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The app is now updated to version 1.1.0 with access to years down to 13000 BC into the past! Also the precision is increased and I added a star symbol and sun symbol at their specific location in the sky. With that you can view the conditions at the time of the pyramids at the Giza location or any other location at any year. Here for forum readers the app is free over the testflight links in my p
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Ancient Egypt
The plaster confusion is solved: What I identified as gypsum plaster on the ceiling was actually solid limestone. Both are white and with similar surface fine structure.
The plaster Petrie saw on the granite walls and still exists today, is thinner and ran off from the wall over the granite. It would be uncommon for natural limestone to dissolve like that, so most likely another hint for the a
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In case anyone here is planning for an Egypt trip: My new app Heliacal Rise could be interesting It shows in an interactive camera view the horizon locations of the Sirius heliacal rising and setting for any location on Earth between the years 1583 and today. A larger range of years back to the time of the pyramids I'll add soon in an update.
Useful for checking temple alignments or celeb
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Ancient Egypt
I like the combination with the electric influence machine next to it! Fits well my recent article "The electric Gear of the Gods in ancient Egypt"
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Ancient Egypt
Byrd Wrote:
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> Alas, no, your revision isn't correct -- "typically" isn't correct, and the menat is not just the beads.
In case you refer here to the Wikipedia quote: I haven't contributed to that wikipedia article.
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DougWeller Wrote:
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> I still don’t understand this. By human space flight do you mean humans flew to other planets
> between 1972 and this year? And they found tiny robots, not ones we sent eg the Mars explorers.
Hi Doug,
according to historians from they year 2525 there was a period between 1969 and 1972 with human spaceflight
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Byrd Wrote:
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> modern archaeologists labeled it "aegis" because it had some properties in common
> with a Greek object and because they hadn't learned to fully read hieroglyphs.
That explains the confusion, thanks!
Then let's fix the Wikipedia page as that clearly states: "The menat typically included a
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In case readers are wondering where the 1st instance of this relief can be found: Next to the "Dendera Lightbulbs" in the Hathor Temple crypts.
Photo of that 1st more known instance in this discussion about its possible function:
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This thread is only about the location where this 1928 / 1934 photo was taken. I suspect either:
a) it's a non-exact reproduction the created for a museum or private collector
b) it's a real ancient relief, but then the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale found a real 2nd instance of the relief somewhere in the Hathor or Isis temple but kept the access hidden
The photo i
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As I have published this week an article about the shown artifact in its modern shape as existing in the crypts below the Hathor Temple at Dendera, I'm wondering where this 2nd photo from either 1928 or 1934 was taken:
There the sitting person is wearing the Isis crown and not the Hathor disc like inside the main relief in the famous crypt next to the "Dendera Lightbulbs". T
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Byrd Wrote:
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> It has no association with thunder or storms.
So the ancient Greek author lied? Or was the story marked as fiction without reference to actually living persons or incidents?
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Byrd Wrote:
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> That's a menat (collar) with its counterpoise. It's shown in a better photo on the Wikipedia article about menats:
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Interesting!
Quote:
> The menat typically included an aegis attached to beaded strings
Then clicking on the link for Aegis:
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> When the Olympian shakes the aegis, M
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DougWeller Wrote:
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> Are we being trolled?
No, that example from modern time was only given to demonstrate mysterious unique objects and missing predecessor and successor artifacts.
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Hermione Wrote:
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> The Antikythera device is the only one of its kind that exists thus far in the archaeological record.
That's similar to the artifact with the 4 Hathor heads on a stick depicted in the relief. It's unique and most likely existed only once as real device in ancient times.
> In even simpler terms, has a
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Ancient Egypt
Hermione Wrote:
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> I repeat my - so far unanswered question. Where in the archaeological record are the:
> << objects that had developed from the different applications of such equipment: radios, early
> forms of computer, electroscopes, semi-conductors,
> etc. etc.
They don't exist in the archeological reco
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Ancient Egypt
Why are you pointing at semiconductors? I never mentioned those and they are not needed here.
Where is a 2nd Antikytera device or a predecessor or a successor? If you need artifacts you would need to also be skeptic about that device with only one instance found as with your argumentation, it would be imported from outside as the greeks never manufactured such things as you don't have oth
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Ancient Egypt
Hermione Wrote:
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> Where is the evidence of ancient electronic equipment in the archaeological record?
Those 4 devices are really simple and technically possible to build by ancient Egyptians. The most complicated would be the large glass bulb, but ignoring that one, the other 3 are quite simple. As I explained in the article the di
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Ancient Egypt
This mysterious device can be found on the same relief wall as the Dendera Lightbulbs in the crypts below the Hathor Temple at Dendera, Egypt:
It's a unique object showing 4 Hathor heads on columns standing on a half-disc with wires leading from the top of each head into a central vessel. All other technically looking features in the crypts below the temple are repeated multiple times.
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Hermione Wrote:
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> << ... Petrie’s description of the lower part of
> the Meidum pyramid, where the
> passage was practically blocked with sheets of
> stone that appear to have
> exfoliated of the corridors surfaces.
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> ... This degradation process is not well
> understood and I have not come across
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In multiple limestone samples from the pyramids and Giza plateau collected by Piazzi Smyth in 1865 and analyzed by a chemists (William Wallace), show large amounts of table salt (NaCl), up to 6%. He selected the samples carefully to avoid including the visible thick salt crust for example inside the Queen's Chamber.
Natural limestone never contains table salt (NaCl), that's chemica
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In case anyone is interested in the beginning of this story. Here the calculation description by Charles Piazzi Smyth in Royal Scottish Society of Arts (ed.). "On an Equal-Surface Projection for Maps of the World, and its Application to Certain Anthropological Questions". Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts. 8. Edinburgh: Neill & Company: pages 205–208, 213:
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Hermione Wrote:
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> Napoleon [...] Great Pyramid of Giza [...] robotics [...] shafts
> [...] a short “cedar-like” rod [...] the mysterious rod emerged - to much
> public curiosity - into the light of day back in 2020
Great finding! I missed that one!
About robotics I found today this older interview with Rainer Stadelmann
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I remember that article. The independent research mentioned there is me. I don't see any conclusion about the geographic center in the article as all they do is provide a list of non-algorithmic definitions and the only algorithmic definition is the one from Woods 1973 they tell about. Only Woods used a true distance function, the great-circle arc.
The only other algorithmic definition I&
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Jammer Wrote:
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> My guess is the same ceramic/plaster in this tomb.
That's a nice finding, ancient composite material (clay with embedded wood)!
This week I saw this video showing a half meter thick limestone plaster on the Giza Plateau which looks more similar to the relieving chamber plaster than above clay ceramics as it do
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Ancient Egypt
Hermione Wrote:
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> The Restoration of The Great Pyramid of Khufu -
> Hawass
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> give out an average of about 20 grams of
> water through their breath and perspiration,
> [...] by accumulating salts which leech to the
> plaster
That's a good one! Zahi should patent this salt water distillation process as
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In 1864, Charles Piazzi Smyth, published in his work Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid the claim, the Great Pyramid at Giza was located in the center of all land surface of Earth.
In 2003 I checked the validity of this assumption by actually calculating the geographic center of all land surface of Earth based on a digital map. While doing that, I found a publication from 1973 where someone
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Hermione Wrote:
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> As you'll likely know, the flakes of paint
> [...] were eventually returned to Egypt.
While there may have been some usable part of the plaster on the paint flakes, I'm only interested into the type of plaster.
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Was the plaster on the relieving chamber ceiling already analyzed?
It's difficult to see in the video if it is really artificial plaster or natural efflorescence from the stones above.
Link to video where it's visible in detail in my previous reply in this thread.
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Also interesting is his remark about the plaster all over the King's Chamber upper relieve chamber ceiling which is the background the cartouche was painted on.
Does anyone know if the plaster material was analyzed ever? I'd think it's salt excreted from the blocks above. Or is it actually plaster applied after construction?
Direct link to 1:47:47 when the starts to talk abou
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