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crystalinks.com — Did the ancients have flying ships? Did the ships belong to their gods?

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  • wstrucke, on 10/21/2007, -77/+61i've read a few books on ancient civilizations that reference these indian texts and I have to say, I find the ideas they present intriguing.
    • royall64, on 10/21/2007, -14/+204It has been proved that these photos are coincidences. They are simply one set of hieroglyphics on top of another that look like planes and such.

      http://www.catchpenny.org/abydos.html
      • akula696969, on 10/15/2007, -15/+12That website you linked does not contain anything that I would consider "proof". Weak conjecture....maybe.
        • crichton101, on 10/15/2007, -2/+26You mean like the weak conjecture made in favor of them being about airships and ufos? Simply because the design looks like a helicopter it must be a helicopter?
        • kageki, on 10/15/2007, -2/+2Crichton - what is it then an apple?
          • xister, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Yes, because Anubis had EVERYthing to do with jackals. That's the kind of analogies that are being made here.
        • Godlike, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Just ask Daniel Jackson...
      • victorycig, on 10/15/2007, -0/+12Mmmm, excellent vetting. This is what I like to see on digg!
      • djphatjive, on 10/15/2007, -2/+3I think the other website is better. There for there right!
      • kageki, on 10/15/2007, -1/+1Here is an article that shows it's not a result of a chaotic palimpsest:

        http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/egipto/abydos/ab ...
        http://www.vejprty.com/abyhelic.htm
      • DonKarnage25, on 10/15/2007, -2/+4How can something be proven a coincidence?
        That's basically just saying "We've found no evidence to link these hieroglyphics to anything we know of right now.. so we're giving up."
        • Tanath, on 10/15/2007, -1/+1Technically... ? By proving the events in question occured simultaneously, while being causally unrelated. I'm sure you can think of examples. :P
    • spect3r, on 10/15/2007, -6/+133Clearly they are ROFLCopters
      • moskaudancer, on 10/15/2007, -1/+10Except for the Aluminum Falcon one.
        • sanman, on 10/15/2007, -0/+7That's "Millenium", man -- as in "these hieroglyphics are more than a millenium old"
    • EmperorAwesome, on 10/15/2007, -0/+9Intriguing, yes, but I was turned off to the fact that the author was basing these theories on the principle that our reality was a computer program, and that our linear timeline is just referencing an ancient database chronologically.
      • xister, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3Guess he got some of his ideas from Douglas Adams.
    • bluezinc, on 10/15/2007, -1/+9I find your face to be intriguing. Plz don't speak about how knowledgeable you are on something and then not produce any actual knowledge on the subject.
      kthxbai
      • Blandyman, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2For a stupid comment (the face part) I lol'd pretty damn loud.

        Sarcasm is king :)
    • ophello, on 10/15/2007, -5/+3There seems to be good info here, not spun or biased.

      biased towards open mindedness to possibility, perhaps.
    • Markpdotcom, on 10/15/2007, -2/+5The most interesting book I read on this subject was Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock, yes there is some stuff about possible Myan/Egyptian aeroplanes/gliders, but some more interesting hypothesis about the origins of man and how information was passed down by stories and religion. A good read if you get the chance :)
    • TheTaoOfBill, on 10/15/2007, -2/+2I would think if they did have planes and such there would be evidence of it. Something like a hanger or a runway or SOMETHING to show their existence. One thing is for sure, the ancient peoples of Egypt and other ancient cultures were very advanced for their time. How they managed to build such wonders as the pyramids and the sphinx we may never know.
      • madmage, on 10/15/2007, -1/+2Slave labour?

        Honestly, I don't get why people don't understand that a person with power doesn't need technology to make something spectacular, just a strong will, no morals (from our point of view), and a workforce of slaves.
      • Godlike, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1The pyramids were landing pads for spaceships...
    • Soniti, on 10/15/2007, -0/+9Holy *****. Crystalinks finally made it to digg. The front page, with almost 1800 diggs no less.
      Look at their layout, and tell me I'm crazy when I say: There is no hope for the internet.
  • webcure, on 10/15/2007, -76/+28I really love this article. I have seen these before and find them fascinating.
    Good digg my friend!
    "Their method of propulsion, she said, was "anti-gravitational" and was based upon a system analogous to that of "laghima," the unknown power of the ego existing in man's physiological makeup, "a centrifugal force strong enough to counteract all gravitational pull." According to Hindu Yogis, it is this "laghima" which enables a person to levitate."
    This reminds me of dreams that I have of flying. I push myself off the ground with my solar plexus.
    Very intriguing topic indeed!
    • Dylan47, on 10/15/2007, -1/+7wtf are you talking about..
      Centripetal force pushes outwards, creating a pseudo gravity.
      A peak in a roller coaster is a good example, the two forces level out and for a small time you feel weightless.
      but i don't see how this relates to levitating... or solar plexis'
      • maroon1872, on 10/15/2007, -0/+6centripetal force is a center seeking force, the inaccurately termed centrifugal force is just inertia acting upon a circular trajectory, so on a roller coaster, it's just inertia because your body is trying to move at the same velocity.
    • datastorageguy, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Tom Cruise is that you?
    • Godlike, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1So, when you're smart but suck at real science, I guess you just start making up complete ***** and piling it on top of other people's ***** but in the end, what have you got? Some weird beliefs and a great big heaping pile of, well, *****.
  • milos31, on 10/15/2007, -35/+18Very interesting and strange
  • digitalmineral, on 10/16/2007, -68/+24either it's true or it's clever photoshop work. as a graphic designer I know it's possible.
    • WhereAmI, on 10/15/2007, -3/+19Then your new to this whole 'Egypt' thing. These have been around for awhile, long before photoshop (and I don't mean thousands of years, I mean the helicopter one especially have been on TV before).
      • darkfire532, on 10/15/2007, -2/+12you're
      • Herostratos, on 10/15/2007, -6/+2He's saying he's ruling out the possibility that the image of the hieroglyphs has been photoshopped...
        He's an idiot for believing in UFO's and stuff, but still, not understanding what he says when critizising him is kinda stupid too.
        • TheProtested, on 10/15/2007, -1/+2congratulations, you just insulted yourself
    • alibenx, on 10/16/2007, -10/+17I just can't agree with you here. This couldn't have been photoshopped because the images are embossed. We just don't have the technology to simulate embossing.
      • TheDrop, on 10/16/2007, -2/+7I hear they're almost ready to release a beta version of bevel though.
      • Heiliger, on 10/15/2007, -1/+8Thank you alibenx.. That made me laugh. Awesome.
      • meeshmeesh, on 10/15/2007, -15/+1wow...we don't have the technology huh? thats just sad that you think that. maybe you should start paying attention to what people can do to images in photoshop and stop commenting on stuff you don't have a clue about.
        • twinklyJesus, on 10/15/2007, -1/+9Another Digger felled by the evil stealth cricket bat, sarcasm.
        • Blandyman, on 10/19/2007, -1/+6Holy *****. Someone get this bitch a sarcasm detector.
    • sanman, on 10/15/2007, -0/+4Impossible -- the ancient Egyptians didn't have Photoshop back then.

      (Or did they?)
    • c0baltfish, on 10/15/2007, -0/+5Thank you for narrowing it down to the ONLY two universal possibilities.
  • snowbooch, on 11/03/2007, -24/+438come on, there are tons of glyphs which can look like anything, it's like staring at clouds. and a helicopter? surely the gods would fly something better.
    • resplence, on 10/22/2007, -4/+28And the "glider" is such a stretch.
    • Sexton65, on 10/22/2007, -5/+29As Kirk would say: "Why does God need a helicopter?"
      • sanman, on 10/15/2007, -3/+7So that he can lay down the firepower?
        When the old testament refers to hellfire, it was talking about Lockheed-Martin ordinance.
    • nymphetamine, on 11/04/2007, -3/+16The real gods drive Big Wheels.
    • Dustmuffins, on 10/15/2007, -5/+17They are actually several glyphs on top of each other, buried as inaccurate.
      • Pschkqitzsough, on 10/15/2007, -2/+1If that was true, why are there multiple glyphs that all look like flying machines right next to each other? If you are right then that is a lot of coincidences. i.e. multiple glyphs coincidentally looked like flying machines coincidentally in the same vicinity.
        • xister, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2Bad logic- they look like flying machines to us because we have something similar to match them. Not to mention that you're assuming that they are in fact flying machines.
    • clothmonkey, on 10/15/2007, -9/+14Here on Digg, we all know that the gods fly around on iPhones... ;)
      • Pokez, on 10/22/2007, -0/+22Duh....what do you think "airplane" mode is for?
        • clothmonkey, on 10/17/2007, -0/+1Bravo, sir! A digg is simply not sufficient for that line.
    • ophello, on 10/15/2007, -2/+6no one is prepared to say what "gods" means, or what they would fly.

      thats just bad, lazy postulation
    • signal15, on 11/04/2007, -7/+39This is true, however, there are some interesting tidbits of information in the old Indian texts. One mentions something about mercury being used in these engines. NASA is current experimenting with injecting mercury vapor into an ion engine, which gives it hundreds to thousands of times more thrust because of the increased mass of the particles exiting the engine. Another story talks about how a city was wiped out from a weapon which caused the heat of 10,000 suns, and the people that didn't fry had their hair and fingernails fall out and then they died. They have actually located a site of an ancient city which has radiation levels hundreds of times what they should be, and lots of sand that has been melted into glass.

      Wikipedia has some interesting information on Vimanas, and there is a lot of other stuff out there on google. Given that the earth is 5 billion years old, and traces of human existence do not last that long in the grand scheme of things, we would have to be fairly conceited to think that the last 3000 years were the first time "advanced" civilization occured on this planet. I'm not saying it did happen, but you cannot disprove it.
      • Yoshi39, on 10/15/2007, -18/+10"I'm not saying it did happen, but you cannot disprove it."
        I'm not saying that there is an invisible and undetectable spoon circling your head but you can't disprove it.
        • kuzotz, on 10/15/2007, -8/+6Yoshi you're an idiot. There is so much to learn. You might be surprised if an ancient civilization had infrastructures similar to ours. Hell they might now use electricity or oil to power themselves, but they might have found other ways of doing it. The problem is that yea. Nothing stays forever in the realm of humans. So we might never know. Like por ejemplo the Roman Empire was extremely advanced in engineering. Yet we have very few knowledge of their engineering innovations(we know what they are, but we don't know 100% of the math behind it.). Modern day engineering is based off an engineer known as St. Patrick. We don't have 100% of the knowledge that the Romans had. Hell not even 100% of the knowledge that the Egyptians had.
          Though some things haven't advanced much other things have. Such as transportation, and communication.

        • Blandyman, on 10/15/2007, -3/+1kuzotz:

          I love how you did the typical Spanish-American thing we all do and you toss some spanish into your sentences. por ejemplo made my ***** day, lolol.

          Not being a dick or undermining anyone, but por ejemplo means "for example". Just a heads up to my non-spanish-speaking diggers out there :)
      • Palliard, on 10/15/2007, -2/+6Actually I CAN disprove it. There has been no civilization with advanced technology on this earth prior to ours, and it is demonstrable by this simple fact:
        All of the things, the iron and copper in the ground, the marble quarries, all the STUFF that makes for an advanced civilization, was still here for us to dig up. Nobody had beat us to it, the resources were entirely unexploited.
        While there may possibly have been a civilization of cyclopean cities of piled stones and ships made of bamboo, there can not have been a civilization with anything we would call technology in the past, or they would have left us with a lot of dessicated holes where our present copper and iron mines are.
        • xister, on 10/15/2007, -1/+2Not to mention that something as advanced as a helicopter requires an amazing amount of technology know-how to make it work. The simple ball bearing, with which NO helicopter could function without, simply couldn't have been made to the tolerances needed for it to be workable with the tools available to people thousands of years ago.
      • OsiVert, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2That "weapon" kind of sounds like what scientists think happen during a gamma ray burst.
    • kuzotz, on 10/15/2007, -12/+1glyphs were a written language. Saying that looking at glyphs is like looking at clouds its like saying the letter "A" looks like a penis.
      • p2a1x7, on 10/20/2007, -1/+12Glyphs are pictographs...
      • frieddonuts, on 10/15/2007, -3/+2You know, I was going to respond to that letter A statement, but I decided to take the high road.
    • keeganspeck, on 10/15/2007, -1/+14Good point, but why is there so little evidence of a previous, highly advanced advanced civilization? I mean, if they were as advanced as we are now, and had space ships, don't you think there would be materials that would last a long long time? Say, twinkies. Or other types of plastic (haha?). Anyway, I can understand an ancient civilization in the classic sense dissolving into little evidence, but if our people were wiped out today, there would be a ***** load of artifacts, and loads of evidence of our influence on the environment.
    • arjie, on 10/15/2007, -1/+2This is so true! When I went to Egypt, I swear I saw a couple of hieroglyphs that could mean a rocket. A rocket like in an honest-to-God rocket like in the Tintin comics, pointing upwards and all. Naturally, the Egyptians probably just made a sort of pentagonal phallus thing, but it looked like a cartoon rocket!

      Oh, and that's not a 'glider'.
    • spankaccount, on 10/15/2007, -1/+2"surely the gods would fly something better." Or photoshop something better...
  • DevastatorIIC, on 10/16/2007, -41/+26Conspiracy theorists never cease to amuse me.
    • norman619, on 10/15/2007, -13/+9Please tell us how this is a conspiracy. It's just an alternate interpretation of the glyphs.
      • KingGorilla, on 10/15/2007, -1/+13the text is actually two sets of hieroglyphs with one written on top of the other. royall64 found a nice link here it is again
        http://www.catchpenny.org/abydos.html
        • xister, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Nice find- Helicopters indeed...

          /sarcasm on the helicopters part
      • donmanguno, on 10/15/2007, -7/+12alternate interpretation? anyone who believes this ***** is an idiot.
        • norman619, on 10/15/2007, -3/+5I agree but it does not change the truth of what I said. W/O ANY real proof it's just an idea. Show me the dugg up wrecks of these ancient helicopters, jets, and subs then I'll give these people more attention.
        • norman619, on 10/15/2007, -4/+3Or better yet show me the plans. Someone had to design these things. I would expect egyptologists to have found something more about these craft if there were real. Since there hasn't been such a find I will have to side with the majority of the folks here and say this is BS.
    • ophello, on 10/15/2007, -7/+4pessimists who live in a box never cease to confuse me.
      • johnnyzero, on 10/15/2007, -0/+6it's actually more pessimistic to believe that we have some how degraded technologically over the past few thousand years.
      • johnnyzero, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3further more, science has spent a long time working on the boundary conditions for that box, so we know exactly where it is. you can't even begin to step outside of the box without clearly defined boundaries, since most quacks don't even know where the boundaries are, how can they claim to be outside of it?
    • thebenallen, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3Well, although the article didn't contain anything about conspiracies, the main web page has a section dedicated to them as well as sections on 2012 and the ilk.
  • wittyname, on 10/15/2007, -40/+8Maybe this shows the observance of a developing alien nation, thousands of years ahead of our race.
    • norman619, on 10/15/2007, -4/+21Why do you people seem to cling to the idea of aliens as the only possible explanation for odd things like this. Most things can be explained in HUMAN terms pretty easily. You seem to think humans can't so much as wipe their asses w/o alien intervention. There are many examples of archaeological finds of extreme age which tend to say our view of ancient human history is very wrong. Ancient man may not have been as ignorant or primitive as we would like to believe.
      • Abomonog, on 10/15/2007, -5/+4Have you ever thought that the odds of Earth holding the universes only civilization are practically nil?
        However, the odds of another civilization being able to make it's way across the universe to here are not much better.
        • norman619, on 10/15/2007, -2/+7And you know this how? Your first point is obvious to any sane person. Your second one is 100% BS. How can you even begin to assume what the capability of an alien civilization is? Do you think we are the oldest civ in the universe? When was the last time we met one? Your claim is based on our very limited knowledge of physics and our own inability to leave our own system. It's not based on any facts what so ever. It reminds of the famous Drake Equation.
      • imikedaman, on 10/14/2007, -3/+2You really need to get a sense of humor.
        • norman619, on 10/15/2007, -2/+4And you know the reply I replied to was a joke how? You do know there are a large number of people who believe this crap right? Posts like this bring them out.
          • imikedaman, on 10/15/2007, -0/+5"And you know the reply I replied to was a joke how?"

            If you don't know if it's a joke or not, it's probably best not to be a flaming ***** about it. And I'm pretty sure the large group of people who believe that crap aren't known for frequenting technology news sites.
        • Dylan47, on 10/15/2007, -1/+2wittynames opinion however ridiculous should be repected, thats a downfall of this digg system, if there is a minority opinion it is dugg down and down and no-one reads it again.. seem right to you?
          • xister, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1So you're saying that if someone posts to Digg and says, OMG! The Flying Spaghetti Monster is for real and I can prove it with a few simple equations!" We should respect that opinion and just say, "OK bud You can believe that"? What the hell is the digg-down button for, then? I believe in a rational pursuit of the truth, and I hate it when people come on here spreading crackpot theories and disinformation.
      • ophello, on 10/15/2007, -3/+3maybe you should get your head out of your ass and stop lumping "you people" into a belief system that you 'think' they have?

        no one said "ALIENS ARE THE ONLY EXPLANATION".

        but when we find EVIDENCE, we are supposed to STUDY IT, dude.
        • rationalist, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2It has been studied, you just choose not to read the debunking of this particular nonsense, links to which have been posted here repeatedly.
    • Coded1, on 10/15/2007, -10/+3Maybe ... we are the resulting alien race ;)

      Deep thoughts by Jack Handy
      • norman619, on 10/14/2007, -2/+3Nope. If we were alien then we'd see proof of this in our own DNA. That would be something very hard to miss.
        • moskaudancer, on 10/14/2007, -1/+2If we were "aliens", we most likely wouldn't even *have* DNA, or at least different codons.
          • norman619, on 10/14/2007, -1/+2No alien only mean not from here. Does not mean they don't have DNA. If there are other populated worlds perhaps there are some where cell reproduction isn't based on DNA. If DNA worked fine here it most likely works elsewhere as well.
          • xister, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1@norman: But then again, this is all wild speculation, isn't it?
        • Dylan47, on 10/15/2007, -3/+1If humans had different codons, then those codons would be our standard and there would be nothing different. (im sure you get what i mean)
          But please correct me if I'm missing something.
        • madmage, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2The other billion or so specicies of life out there that have the same codons as us. That's what you're missing.
  • JonnyTrombone, on 10/21/2007, -36/+23***** article -> ***** comments
    • wastedlife, on 10/15/2007, -12/+5And your's is another one.
      Probably this one too.
      Digg me down you ruthless bastards!
    • shinynew, on 10/15/2007, -4/+4Come on people start burying ***** articles.
    • c0baltfish, on 10/15/2007, -0/+0Proof: Jonny Trombone
  • wesheets, on 10/15/2007, -13/+23good stuff...i'll have to post some mayan glyphs for ya...even better than the egyptians
  • cliquee, on 10/15/2007, -25/+4amazing.. good post...
  • satanatnmtedu, on 10/28/2007, -8/+155If you look at something with the current knowledge, you will eventually see things that seem like current technology in ancient writings. If you are deluded by this fact when you are misinterpreting this pictographs, then you deserve to be called a kook.
    I am constant amazed at the gullibility of people.
    • norman619, on 10/15/2007, -38/+6I am constantly amazed at the arrogance of people.
      • resplence, on 10/15/2007, -2/+24Because we don't jump to conclusions without any shred of supporting evidence that makes us arrogant?
      • pjdk28, on 10/15/2007, -3/+14I'm amazed at the arrogance of alien-UFO nuts, creationists, 'paranormal investigators' or anybody who is selling coincidence or fantasy without proof or logic
    • rolfeman02, on 10/15/2007, -2/+30Hey did you know that 'gullible' is not in the dictionary?
      • sowhat5828, on 10/15/2007, -2/+21seriously?!? let me check...
        Hey wait a minute!!!
      • ascalonx, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2Oh, Rupert, touché. Hoisted by my own petard! .... I am so alone
    • ophello, on 10/15/2007, -12/+2um....so the heiroglyphs that explain, in detail, how to operate flying machines, dont lend credibility?

      RTFA
      • iamafatguy, on 10/15/2007, -1/+6LATFP
        (look at the Farkin' Pictures)
        So where, now, are these detailed explanations in the heiroglyphs?

        Oh, that's right, there are none.

        /Did that sound arrogant?
      • ophello, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1dude. i cant read friggen heiroglyphs. theres an extensive explanation in the article. if your too lazy to read the information, have fun drawing faulty conclusions.
    • Bamborzled, on 10/15/2007, -0/+5Here's an insightful documentary into the gullibility of the human race. I strongly suggest you check it out:
      http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8651846183 ...
    • MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/15/2007, -2/+1I'd say it's possible that some of things may have been prophecized. They may have had these things back then (if this reality is a fake) and some ancient civilizations may have had advanced technology, but were lost for one reason or another.

      These are things that according to how we understand the universe could in some minuscule way be possible. It's probably just a cherry picked list of glyphs on the other hand. But it's worth looking into.
  • RubberBinder, on 10/28/2007, -3/+193We obviously figured out time travel in the future and we went back to see the Egyptians. We brought some of our technology as an experiment to see how they would react.
    Duh!
    • m0laria, on 10/28/2007, -2/+55Also, George Lucas is head of the time machine program and in charge of time-machine space-ship design for all countries in the world. As a result of this, all space ships in the future look like ships from star wars.
    • MrAndrews, on 10/15/2007, -2/+18No kidding. There's more than just flying machines, too... http://dustrunners.blogspot.com/2007/10/ancient-mp ...
      There's so much we don't know about those crazy Egyptians...
    • mahdaeng, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Yeah - technology, and some Star Wars toys too.
  • PerfektXj, on 10/15/2007, -12/+5UFO's!
  • ImperfectFreak, on 10/22/2007, -4/+180Glider. WTF?! That is a Land Speeder.
    • joshuagor44, on 10/15/2007, -4/+3Yeah, I think so too.
    • redled, on 10/22/2007, -0/+23It looks like a Womprat. I used to shoot those things back home.
    • Racerx52, on 10/22/2007, -0/+20It's obvious that ancient Egyptians were bullseyeing womprats
    • theodenking, on 10/15/2007, -0/+6Yeah, how could they mistake that common "modern day flying machine".
    • crichton101, on 10/15/2007, -0/+4Shhhh, he couldn't write that, he's already in danger of being sued just for showing a picture of the damn thing.

      /sarcasm
  • allyant, on 10/22/2007, -9/+29You could say these look like anything...
    • Goldbricker, on 10/15/2007, -18/+0I suppose so, but the helicopter one really looks convincing.

      I suspect this is a faked photo; however, so it makes the whole thing moot.
      • hollowex, on 10/15/2007, -0/+10it's actually not fake. The official line story goes that these are several glyphs carved on top one another.
    • allyant, on 10/22/2007, -2/+39You could say that the "Submarine" pic is a dildo...
      • cgruber, on 10/22/2007, -1/+13Hot
      • RobotBuddha, on 10/22/2007, -1/+7I think it looks a lot like a bic pen. Even has the little holder thing on it.
    • yaazz, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2I thought the Millennium Falcon was a Curling rock.... Yes I am from Canada
  • Hockey13, on 10/26/2007, -14/+294"Did the ancients have flying ships? Did the ships belong to their gods?"

    No.
    • Pschkqitzsough, on 10/15/2007, -7/+0Don't all of you people talking about clouds and coincidences think it is odd that there are multiple hieroglyphics that look like flying machines all in one small area. Now that is one hell of a coincidence.
      • xister, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2Don't you think it's even more amazing that this is the only place in the whole of Egyptian history that they're mentioned?
        • mahdaeng, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1It's all a cover-up. You see, the Egyptians carefully hid their technology to keep it from falling into the hands of their enemies (e.g., the Nubians). Some traitor probably decided to slip some images of their technology into some engravings just to stick it to the man. You'll notice that we're never told who made those engravings. My theory is that he was snuffed out by the ruling elite. Doubt me if you may.
  • RSS14, on 10/15/2007, -16/+5Now wait for the conspiracy theorists . . .
  • Brodels, on 10/22/2007, -6/+273buried, everyone knows it was the native americans that flew apaches, not the ancient egyptians.
    • whataboutdave, on 10/22/2007, -2/+70Ancient Egyptians flew cobras.

      Oh, you knew it was coming.
      • moskaudancer, on 10/22/2007, -0/+21The photographed chopper in the article isn't even an Apache, it's a Comanche. Though I guess the joke would stay the same.

        Sweet naming conventions we have, huh? :)
  • mhanley, on 10/22/2007, -6/+61Obligatory Stargate reference. "located several hundred miles south of Cairo and the Giza Plateau, at Abydos" Everyone knows that Abydos is the planet where SG-1 defeated Ra, and Daniel met Sha're. This is probably where the gate was buried on Earth!
    • edru, on 10/22/2007, -14/+5nerd
    • Hetman, on 10/22/2007, -4/+17Who do you prefer as Jack o Neill. Kurt Russell or Richard dean anderson. I prefer Richard.
      • graemee, on 10/15/2007, -0/+5That's Why one has two 'l's in his name and the other one. They are different. I like both guys, but it would have been nice if Kurt had made a cameo on SG1.
      • centran, on 10/15/2007, -0/+9Kurt Russell is the better "soldier" but as a better character that you can grow to love Richard Dean Anderson takes it.
      • mhanley, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2RDA FTW!
    • h4mx0r, on 10/15/2007, -0/+5I find it funny that it took so long just for the first stargate comment.
    • meez, on 10/15/2007, -0/+4Indeed. Just like everyone knows they had puddle jumpers. Who knows whether they brought them to Earth with them? :)
    • kenadamsmith, on 10/17/2007, -3/+1they also found a stargate in Michigan http://www.digg.com/general_sciences/Ancient_Flyin ...
  • jcm267, on 10/16/2007, -12/+5I saw these years ago
  • g2g079, on 10/15/2007, -5/+25The 5th Element!
  • heyiquit, on 10/15/2007, -12/+64Even for a conspiracy/UFO page, it's a bad one. Buried as *****.
    • jcm267, on 10/15/2007, -2/+9I've seen this ***** on TV. Probably Discovery or TLC before they turned into complete *****. If I saw it more recently, then it was on History, but I think I saw this like 10 years ago.
      • norman619, on 10/15/2007, -0/+9Yes this has been around since I was in highschool. That's 20 years ago.
        • tyywebb, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3I think it's been around since ancient Egypt...
        • sicgamer, on 10/15/2007, -1/+1You had interwebz 20 years ago?
          • xister, on 10/15/2007, -1/+1Shut up kid- yer makin' me feel old...
  • iStunT, on 10/15/2007, -18/+8The resemblence is uncanny. That just gave me the chills. Pretty ***** wierd.
    • norman619, on 10/15/2007, -1/+5Oh keep digging. You will find other pages like this who sear there are drawings of the little gray dudes which have become such a part of our pop culture. These people refuse to change their view even AFTER it's been shown those odd characters are the result of erosion.
    • ophello, on 10/15/2007, -4/+2RTFA...actually, RTWFA (whole). theres more than pictographs
  • cyberdork, on 10/15/2007, -32/+8Something for the Ron Paul crowd ;-)
    • thebellmaster1x, on 10/15/2007, -2/+8what.
    • sanman, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2Ron Paul never flew ancient spaceships. I don't care how old you say he is -- that's just another MSM lie.
    • rationalist, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2"We can see the blueprints for the North American Union in those Hieroglyphs."
  • supremespleen, on 10/15/2007, -4/+23Who cares if it is just our brains associating old hieroglyphics with current technology? It is cool to see ancient facsimiles of modern technology chiseled into rock.
    • RobotBuddha, on 10/15/2007, -8/+4Who cares? It's the difference between artwork and having our conception of not only our nature as humans changed, but our understanding of physics itself altered to the core. It'd be the biggest change in the history of western civilization.
  • 0crabby0, on 10/15/2007, -16/+3Nazca Lines

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_lines

    Inhabitants probably used a hot-air balloon or large kite to view and make them.
    • donmanguno, on 10/15/2007, -0/+18Direct quote from the article you linked.

      "Furthermore, researchers such as Joe Nickell of the University of Kentucky, have reproduced the figures using the technology available to the Nazca Indians of the time without aerial supervision. With careful planning and simple technologies, a small team of individuals could recreate even the largest figures within a couple of days."

      so yeah... probably not a hot air balloon or a large kite, as that is ***** ridiculous.
    • carpespasm, on 10/15/2007, -0/+8or geometry and scaling.
  • nizzy1115, on 10/15/2007, -18/+7ive researched this a lot. while this site presents the topic in a very unprofessional way, do your own research, and i think you will be surprised at your findings. i believe...
    • Thepirateking, on 10/15/2007, -13/+3I dugg you down for not offering anything other then "this webpage sucks"
      • chessmaster2000, on 10/15/2007, -0/+14I dugg you down for not knowing how to spell "than"
        • Thepirateking, on 10/15/2007, -4/+2I dugg you up for being right. Guess having a newborn in the house makes me loopy. :)
  • Ev3nt372, on 10/15/2007, -2/+11It is purely by chance since there are so many types of hieroglyphics and many of them contained variations of birds and fish. The better proof would be in the translation rather than the symbol itself.
    • whataboutdave, on 10/15/2007, -0/+11Yeah you would think if they had this amazing foreknowledge of human flight they would explicitly write about it rather than making combinations of glyphs that sorta looked like modern aircraft.
    • norman619, on 10/15/2007, -2/+7Let's not forget the egyptians were aware of flight. They had toy gliders.
  • fiberspy, on 10/15/2007, -3/+82So Han lied, the Egyptians made the Kessell run in less than 5 parsecs
    • rmeddy, on 10/15/2007, -1/+16isn't a parsec a unit of length instead of time?
      • sowhat5828, on 10/15/2007, -1/+31either way your still a virgin
      • thebellmaster1x, on 10/15/2007, -0/+10Yeah; Lucas gave the cop-out answer that the point of the Kessell Run was to come as close as possible to dangerous things and make the trip shorter distance-wise. Really, he just didn't know what a parsec was when he wrote the script.
      • AHippie, on 10/15/2007, -0/+6i thought the whole point of the kessel run being in less than whatever parsecs was that he went close enough to black holes to warp the distance or something?
    • DrainBamaged138, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1lol but nothings faster than the millennium falcon dude
    • alteran1, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1lol yeah paresec is distance not time lol
  • HyperionHK, on 10/23/2007, -4/+44How am I supposed to take this crap seriously when the glyphs are being compared to STAR WARS vehicles......
    The only one that looks like anything modern is the Helicopter one, which could also just as easily be a person holding a staff, just turned sideways
  • Keon, on 10/15/2007, -3/+51So you're saying the ancient Egyptians were...fans of Star Wars?

    By the way the Millennium Falcon is not an Unidentified Flying Object.
  • m0laria, on 10/15/2007, -2/+38Amun Ra may have flewn the Millenium Falcon, but Osiris flew an X-Wing.
  • gldfshnpcklejar, on 10/15/2007, -15/+9OMG I SUDDENLY BELIEVE!
    not.
  • jaynemother, on 10/15/2007, -7/+13Even if it is a coincidence it's still pretty cool
  • vikingsqb11, on 10/15/2007, -23/+0i think thts fake because they had starwars cruser on the pics and tht just doesnt make sense. but who knows these days.
  • whataboutdave, on 10/15/2007, -1/+21The most sensible explanation is that the ancients knew all about Star Wars vehicles. Duh.
    • cgruber, on 10/15/2007, -1/+30Well.. It WAS a long time ago.
      • h4mx0r, on 10/15/2007, -0/+8in a galaxy far far... Oh wait.
        • skyfire1, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2Star Wars first premiered in Andromeda. Didn't you know?
          • xister, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Soooo I guess it's possible a few bootleg copies made it here for the Ancient Egyptians. If they had helicopters, they probably had VHS.
  • rot13ubercrypto, on 10/15/2007, -12/+5I read a hilarious short story once -- situated at some point in the future, when the representatives of the Earth imperium (or whatever interstellar empire du jour it was) are visiting some planet that, due to relativistic travel delays, is pretty behind. The planet's residents resemble ethnic Chinese; one of the ship's crewmen is Chinese, and tells a story about how the ancient Chinese creation legend was based on his people being brought from the heavens in some kind of fiery chariot.
    The story goes on to talk about possible similarities between elements of Chinese culture (i.e. demons cannot walk around corners, this being equivalent to baffles designed to keep out radiation in modern spaceships -- radiation being "the fiery demons") ad absurdum. It concludes with one of the planet's inhabitants approaching the officer in charge and asking for a ride.

    Comparisons like this are hilarious and interesting; if you've ever seen the Nazca lines in Peru and any number of other archaeological relics you can drive yourself crazy for hours looking for possible associations with ancient spacemen; required reading is Erich von Daniken's "Chariots of the Gods" -- mainly bunk, but still of fun in a "***** or not? You decide" kind of way.

    Either way, fun article.
  • ZenFountain, on 10/15/2007, -15/+1fuuuuuuuuck
    • c0baltfish, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1You are an idiot, when are you going to realize that comment is stupid in any context? After -1000 diggs?
  • mikesbaker, on 10/15/2007, -9/+15FTA:
    alines exist
    also I just became a lot stupider after reading that
    • sowhat5828, on 10/15/2007, -4/+11i can tell... its spelled a-l-i-e-n-s
      • keeganspeck, on 10/15/2007, -0/+4Did you read the article? It was pretty much the first sentence.
    • vinecrawler, on 10/15/2007, -1/+5plus, I don't believe "stupider" is a word.
      • keeganspeck, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3Actually, believe it or not, it is. I had to check just in case, but yeah, it is.
    • rationalist, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Alines ate ur brainz?
  • donkeySays, on 10/15/2007, -12/+4Those glyphs refer to toy planes and helicopters, not real flying machines, you idiot.
    • iamafatguy, on 10/15/2007, -0/+5Don't you mean "Ancient Egyptian toy planes and helicopters?"

      Wait.... What?
  • limezor2, on 10/15/2007, -3/+12Dugg for Millennium Falcon.
  • Aviatora, on 10/15/2007, -6/+2Holy crap! The first thing I thought of while reading that article was S.M. Stirling's excellent alternative history 'Nantucket' series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._M._Stirling#Nantuc ...

  • MrFluffZ, on 10/15/2007, -4/+7OH MY GOD A GIANT ROCK!
    • h4mx0r, on 10/15/2007, -1/+6It's going to be hard to top that...
      OH MY GOD, ANOTHER GIANT ROCK!
  • NekoAmplifier, on 10/15/2007, -6/+2Because ancient people had no imagination. *****, buried.
  • yoda17, on 10/15/2007, -3/+9Yes they did have these. In fact we have them today. Everyone can see and uses them in everyday life. Except for you because nobody likes you. We're all hiding these from you. I'm going to Jupiter later on today after I finish breakfast.
    • xister, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1Good- and when you get back take a minute to learn how to use the reply button.
  • thebarry2001, on 10/15/2007, -27/+1PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP
    PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP
    PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP PHOTOCHOP
  • cgruber, on 10/15/2007, -9/+12You know whats funny about these things? Ok so they have the technology to make a helicopter yet they still draw like caveman.
    • todd.cole, on 10/15/2007, -0/+14But they saved tons of money on their Millennium Falcon insurance.
    • iamafatguy, on 10/15/2007, -0/+7"First of all, I'm not 100% in love with your tone right now."
    • databoy, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1You clown, they were carved in solid stone. Try chiselling a glyph into solid stone, you will only get an outline.
      • arjie, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2Yes, liquid stone works _much_ better.
  • calebh, on 10/15/2007, -9/+8It seems stargate is getting more true each day
  • solid12345, on 10/15/2007, -4/+15If the ancient Egyptians had UFOs why didn't they use their machines to settle in other parts of the world like europeans used ships to colonize the new world?
    • donkeySays, on 10/15/2007, -5/+2Cos they thought the world ends after a certain perimeter and no one dared to explore beyond it.
    • DanJohnHarris, on 10/15/2007, -1/+3Solid.
      UFO does not mean Flying Craft. They are not interchangeable. A UFO is something we see in the sky without knowing what it is, 'Unidentified Flying Object.'
    • MEGAMERICAN, on 10/15/2007, -0/+3Why do you assume that the Egyptians were in control of the UFO's they depicted? Assuming of course that the pictures were types of flying craft.
    • kageki, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2Maybe they visited other places but weren't interesting in colonizing the "new world"?
    • databoy, on 10/15/2007, -3/+0Where is the proof that Egyptians built the pyramids and carved the glyphs?
  • 3allawi, on 10/15/2007, -19/+1Fake Photoshop for sure
    • donmanguno, on 10/15/2007, -2/+7wrong http://www.catchpenny.org/abydos.html
      • 3allawi, on 01/18/2008, -0/+1well, your link does not prove anything. a credible source would be National Geographic or so.
    • Djchicken, on 10/15/2007, -1/+2Fake Photoshop? Double neg= positive, they're real!
    • 3allawi, on 02/27/2008, -0/+1so all of you actually believe that ancient egyptians had an apache !!!
      and a flying saucer ??

      Damn you need more education !! and less SiFi
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