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Do you know of Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods and many other books about ancient civilizations? He seems to argue plausibly that Egyptologists as a group are misled about how and when the pyramids were built, and many other things. Did you get the impression from the museum that the civilization of Egypt is very well and correctly understood, or not?
6 years agoThe dress and hair style of the male staff and customers certainly makes the shop look special. Did you come out with the same shorn sides and glossy top?
6 years agoRemind me to show you my mummified frog next time we are together. My father found it and brought it to me during my freshman year of college.
6 years agoI agree with Keith. I had no idea this existed and now I'll be including Torino in a future trip.
6 years agoOf course you have a mummified frog. Don’t we all?
6 years agoThis makes me want to carve a wooden coffin for my mummified frog.
6 years agoWow! A destination for sure!
6 years agoLooks like you are making great use of your time dodging the weather. You had a great run of good weather as we did when we were over there, but you know it can’ last forever. I heard this morning the Adige was up over 2 meters. And the flooding in Venice and slide at Brenner Pass! Riding through the dolomites and other areas there was just a trickle of water in the river beds when we rode through. It would be interesting to see them now.
Nice to be home and settling back in. We are riding here when as we can to maintain our fitness levels. And it helps with my hockey.
We had a great visit with Steve and Dodie on our way upisland last week. They met us for coffee traveling by bike with Dodie giving her new knee a workout.
Safe travels... Keith
"Third half" .. love it!
6 years agoBeen there, done that, yesterday. Although I didn’t really know what I was seeing until after the fact when I read up on it. You can’t actually see the shroud, which is not on public display. You can see where it is encased though, and there’s a continuous video playing in the cathedral that shows it, explains what it is, highlights different sections and comments on them, in a rotating series of languages.
6 years agoWill you check out the shroud? It's in the cathedral downtown.
6 years agoOh, of course. I think we saw one of these in Crete back in April. Quite different tough. It’s amazing how much variety there is is in the family.
6 years agoYup. Double duty. Trying to save a few bytes of space on Jeff’s website.
6 years agoClever to capture both cow and chow in one shot.
6 years ago
Definitely worth a trip, I’d say. I’m sure there are many other great things in Turin also, as well as Piemonte as a whole. We didn’t see as much as we would have liked.
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