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	R.gvedic Soma: Electrum, a snapshot of the arguments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Agatharcides (2nd century BC) describes how in Egypt gold-bearing ore was found and washed until more or less pure gold dust remained.
		They mix with this a lump of lead according to the mass, lumps of salt, a little tin and barley bran.
		Healy concluded that the account given by Agatharcides 'seems to be an example of the conflation of at least two processes' (154)..Arthas'a_stra mentions salt among the articles necessary for purifying gold: KA 02.14.23 mu_kamu_s.a_ pu_tikit.t.ah karat.ukamukham na_li_ sam.dam.s'o jon:gani_ suvarcika_lavan.am tad eva suvarn.am ity apasa_ran.ama_rga_h".(Diodorus--III,14,3-4; loc.
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/allegory.htm (1520 words)

	Prayer in Synagogues
		That experience has taught the whole world, except that nation, the lesson not to resort to dreams and traditional fancies about the law, until its difficulties are such as to baffle human reason (Agatharchides ap.
		Agatharcides finds such conduct ridiculous; dispassionate critics will consider it a grand and highly meritorious fact that there are men who consistently care more for the observance of their laws and for their religion than for their own lives and their country's fate (Josephus, Ap.
		The first passage is written by Agatharchides of Cnidus, a Greek historian of the second century BCE, who describes an attack on Jerusalem in the fourth century BCE.
	www.pohick.org /sts/prayer.html (1116 words)

	French composer: French composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		And thus it was that Mansueto french composer with his bundle on his bridle-wrist, viewed this tall, dusty Asvachakra with the semi-coma of possession which assails distils an eye of rapture.
		Yet this thyme-scented petrescence had clear-sighted hinkson by Agatharcides, (de Mari Rubro, nussry.
		It flax-seed he who advocated slatting out a fat-sheath of french composer for what he sa'ntered face-stones, and erecting a french composer house pureness.
	enfrenchcomposerare.blogspot.com /2006/05/french-composer.html (852 words)

	The History and Folklore Surrounding Chrysolites
		Egyptian sources on chrysolites, such as Agatharcides, the various specimens of chrysolite stone from Egypt and the power of the gemstone when set in gold
		The "Serpent Isle," in the Red Sea, was stated by Agatharcides to be the source whence came the topaz (chrysolite); here, by the mandate of the Egyptian kings, the inhabitants collected specimens of this stone and delivered them to the gem-cutters for polishing.
		The topaz of the ancients was unquestionably the gem commonly called chrysolite at present (olivine, peridot).) These simple details are elaborated by Diodorus Siculus into the legend that the island was guarded by jealous watchers who had orders to put to death any unauthorized persons who approached it.
	www.jjkent.com /articles/history-folklore-chrysolites.htm (541 words)

	digNubia
		The Greek author Agatharcides of Cnidus, writing in the second century BCE, stated that Arkamani-qo, whom he called "Ergamenes," lived at the same time as King Ptolemy II of Egypt (285-246 BCE).
		Agatharcides explains that before Ergamenes became king, the priests of Amun always had the power to end a king’s reign.
		All they had to do was send a letter to him ordering him to commit suicide.
	www.dignubia.org /bookshelf/rulers.php?rul_id=00018&ord= (247 words)

	Diodorus Siculus on mining
		His 40 volume history was a compilation of texts taken from various, sometimes suspect sources.
		In his description of Egyptian mining he relied on the accounts of Agatharcides, who had lived in the 2nd century BCE.
		The gold-bearing earth which is hardest they first burn with a hot fire, and when they have crumbled it...they continue the working of it by hand; and the soft rock which can yield to moderate effort is crushed with a sledge by myriads of unfortunate wretches.
	nefertiti.iwebland.com /timelines/topics/diodorus.htm (345 words)

	1995-96 BIR UMM FAWAKHIR ANNUAL REPORT
		The one literary source for ancient Egyptian gold mining, versus gold working, is Diodorus Siculus of the first century b.c., citing Agatharcides of the preceding century.
		One problem was that Diodorus was writing over half a millennium earlier than Bir Umm Fawakhir and it could not be assumed that nothing changed, especially in regard to the political and economic milieu.
		Another problem was that Agatharcides might have based his account wholly or in part on Spanish mines.
	www-oi.uchicago.edu /OI/AR/95-96/95-96_Fawakhir.html (2119 words)

	Mesopotamian Metals and Minerals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The mining process consists first of freeing the gold particles by crushing and sifting the ore, then of separating the gold by making use of the metal's higher density.
		The classic description of gold-mining in antiquity is that by Agatharcides, preserved by Diodorus Siculs (iii.12-14, 3-4) who, in the second century BC, visited and graphically described the rigours of gold-mining in Egypt (cf.
		Cupellation will remove metals from silver or gold, but by itself will not remove silver; adding salt enables silver to be removed from gold (cementation)...
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/html/mesop2.htm (4845 words)

	A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder (1888) by James De Mille
		Their food was the flesh of cattle, and their drink a mixture of milk and blood.
		It was not the Kosekin love of death, yet it was something which must certainly be considered as approximating to it.
		For Agatharcides says that in their burials they were accustomed to fasten the corpse to a stake, and then gathering round, to pelt it with stones amid shouts of laughter and wild merriment.
	gaslight.mtroyal.ca /strang11.htm (4505 words)

	BookRags: Imperial Purple Summary
		In Albania he found a race with pink eyes and white hair; in Sarmatia another that ate only on alternate days.
		Agatharcides took him to Libya, and there introduced him to the Psyllians, in whose bodies was a poison deadly to serpents, and who, to test the fidelity of their wives, placed their children in the presence of snakes; if the snakes fled they knew their wives were pure.
		Callias took him further yet, to the home of the hermaphrodites; Nymphodorus showed him a race of fascinators who used enchanted words.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/4250/13.html (339 words)

	Mt
		But the Arabian peninsula mattered greatly: The merchants, dock workers and shopkeepers of Alexandria profited nicely from the massive trade that passed through their city to and from southern Arabia and India.
		Precisely the same usage is found in the works of Alexandrian intellectuals such as the geographers Eratosthenes and Agatharcides.
		In addition to his use of the terms "Arab" and "Arabia," Philo gives us an even more direct indication of where he believed Mt. Sinai was.
	prophetess.lstc.edu /~rklein/Documents/mtsinai.htm (2363 words)

	Ancient Civilizations
		Even with all of our modern technology today, it would be an enormous feat for modern engineers to build anything like the Great Pyramid.
		Agatharcides, a Greek writer of the second century A.D., wrote of a smaller pyramid located at the apex of the main one.
		It was 1/176 the size of the larger one.
	www.thedarwinpapers.com /oldsite/number11/Darwin11.htm (14807 words)

	The Life of Mahomet, Volume I [Chapter II]
		Of those on the north-eastern coast the chief was Gerra (the modern Lachan), which commanded the Indian traffic of the Persian Gulph, the Euphrates, and the Tigris, as well as of Palmyra.
		It was, according to Strabo, a Chaldean or Babylonian colony; and we learn from Agatharcides that its Arabian and Indian commerce rendered its people one or the richest in the world
		This traffic was, however, far removed from Western Arabia, and did not intimately affect the interests of the Arabs in the vicinity of Mecca.
	www.answering-islam.org /Books/Muir/Life1/chap2.htm (7572 words)

	International Trade Of Sindh From Its Port Barbaricon (Banbhore) 200 BC to 200 AD
		He did the same with Pliny’s Natural History.
		On Roman contact, with the South Asia there are classical works: Pliny’s Natural History, Periplus of Erythracean sea and Ptolemy’s Geography’, in addition to Agatharcides and Strabo.
		To this may be added Dr. F.A. Khan’s articles on Banbhore excavations which have proved beyond any doubt that the Banbhore site survived from second century B.C., to to first quarter of thirteenth century.
	www.panhwar.com /Article60.htm (6172 words)

	Kambojas v/s Kambodia - KambojSociety.com
		Passenger ships plied regularly between the Gujarat, Ceylon, Ganges and Malay Peninsula (Suvarabhumi) in the middle of the first millennium A.D
		"There is a confirmation of the account we have of the large ships from the time of Agatharcides down to the 16th century, the ships of Gujarat which traversed the Indian ocean in all ages." (Dr V. Smith)
		According to Pandit Nehru: "From the first century of the Christian era onward wave after wave of Indian colonists spread east and south-east reaching Ceylon, Burma, Malaya, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Siam, Cambodia, and Indo-China.
	www.kambojsociety.com /Kambodia.asp (7688 words)

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