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Maltese claims extraordinary discovery in Sahara desert
Independent Online ^ | Saturday, December 29, 2007 | unattributed

Posted on 12/29/2007 8:01:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Mark Borda and Mahmoud Marai, from Malta and Egypt respectively, were surveying a field of boulders on the flanks of a hill deep in the Libyan desert some 700 kilometres west of the Nile Valley when engravings on a large rock consisting of hieroglyphic writing, Pharaonic cartouche, an image of the king and other Pharaonic iconography came into view. Mr Borda would not reveal the precise location in order to protect the site... "The consensus among Egyptologists is that the Egyptians did not penetrate this desert any further than the area around Djedefre's Water Mountain. This is a sandstone hill about 80 kilometres south west of the Dakhla Oasis that contains hieroglyphic inscriptions. Its discovery in 2003 by the German explorer Carlo Bergmann caused a sensation as it extended the activities of the Pharaonic administrations an unprecedented 80 kilometres further out into the unknown and waterless Western Desert. The find we just made is some 650 kilometres further on!! Egyptologists will be dumbstruck by this news." ...Maltese Egyptologist Aloisia De Trafford from the Institute of Archaeology (University College London)... facilitated a preliminary decipherment of the text via Joe Clayton, an ancient languages specialist who lectures on hieroglyphic writing at Birkbeck College at the same university... "It turns out that the script we found states the name of the region where it was carved, which is none other than the fabled land of Yam, one of the most famous and mysterious nations that the Egyptians had traded with in Old Kingdom times; a source of precious tropical woods and ivory. Its location has been debated by Egyptologists for over 150 years but it was never imagined it could be 700 kilometres west of the Nile in the middle of the Sahara desert."

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
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To: SunkenCiv
National costume


21 posted on 12/31/2007 1:26:45 PM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

The Sahara took a while to dry out. Years ago, National Geographic visited the geographic center (figures) of the desert, way west of this Yam thing, and took (and published) a photo of *an olive tree* that was still living there, and probably thousands of years old. :’)


22 posted on 12/31/2007 1:27:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
which is none other than the fabled land of Yam

Lost to the sands of time?

23 posted on 12/31/2007 1:27:57 PM PST by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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To: Revolting cat!

I can’t say that it’s a half-baked idea...


24 posted on 12/31/2007 1:28:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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To: doc1019
Falcon, perhaps?

Well, that didn't take long.

I wanted to add "Help me, Rick!!", but that's that other Bogart movie.

TS



(x, why?)

25 posted on 12/31/2007 1:29:05 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (wee fish ewe a mare egrets moose panda hippo gnu deer)
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To: Enterprise

Ditto that, my FRiend!


26 posted on 12/31/2007 1:30:37 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: SunkenCiv
which is none other than the fabled land of Yam, one of the most famous and mysterious nations that the Egyptians had traded with in Old Kingdom times;

And once a year they celebrate Yad Yam, which I guess would be the last day of the fifth month, instead of the first.

27 posted on 12/31/2007 1:30:57 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (wee fish ewe a mare egrets moose panda hippo gnu deer)
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To: Tanniker Smith

“that other Bogart movie”

You’re referring to the Shakey’s Falcon?


28 posted on 12/31/2007 1:32:58 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0
Did the Egyptians drive SUV chariots?

No, they walked ... like Egyptians [did]

29 posted on 12/31/2007 1:37:05 PM PST by mikrofon (New Year's Greetings)
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To: SunkenCiv
In related news. Archaeologist discover the legendary home of Popeye...

The Sailor's cryptic remarks are finally understood. "I Yam what I Yam and that’s all that I Yam"...

30 posted on 12/31/2007 1:38:13 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: Revolting cat!

That’s no yam, it’s a sweet tater.


31 posted on 12/31/2007 1:39:46 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: mikrofon

The Egyptian Ministry of Funny Walks skipped the opportunity to remark on the find.


32 posted on 12/31/2007 1:41:50 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: TASMANIANRED

:’)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1945804/posts?page=15#15


33 posted on 12/31/2007 1:44:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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To: Dustbunny; doc1019; Enterprise; Inyo-Mono; ken21; mikrofon; Publius6961; Rb ver. 2.0; ...

Happy New Year Dustbunny, doc1019, Enterprise, Inyo-Mono, ken21, mikrofon, Publius6961, Rb ver. 2.0, Revolting cat!, SIDENET, southland, TASMANIANRED;Tanniker Smith, The Spirit Of Allegiance, and wildbill. I hope 2008 is great for all of you and yours.


34 posted on 12/31/2007 1:47:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thank you. Happy New Year and God bless you and your family and friends.


35 posted on 12/31/2007 1:57:47 PM PST by Enterprise (Those who "betray us" also "Betray U.S." They're called DEMOCRATS!)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Heh - those have me so twisted up, I’ll have to see my Cairo-practor...


36 posted on 12/31/2007 2:00:46 PM PST by Hegemony Cricket (Although most dead people vote democrat, aborted babies, if given the choice, would vote Republican.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for the post. Very interesting.


37 posted on 12/31/2007 2:01:23 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: SunkenCiv
Stories like this need PHOTOS
38 posted on 12/31/2007 2:37:43 PM PST by maine-iac7 (",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
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To: SunkenCiv

I saw that after I posted. You beat me to it.


39 posted on 12/31/2007 3:11:45 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: devolve; The Spirit Of Allegiance; SunkenCiv; ntnychik; dixiechick2000; PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP
I    YAM   HENRY    THE    8TH   I    YAM



40 posted on 12/31/2007 3:21:22 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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