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Re:Lost Civilizations of the Andes by sebkomianos on Thursday October 30, 2014 @03:50PM (#8535392)
I am from Greece. Unfortunately, I can't find anything in english but I have read quite a few "theories" about ancient Greeks traveling to America.
Re:Lost Civilizations of the Andes by arethuza on Thursday October 30, 2014 @05:24PM (#8535916)
And I am from Scotland and I've heard all manner of "theories" about the Scots being a lost tribe of Israel and that the Lia Fàil (the Stone of Destiny) is the stone used by the biblical Jacob as a pillow.

Just because something is a nice story doesn't mean it is true!

Re:Lost Civilizations of the Andes by hippowithgas on Thursday October 30, 2014 @05:37PM (#8535973)
Isn't there a famous church in Scotland that has carved stone reliefs of Corn/Maize, except they were carved many years before the New World, and corn, were officially known about in the Old World.

I think ancient people did travel, after all, we have learnt they had number systems, watched the constellations, had crude but reasonable ancient maps, and genetics are discovering things all the time about the hereditary lines.

Re:Lost Civilizations of the Andes by arethuza on Thursday October 30, 2014 @05:52PM (#8536036)
That would be Rosslyn Chapel - which has such a stunningly high level of detail in the stone carvings (NB well worth seeing) that it's not surprising that parts of it look a bit like something else. It wouldn't surprise me if parts of Rosslyn Chapel look a bit like Lady Gaga or an Xbox controller....

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

Rosslyn Chapel is also famous for apparently housing the Ark of the Covenant and/or the Holy Grail... :-)

Re:Lost Civilizations of the Andes by cschmidt on Thursday October 30, 2014 @09:10PM (#8536791)
You can rent and stay in Rosslyn Castle, very close to the chapel. I stayed there once, and it was one of the neatest places I've been. The only shower is on the way to the dungeon.

http://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/search-and-book/properties/r...

Re:Lost Civilizations of the Andes by goodcanadian on Thursday October 30, 2014 @06:08PM (#8536109)
So, I did a quick image search for Rosslyn Chapel maize and corn (see sibling comment), and I found nothing that looked convincingly like corn to me. There were a few things that looked a little like corn, but I would interpret them as other plants and/or bread.
Re:Lost Civilizations of the Andes by waterlesscloud on Thursday October 30, 2014 @06:18PM (#8536159)
They pretty clearly look like sheaves of wheat to me, to the extent that it wouldn't have occurred to me they might be something else.
Re:Lost Civilizations of the Andes by sebkomianos on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @06:04PM (#8559608)
I never said the stories were true, exclamation mark. I only noted the fact that such theories exist in Greece as well.