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Star of David found engraved into an ancient Temple arouses bustle in Egypt
Jerusalem Post ^ | April 3, 2016 | Maayan Groisman

Posted on 04/08/2016 7:11:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

Egypt has recently been witnessing a great commotion following the archeological discovery of two Star of David engravings in an ancient Temple in the southern city of Aswan.

The Roman Temple, which dates back to the 3rd century B.C, is located in the Elephantine Island in Aswan.

Dr. Mahmoud Afifi, the head of the Egyptian Antiquities branch in the Antiquities Ministry, said that he noticed a stone with two Star of David engravings in the Roman temple.

Afifi accused the delegation of German archaeologists that has been working on the site's reconstruction of engraving the Stars of David into the Shrine's stone.

Afifi ordered the archaeologists to immediately remove the stone with the Star of David's engraving from the temple, threatening to take all legal measures against them if they would ever repeat such a move.

An Egyptian news site, Suezbalady, went even further, claiming that the two Star of David engravings that were found were drawn by a Jewish member of the German delegation, who wanted to vandalize Egyptian culture and provoke Egyptians.

The newly-appointed Egyptian Antiquities Minister, Khaled Anani, released a press statement Saturday following his visit to the Aswan shrine.

Anani stated that he had instructed the joint Egyptian-German group to submit him a scientific report about the two engravings found on one of the temple's walls. "The report will include a picture of the stone under discussion from the time it was discovered, to explore its archaeological repercussions without the two Star of David engravings, "Anani said.

"We will be aided by an expert of Islamic antiquities to understand whether the Sign of David was common in that early period", Anani announced.

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: aswan; egypt; elephantine; germany; godsgravesglyphs; history; israel; mahmoudafifi; mogendavid; religionofpieces; romanempire; starofdavid; suezbalady
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The Sign of David engraving found in the Aswan shrine. (photo credit:ARAB MEDIA)

The Sign of David engraving found in the Aswan shrine. (photo credit:ARAB MEDIA)

1 posted on 04/08/2016 7:11:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 04/08/2016 7:11:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Here is a link to a 108-year-old article about the ancient Jewish Temple in Elephanitine. There is a pdf file that you can download from the site.https://www.jstor.org/stable/3141839?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

More recent article from the Jerusalem Post: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Was-there-a-Jewish-temple-in-ancient-Egypt-318363


3 posted on 04/08/2016 7:20:05 AM PDT by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: SunkenCiv

How do they know some other group did not use that symbol?

Buddhist sects use swastikas why couldn’t Egyptians use an 8 pointed star made from two squares?


4 posted on 04/08/2016 7:21:04 AM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: SunkenCiv

Doesn’t that mean that the Jewish religion predates Islam in Egypt by 300 years?


5 posted on 04/08/2016 7:21:44 AM PDT by Parmy (II don't know how to past the images.)
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To: Piranha
The accusations that these were recently carved by (of all things) a Jew from Germany is ridiculous, but that's what happens when the substantial remains of a pre-Islamic civilization is under the control of savages.

6 posted on 04/08/2016 7:22:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Parmy

Jews were in Alexandria long before this.


7 posted on 04/08/2016 7:23:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Fai Mao

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3418780/posts?page=3#3


8 posted on 04/08/2016 7:23:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Parmy
Doesn’t that mean that the Jewish religion predates Islam in Egypt by 300 years?

Check your math... 800+ years!

9 posted on 04/08/2016 7:24:45 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Muslims don’t like to admit it, but their cult is fairly recent compared to Christianity and Christianity is a babe compared to Judaism. But it all goes back to Egypt anyway so all this fighting is stupid.


10 posted on 04/08/2016 7:27:58 AM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Heads exploding at every falafel stand in Cairo.


11 posted on 04/08/2016 7:30:06 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: Parmy

300 years?


12 posted on 04/08/2016 7:30:45 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: Fai Mao

Or even a 6 pointed star from two triangles...


13 posted on 04/08/2016 7:37:56 AM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~ JFK ~)
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To: SunkenCiv

Elephantine Island is where the Ark of the Covenant went on its way to Ethiopia. ;-)


14 posted on 04/08/2016 7:39:59 AM PDT by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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To: DonaldC

Islam was concocted as an imitation of Judeo-Christian worship.

Islam is a patent fabrication, a cynical fraud, and a cheap knock-off.

Satan didn’t even try particularly hard in creating Islam, and yet it is one of the most successful of his false religions.


15 posted on 04/08/2016 7:43:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Parmy

Jews predate Muslims in Egypt by at least 2000 years.
Ok, leave the Bible aside, it’s known that the population of Alexandria was very Jewish in Ptolemaic times, they being brought there by Ptolemy the Great, about 300BC. So make it 1000 years of continuous residence as reliably attested.


16 posted on 04/08/2016 7:55:01 AM PDT by buwaya
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To: BenLurkin

As far as we know the “shield of David” (consisting of two letters “D”, one superimposed on the other), wasn’t used as a Jewish symbol until the Middle Ages.

There were certainly Jews in Egypt for a long period (papyri show semitic names for slaves about 3500 years ago). At various times Jews left Egypt (see DeMille) and returned.

Alexandria in Roman times was about 1/3 Jewish, and has been called the New York of the ancient world (a great port, with a varied population, and perhaps the economic capital of the Empire).


17 posted on 04/08/2016 7:57:48 AM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: SunkenCiv

thanx for your interesting posts


18 posted on 04/08/2016 7:59:09 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Fai Mao

Amos 5:26


19 posted on 04/08/2016 8:07:00 AM PDT by patlin ("Knowledgee chosen to participate inthat is - 2nd to none but God" ConstitutionallySpeaking 2011)
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To: SunkenCiv

Clearly the work of the Goa’uld System Lord D’avide.


20 posted on 04/08/2016 8:10:16 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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