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He might not be the sort to listen to advisors.
Honestly, I don't know a thing about the situation. I'm sure there's been quite a discussion on Egyptology lists, but I haven't seen any. I think addressing it would be quite a touchy situation for some people.
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Ancient Egypt
I wonder what the decision-making process is behind some of these hires.
Like this guy.
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Hi Byrd thanks for that clarification, however,
> why for goodness sake would they print that
> picture at the beginning of the article explaining
> what was found if it was not really what the
> article was about ?
It's an image from a Book of the Dead. Since they didn't have official pho
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Ancient Egypt
The image on the article is a drawing from a very old publication (copyright free) and is not what they found.
Also, the judgment scene is rendered in many different ways. They're "very similar" but not "exact copies."
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Ancient Egypt
Source article at:
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* Egyptian archaeologists recently located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries.
* A particularly exciting find was a Book of the Dead papyrus scroll measuring over 43 feet long—a rare surviving copy of the traditional burial item.
* The team behind the find was mum on t
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> The Enigma of Madagascar
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> Hi all. At my teacher's insistence I watched the
> latest documentary on the island of Madagascar. To
> say it was amazing would be an understatement. I
> really never had an inkling of what went on there.
> HOWEVER (There always seems to be an However), it
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Byrd
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Well, that's sure to be a real selling point, isn't it? "Buy my book with all this stuff redacted!"
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Paper Lens
I doubt if they have the resources to dig it out. They'd have to negotiate with the government for a permit, and since these are (apparently) not uncommon fossils, nobody would be in a hurry to document them or excavate them.
You'd have to remove a lot of rock to get it out (okay... say a 3 meter square area, and at least two feet deep) because you will have to make a trench around
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Ancient Egypt
Hans_lune Wrote:
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> Did old SC show up with something new or just
> repeat the same arguments again?
It's the Same Old Stuff.
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Ancient Egypt
Corvidius Wrote:
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> This looks fake, or at least I doubt it's from
> KV62. The display case is wrong for the Egyptian
> museum and the features do not look like those of
> Tutankhamun. There appears to be a cartouche on
> the right shoulder, but the image is too poor to
> see it clearly. There appears to be the k
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
One of the most notable and scholarly Egyptologists of our time, Jan Assmann was 85 at the time of his death (7 July 1938 – 19 February 2024)
He was a proponent of the idea that the ancient Egyptian religion contributed more than is usually credited to Judaism. While I didn't agree with this, his book MOSES THE EGYPTIAN made fascinating reading.
His paper on cultural memory is an int
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Will have to give it a view...though anytime someone announces that they've "Solved the Great pyramid", I confess that I tend to twitch a bit.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Hi Hermione if it is caused by "Advanced
> Arthritis" (like mine was) all the exercise in the
> world would only make it worse. In my case the
> ball at the the end of my hip had totally
> deteriorated and was completely out of round and
> had nodules on it. Thus it was the only solution.
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Hermione Wrote:
> (The person in my family with a bad hip has been
> told about PT, and is wondering if PT alone might
> do the trick without having to actually have the
> operation ... )
It will certainly delay it for a long time. My knees are in terrible shape, but I've had PT and have hired a personal trainer (I'm bad at going to the gym but if I've paid fo
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> The operation was a success, I still have both
> legs. No joking aside it went very well but it is
> going to take a lot of hard work and exercise.
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> Thanks again for the well wishes and sentiments
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> db
Keep up with the physical therapy! I've had friends go through this same opera
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Byrd
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
They probably found their way blocked in some fashion... perhaps an unexpected bend or another big rock.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Well since you asked. I would think the fact that
> the ratio of the dimensions (base) of G1 and G2
> (9069 inches for G1 and 8472 inches for G2)
> precisely mirror the ratio between the square root
> of 3 (1.7230508075 and G1 and 9069 inches) and Phi
> (1.618033988 and G2 and 8472 inches) this tell
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
...and cue the conspiracy theories (thanks to Hawass) in 3... 2....
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Ancient Egypt
When I was a child, I would have accepted that. As an adult, I find it very problematic.
TECHNICALLY, the "cradle of civilization" could be Africa, where we all come from. But I tend to overthink many things....
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Humanities
I think some of it has real merit (though I disagree with some points) and I wish you well on thie project.
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Josephine Tey's book, "Daughter of Time" presented some strong arguments (including documents) that Richard did NOT kill them. Hadn't heard of the "escaped" rumor, though.
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Ancient History
Spiros Wrote:
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> Were the Giza pyramids erected to warn us of the
> end of the world, maybe through a nuclear
> holocaust? Did they encode information of the
> antichrist? Did Osiris represent the planet Venus?
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No. They didn't have any end of the world beliefs. They didn't know about nuclear holoc
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Apocalypse
Pistol Wrote:
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> Essentially the author admits more evidence is
> required to substantiate his hypothesis; that the
> indentation found in the composition of the core
> masonry for each side of Khufu’s pyramid was the
> result of knocking/tumbling the upper stones of
> the pyramid’s facing stones and core stones down
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Ancient Egypt
The story initially broke in 2021, but Ars Technica has done a more recent piece that updates what we know. Location is still unknown, but the clues are tantalizing.
There's still some unresolved problems, though.
(from the article: "“The beauty of this project is that the mummies we studied are older than the first account of Adulis. So what we think we can say is that Adu
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Ancient Egypt
The field grew so rapidly and there's so much material... I think this accounts for a lot of the reasons why there's gaps in some areas. One thing I'm interested in is magical knives -- but we can find many more things where the knowledge base is simply a bunch of papers but no real books.
Unlike Victorian times, when they'd buy a book about anything on Egypt, few people t
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Ancient Egypt
waggy Wrote:
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> I certainly agree with that sentiment. In many
> ways the Bent pyramid still awaits exploration,
> and although G1 is a bit of a black hole, the
> available data on it is also not great. As Romer
> quoted in his G1 book, "Modern Egyptologists have
> largely given up on the pyramids" :-)
Th
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Ancient Egypt
It's good to see this work being done. So much attention goes to G1 at the expense of everything else.
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I find it hard to think of those as djeds. Djed will have a concave pillar or a straight one with very flat projections (like a vertebra):
I thought the blue faience represented water but I don't have any link.
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Ancient Egypt
Corvidius Wrote:
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> Ah, well the piece in the link you gave is in fact
> one of the lunar items spelling out
> Nebkheperuriah, and is in fact the best example of
> this name. It's identical to Nebkheperure except
> that it has a lunar disc, note the crescent under
> the disc, and not a solar one.
That's n
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