For 2000 years they took it for granite...
Posted on 07/09/2018 8:00:28 PM PDT by BBell
A mysterious ancient black granite sarcophagus has been discovered in Egypt.
The tomb, which dates back to the Ptolemaic period between 305 B.C. and 30 B.C., was uncovered in the city of Alexandria.
In a Facebook post, Dr. Mostafa Waziri, general secretary of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, announced that the 6-foot high sarcophagus, which is 8.7-feet long and 5.4-feet wide, is the largest ever found in Alexandria.
The sarcophagus was found buried 16.4 feet below the surface. A layer of mortar between the lid and the body of the sarcophagus indicates that it has not been opened since it was closed more than 2,000 years ago.
A carved alabaster head, which probably depicts the tomb’s owner, was also found.
Ancient Egypt continues to reveal its secrets. Archaeologists recently unearthed a 2,200-year-old gold coin depicting the ancient King Ptolemy III, an ancestor of the famed Cleopatra.
Experts in Southern Egypt recently discovered an extremely rare marble head depicting the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
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What’s that? I didn’t see that photo at the FOX News site.
The beloved center for the Alexandria basketball team?
Some Romans were that tall? Abnormal—not beyond belief.
This is supposed to be from the Ptolemaic period. Iron age Greeks, descendants of Alexander the Great’s general.
lol
(In Before The Ancient Aliens Guy)
I can’t believe he has not shown up yet.
He looks very, very angry.
They’ll have to ask his mummy.
Stargate?
“and Jimmy Hoffa.”
I thought they found him when Tammy Fay Baker took off all her makeup.
For 2000 years they took it for granite...
Is that a bath of motor oil?
The "sarcophagus" was found in a tomb supposedly dating from that period, but it's pure conjecture for the the egyptologists to state that the granite box was made by those people.
It's more likely that those iron age people discovered that box and re-purposed it for a burial sarcophagus.
Many of these multi ton stone boxes have been found in Egypt - most containing nothing. Curiously, they're all carved from single blocks of stone, and are finished to degrees of flatness, polish, and mathematical perfection, we can hardly reproduce them with modern technology, today.
Ming Dynasty Chinese woman. Found I think, during road construction.
Nope. Not an alien nuclear reactor but you are close.
It is the owner of the Black Stone found on the moon in “2001 Space Odessy”. He came to earth for a vacation after placing the stone on the moon but got sick and died.
Or, since it is 6 feet long, it’s the crypt of Boris Karloff from the original film, “The Mummy”. Must have been left there after filming ended and got buried by the sand.
Or, it is the final resting place of Judge Crater.
Definitely not Capone’s crypt. Just ask Geraldo.
They certainly had the tools to shape granite... all one needs to do that is use hammerstones. It’s laborious but American Indians worked granite into discoidals, celts and spuds and the like the same way, albeit on a smaller scale.
black granite is interesting, as it’s supposed to be the least porous granite. I’ve read King Tut’s daddy’s sarcophagus was made of a single piece of Chinese alabaster. One has to wonder where the black granite (India? South Africa? Zimbabwe?) and the alabaster (China?) came from?
Edward VIII? It reminds me more of Nigel Farage. Perhaps this is where they buried BREXIT.
If it contains the remains of someone taller than 6.5 ft or so, we’ll never hear any more about it.
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