Mermaid Monday: Creepy Mermaid Writes September 11, 2017
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient
It is the single most important mermaid sighting of them all, because it is the Babylonian creation myth (or part of the same). Our source is Berossus, a Chaldean historian, writing in the Greek tradition of history: a Herodotus wannabe, in the third century B.C. In one of the surviving fragments of his book (which […]
Halley’s Comet and the Generations! May 12, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Medieval
***Dedicated to Larry who got me interested in this and provided, through his emails and forwards, much of the information*** It recently struck Beach that Halley’s comet would be a perfect measure of the continuity of knowledge in ancient and medieval civilizations. After all, here is a comet that returns every 75 (and a bit) […]
