Appropriate graphic for a whacky story (non-AP graphic):
Posted on 11/12/2011 11:23:45 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Egyptian camel handlers attend Friday prayers at the Giza Pyramids in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. Egypt's antiquities authority closed the largest of the Giza pyramids Friday following rumors that groups would try to hold spiritual ceremonies on the site at 11:11 on Nov. 11, 2011. The closure follows a string of unconfirmed reports in local media that unidentified groups would try to hold "Jewish" or "Masonic" rites on the site to take advantage of mysterious powers coming from the pyramid on the rare date. [caption]
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Didn’t the first batman show have an episode on this?
Is that graphic accurate?
“Egypt’s antiquities authority closed the largest of the Giza pyramids Friday following rumors that groups would try to hold spiritual ceremonies on the site at 11:11 on Nov. 11, 2011. The closure follows a string of unconfirmed reports in local media that unidentified groups would try to hold “Jewish” or “Masonic” rites on the site to take advantage of mysterious powers coming from the pyramid on the rare date.”
What? Is there no God to ask questions of and get answers from, that they have to go to wizards that peep and mutter (and dig tunnels in the ground)? (Isaiah 8:19)
Praying for tourists to show up.I guess they’re getting tired of camel dung burgers?
Yoka mata huba bakwa Juju Hand
Oooowwww! We got it now!
I’ve got an alligator claw and some booby dust
So you better do what you know you must
I got a lock of your hair and a bullfrog’s eye
And if you break my heart you better say “Goodbye”
(Response from the congregation)
Uno, dos, one, two, tres, quatro
Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw.
Had two big horns and a wooly jaw.
Wooly bully, wooly bully.
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Hatty told Matty, “Let’s don’t take no chance.
Let’s not be L-seven, come and learn to dance.”
Wooly bully, wooly bully
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Matty told Hatty, “That’s the thing to do.
Get you someone really to pull the wool with you.”
Wooly bully, wooly bully.
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Nowhere in the story does it connect the hug with either the Jews or Masons. Whoever heard of those groups doing hugs? It’s sounds like rubish.
Mexicans in turbans.
Ain’t America great ?
I bet every whorehouse in Mexico still has “wooly bully” on their jukebox.
My guess is these people heard rumors that Fundamentalist Muslims were planning to blow it up and are tying to deflect blame to other groups.
Oh my, I do believe I danced to that at the rec center in 7th grade.
Come back rich American tourists, we’re not as radical as those other moslems. We promise not to shoot all of you and hang you from our bridges, or ransom you back to your family. We have new discoveries and special secret knowledge about the pyramids. It’s got all these hidden temples and tunnels.
Gee, y’think? :’)
For the turn of the New Year 1999->2000, Zahi Hawass planned to have a “solid gold” pyramidon put on the top of the Great Pyramid, some other decorations, along with fireworks and light show — but the kibosh got put on that because it was said to be a Zionist plot.
Yeah, they’ve got a lot on the ball over in Egypt.
No, it is not. :’) It’s a pretty cool graphic though, actually three separate ones, it used to be on a now-defunct website in the late 1990s, and turned up again.
The “Campbell’s Tomb”, which is a never-used burial shaft of New Kingdom date, located as shown, on the plateau, behind the rump of the Sphinx, is in fact there. The rest of that underground stuff must be imaginary.
There’s some interesting claims made by Pharaoh Thutmose IV on the Dream Stele, which still stands propped between the front paws of the Sphinx — it says that upon clearing the sand (again, during New Kingdom times), the Sphinx was found to be located atop a door that led somewhere important, located under the statue. The only problem that can be seen with this is that most of the Sphinx is part of the surrounding strata, i.e., it was carved in situ from the limestone bedrock.
On the left butt cheek of the Sphinx (the beast’s left is on the right side if you’re facing the statue face to face) there’s a now-plugged hole, apparently dug by treasure seekers; the rough, meandering passage leads up toward the head of the critter, and also curlicues down into the bedrock, and it’s a dead-end both ways. Since the enclosure fills up with sand rather quickly, and Herodotus doesn’t mention the Sphinx at all, it’s likely to have remained covered with sand (there’s no literary reference to any clearings of the sand between Thutmose IV and the early 20th century) for over 2400 years, meaning that the robber’s hole was probably excavated during a fairly narrow period of time during Pharaonic times; the other possibility is, the Sphinx was cleared of sand during the time of the caliph who took so much interest in the Giza monuments, and it was his employees who dug into the statue.
Not that I remember. And the first Batman movie has that famous scene, “some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb” is a sentiment that for some reason never has resonated in the Muzzie world.
Whoops, a bit of a slip — Campbell’s Tomb did have at least one sarcophagus in it, 7th c BC date.
http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1527243&t=w
http://www.davidpbillington.net/campbellstomb.jpg
http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/A/ARC/architecture-010.html
http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/A/ARC/architecture-fig22.jpg
http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/A/ARC/architecture-fig21.jpg
That is amazing. I never knew there was a secret temple under the Sphinx.
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