Zahi Hawass
Posted on 07/14/2009 7:00:27 PM PDT by decimon
LOL - very good point. The Pyramids, too.
“Who can doubt the secret hid
Under Cheops’s pyramid
Was that the contractor did
Cheops out of several millions?”
(Kipling, on government building programs)
Excellent find.
I would suggest that MAYBE it would be plenty wide enough to maneuver a chariot with an archer on. Wide enough to TURN the chariot around on for another pass.
“Or that Joseph’s sudden rise
To Comptroller of supplies
Was a fraud of monstrous size
On King Pharaoh’s swart civilians.”
Things get in my brain and they don’t ever leave. This one stuck because of the interesting rhymes, I think: “millions” with “civilians.”
This last is, in fact, literally true, if one accepts the Genesis account. First, Joseph charged the fellahin cash for the stored grain. Then he took their farm animals in trade. Then he made them sign over their land to the government, thus eliminating secure private ownership of land in Egypt up to the present day.
He was a swindler of (pardon the phrase) Biblical proportions. It’s a good thing nobody in the Obama administration reads the Bible!
Zahi Hawass
Wow - I did not know that.
“Dating to the 7th century B.C., the foundations unearthed...”
Hey, Egypt’s so big (how big is it?) that they *need* a Central Department of Lower Egyptian Antiquities.
Mudbrick was practical (still in use today) because of the Nile and the sunshine needed to cure ‘em. The thickness of the walls was due to the ease with which they were dug through. Thicker meant the garrison had more time to notice the attack, organize a counterattack, and jump on the attackers. :’)
Oops. I guess that takes care of the catapult issue.
:’) I wasn’t throwin’ stones though. ;’)
He WAS the government. And he'd originally aquired the food by confiscation from the farmers during the boom years.
Signing over land in one's possession now isn't the same as signing over all land one might possess in the future or signing away one's ability to ever possess land.
Maybe not in theory, but that's pretty much what has happened in Egypt.
*snicker*
The Stratigraphy of the 19th Dynasty in Asia MinorPetrie found a temple of Rameses II at Tahpanhes, a 26th Dynasty site. Psammetichus (663 - 610 GAD) of the 26th Dynasty had granted Tahpanhes to his Greek and Carian mercenaries. It existed during the 26th Dynasty until the time of Amasis (569 -525). He found no artefacts of dynasties 20 to 25... Excavators at Lachish found a temple with 19th Dynasty artefacts also contained Israelite material of the 7th century. The stratum of the time Nebuchadnezzar, circa 590, contained the scarabs of Ramses II circa 1290... At Byblos... Ahiram... was buried in a coffin made by his son. His son's inscription was in Phoenician script of the 8th or 7th century as was the imported Cypriote pottery but the broken Egyptian vases and the coffin in the tomb were from the time of Ramses II... Rowe, the excavator of Beth Shan, designated the upper Strata IX to V to the 18th, 19th and the early 20th Dynasty. Levels IX, VIII, and VII are ascribed to the 18th Dynasty. Levels VI and V are ascribed to the 19th and early 20th Dynasties. The succeeding Stratum IV was ascribed to the period of the Late 20th Dynasty, Judges and Philistines, Israelite kings, Assyrians, Psammetichus and the Scythians as well as the Neo-Babylonians and the early years of the Persians. Whereas 5 strata are assigned to just over 300 years, the one and only Israelite stratum was assigned over 700 years. Furthermore, the thickness of Stratum IV is eight times thinner than the combined Strata V and VI, circa 150 years... Indeed, Mazar reports that Level VII belongs to the 19th Dynasty and Level VI to the 20th Dynasty. This leaves two levels V and IV for the Israelite levels. Though he cites Rowe as a reference, he gives no explanation of the discrepancy. Although it is suggested that the Philistines followed the 20th Dynasty, Rowe reports no Philistine pottery at this level. Furthermore, no artefacts identified as Israelite, Assyrian or Neo-Babylonian is reported either. Only a statue of Ramses III is found here together with Scythian artefacts. If Seti I and Ramses II (1300 - 1200) directly overlie the Scythians in Neo-Babylonian and Persian times (600 - 300), there remains a 600-year gap, just like the Syrian sites... It is hopeless to carry on special pleading any longer to avoid the obvious. There is no 600-year gap. The 19th Dynasty existed in the 7th not the 13th century. The 19th and 26th Dynasties are the same as Velikovsky has claimed.
by Alan Montgomery
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Jews sneaking out
[snip] The discovery shouldn’t come as a surprise; Tell Dafna was long known to be a strategic outpost against Egypt’s enemies. King Ramses II of the 19th Dynasty (1279-1212 B.C.) chose the site to erect a fortress. King Psammetichus I, the first ruler of the 26th Dynasty (664-625 B.C.), later established a garrison of foreign mercenaries to defend the eastern borders of Egypt from invaders. [/snip]
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