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>Yesterday at 9 pm, in BBC Channel 4, there was a TV program

>caleld 'Lost Kingdoms of the Ice age' by George Hancock. This was the

>2nd part.

 

Some readers may be already be aware of the TV celebrity Hancock who has

already given us the 11,000 years old Sphinx, among other marvels.

 

Readers are well advised to counterbalance any such claims of "Alternative

Archaeology" --among the mesolithic hunter-gatherers!-- by checking out

the (non-Indological) "Hall of Ma'at" list that has a constant Hancock

watch.

 

http://www.maat.paradoxdesigns.com/

 

There, you can learn what really happens on the ocean floor of Cambay,

among other things...

 

For other creative re-inventions of the past, from the Indus to China and

Japan, see:

 

http://www.umass.edu/wsp/methodology/antiquity/index.html

 

 

Enjoy! MW

 

========================================================

Michael Witzel

Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University

2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138, USA

 

ph. 1- 617-496 2990 (also messages)

home page: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm

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Dear Prof. Witzel,

 

Greetings. Don't know whether Vijayaraghavan

knows Tamil at all, have not seen any reference

to old text or academic publication.

 

No wonder the journalist Hancock who goes by the

sayings of Frawley, N. S. Rajaram, ... is fully

embraced by him to push back the dates of RV (1200-1000 BCE).

 

Now that N. S. Rajaram, a B. E. degree holder

from BMS college of Bangalore, is on the

ICHR board, more of these TV programs will follow

saying it's from BBC. Pl see,

http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/210202/detFRO03.asp

 

BTW, I attended the Tata institute (IISc)

founded by C. V. Raman.

 

Kind regards,

N. Ganesan

 

 

INDOLOGY, Michael Witzel <witzel@f...> wrote:

> Some readers may be already be aware of the TV celebrity Hancock

>who has already given us the 11,000 years old Sphinx, among other

>marvels.

>

> Readers are well advised to counterbalance any such claims of

>"Alternative Archaeology" --among the mesolithic hunter-gatherers!--

> by checking out the (non-Indological) "Hall of Ma'at" list that

> has a constant Hancock watch.

>

> http://www.maat.paradoxdesigns.com/

>

> There, you can learn what really happens on the ocean floor of

Cambay,

> among other things...

>

> For other creative re-inventions of the past, from the Indus to

China and

> Japan, see:

>

> http://www.umass.edu/wsp/methodology/antiquity/index.html

>

>

> Enjoy! MW

>

> ========================================================

> Michael Witzel

> Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University

> 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138, USA

>

> ph. 1- 617-496 2990 (also messages)

> home page: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm

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INDOLOGY, "naga_ganesan" <naga_ganesan@h...> wrote:

>

>

> Dear Prof. Witzel,

>

> Greetings. Don't know whether Vijayaraghavan

> knows Tamil at all, have not seen any reference

> to old text or academic publication.

 

 

Dear Ganesan

 

The TV program was in English and hence knowledge of Tamil was not

relavant to understand the program

 

 

 

>

> No wonder the journalist Hancock who goes by the

> sayings of Frawley, N. S. Rajaram, ... is fully

> embraced by him to push back the dates of RV (1200-1000 BCE).

 

 

I just gave an objective report of the TV program. My comments were

in 'If.....then' statement. I don't see how you can conclude I fully

embrace Hancock's ideas.

 

 

>

> Now that N. S. Rajaram, a B. E. degree holder

> from BMS college of Bangalore, is on the

> ICHR board, more of these TV programs will follow

> saying it's from BBC.

 

Que sera sera.

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