Origyptian Wrote:
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> Martin Stower Wrote:
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> > Origyptian Wrote:
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> > > That lone papyrus may very well have been intended
> > > as a "primer referencing everyday life", but only
> > > one such papyrus has been found (near the New
> > > Kingdom's Ramesseum), so it's not like copies
> > > of it were distributed as a standard textbook
> > > across ancient Egypt. . . .
> >
> > I leave this as an exercise for the reader.
> >
> > He seems also to have “forgotten” in the space
> > of a day the Moscow papyrus, which includes the
> > problem of finding the volume of a truncated
> > pyramid:
> >
> > http://grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?1,1099133,1100565#msg-1100565
> >
> > M.
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>
> Why would you think I've forgotten?

See above—and I put “forgotten” in scare quotes, to indicate precisely that I did not believe you’d forgotten, but rather that you had chosen to omit.

Go on, Doctor, give us your weaselling about how you “meant” by the “such” something arbitrarily exacting, to be specified post hoc.

> The Moscow is even more irrelevant to the OK
> pyramids . . .

What part of “It’s not a tourist guide” did you not understand?

Newsflash for Doctor Femano. Remember those “math” problems you did at school? The ones which mentioned trains and boats and planes? The trains and boats and planes weren’t real.

M.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 20-Apr-17 22:20 by Martin Stower.