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Review of Ancient Aliens S06E15 "Treasures of the Gods"

2/15/2014

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It’s funny to me that people like novelist David Brody accuse me of being obsessed with Scott Wolter to the point of irrational madness, but so far no one has ever accused me of being obsessed with Ancient Aliens, despite having reviewed every episode of this crazy quilt patchwork of New Age mysticism for three years running. I wonder sometimes why I bother reviewing this show since it is so utterly stupid. But then I read reports like the news out of New Zealand that the country’s Prime Minister, John Key, was forced to prove he was not a shape-shifting extraterrestrial reptile after a UFO researcher filed New Zealand’s equivalent of a Freedom of Information request accusing the prime minister of being one of David Icke’s reptilian monsters, ostensibly as a joke. These idea just keep spreading.

Worse, a producer for a major cable channel—I can’t say which one right now, but it isn’t H2—asked me if I would be willing to appear as a guest expert on a one-time special modeled on Ancient Aliens that would explore xenoarchaeology. I told him that I would only do so if they intended to present my skeptical viewpoint fairly. The producer told me that he would have to get a ruling from the network’s executives about “how skeptical” guests are allowed to be. Here’s my promise to you: After the production team makes its decision, if it goes the way I think it will, I will let you know which channel it is.

This week’s episode of Ancient Aliens, S06E15 “Treasures of the Gods,” is another rehash of the same material we’ve heard countless times. In this outing the ancient astronaut theorists go in search of the One Ring to Rule Them All… Oh, I’m sorry: Solomon’s Ring. Well, they’re equally fictional either way.

The theme of this episode is gold, and whether the aliens are hiding treasure from us. This is rather odd since I thought the whole point of the Anunnaki was that they wanted to strip mine our planet and offload the gold to Nibiru. Aliens just aren’t efficient.

We open with the Dead Sea Scrolls and the inventory of treasures listed on the Copper Scroll. It’s “possibly the greatest treasure map in human history,” says Jesus descendant Kathleen McGowan-Coppens, whom even this show can only label as “author/researcher” since she has absolutely no credentials, not even fake ones, related to ancient astronauts or archaeology. Robert Feather, a metallurgist, claims to have decoded the Copper Scroll from the unusual premise that the Israelites were incorrectly measuring gold in kilograms, a unit of measurement that had not been invented yet, so he tried to find a code that would give him proper units of measurement—based entirely on our conventions for measuring gold, not those of the people of Qumran. He asserts that the Copper Scroll is 99.9% pure and therefore had to be Egyptian (clearly he hasn’t met Scott Wolter—Michigan’s copper is that pure!), so the Temple treasure is in Egypt. Feather, however, is a fringe thinker of the worst order: He believes in a conspiracy of academics to hide the fact that Akhenaten invented Jewish monotheism and that Jesus was part of the Egyptian-Essene cult. He derived this from selecting ten Greek letters from the Copper Scroll and then rearranging them into an approximation of Akhenaten’s name. This would be news to Greek-speakers, who, if Manetho can be believed, would have referred to him as Amenôphis, as preserved by Josephus, Africanus, Syncellus, and Eusebius. I suppose heretics might have retained his other name, but it isn’t attested in ancient Greek, let alone as a Greek anagram in a non-Greek text. Akhenaten’s capital was long gone by the time of the Essenes, and the man himself was all but forgotten, not listed in any of the extant king lists, stricken from the official records. His self-given name wasn’t even known until the nineteenth century.

The show repeats its frequent complaint that Akhenaten’s sun disc god, the Aten, was a spaceship, as though the Egyptians couldn’t recognize the sun. McGowan-Coppens falsely asserts that the pharaohs were not viewed as “god incarnate” before Akhenaten, something belied by the Pyramid Texts, a thousand years older, which specify that the living pharaoh is the incarnate form of Horus, and the dead pharaoh Osiris. Giorgio Tsoukalos takes Akhenaten’s statuary, with his oddly-shaped head and “chicken legs,” as evidence that the king was an alien. The discovery of what was identified as his body in KV55 in 1907 would imply that the statues were just stylized art; however, Ancient Aliens plays up the uncertainty over whether the body, which genetic tests confirm is related to Tutankhamun, was actually Akhenaten himself in order to suggest that the king simply vanished into the stars. Yet his family were not space aliens, so this is confusing; are they arguing that Akhenaten’s family simply pretended to be his family as cover for space aliens?

Jason Martell and McGowan-Coppens tell us that the aliens genetically engineered humans for mining gold, and then the show connects this to interstellar travel because gold is good for space ship electronics. This is not what Zecharia Sitchin, the acknowledged source, claimed. He was all about using gold to fix Nibiru’s atmosphere. So are the “texts” as translated by Sitchin wrong? If so, then how do we know any of them should be believed?

This episode is unusually repetitive. A quarter of the way through they have made about one claim.

After the break we go to Jerusalem in summer 2013 where an earthenware jug was found from the time of Solomon, spurring interest in whether the Temple treasure is buried beneath the Temple Mount. This leads to an overview of the Temple and its treasures and an “extraterrestrial” artifact called Solomon’s Ring. McGowan-Coppens explains the legend of the ring, but no one explains that the ring is not attested before the Middle Ages. The story begins with a reference to a different ring that was used in the exorcisms of Eleazar in the work of Josephus (Antiquities 8.2.5), which the Arabs expanded into a mystical ring that controlled the djinn. It is not a part of the Qur’an as the narrator claims, though a ring engraved with the name of God appears in the Tractate Gittin (folio 68)—but there the ring’s magic was that it held God’s name, so when Asmodeus swallowed it he was compelled to do Solomon’s bidding. This was due to the name of God, not the power of the ring; any object so inscribed would do. In fact, only in the Middle Ages did take on an independent power of its own associated with Solomon, when Solomon’s legend expanded to make him the patron of alchemy. It’s all rather straightforward when the texts are placed in chronological order. But Ancient Aliens conflate the ring with the shamir, a “worm” that could cut stone in rabbinical literature. However, it could not be a laser tool as Tsoukalos suggests if we accept the texts at face value since the authorities—Rashi, Maimonides, etc.—assert that it was active, implying it was a living being. At any rate, the two items are not related.

This leads us into, yet again, the “mysteries” of the Knights Templar and their alleged involvement with the Temple treasure. Mike Bara, ignoramus, asserts that Solomon’s ring is the second most powerful weapon “of the Bible,” to which: Find a reference to it in the Bible, Mike. You can’t make wacky claims about a book you’ve never read. McGowan-Coppens claims that the Templars were in communion of the aforementioned Asmodeus, which has barely a basis in fringe conspiracy literature, let alone fact. The Templar-associated church of Rennes-le-Château does have a statue of a devil often identified as Asmodeus, but many churches had illustrations of demons; there is no evidence of actual contact with a supernatural monster—even the pope only accused the Templars of worshiping Baphomet. In fact the Rennes-le-Château devil was installed in 1897 (when most of the modern church was built) and is not in any way associated with the Knights Templar. It wasn’t even identified as Asmodeus until a French author of Templar conspiracies asserted it in recent years. This is all a big con job crafted from faulty parts.

After the break we travel to Kanab, Utah in quest of the lost treasure of the Aztec emperor “Montezuma” (Moctezuma II), the ruler before the Conquest. Two treasure hunters and the ancient astronaut theorists believe that the mythical Aztec homeland of Aztlan was in Utah. Tsoukalos asserts that an Aztec creation myth, which tells of a flint knife that fell to earth, spawning 1600 gods, is an account of a spaceship landing with colonists. In case you care, here is the actual text, as translated by me from the original Spanish of Fray Gerónimo de Mendieta (Historia eclesiástica indiana 2.1), summarizing what he heard from Fray Andres de Olmos:
… But while the people of each province gave their accounts (of the creation) in various ways, for the most part they came to the conclusion that in the sky there was a god called Citlalatonac and a goddess called Citlalicue, and that the goddess gave birth to a large knife or flint (which in their language is called técpatl). On seeing this, her sons were frightened and agreed to cast the large knife from the sky, and so they undertook this action and the knife fell to a certain part of the earth which is called Chicmoztoc, meaning the Seven Caves. They say there emerged from it 1,600 gods (which seems to be an attempt to explain the fall of the evil angels), and they say that these beings, seeing themselves thus fallen and banished and without servants, agreed to send a message to the goddess their mother saying that because they had been cast out and banished it would be good if she were to give them permission, power, and a way to create men who could provide service for them.

These gods then obtained the bones of the dead and used the ash to fashion humans by mixing it with their blood. Had Tsoukalos bothered to read the whole text, he’d have seen that they wanted to do this because they needed servants—just like the Anunnaki! (Actually, in reality, the Babylonian gods in the Enuma Elish.) Here the failure to read through the source actually leads to a missed opportunity to support the ancient astronaut theory.

This leads to questions of whether Quetzalcoatl was really a space traveler since statues of a man with a snake on his head look, as Erich von Däniken claims, like a man in a space suit. But I thought that Akhenaten was an alien—and he wasn’t wearing a helmet. So do the aliens breathe air? Supposedly the Aztecs took the treasure to Utah to give it to Quetzalcoatl so he could smite the Spanish, but this seems odd since the texts that they use as proof all say that the Aztecs thought Cortes was Quetzalcoatl. There is no evidence of Aztecs traveling into Utah in the 1500s.

Mike Bara is worried that finding the treasure could unleash horrific consequences if the alien seal is broken from the gates of Aztlan. This is a new one on me: Don’t try to find proof of the aliens because it might hurt us all! Just give me your money to speculate about it!

After the break we return to the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi in Greece, one of the show’s favorite sites. We repeat information about the Oracle at Delphi that we’ve heard about a dozen times on Ancient Aliens over the years. This involves a discussion of the omphalos, a stone that marks the navel of the world. Tsoukalos asserts that the Greek gods were extraterrestrials and that the omphalos was a “transmitter,” and Wilcock suggests that the surviving stone is a symbolic representation of a piece of technology from long before. They refer to the story of Brennus, the Celtic king whose attack on Delphi was thwarted by a storm attributed to the intervention of Apollo (Pausanias 10.19-23), much the way victors routinely attribute their victories to their god worldwide. This is a lead-up to a bizarre sequence in which Mike Bara and David Wilcock appear positively giddy about discussing Nazi archaeology and the hunt for what one of them calls “Aryan gods” in Greece. The Nazis excavated in Greece in hopes of proving that the ancient Greeks were Aryans and thus forerunners of the Nazis. (Hitler loved Greek art and wanted to appropriate Classical civilization for Germany.) I am uncomfortable with how much the two men seem to really, really like talking about the Nazis. Bara lustily gushes that if only the Nazis had successfully found the true omphalos, they might have been able to use the Aryan aliens’ power to win World War II. He seems almost to imply that this would have been a good outcome.

So the aliens are Nazis? And we are supposed to want to meet and worship these aliens?

The consequences of this line of speculation are quickly forgotten and dropped as we go to commercial and return to discuss secret vaults in a Hindu temple, where $22 billion worth of gold and jewels was discovered in 2011. We hear about a curse placed on one of the temple’s rooms, followed by claims that the gods were angry the chambers were opened. Based on nothing but hot air and speculation, the show claims that the room may hold the powerful weapons of the Mahabharata. None of the talking heads has any idea what’s in the chamber, and this discussion could just as easily replace Mahabharata weapons with the mummy of Jesus, a UFO, or a unicorn breeding program without changing anything at all. Mike Bara darkly warns that knowledge is dangerous and that we are not meant to know the secrets that, presumably, Mike Bara sells you in each of his books about the aliens. Why tempt fate, Mike? Quit now before the aliens get to you, too.

So, bottom line: Ignorance is bliss, aliens are hiding the truth from you, and your reward for solving the puzzle they designed to take “centuries” to unravel is illness, genocide, and death. Oh, and the Nazis are somehow super-cool and should have won World War II because: aliens.

Did I get everything?

26 Comments
Only Me
2/15/2014 07:11:11 am

Yep. Just like the rest of us, you're making do without the benevolence of god-aliens.

I'm afraid, old boy, that you're quickly reaching the point where you can go back to previous reviews, cut and paste what's relevant, and be done with "new" reviews in record time. There really isn't anything left to offer, is there?

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Only Me
2/15/2014 09:59:35 am

David Brody: novelist, director of NEARA

That sums up all I needed to know about his total acceptance of pre-Columbian European discovery and exploration.

It's also obvious he didn't spend any time reading any of Jason's work beyond the "Lost Relics of the Bible" episode. For example:

"one vociferous critic has repeatedly and unsuccessfully auditioned to play a host role similar to that played by Scott in America Unearthed"

If he had paid attention, he would have seen that Jason already put that exaggeration to rest. Oh well, sensational fiction is a novelist's bread and butter.

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Jason Colavito link
2/15/2014 10:06:13 am

I'll have more to say about this in the America Unearthed review. It seems he and Steve St. Clair have been comparing notes.

Blanca Alvarez
2/23/2015 10:23:23 pm

Why does everything have to narrow down to fallen angels and the bible? You have to think outside the box. Geez.

Pat
2/15/2014 07:51:09 am

I really don't get their logic (or rather lack of it) - the ancients had this "Ark of Covenant" or "Solomon's ring" etc. which were "powerful alien weapons", unlike anything else in the world and still they lost them in battle? Really? If you had this powerful weapon how come anyone could defeat you? Templar Knights also had this "weapon" (which first made them powerfull) but then they were defeated by the Church. If the Oracle talked to Aliens how come it was ruined by the Romans? The Aliens didin't notice she stop communicating and didn't rush with help? Why this time they didn't send some thunderstorm, frost or earthquake etc, which they did before for others as "AA theory proponents" suggested earlier. Oh, and how would the Aliens know the future when they answered the Oracle?

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J.A.D
2/15/2014 08:16:17 am

Michael Crichton has had 13 of his novels turned into movies.
Why does this sound like the plot of CONGO, which is one of
his lesser known works that milks every "great white hunter"
cliche from the serials of the 1930s + 1940s? Once again the
search for King Solomon's mines or at least some of the end
products from the same is a compulsive quest, but in reality?

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Clint Knapp
2/15/2014 10:41:50 am

Congo was actually the first Crichton novel I ever read, right around the time the movie came out in '95, though I didn't watch it until it hit the TV cycle a year or two later.

The only thing we're missing are the Zinj apes. Surely AA could explain them as human/gorilla hybrid experiments left lying around Africa. Hell, they're even aggressive, white tool-users (those flat-faced rocks they use to smash open human skulls) who dominate their land- a lost city of incredible wealth and design... if it were on a different continent, it might even qualify for exploration on AU.

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william cowan link
4/28/2014 07:46:53 pm

You're claiming Ancient Aliens is crap as a rule and I'm swept of my feet for life after one program and watch everyone I can over and over, not a problem for me, world of info. for me and my Bibletown B.C. Canada.?

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RLewis
2/15/2014 09:09:25 am

So, you can be the expert as long as you're not too experty? Does that mean you can respond to their wild claims by shaking your head and sighing, but not by laughing directly into their faces?

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Tara Jordan link
2/15/2014 09:11:49 am

"I wonder sometimes why I bother reviewing this show since it is so utterly stupid".

I am asking the same question every time you write an article on this Ancient Aliens garbage

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Drennis Nayland-Smith
2/16/2014 07:36:31 am

I am surprised that you can watch any of it. (both ancient aliens and america unearthed) after 3 minutes I am so annoyed that I turn it off.

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Martin R
2/15/2014 10:27:06 am

Why would aliens come to Earth for gold? Please correct me if I am incorrect, but wouldn't their time be better served in the asteroid belt. And they wouldn't have to fool all the humans.

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Clint Knapp
2/15/2014 11:02:18 am

Entirely correct. Gold formed early in the planet's life is most likely all at the core due to its density. The accessible gold in the crust is almost certainly all from meteoric deposit.

For that matter, consider the primary AA theory- evidenced everywhere else but this episode thanks to Zecharia Sitchin and the preponderance of his followers: the aliens mined Earth's gold to spray in their atmosphere to fix it. Such an atmosphere would have to be denser than gold itself for the gold to do anything but fall to the ground uselessly. By atomic weight, it'd have to be Radon. Very dense Radon. Making one wonder how their biology could be anything close to compatible with human DNA.

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Only Me
2/15/2014 11:46:58 am

And that, of course, leads to a question Jason asked a year or two ago. Why would an alien be willing to whip out his penis in an environment that requires him to wear a containment suit?

Phil
2/17/2014 03:13:19 pm

Seems if aliens are capable of interstellar travel they should also be able to synthesize gold? Yes...

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Pacal
2/15/2014 11:02:47 am

"Feather, however, is a fringe thinker of the worst order: He believes in a conspiracy of academics to hide the fact that Akhenaten invented Jewish monotheism and that Jesus was part of the Egyptian-Essene cult."

It is so painfully obvious that Ancient Aliens does no research of any real consequence and of course doesn't fact check.

The idea that Akhenaton was the "real" founder of the monotheism of the Abrahamic religions is actually a fairly common one. It goes back to when Egyptologists deciphered The Hymn to the Aton and concluded that Atonism was a form of monotheism and that the hymn was very similar to Psalm 104 from the Bible. Sigmund Freud wrote Moses and Monotheism more than 80 years ago and the entire book is based on the idea that Moses was an Egyptian and a priest of the Aton during Akhenaton's lifetime.

The idea that Akhenaton was the "true" founder of Judaism is old hat and quite well known to specialists. It is also quite wrong. The differences between the Aton and Yahweh are quite large and further any sort of investigation reveals that the supposed monotheistic nature of Atonism is very, very dubious. It appears that Akhenaton expected everyone to worship himself and the royal family while he and the royal family worshipped the Aton. The similarities between The Hymn to the Aton and Psalm 104 are apparently accidental.

No one is hiding anything. The idea is simply old hat and modern scholarship for good reason dismisses it.

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Shane Sullivan
2/16/2014 05:23:05 am

The painting they show when describing Brennus' assault in Greece is of the wrong guy. The painting--Le Brenn et sa part de butin, by Paul Jamin--depicts the Brennus who sacked Rome some 100 years earlier than the events discussed. Same name, completely different person.

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Jason Colavito link
2/16/2014 05:31:17 am

Well, that doesn't surprise me. They tried passing off one of the beehive tombs of Mycenae (I believed the so-called Treasury of Atreus) as the Pythia's chamber at Delphi. Great catch!

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Andrew
2/16/2014 08:01:40 am

"Tsoukalos asserts that the Greek gods were extraterrestrials"

How long until he claims to be a descendant of ancient Greek and alien hybrids?

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Sara
2/22/2014 01:38:31 pm

It would explain the hair...

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Jay Carr
3/28/2014 03:51:12 pm

Copper Scroll DECYPHERED:



Do yourself a favor and save both money and time by Not searching for the Copper Scroll treasures.


The WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY and WHO about the Copper Scroll Treasure is Common Knowledge; and to understand it, one
must simply read about its historical Provedance. East of the Jordan River where Alexander Jannaeus had military campaigns is
a place mentioned in the Scroll several times. Kohlit/Kohli; seems to be the city where the treasure is located, making Kohlit yet
another lost city like El Dorado.

According to Josephus; Jannaeus or Jannai/Yannai was king of Judea from 103 BC to 76 BC. He was the son of John Hyrcnaus &
was the High Priest Jonathan; written about as a wicked tyrant in the Talmud, yet established the city of Gamla in 81 BC; as the
capital for what is now the Golan Heights.

Origins according to the Talmud teach: "Be not like the servants who serve their masters for the sake of the wages, but be rather
like those who serve without thought of receiving wages." The maxim was taught by Antigonus of Sokho a Pharisee scholar whom
according to Mishnah; was the disciple and successor of Simon the Just. Mishnah teachings became tradition; a major written
redaction of the Jewish oral traditions known as the "Oral Torah", the first major work of Rabbinic literature.

The Mishnah consists of six orders, each containing 7–12 tractates; 63 in total, and further subdivided into chapters and paragraphs
or verses. The orders and their subjects are: Zeraim ("Seeds"), dealing with prayer and blessings, tithes and agricultural laws,
Moed ("Festival"), pertaining to the laws of the Sabbath and the Festivals, Nashim ("Women"), concerning marriage and divorce,
some forms of oaths and the laws of the nazirite (7 tractates), Nezikin ("Damages"), dealing with civil and criminal law, the
functioning of the courts and oaths (10 tractates), Kodashim ("Holy things"), regarding sacrificial rites, the Temple, and the dietary
laws (11 tractates) and Tehorot ("Purities"), pertaining to the laws of purity and impurity, including the impurity of the dead, the laws
of food purity and bodily purity (12 tractates).

These Jewish traditions are Yidish in nature; ancient lore in Jewish Babylonia between Persia and Roman Palestine. Priests//Rulers
were compelled to fulfill & sought out for lack of a better term a wishful prayer; dealing with the responsiblity of being seen humble
before GOD, while at the same time succesfull as expected by other Priests/Orders; there inability to do more was limited to the
wealth at hand. It took money and even; now takes money, to expand the Order.

Yidish religious groups have a very structured Order. A priest for every occasion; including Inventory/Treasurer. The priest in charge
of Treasury not only had access to the riches of the Order/Church, but also took on the responsiblity of praying in writting using
Hebrew & Aramaic text. Part of these writtings included the "Forgive me for I am Not wealthy enough and at this time need to find
more wealthy followers." prayer. Better known as: Samech-Alef-Lamed, which draws sustenance to us for financial success.



The Copper Scroll is simply, a hopeful Jewish prayer; asking for the proper words needed to persuade future wealthy followers; the
exact amount they need from each of them and their location, all in the name of expansion.

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Tony
9/6/2014 01:13:21 pm

Could be a language difference, but the past participle is "deciphered" (not, decyphered) and it's "providence" (not, provedance).

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Robert Feather link
6/28/2014 12:09:07 am

I don't mind critical comment, but when it is based on a complete misrepresentation of what I have said and written it is inaccurate and invalid. In reviewing my contribution and appearance in a TV Documentary ‘Treasures of The Gods’, Colavito says:
1. I claimed the Copper Scroll was 99.9% copper and therefore had to be from an Egyptian source – Wrong. I said it could have come from Egypt which was one of the few countries where such purity was available in ancient times.
2. I believe there is a conspiracy of academics to hide the fact that monotheism came out of Egypt. – Wrong. There are many academics who bury their heads in the sand and won’t dare consider the case I put forward, but many are four square in agreement with my ideas, including at least four professor and numerous serious modern academics and scholars, oh and including Freud!
3. I rearranged the Greek letters in the Copper Scroll to arrive at the name of Akhenaton – absolute nonsense. I analysed them in exactly the order they appear in the Copper Scroll and both Professor John Tait, of University College London, and Professor Rosalie David of Manchester University agree that my reading is ‘very feasible’. I won’t go on with the other misconceptions, but it would be a good idea if Mr Colavito read some of my books, like The Mystery of the Copper Scroll of Qumran, and The Secret Initiation of Jesus at Qumran, and tried to check his facts.
Incidentally I disassociate myself from the weird aliens theories projected in the programme and only appeared on condition I was not presented as believing in any of them and would not talk about them. I was sceptical about contributing but the list of questions they submitted were reasonable, and the people involved in the filming were professional and highly intelligent.
My above comments also apply to Pacal, but to imagine ‘the similarities between the Hymn to the Aton and Psalm 104 are apparently accidental’ simply is unsustainable. Read Assman and Hornung and Messod Sabbah, or simply put the two translations side by side and compare the sometimes identical phrases, order of ideas and mirroring of the Hebrew and the Hieroglyphics.

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Jason Colavito link
6/28/2014 03:13:07 am

Robert, this is a review of Ancient Aliens, which offers selected quotations from you that may or may not represent you fairly.

You state on the show (verbatim): “The only place you could find copper of that purity is in Egypt." That is why I said you believed it came from Egypt. That's a fairly obvious conclusion, and if you believe otherwise, it doesn't show up in the show.

You state on the show that the first ten Greek letters in the scroll form a phonetic version of the name Akhenaten, which is not a name attested in Greek. You would need to show that the Greek-speakers knew him by that name since the standard Greek version is Amenophis (i.e. Amenhotep). I’ll grant you that you don’t appear to have anagrammed them; that was the show making the letters spin around on screen as you talked, which is their fault for using misleading graphics. It isn't the first time that the show's on-screen graphics have implied claims that the advocate does not actually make.

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Robert Feather link
9/9/2014 09:41:47 pm

Fair comment Jason, filmakers often abuse information in the editing. I did, however, say '...could have come from Egypt'. Watch out for my next effort on 15th October on More 4 tv channnel, entitled ' Spear of Destiny'.

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Robert Feather link
9/9/2014 09:42:16 pm

OK, fair comment Jason, filmakers often abuse information in the editing. I did, however, say '...could have come from Egypt'. Watch out for my next effort on 15th October on More 4 tv channnel, entitled ' Spear of Destiny'.

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