Archaeologists find Ancient Egyptian tomb belonging to "Commander of Foreign Mercenaries"

HeritageDaily ^ | July 26, 2022 | Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University

[SunkenCiv]

Fig_5: View of the partly destroyed inner sarcophagus decorated with the Book of the Dead chapter 72.

Photo: Petr Košárek; archives of the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University.

[SunkenCiv]

One of *those* topics.

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[SunkenCiv]

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[laplata]

That looks like an ancient CT scanner.

[NavyShoe]

So they didn’t find $hit.

[dfwgator]

Was Geraldo there?

[fella]

The precision of the stone cuts look like something out of a machine shop.

[octex]

Looks like a toilet seat.

[Mark17]

That looks like an ancient CT scanner.

Maybe that’s where the idea came from. 🤗🤭

[Mark17]

Looks like a toilet seat.

For a giant? (Genesis 6?) 😀🤭😂

[SunkenCiv]

:^)

[SunkenCiv]

That’s probably how the giants got, uh, wiped out...

[SunkenCiv]

• The Assyrian Conquest: The First Greeks in Egypt [Immanuel Velikovsky]

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Cue up “King Tut.”

[laplata]

🤗

[laplata]

Lol

[Mark17]

That’s probably how the giants got, uh, wiped out...

LOL. Sounds about as good as any. 👍

[GingisK]

Now that is just cool! I love these finds on ancient stuff.

[GingisK]

It appears that the end of the sarcophagus was broken off with hammer blows. Rock usually cleaves straight and clean.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Thanks, SunkenCiv.