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A few comments after reading all this thread/top posts.
- Most of the details about Imhotep come from later sources. As some have already said there are only a couple/few contemporary sources, one is the inscription in statue base giving Imhotep's titles, and another is the graffito on Sekhemhet's pyramid complex. I've also seen it said that Imhotep was not recorded after his li
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ealdred
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Ancient Egypt
Katherine Reece Wrote:
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> In fact, Merer mentions reporting to “the
> noble Ankh-haf,” who was known to be the
> half-brother of the Pharaoh Khufu and now, for the
> first time, was definitively identified as
> overseeing some of the construction of the Great
> Pyramid.
Actually, Ankhhaf is only theorized to be Kh
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ealdred
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Ancient Egypt
Hermione Wrote:
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> ealdred Wrote:
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> > .... I want to ask if any know of any blind
> > pharaohs/kings of ancient Egypt.
>
> ...
>
> A Google search for "blind pharaoh" threw up
> Pheron - .
>
> He was apparently the
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ealdred
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Not sure how knowledgeable a Egyptologists anyone here is but I want to ask if any know of any blind pharaohs/kings of ancient Egypt.
Herodotus said Anysis was blind. So if we can find a blind pharaoh/king then we may be able to identify Anysis and related chronology.
From memory think Anysis has been suggested to be sun-king Unas (5th dyn) or sun king Akhenaten (18th dyn) or dynasty at Han
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ealdred
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Ancient Egypt
Okay I have read the replies and looked through the links, and yesterday I afterwards searched and read on the Journal of Merer in the Jarf papyri, and I read the updated info on Khufu's reign in the Wikipedia article on Khufu.
For Khufu's reign length I now have all these suggestions:
63 yrs (Manetho)
50 yrs (Herodotus)
"46 yrs" (one modern orthodox cattle-count theo
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ealdred
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Ancient Egypt
> ealdred Wrote:
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> > I would be interested to know more about the
> > references in the Journal of Merer. But I am
> sure
> > there will be some problem or unreliableness in
> > the method because I am certain from other
> > evidences that Khufu was really circa 1800s and
> > matc
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ealdred
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Ancient Egypt
Hans Wrote:
> ""Of the combatants on the one side, the city of
> Athens was reported to have been the leader and to
> have fought out the war; the combatants on the
> other side were commanded by the kings of
> Atlantis, which, as was saying, was an island
> greater in extent than Libya and Asia, and when
> afterwards sunk by an earthquake, became an
> im
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ealdred
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> What evidence do you have for all the detailed
> record-keeping necessary to keep check of the
> passing of such long periods of time?
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> In the historical world, we have some evidence of
> dates being noted - e.g., The Journal of
> Merer, which contained references that enabled
> present-day archaeologists to estimate that Khufu
> died in the spring of 2483
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ealdred
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Hans:
"How do you explain the 'lack' of Atlantis having been destroyed"
The Account is not clear whether only the capital city "sank" in floods and quakes, or whether the whole large island "sank" in quakes. It also only says what happened then, it doesn't say what happened after and since, so we can't assume that the city and island must ha
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ealdred
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Ancient Egypt
Thanks Hans.
"Lots and lots of people have located Atlantis in lots and lots of places. "
Yes but there can only be One place the is the Only best true match.
I list most of the main locations theories here . I'll have to read the Wiki article and add any others to my list.
"Can you show how you shownd that all these earlier proposed locations are wrong and yours is
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ealdred
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> Contrary to what you say, Atlantis did originate with Plato.
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> There is no separate Atlantis Account. The only account there
> is was invented by Plato himself.
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>If Plato made it up - which he did - then there cannot be any
> basis for this assumption.
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> Yes. And it resided in Plato's imagination.
It is true that the primary source for all subs
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ealdred
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It is not true that Atlantis originates with Plato as often said. While it is true that Plato's text is the source of all subsequent Atlantology, the Atlantis Account itself says that the story came from Atlantis to Egyptian inscriptions/records/tradition to Sonchis to Solon and some generations of passing down to the person who told a group of people that included Plato. Also there are some
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ealdred
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Ancient Egypt
Egyptian-Classical sources thought the Hyksos were Hebrews/Israelites.
Gerald Massey thought the Hyksos were Egyptian heretics.
Early Modern scholarship thought the Hyksos were Aryans.
Modern scholarship has the Hyksos as Semites.
If I remember correctly a source connected the Shepherd Kings and/or the Philistines with the Pali and invasion of Tamo-vatsa?
Velikovsky thought the Hyksos or Amu
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ealdred
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Ancient Egypt
Thanks Chris (& Corvidius & Hermione).
At least that is something on sekhem.
Gerald Massey definitely has skhem as "shrine". There are some other meanings I have seen on the net/web which I am still not sure of.
The only meanings I have seen for Pepi are Meaning unknown, or "the very great", or short form of goddess Nebethetepet'.
Hieratic for Pepi apparentl
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ealdred
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Hello I haven't been here for quite awhile but I wish to ask two questions: what are all the meanings of the Egyptian word or words sekhem (or skhem or sokhem)? and what is the meaning of the name Pepi/Pepy?
I know some Egyptian but not enough, and I don't have access to any Egyptian dictionary or lexicon in my location and situation, and I have tried searching alot on net/web for mean
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ealdred
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Ancient Egypt
Here is just my opinion for anyone that may be interested. (I don't really want to get into a defensive debate though as i don't have the time and health and situation.)
Radiometric dating methods are unreliable. For just one example, I think i read that Sekhemhet's complex dates 600 years older than orthodox Egyptological date for Sekhemhet .
Surely the Egyptians themselves,
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SeanB
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Ancient Egypt
Khufu/Khufwey/Cheops (17 yrs) = Jacob/Yakov (17 yrs)
Sekhemhet (Djoserty-Ankh?) = Zaphenath-Paneah (Joseph)
So now we know where he is buried/entombed.
I have wondered if the "sarcophagus" of Pyramid might link with 40/70 days?
For more details/information see thread at
www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=36443
(and posts in
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Sean B.
For our other these
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SeanB
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Ancient Egypt
There are tons of scholarly details about Punt that i don't know (and i've left some i do know/have out) but some casual musings:
On the one hand there is evidence for an African Punt:
Punt/Pweni/Puanit/Pwene(t)/Pwnt/P-wn-n-t could connect with Pwani (Tanzania). Peninj? Punt could connect with Put and/or Pul (African, Isaiah 66). Some "Punt" animals/plants/items are Africa
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SeanB
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Ancient Egypt
<<You need to look up -honorific transpositions in royal names- in Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar.
I am not with my books so I can't tell where in Gardiner you will find the explanation. But this is why:
...." we have "honorific transposition" in the writing, that is, because gods and kings were so important, the words for "god" and "king" wou
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SeanB
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Ancient Egypt
thanks. But how does that prove which way "ra-hotep" is read, doesn't that only prove which way Amenhotep/etc is/are read? I am not disputing Amenhotep/etc.
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SeanB
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Ancient Egypt
Oh sorry, when i came i didn't see any new posts/replies but then after i posted i saw new previous ones. (I have trouble on some forums with not seeing updated pages and having to renew (f5) page. But i did renew the post page and didn't see any.)
<<Very interesting. I assume this is the Poti-phera of biblical fame?
Good luck on your quest to prove it.
It might not be
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SeanB
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I just remembered/realised afterwards that the reason given here before was that hotep-ra supposedly not make sense in meaning/phrase/statement/English where as ra+hotep does ("ra is satisfied/content/etc"). However these examples from Hebrew show that words/names can make sense either/both ways. In the jah/el + hanan // hanan + jah/el one the word hanan is similar type of word to hot
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SeanB
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Ancient Egypt
Hello, I do not want to get into any arguments again (don't have the time & health for it either) but i need to sort this darn argument about ra-hotep versus hotep-ra once and for all. Once again I am having argument with a scholar about ra-hotep as we did on here year or so ago. They seem to imply that the name is read ra-hotep not hotep-ra just like people on here asserted before. Ho
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Sean Bambrough
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Ancient Egypt
Thank-you, thats all I was trying to ask in first place (to look at my evidence, to ask/answer questions). I can't ask questions or look at my evidence on my own like some people are able to.
>> Now, what makes it possible for Sekhemhet to be Joseph?
Is it the meaning of the names?
Is it the job held by the individual?
I gave a list of 14-17 corresondences in last post .
(Plus
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Sean Bambrough
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Ancient Egypt
khazar-khum wrote:
> Which you have not even begun to prove.
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> Your background is immaterial. All that matters is your evidence, which currently is very weak.
Well I guess/suppose that I have to agree/accept that I don't have a tremendous overwhelming mass enough of evidences (like times of revolutions of say Wegener, etc), but I don't think that some of the evidences
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Sean Bambrough
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Ancient Egypt
what blinders?
/ what (obvious lack of) experience ?
/ what facts?
Sam wrote
I implied that your admirable passion for the subject matter is being overwhelmed by your obvious lack of experience. We have all been there and it's not pretty. How long you keep the blinders on is up to you. Some never take them off.
Your unwarranted feelings of insult have little to no effect upon the
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Sean Bambrough
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Ancient Egypt
My point is that its all very well to claim (a) source(s) is out-of-date, but all the matters is whether the evidence/fact/info/data quoted is true/not-out-of-date or not.
As such I have already agreed that it is highly recommended, but that it shouldn't be reason for blind rejection (unless the info quoted is proven outdated) of a whole theory/thesis.
I mean if it was one of my evidences
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Sean Bambrough
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Ancient Egypt
I knew that you'd would say you don't see his as insulting while seeing mine as not appropriate.
I had wrote a reply but then decided not to post it because I knew it would be justlike that (hes not insulting, mine is not appropriate).
The person did not respond to any specific points or details, just subtly implied I'm just a old/unprofession/going-on-and-on/unaware/not-know-bet
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Sean Bambrough
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Ancient Egypt
It was not constructive criticism. He was basicly just subtly implying/labeling me as old/trapped/superficial and not professional like he & his suposedly are.
Constructive means positive/helpful/etc, and specific points/details.
I always try to take steps for not falling into false cognate (which I have sometimes/often done myself like many others).
If you refering to his Zaphenath-Pane
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Sean Bambrough
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Ancient Egypt
I knew someone would say that. While it is "practical"/popular/PC to have update/professional/recognised/etc references, it is not necessarily wrong/etc if ones sources aren't.
The range of dates for Menes and Zoser/Sneferu is nevertheless true information.
> Many of the authors on this list would not be cited by serious researchers.
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Sean Bambrough
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