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"...and it is obvious that it has been carved on the unprocessed (or unroughed?) part of the block, before the forming of the drafting and the rough surface of the block, and there was an attempt to erase it...[/i] This part of what he says (which has nothing to do with the pi issue) has been ...

One of the statements is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGw17Ub2ASM where he says "...and it is obvious that it has been carved on the unprocessed (or unroughed?) part of the block, before the forming of the drafting and the rough surface of the block, and there was an attempt to erase i...

More generally still, it does not seem actually to have been denied that the Πs have been cut off the end of the Paralebon-Hephaistion inscriptions. Actually it was denied, and it was specifically said that there is enough space for the Π to fit there. Archaeologists asked also during the Q&A s...

The data you have presented does not show that, if there is more disclose it, no probabilities are attached to the graph posted. Okay, so you need more help understanding the C-14 curve. I'm happy to oblige. :D Please note that the black and white bars represent first and second standard deviation ...

So what the curve actually shows is the uncalibrated result on the y-axis as a thick black line (2250 BP +- 30) then a further 30 years either side of that giving 2250 +- 60 years; this is then mapped to the calibration curve (blue wavy line) which gives two possible ranges 383-355 and 288-232. If ...

Still not finding any detail on the C14 results ie the probability curves, are they out there only the last time anyone tried second guessing the results from the announcements they have been shown to be hopelessly wrong :roll: Perhaps as much due to the announcements' built in layer of disinformat...

Wasn't doubting your recounting of what you heard Andrew :) Other ideas and attempts to explain are other ideas and attempts to explain. But we do have some important facts which may relate such as the siege and then subsequent major rebuilding. Whether one wants to posit old wood from the city bei...

Interesting if that's how they've done it. Thanks Andrew. One possibility for older wood is the refurbishment of Amphipolis done by Philip II after taking it. There was significant construction work in the city itself. Would builders camp out in a graveyard rather than across the (mooted) road like...

That is where they found the burned wooden samples for analysis (just above the tholos, west) I have managed to get to the bottom of this C-14 data. Some will recall the discussion of C-14 dating earlier in the thread and will have realised that there is something a bit fishy about the reported dat...

The rectangular infill of the floor in the first chamber probably means that that section of the floor was completed after the rest of the floor, because there was something in the way. But the area was filled in at an early stage, due to the similarity of the technique and the materials. It is also...

I don't think people are merely questioning the origin of the relationship of Olympias with snakes. It's more your conviction that where there is a snake it must mean Olympias, as if there could be no other reason for the portrayal of a serpent. If you don't see this as an indication of confirmatio...

The Romance sheds light upon Andrew’s Alexander, it is not him but Proteus who is the ‘son of the serpent’ and the whole story is a Ptolemaic construct probably post 306 and Ptolemy’s assumption of the kingship it is attested in Eratosthenes ap Strabo. Once again the detail points to the third cent...

Your headless statue looks more likely to be Orpheus to me, what makes you think Alexander and whence do you get 'the son of the serpent'? Daniel Ogden uses it as a chapter title but never seen it in the ancient literature. Even if the Kasta relief was intended as Alexander, he cannot have 3rd C ac...

A statue of Alexander the Great from Alexandria, where he was remembered as the Son of the Serpent.

I would not be so absolute Andrew. I have enough evidence to be absolute on this point. I have explained my reasoning on multiple bases with the exception of some complicated trigonometry, which it is not practicable to share here. The Millers put this block into their category "I.B Low Full T...