Posted on 01/29/2006 8:18:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv
From lengthy searches in the Lloyd's marine loss books for the period it seems most likely that the sarcophagus was loaded on board 'The Beatrice', a relatively small vessel, at Alexandria, bound for London via Malta. She got to Malta OK, but after departing from there on 14th October 1838 she was "never heard of again", as Lloyd's List so succinctly puts it. This may not be true. There is a barely legible pencil margin note in a surviving copy of Vyse's account (not the one in the British Library) which records fishermen reporting that wreckage identifying the vessel had been washed ashore near Valencia in Spain. It has been established that there are no outstanding insurance issues which might complicate ownership of the Sarcophagus if it were salvaged... The Sarcophagus is probably lying in less than six hundred feet of water. This is well within the capability of modern salvage techniques, given that items were recently recovered from the Titanic at over 12000 feet, albeit at considerable cost. The first task is accurately to pinpoint the wreck.
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Pyramid of MenkaureA great gash was made in the northern side of the pyramid during the Mamaluke era, in the 12th century AD, but the first Europeans to enter the monument were Perring and Vyse in 1837, who found a basalt sarcophagus which was shipped off to England in the Beatrice - only to meet with the disastrous fate of being lost at sea when the ship was wrecked in the Mediterranean... Other recent excavations around the pyramid of Menkaure have been conducted by the Egyptian Antiquities Organisation in search of evidence of the king's funerary boats and the pyramid's construction ramp. They have discovered an unfinished double-statue of Rameses II, sculpted from a single block of stone and measuring over 3m tall - the first large New Kingdom statues to be discovered at Giza, and yet another mystery.
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first mentioned it here, figured it could make a nice topic on its own.
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Posted on 01/28/2006 2:16:25 PM PST by aculeus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1567030/posts?page=10#10
Sarcophagus is one of my favorite words, though I am not nearly so fond of esophagus - go figure. Asaparagus is great, while humonguous (sp?) is lame.
Here's another link as well that makes reference to the sarcophagus, the Beatrice and the Pyramid of Menkaure.
http://www.crystalinks.com/pyrmenkaure.html
Thanks.
For the past few years, I've added "eschew" and "obviate" to my regular vocabulary. S'fun.
How about this? "Eschew obfuscation."
Cheers!
Oddly, when I say "eschew", most people don't know what it means (or possibly just think I've sneezed).
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