Corvidius Wrote:
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> A later example which I like to trot out is the
> "Nebkheperuia" "throne name" for Tutankhamun. In
> all the books I have on anything to do with the
> Amarna Period, this gets a mention just once,
> unless I missed something, and in one of Hawass's
> books, and he makes n
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
While true, unlike the Bible, these texts do not exist in a vacuum. They were never compiled in an "official" liturgy (that we know of) and most are associated with some sort of illustration, which gives us some context that we might not otherwise have.
And, of course, work continues today on translating and understanding hieroglyphs.
Will some concepts remain obscure? Certa
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> If she was correct here is a site of mine you are
> sure to enjoy.
>
>
>
Oh Don -- many many thanks for that! I do love vintage paperbacks!!!
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Byrd
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Temple of Kom Ombo, outer vestibule, central facade.
-- specifically page 117
The author references Morgan, J. de et al., 1895. Catalogue des Monuments et Inscriptions de l’Égypte antique. Tome II.
Kom Ombos. Adolphe Holzhausen, Viena. and Morgan 1902. Catalogue des Monuments et Inscriptions de l’Égypte antique. Tome III. Kom Ombos, Viena.
It's part of a central narrative of t
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> LOL - It doesn't change anything except that not
> one ball park in the world has a home plate as
> described and mandated in the rule
> book which in baseball in "The Gospel"
> Thus the rule has to be changed to not 12 inches
> but the square root of 144.50 inches.
>
> I wil
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Byrd
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
What's the significance of the plate being two hundredths of an inch off? How does that change where the batter stands or where the ball passes above the plate?
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Byrd
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Different cultures at different times believed different things about their deities.
Assuming that EVERYONE would see red colored Mars as a god of war or the morning star is a beautiful goddess does not lead to any truths. Assuming that the Egyptians of the 5th dynasty would have the same mores/laws/culture/deities as the Roman of 50 BC is a pretty bad stance to take, particularly when we hav
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> Hi Hermione. I thought that Venus was always "a
> mother god" or at the very least female.
No... in a number of cultures Venus is male.
]> I also thought Seth was associated with Mars
Seth was never associated with Mars. Horus was, yes. Seth, no.
> and I thought Osiris was related to E
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
More on Newton's beliefs were discussed in an article in the Smithsonian:
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Ancient Egypt
Holger Isenberg Wrote:
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> Byrd Wrote:
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> > Out of curiosity, why would the AE's be using a
> number calculated with measurements that would not
> be created until more than 3,000 years later?
> > I don't see that there's evidence that they k
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Ancient Egypt
Ahatmose Wrote:
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> The square root of 5 + 3 times 100 seems to me to
> be the correct measurements This gives us
> 523.60679774997896964091736687313
>
> Clive Ross, rest his soul, also sometimes used
> your formula for volume but we can't ignore that
> using the following as per Wiki:
>
> Semi major
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Ancient Egypt
> In Photos: 8 chambers discovered inside Sahure’s Pyramid in Abusir Necropolis
> Nevine El-Aref , Tuesday 26 Sep 2023
> A joint Egyptian-German mission has made an unprecedented discovery of eight previously undocumented storage chambers – or magazines – within Sahure’s
> Pyramid in the Abusir Necropolis south of Giza.
Comment: I'll be interested to see where these c
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Holger Isenberg Wrote:
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> Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> > Can anyone confirm that Lauer used a conversion
> of 524 millimetres per Egyptian royal cubit?
>
> I don't know about Lauer's definition, but 524 mm
> is correct. To be more precise, it is 4/3 *
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Ancient Egypt
Hermione Wrote:
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> Unfortunately, it turns out that there's
> a
> problem with Barbiero's equations.
>
> (More
> detail
> here).
I hate to do this, but he's Italian and using the Italian style "decimal comma" So it's peculiar looking to us but not incorrect.
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Ancient History
One of the things that I have a (very) casual interest in is the aftermath of Amarna - and the attempts by Horemheb to obliterate the memory of his predecessor, Ay. I recently came across this article (summary of a PhD dissertation) on the topic that I feel rather neatly summarizes the evidence
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
I'm not quite convinced by the "mud brick cradle" - I don't think that would work well. And I don't know that they sighted down the edge of a pyramid to keep it from twisting.
I'd give it a B plus, though.
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Ancient Egypt
What a wonderful opportunity! Take lots of photos!!
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Pistol Wrote:
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> Whole numbers… then why did they functionally use
> non-integers? The Royal cubit rods blow your
> argument out of the water… fractions of cubits and
> understanding the concept of infinity by using
> unit fractions illustrate their goal wasn’t based
> on whole numbers. First dynasty Egyptian surveyor
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Byrd
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Ancient Egypt
Some lovely images of KV9 here:
Sadly, the 3d model doesn't appear to be available any longer.
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Ancient Egypt
I think some caution should be used when talking about these measurements, because they don't seem to have been standardized until fairly late in Egyptian history.
It would make sense for ancient architects (like modern ones) to use round numbers when designing a building or other structure. While we *can* order something cut to "seven feet, three and three quarters inches",
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Ancient Egypt
Hermione Wrote:
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> Corvidius Wrote:
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> > Ooops, I meant Hermione
>
>
>
> I think the difference between us is that I had to
> find the reference by Googling, whereas Byrd might
> have recognised the image straight off ...
Nah. I'd have
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Ancient Egypt
We paid for entrance to all the sites (more than just Giza; included Karnak and many other sites as well) by credit card. I still have some of the admission tickets (they made lovely souvenirs.
We went several years ago and found that for local purchases, cash was the most desirable commodity.
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Coffee Shop
The Darnells are actual working (and academic) Egyptologists, digging and working in Egypt. So I'm not sure why they would go with what they saw as image-based evidence over actual genetic evidence. I double-checked the book's publication date and it was written very recently.
Just a curious point.
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I recently added a book on the Amarna Period to my library and thought I'd review it here for folks.
Darnell, John, and Colleen Darnell. Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth. St. Martin's Press, 2022.
I'm ambivalent on this one, truth to tell. On the positive side, it's fairly readable and has quite a treasure trove of references a
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Ancient Egypt
You missed the fun part:
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The reason the Creator needed pyramids in Egypt, Mexico, and China, was the Earth had a problem. It was believed it was out of balance when he first found it wobbling in space. After Spider-woman built the pyramids, two twin ice caps formed on each pole and their weight stabilized the planet. Today the twins are melting.
The Creator has no sense of time, ap
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Ancient Egypt
Our friends who are attempting to develop ideas that show the relationships between measurements made on Google Earth should really be aware of this.
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Ancient History
Interesting. The change would have been made by whoever was in charge of the tomb's decoration.
Perhaps it's that the pose lacked symmetry.
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Ancient Egypt
Paul H. Wrote:
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> Sefton et al. (2022) is arguing that the time that
> Nan Madol was
> built, relative sea level was lower than present
> to the extent that the bottom of what are
> called "canals" were 0.26 meter above mean higher
> high water. Basically, they conclude
> that what are currently water-
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Byrd
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Ancient History