Posted on 06/04/2008 8:32:08 PM PDT by Lorianne
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) Archaeologists exploring an old military road in the Sinai have unearthed 3,000-year-old remains from an ancient fortified city, the largest yet found in Egypt, antiquities authorities announced Wednesday.
Among the discoveries at the site was a relief of King Thutmose II (1516-1504 B.C.), thought to be the first such royal monument discovered in Sinai, said Zahi Hawass, chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. It indicates that Thutmose II may have built a fort near the ancient city, located about two miles northeast of present day Qantara and known historically as Tharu.
A 550-by-275-yard mud brick fort with several 13-foot-high towers dating to King Ramses II (1304-1237 B.C.) was unearthed in the same area, he said.
Hawass said early studies suggested the fort had been Egypt's military headquarters from the New Kingdom (1569-1081 B.C.) until the Ptolemaic era, a period of about 1500 years.
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Ping for you both! :)
Wow! Would I love to see that satellite view in varying light (near sunrise/sunset, etc...) and in different spectra (IR, etc.)
Think I'll download this one and try a few custom (grad, shadowing, Laplace, etc.) convolution filters on it. Heck, if it is interesting enough, I may design a custom convolution for it...
Thanks, Lorianne -- werrrrry interestink... '-)
Great find.
Looks like a great place to train a Jewish army.. wonder if it colud be..Moses?
“The Nazis have discovered Tanis!”
Thanks LibertyRocks.
Headquarters of pharaohs’ army found
Reuters via. The Times of India | 29 May 2008 | Reuters
Posted on 05/29/2008 8:48:44 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
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What are the Google Earth coordinates?
Uh, I usually just look down. ;’) ;’) ;’)
from the hard drive, a file; the text was typed in by some devoted soul, and dates from the 1913 edition:
Rhinocolura
http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/13019a.htm
A titular see in Augustamnica Prima, suffragan of Pelusium. Rhinocolura or Rhinocorura was a maritime town so situated on the boundary of Egypt and Palestine that ancient geographers attributed it sometimes to one country and sometimes to the other. Its history is unknown. Diodorus Siculus (I, 60, 5) relates that it must have been founded by Actisanes, King of Ethiopia, who established there convicts whose noses had been cut off; this novel legend was invented to give a Greek meaning to the name of the town. Strabo (XVI, 781) says that it was formerly the great emporium of the merchandise of India and Arabia, which was unloaded at Leuce Come, on the eastern shore of the Red Sea, whence it was transported via Petra to Rhinocolura, It is identified usually with the present fortified village El A[r]ish, which has 400 inhabitants, excluding the garrison, situated half a mile from the sea, and has some ruins of the Roman period. It was taken by the French in 1799, who signed there in 1800 the treaty by which they evacuated Egypt. To-day it and its vicinity are occupied by Egypt, after having been for a long period claimed by Turkey. The village is near a stream which bears its name (Wadi el-Arish), and receives its waters from central Sinai; it does not flow in winter, but is torrential after heavy rain. It is the “nahal Misraim”, or stream of Egypt, frequently mentioned in the Bible (Gen., xv, 18, etc.), as marking on the south-west the frontier of the Promised Land. Instead of the ordinary translation of the Hebrew name, the Septuagint in Is., xxvii, 12, render it by Hrinokoroura; see St. Jerome (In Isaiam, XXVII, 12 in P. L., XXIV, 313).
LOL! Thanks, I think. “River of Egypt”; yeah, I know that place.
My Google Earth ‘search’, using cut & paste from the previous article about this, at best gave me a choice of either a spot in the Western Desert of Egypt; or a burg on the bank of the Suez Canal.
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