to have two BA degrees Studied Geography at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Studied Biology at FSU Jena, I stand ready to be corrected but then this is from his own FB page, definitely not an archaeologist by college degree. But I would note there is no legal requirement to have a specific degree to declare yourself an archaeologist - like it is for a medical doctor or lawyer.

[andy06shake]

https://www.facebook.com/dominique.gorli..._education, he appears to have two BA degrees Studied Geography at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Studied Biology at FSU Jena, I stand ready to be corrected but then this is from his own FB page, definitely not an archaeologist by college degree. But I would note there is no legal requirement to have a specific degree to declare yourself an archaeologist - like it is for a medical doctor or lawyer.

By the looks of it, that's true, legally, anyone can use the title "archaeologist" without formal qualifications.

And unlike doctors or lawyers, the title is not protected by law in most countries.

That being said, in professional settings, and where the likes of academic institutions are concerned.

A degree is going to be expected if you wish to be taken seriously.

[Harte]

All charges were dropped after the before and after photo of the cartouche showed the same damage. He never touched the cartouche. It was another mark he was given permission to scrape. Why do you post an obvious lie, you are always saying do your research , how about you doing some?.
If he is not a doctor then what are the two PHD, doing in his name?

Charges were not "dropped."
Gorlitz was found guilty in absentia because Egypt doesn't have an extradition treaty with Germany
The paint and other stolen artifacts were returned to Egypt.

The Giza Criminal Court sentenced the nine defendants on Tuesday after it found them guilty of stealing a cartouche with a hieroglyphic inscription bearing the name of Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops).
Over the past few months, videos have been posted online showing the German researchers inside a chamber within Khufu’s Pyramid – which visitors are not even allowed to touch – chiseling off a cartouche.
Interviews have even been conducted with the German researcher, Dominique Goerlitz, who has not denied removing this irreplaceable 4,500 year-old artifact from Khufu’s Pyramid.
The three German defendants were not in Egypt at the time of the verdict, and were thus sentenced in absentia. The six Egyptians currently in detention include three employees of the Antiquities Ministry, two guards at the site of the pyramids, and a manager of a tourism company.

https://www.madamasr.com/en/2014/11/12/n...t-pyramid/

Harte

[annonentity]

Stop it Interpol were handling the charges he couldn't leave the country until the mess had been figured out.