Immanuel Velikovsky's name is, for many, synonymous with paleobabble. I can think of a few other candidates I'd move ahead of him for such an honor, but Velikovsky indeed belongs to the "modern classical period" of wacky stuff related to study of the ancient world....
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666 PaleoBabble
Someone kindly brought this piece of paleobabble to my attention recently. The site argues that certain Arabic letters/symbols visually resemble the Greek text of "666" in the book of Revelation. More accurately, the Arabic allegedly resembles the common Greek New...
Did the Chinese Discover America?
It shouldn't surprise you that PaleoBabble doesn't let political correctness get in the way of scholarship. Some readers may recall the furor a few years ago caused by the announcement that someone had produced a hands down case that the Chinese really discovered...
Two Very Nice Blogs on the Pyramids
Part of combating PaleoBabble is exposing it -- and Egyptology seems to breed more paleo-nonsense than most fields. Another need is dispensing solid information in its place. I'm adding these two blogs to PaleoBabble's blogroll, but I wanted you to know about them...
New Nibiru Information . . . Or More PaleoBabble?
I received a lengthy and interesting reply today to my post about the Fantasy Channel. I reproduce the substantive portions of it here for readers: I have been studying various Mesopotamian texts for around 30 years, and there is nothing to indicate that Nibiru is a...