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  • Wednesday, February 22 22 February, 2012
    Evidence of a 600-year-old Maori settlement, including ovens, food remains, a shell bead, and a small fired clay ball, has been unearthed during excavation of a waste-water pipe near Christchurch, New Zealand. A metal detector enthusiast found a medieval coin in Gloucester, England, that fills in a knowledge gap. “The discovery of this coin therefore […]
  • Tuesday, February 21 21 February, 2012
    Greek officials announced that the cost of permits for filming and photographing ancient monuments would be reduced, and they now are attempting to streamline the process of securing those permits. “We need a fast-track treatment so that interested parties do not have to wait for months for a response from KAS [the Central Archaeological Council] […]
  • Monday, February 20 20 February, 2012
    The remains of 20,000-year-old huts lived in by hunter-gatherers have been unearthed in eastern Jordan. “It may not look very impressive to the untrained eye, but it is one of the densest and largest Palaeolithic open-air sites in the region,” said Lisa Maher of the University of California, Berkeley. These long-term residences were in use 10,000 […]
  • Friday, February 17 17 February, 2012
    Early this morning, thieves wielding hammers broke into the Ancient Olympia Museum and stole between 60 and 70 artifacts after tying up the one employee on duty. Greece’s culture minister, Pavlous Geroulanos, has tendered his resignation over the lack of security. An Iron Age army made up of life-sized stone warriors has been reassembled from thousands of [. […]
  • Thursday, February 16 16 February, 2012
    Analysis of Mesolithic artifacts discovered in the Solent, a strait separating the Isle of Wight from mainland England, has shown that the area once contained a boat-building site. Food, string, flint tools, and wooden boat and structure parts have been found. A team made up of archaeologists, climate modelers, and palaeoclimatologists will look at correlati […]

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History of Manicheism

See: Mani and Authorship of the Canonical Gospels
Its founder, Mani, lived in the third century CE. His religion spread over the continents from the Atlantic to the Chinese Sea.

One of the principal characters of this Faith and Church is Jesus Chrest, in which regard it is noteworthy that:
a. The central character of the New Testament gospels is also Jesus Chrest (and not ‘Christ’); and
b. There is no contemporaneous, 3rd-century evidence for any ‘Jesus Christ’ or Christian Church; therefore
c. Manicheism predates the Roman Church by half a century and Christianity by at least as much time.

Manicheism existed for more than a millennium.

Krestonia

Krestonia is in western Thrace, between the Strymon and the Axios; see N. G. L. Hammond, A History of Macedonia, vol. i: Historical Geography and Prehistory (1972), 179f., with Maps 14 and 17. Not far west of it, beyond the Axios, is the Macedonian town of
Europe or Europos; see Hammond, op. cit., 167f.

Pythagoras in Judea

The Druze religion has its roots in Ismailism, founded the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt in the tenth century, blending Islamic monotheism with Greek philosophy and Hindu influences. Since about 1050 the community has been closed to outsiders.
They often choose to live on mountains such as Mount Carmel or Mount Hermon
Scholars think that the Druze believe in reincarnation, immediately, that not a breath is lost between death and rebirth
scholars have guessed from what little is known about them that their beliefs reflect an eclectic bag of influences, including Gnostic Christianity, Platonism, Ismailist and Shiite thought, Judaic mysticism, and Hindu mythology, with a dash of Zoroastrianism.
At the top of their list is Jethro, the father-in-law and mentor of Moses.
Also high on their list are: Adam, Abraham, Ismael, Moses, Samuel, Elijah, Plato, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, John the Baptist (or Al-Khidr, the ‘Green One’), Jesus, Muhammad, Salaman and Al-Hakim bin-Amr Allah.