Post by Admin on Aug 12, 2016 20:40:39 GMT
We include this posting thread not as an advertisement, which it is not, but rather in honor of Jerome M. Eisenberg, Ph.D., Director of Royal-Athena-Galleries in New York and London, which do advertise that they comprise "[t]he world's most extensive selection of fine art of the Ancient World". It was Jerome M. Eisenberg who in the year 2008 via the journal Minerva, The International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology, sponsored the International Phaistos Disk Conference 2008 at the Society of Antiquaries in London, England (UK), from October 31 to November 1, 2008. No conference of similar rank has ever been sponsored on the Phaistos Disc by any other institution. Thank you, Dr. Eisenberg!
We presented a paper on the Phaistos Disc at that most interesting conference, which questioned the genuineness of that artefact, and our experience there remains a pleasant memory, even if we continue to hold fast to the conviction that the Phaistos Disc is more genuine than ever, due to our books on ancient signs and alphabets. See Andis Kaulins, Ancient Signs: The Alphabet & the Origins of Writing, print, color version, 200 pages, ePubli: Berlin, Germany, 2012, ISBN: 978-3-8442-2017-9 and Andis Kaulins, The Syllabic Origins of Writing and the Alphabet, 136 pages, CreateSpace, Amazon, black and white, www.createspace.com/4923438, print edition, 2014, ISBN: 1500654787 / 9781500654788. In those works we show how the symbols on the Phaistos Disc blend seamlessly into the development of the alphabets of Western Civilization from syllabic signs.
We might add that any kind of research on prehistoric or ancient art or artefacts of any kind involves substantial costs and expenses. Most research therefore takes place at universities, via affiliated institutions such as museums or societies, or via funding by sponsoring philanthropists and donors. Archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann are rare, who first amassed a great deal of wealth in private business, and only then was able to turn to Archaeology and "the pursuit of Troy", financed out of his own private pocket. Most archaeologists are affiliated with institutions, who then do the financing of archaeological projects, with concurrent mainstream expectations. Schliemann thus found recognition by "the establishment" difficult. To understand why that is so, you have to read and comprehend the works of Imre Lakatos, especially his theory of "the research programme". Mainstream "dogma" and "schools of thought" are essentially those which are able to find financing for their hypotheses. That is the ultimate, in the last analysis, money-based test of mainstream scientific research. Only when the money dries up do scientific theories inevitably find new directions.
We presented a paper on the Phaistos Disc at that most interesting conference, which questioned the genuineness of that artefact, and our experience there remains a pleasant memory, even if we continue to hold fast to the conviction that the Phaistos Disc is more genuine than ever, due to our books on ancient signs and alphabets. See Andis Kaulins, Ancient Signs: The Alphabet & the Origins of Writing, print, color version, 200 pages, ePubli: Berlin, Germany, 2012, ISBN: 978-3-8442-2017-9 and Andis Kaulins, The Syllabic Origins of Writing and the Alphabet, 136 pages, CreateSpace, Amazon, black and white, www.createspace.com/4923438, print edition, 2014, ISBN: 1500654787 / 9781500654788. In those works we show how the symbols on the Phaistos Disc blend seamlessly into the development of the alphabets of Western Civilization from syllabic signs.
We might add that any kind of research on prehistoric or ancient art or artefacts of any kind involves substantial costs and expenses. Most research therefore takes place at universities, via affiliated institutions such as museums or societies, or via funding by sponsoring philanthropists and donors. Archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann are rare, who first amassed a great deal of wealth in private business, and only then was able to turn to Archaeology and "the pursuit of Troy", financed out of his own private pocket. Most archaeologists are affiliated with institutions, who then do the financing of archaeological projects, with concurrent mainstream expectations. Schliemann thus found recognition by "the establishment" difficult. To understand why that is so, you have to read and comprehend the works of Imre Lakatos, especially his theory of "the research programme". Mainstream "dogma" and "schools of thought" are essentially those which are able to find financing for their hypotheses. That is the ultimate, in the last analysis, money-based test of mainstream scientific research. Only when the money dries up do scientific theories inevitably find new directions.