Antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass, pictured in April 2010, said the work was launched a few days ago.
Posted on 07/21/2010 7:47:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Egyptian experts have begun to explore the depths of Lake Qarun south of Cairo using remote sensing radars in search of sunken artefacts...
Khaled Saeed, who heads the department of pre-historic affairs at the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the team under his supervision hopes to pinpoint "huge basalt rocks" at the bottom of Lake Qarun.
According to Saeed, the discovery of the rocks was first made by Egyptian-American scientist Faruq al-Baz, a veteran of NASA's Apollo programme, five years ago. Baz, who now runs the Centre for Space Studies at Boston University, was carrying out a satellite survey of Egypt's Western Desert when he and his team discovered in the Lake Qarun area "a large number of huge blocks of rock."
"I believe that these huge slabs are made of basalt (volcanic rock) which were eventually moved upstream to the Giza plateau for the construction of the Great Pyramid," Saeed said. Teams of divers are examining a 10-kilometre (6.2 mile) long stretch of sea bed in Lake Qarun, Saeed added.
The lake is the third largest in Egypt and is part of the Fayyum Oasis, more than 100 kilometres (62 miles) south of Cairo, and part of the ancient Lake Moeris, once a body of sweet water.
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Antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass, pictured in April 2010, said the work was launched a few days ago.
Antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass, pictured in April 2010, said the work was launched a few days ago.
They should try finding where Moses crossed the Red Sea. There were a bunch of chariots and Egyptians who didn’t make it across.
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This makes me a little curious:Egyptian-American scientist Faruq al-Baz, a veteran of NASA's Apollo programme[:] ..."I believe that these huge slabs are made of basalt (volcanic rock) which were eventually moved upstream to the Giza plateau for the construction of the Great Pyramid,"Exactly where in the Great Pyramid was basalt used? Does he mean granite? Nice to know we've got an Egyptian-American geologist employed in Boston and doing geology from space, eh? Basalt was used in at least one of the temples just east of the Giza pyramids. |
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That guy has a great job.
Just wanted to say thank you. I always look forward to your pings.
Oligo-Miocene basalt flows were quarried for thousands of years, hauled to Lake Moeris (now Qarun Lake) and shipped all over Egypt and adjacent countries for statuary purposes. Mangrove swamp deposits and thousands of fossil termite nests riddle the quarry locations.
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Egypt scours bed of Lake Qarun in search of a carving of mohammed so they shoot the artist.
He took his basalt for granite? Or maybe it was the other way around . . .
Hey everybody, thank you, glad to be here. I just flew in from Cairo, and boy my arms are tired!
(Bada-bing!)
:-)
“So, I sneaked up on what I thought was a tombrobber in the dark, threw my arms around him — and it turned out to be a mummy! And there were many more, thousands of mummies! It has become the greatest discovery of mummies, and I call it, the, hey, where’s everyone going?”
Now that he’s gotten through a couple of rough spots early in his ascendancy, when he was accused of selling uncatalogued antiquities or something.
Thanks!
They couldn’t find any olivine, but then remembered the song, olivine on a jet plane.
I’ll just take that pun with a grain of basalt.
Most of these stories from Egypt I take with a grain of natron.
I love the smell of natron in the morning.
Mummy told me there’d be days like this.
Essentially, he OWNS all of Egyptian antiquity. That WOULD be amazing!
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