there's a myth that cleopatra needed to get past enemy lines to meet caesar, and she rolled herself in a carpet to sneak in. \n\ni'm doing a report, so if anyone gets this information from a website, the URL would be useful as well.\n\nthanks!
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no one will ever know that answer it happened along time ago put i dont think they had carpets and you would notice someone inside one if they did
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I just saw the film.\n\nThe part about how Christianity took pagan beliefs and mixed them in is correct. The fact that Constantine changed the religion (at least to a degree) is correct.  In fact when he ruled that in order to hold government office you had to be a Christian he managed to turn a bunch of pagans into Christians (in name only) over night.  Their underlying pagan beliefs remained the same, they just changed their title.\n\nThe part about the museum having bathroom windows that can be opened is absolutely false. Nor does the museum have bar soap that you can stick a GPS tracer into, they have liquid soap in the bathrooms.\n\nThe Priory has been pretty much determined to be a fraud. (Discovery Channel ran a series of shows which demonstrated this.) Of course, the paranoid will say that the "fraud" is just a cover story and it is exactly what the Priory wants you to think so that they stay secret.  \n\nThe idea that the "royal bloodline" filters down to one and only one woman in Europe seems pretty unbelievable. The Merovingians had many kids, there would have to be several thousand Merovingians by this point in history.\n\nThe idea that Jesus and Magdelene were married, well, not much proof one way or the other. Even if they were, it is that thing about rising from the dead that still sets things apart.\n\nOne idea that I don't think most people have considered is the possibility that the entire DaVinci Code movie and book might just be designed as a meme (brain virus as it were). Designed to "inject" the concept of this bloodline into the populace. Then, when the time is ripe, "they" will unveil a person who is supposedly the descendant in question whom "they" want to setup as a One World Leader.\n\nFrankly I think there is more "fact" in "The Norman Rockwell Code".
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A little clarification regarding snakes and poisons... \n\nTo willfully do such things is testing God. However, if you look in Acts when Paul was bitten by the incredibly venemous viper, he did not die. In fact, the people of Malta wanted to worship him as a god. Paul set them straight--it was just a sign that what he was saying is true.\nWhat this scripture is saying is that when you are working for Him, you are invincible until it is time for you to come home. The movie End of the Spear will show you how God can use one brother's death to save an entire people. Other times, like Paul, saving from death can do wonders for faith. So be careful with such verses and don't go drinking Draino to prove your saved. You might see God quicker than you anticipate.
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lol could be! I think he led himself. His epic probably wasn't as great as it was thought to be, noting that history becomes inaccurate over time. But hey, thinking he was led by aliens makes me laugh!
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Here are some links that might be helpful:\n\nhttp://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/women_egypt.html\nhttp://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/eyeliner2.html\nhttp://www.levity.com/alchemy/islam23.html\nhttp://www.werner-forman-archive.com/Ancient%20Egypt.htm\nhttp://members.tripod.com/~ancient_egypt/dema.html\n\nBy the way, these were all found from a search for ancient, cosmetics, and egypt on images.google.com. Good luck on your project!
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Cleopatra was Caesar's lover. When Caesar was murdered, he was succeeded by a triumvirate of which Mark Anthony was a part of. They also became lovers. \n\nYou can check out Robert Greene's The Art of Seduction for more on their relationship.
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Wow. I was going to have a crack at making up some horsesh*t, but Chasiufan has done a truly excellent job in that regard.  I refer you to that insightful answer.\n\nThe stars have spoken!\n\nWait ... I'm sensing that before you're made into a statue of Zsa Zsa, you will have two rats nibble your toes.  Hope this helps.
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I'm a witch, so yes. But I also believe that most curses are a self fulfilling prophecy. Like the Kennedy's curse. The Poltergeist movies are just movies.\n\nThe Pharaohs curse isn't really a curse. There's a scientific answer for what happened at the tomb of King Tut. Yes, we all know that everyone died after entering the tomb. And that they died horribly.\n\nThere was an ancient bacteria inside the tomb that infected everyone that entered. It's one of the reasons why Archaeologists now wear breathing masks when entering a tomb and why the tomb is exposed to air for some time before they first enter.\n\nPeople often look for supernatural answers when the natural ones are what caused it.
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Wow, interesting question.\n\nA quick search brings this up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates\n\nI'll have to do some research and come back to this one, as you've really got several parts to it.
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the Pharaohs lived a thousand years before the Royal Family(brittish)is that who we are talking about.???????????\nyour question does not maker sense or i must be dense\nexept that they probably are of the same genetics blood line ,from the Anunaki ,Royal blood ,RH Negative\nand it it the Blood that rules
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I've never heard that story, but follow the subject matter. Look at \nhttp://www.disclosureproject.org\n\nThat should answer some questions for you.
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The fact that the early Catholic church made MM out to be a prostitute (even though the Christian bible does not say this anywhere), is evidence to support that they had something against her. This tradition goes back to saint Peter who, according to the [banned] gnostic scriptures indicate that he was against "the woman". Now just look at the mindset of those Roman Catholics who burned gnostics and their writings, and imagine that these are the ones who chose the books for the bible. Do you think they were honest? No, the Magdalene was not a whore, not even demon-possessed, she was the son of man's consort.
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The Praetorian Guard protecting the Roman Emperor Caligula against assassination, unable to accept his reckless behaviour, murdered him in 41 AD and installed his uncle,  Claudius instead.\n\nThe Tanzanian army marched into Uganda, and Idi Amin fled for his life. The Tanzanian army, mission accomplished, went home again and let the Ugandan people decide their own future.
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uh oh ... i wish no one would've got me started on that!! See the following excerpts from a brilliant article written by one bright Dr. Kaveh Farrokh, courtesy of whom I am cutting and pasting the following from the ghandchi.com website. I would suggest anyone who's seen the movie to read the fuul article at http://www.ghandchi.com/iranscope/Anthology/KavehFarrokh/farrokh6.htm : \n\n\n"Despite excellent reviews of his book by critics and scholars, Dr. Fox does not understand the military of ancient Persia. A typographical shot of the battle of Gaugamela, shows the Greeks advancing in ordered and disciplined ranks. In contrast, the armies of Darius III are shown as little better than an amorphous mob. This is a false image of the Achaemenid army. The Achaemenids used drums and musical instruments to direct the marching tactics of their troops in battle. Second, the Achaemeneans used the decimal system, which was in fact, unknown to the Greeks of the period. Persian units were formed in legions of 10, 100 or 1000 or 10,000. A typical term was "Hezar-Patesh" (roughly equivalent to "leader of a thousand men"). \nIn addition, the Persians had developed a sophisticated system of heraldry and their troops wore standard uniforms. The Greeks were certainly excellent fighters and were thoroughly organized, but this does not mean that the Persians were not. At the time, the Greeks were militarily superior with respect to armaments, tactics and military training. \nThis military imbalance changed with the coming of the Parthian and Sassanian cavalry. The Iranian Savaran (elite Cavalry) successfully halted and defeated many of the later Greek-Hoplite inspired Roman armies. Many Romans attempted to imitate Alexander and failed against Persia. These include Marcus Lucinius Crassus at Carrhae, Marc Antony at Tabriz (where he failed twice), Gordian III at Mesiche, Phillip the Arab near modern Syria, Valerian at Barbablissos, and Julian the Apostate in Mesopotamia. I personally doubt that Hollywood will recreate these spectacular Roman defeats as these will challenge contemporary western notions of the Alexandrian legacy. In addition, many Iranians today are unaware of the proud legacy of the Parthian and Sassanian Savaran."\n...\n"The portrayal of ancient Iranians is outright comical, if not insulting.  The inaccurate Hollywood portrayal of Iranians is exemplified by the selection of Rosario Dawson ( http://www.lostfocus.de/archives/rosario_dawson.jpg ), a very talented, beautiful and intelligent black actress, to star as Roxanna, an ancient Iranian queen from Soghdia-Bactria. Roxanna was not black, anymore than Alexander was Scandinavian. Having Rosario Dawson portrayed as Roxanna makes as much sense as having Lucy Liu, an Asian-American, portraying Queen Victoria of Great Britain. \nThe term Roxanna is derived from Old Iranian "Rokh-shwan" or "face (Ruksh) - fair skinned-shiny (shwan)". Roxanna was related to a North Iranian tribe known later as the Sarmatians, the remnants who survive in the Caucasus and Russia as the Ossetians (ancient Alans or Ard-Alans) \nRoman sources such as Pliny repeatedly describe ancient North Iranian peoples such as the Alans and Seres as "…flaxen (blonde) haired blue eyed nomads…" (see Wilcox, p.19). Rosario Dawson does not fit the description of an ancient Iranian woman, especially from Northern Iranian stock. The Ossetians of today, descendants of ancient Northern Iranians, predominantly resemble northern Iranians and Europeans and speak an archaic Iranian language (like the Avesta of the Zoroastrians). Blondism is very common among these descendants of ancient North Iranians in cities such as Beslan and Vladikafkaz. It can be argued that Roxanna was a brunette, however, she was of Northern Iranian stock, which would still make her very different from actress Rosario Dawson. \nThere are plenty of talented actresses of Iranian descent i
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What i think is funny is that a large portion of the people who claim Cherokee, claim that their great grandmother was a Cherokee princess. Okay, if your Cherokee and telling the truth, FINE, BUT there was no such thing as royalty in the indigenous nations back in the day...yes there were chiefs...but the false label of "_____ Princess" actually came from when the beautiful young indigenous females that were shipped to "the old world" and forced to slavery within royal family homes...BUT...anybody who did not hold a royal title was not allowed into these homes, so these poor frightened girls were given the titles of "princess" so they could legally enter these estates to slave away;they were usually discarded after age overcame their ability to slave...so only the stories were returned, never the "princesses"...little off the subject, but i wanted to share that fun fact ;)
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I love the Mummy movies. I always assumed that his organs had been removed but that the curse kept him semi-alive even without them. He needed to replace the organs by taking them from the tomb robbers. Seti I was the Pharaoh in this, and he gets a bad deal, imo. The book "The Search for Om Sety" is a very interesting read for anybody interested in Seti I and ancient Egypt.
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There was a story about her horoscope not matching with Abishek's...after that, they have gone under wraps to avoid public glare...I guess it is waiting time...hope to hear some good news by end of the year !!