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Author Topic:   Validity of differing eyewitness accounts in religious texts
MangyTiger
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Message 265 of 305 (204414)
05-02-2005 7:51 PM
Reply to: Message 263 by Faith
05-02-2005 1:53 PM


Re: Prove it
The existence of Cleopatra is confirmed by coins minted during her lifetime, both in Egypt and various parts of the Roman Empire.

The Tigers roared in Dublin - and I was there.

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MangyTiger
Member (Idle past 6379 days)
Posts: 989
From: Leicester, UK
Joined: 07-30-2004


Message 267 of 305 (204441)
05-02-2005 9:13 PM
Reply to: Message 266 by Faith
05-02-2005 8:12 PM


Re: Prove it
Wow.
Words fail me.
Actually I suppose I shouldn't be surprised - you're the person who came up with the "birds resting on the heads of tall dinosaurs during the flood" stuff aren't you ?
Although I still suspect you might be a troll I'll play for while...
Prove the coins were minted in that particular time by those particular entities.
Do you have any particular reason to doubt the expertise of the experts in numismatics/history who say they were ? Can you find anyone with expertise in the field who says they weren't ?
Probably minted hundreds of years later.
Your basis for this claim is what exactly ? I note you say Probably not Possibly - I don't think you have a single thing to back that up with.
All a myth invented by the aristocracy to give the people a national identity and keep them in line.
You do realise that Cleopatra was the end of the Ptolemaic dynastic line don't you ? After her death there were no more Pharaohs - Egypt became a province of Rome. Not exactly the ideal character to symbolise a national identity.

The Tigers roared in Dublin - and I was there.

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