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Massive head of pharaoh unearthed in Egypt
AP ^ | FEBRUARY 28, 2010

Posted on 02/28/2010 11:56:11 AM PST by Jet Jaguar

Egypt's Culture Ministry says a team of Egyptian and European archaeologists has unearthed a large head made of red granite of an ancient pharaoh who ruled Egypt some 3,400 years ago.

A ministry statement Sunday said the team discovered the head of Amenhotep III wearing the traditional white crown of the southern kingdom buried in the pharaoh's mortuary temple on the west bank of the Nile in the southern city of Luxor.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...


TOPICS: History; Reference
KEYWORDS: archaeology; godsgravesglyphs
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To: Bratch

Al Gorge?

21 posted on 02/28/2010 12:48:41 PM PST by Young Werther (wtih)
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To: al baby
looks like my nut sack after surfing

Thanks for sharing. Have a nice day.

22 posted on 02/28/2010 12:48:46 PM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Bratch; JoeProBono

Hooray for Mort Weisinger!


23 posted on 02/28/2010 12:49:15 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Bratch; JoeProBono

24 posted on 02/28/2010 12:50:59 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Yardstick

“Head appears to have a knob or spout on top.”

It’s the top of the crown.

http://www.per-ankh.co.uk/featured_articles/hedjet_-_the_white_crown_of_upper_egypt.asp


25 posted on 02/28/2010 12:54:18 PM PST by Mila (t)
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To: Brugmansian
Imagine the labor involved in that. With our equipment even a small piece of worked granite is expensive.

That's what I was wondering. The finish work of that statue is so smooth. How did they do it without modern diamond cutting blades? Next to diamond, granite is one of the hardest substances.

26 posted on 02/28/2010 1:21:15 PM PST by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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To: 6SJ7

Little men from Sirius. Or was it Hugh?


27 posted on 02/28/2010 1:25:12 PM PST by narses ("lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi")
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To: Jet Jaguar
Great find. I am amazed and fascinated every time they make a discovery like this. The craftsmanship is amazing.
28 posted on 02/28/2010 1:33:11 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: 6SJ7
Looked it up. Red and Black granite is #7 on the Mohs scale so they used emery, #9 on the scale,which they had to import as it is not found in Egpyt

Details

Still..even roughing it out would have been incredibly time consuming.

29 posted on 02/28/2010 1:36:22 PM PST by Brugmansian
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To: The KG9 Kid

"It's a cook book!!!!!"

30 posted on 02/28/2010 1:37:06 PM PST by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Just what we need: another Egghead


31 posted on 02/28/2010 2:30:52 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (God bless)
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To: bunkerhill7

32 posted on 02/28/2010 3:39:02 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Jet Jaguar; rabscuttle385; cajuncow; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; ...

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33 posted on 03/02/2010 4:28:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: The KG9 Kid

Not guilty.....


34 posted on 03/02/2010 4:31:09 PM PST by Gator113 (Obama is America's First FAILED "light skinned African American [Pres-ent] with no Negro dialect..")
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To: SkyDancer
Helen Thomas?!? What kind of evil bastard would do such a thing?!?
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35 posted on 03/02/2010 4:32:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Where did I put that eye bleach .....


36 posted on 03/02/2010 4:34:17 PM PST by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: Jet Jaguar

ozymandias ping


37 posted on 03/02/2010 4:38:08 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (STOP the Tyrananny State.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

38 posted on 03/02/2010 4:48:51 PM PST by Fresh Wind ("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
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To: SkyDancer

Hysterical blindness doesn’t look so bad now, eh? ;’)


39 posted on 03/02/2010 5:32:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Freedom is Priceless.)
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