The Sign of David engraving found in the Aswan shrine. (photo credit:ARAB MEDIA)
Posted on 04/08/2016 7:11:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Egypt has recently been witnessing a great commotion following the archeological discovery of two Star of David engravings in an ancient Temple in the southern city of Aswan.
The Roman Temple, which dates back to the 3rd century B.C, is located in the Elephantine Island in Aswan.
Dr. Mahmoud Afifi, the head of the Egyptian Antiquities branch in the Antiquities Ministry, said that he noticed a stone with two Star of David engravings in the Roman temple.
Afifi accused the delegation of German archaeologists that has been working on the site's reconstruction of engraving the Stars of David into the Shrine's stone.
Afifi ordered the archaeologists to immediately remove the stone with the Star of David's engraving from the temple, threatening to take all legal measures against them if they would ever repeat such a move.
An Egyptian news site, Suezbalady, went even further, claiming that the two Star of David engravings that were found were drawn by a Jewish member of the German delegation, who wanted to vandalize Egyptian culture and provoke Egyptians.
The newly-appointed Egyptian Antiquities Minister, Khaled Anani, released a press statement Saturday following his visit to the Aswan shrine.
Anani stated that he had instructed the joint Egyptian-German group to submit him a scientific report about the two engravings found on one of the temple's walls. "The report will include a picture of the stone under discussion from the time it was discovered, to explore its archaeological repercussions without the two Star of David engravings, "Anani said.
"We will be aided by an expert of Islamic antiquities to understand whether the Sign of David was common in that early period", Anani announced.
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The Sign of David engraving found in the Aswan shrine. (photo credit:ARAB MEDIA)
Here is a link to a 108-year-old article about the ancient Jewish Temple in Elephanitine. There is a pdf file that you can download from the site.https://www.jstor.org/stable/3141839?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
More recent article from the Jerusalem Post: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Was-there-a-Jewish-temple-in-ancient-Egypt-318363
How do they know some other group did not use that symbol?
Buddhist sects use swastikas why couldn’t Egyptians use an 8 pointed star made from two squares?
Doesn’t that mean that the Jewish religion predates Islam in Egypt by 300 years?
The accusations that these were recently carved by (of all things) a Jew from Germany is ridiculous, but that's what happens when the substantial remains of a pre-Islamic civilization is under the control of savages.
Jews were in Alexandria long before this.
Check your math... 800+ years!
Muslims don’t like to admit it, but their cult is fairly recent compared to Christianity and Christianity is a babe compared to Judaism. But it all goes back to Egypt anyway so all this fighting is stupid.
Heads exploding at every falafel stand in Cairo.
300 years?
Or even a 6 pointed star from two triangles...
Elephantine Island is where the Ark of the Covenant went on its way to Ethiopia. ;-)
Islam was concocted as an imitation of Judeo-Christian worship.
Islam is a patent fabrication, a cynical fraud, and a cheap knock-off.
Satan didn’t even try particularly hard in creating Islam, and yet it is one of the most successful of his false religions.
Jews predate Muslims in Egypt by at least 2000 years.
Ok, leave the Bible aside, it’s known that the population of Alexandria was very Jewish in Ptolemaic times, they being brought there by Ptolemy the Great, about 300BC. So make it 1000 years of continuous residence as reliably attested.
As far as we know the “shield of David” (consisting of two letters “D”, one superimposed on the other), wasn’t used as a Jewish symbol until the Middle Ages.
There were certainly Jews in Egypt for a long period (papyri show semitic names for slaves about 3500 years ago). At various times Jews left Egypt (see DeMille) and returned.
Alexandria in Roman times was about 1/3 Jewish, and has been called the New York of the ancient world (a great port, with a varied population, and perhaps the economic capital of the Empire).
thanx for your interesting posts
Amos 5:26
Clearly the work of the Goa’uld System Lord D’avide.
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