Posted on 07/15/2018 10:09:58 AM PDT by ETL
Archaeologists in Egypt made a surprising discovery dating back more 2,500 years near the country's famed pyramids south of Cairo.
Their findings, which include a mummification workshop and a shaft, used as a communal burial place, are located at the vast Saqqara necropolis part of the Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Memphis was the first capital of ancient Egypt and its large necropolis houses a wide range of temples and tombs as well as the three pyramids of Giza.
The latest find, announced at a press conference Saturday, belongs to the Saite-Persian Period, from 664-404 B.C. The site, which lies south of Unas pyramid, was last excavated more than 100 years ago, in 1900.
Among the artifacts found were a gilded silver mummy mask, fragments of mummy cartonnages, canopic cylindrical jars and marl clay and faience cups. Many will be displayed in the under-construction Grand Egyptian Museum, the first phase of which is expected to be inaugurated later this year.
Down the 30-meter-deep shaft lie several mummies, wooden coffins and sarcophagi. The shaft is comprised of burial chambers carved into the bedrock lining the sides of two hallways.
In mummification workshop, an embalmer's cachette was found that archaeologists believe will reveal more about the oils used in the mummification process in the 26th Dynasty.
"We are in front of a goldmine of information about the chemical composition of these oils," Archaeologist Ramadan Hussein said at the press conference, reports the Associated Press.
"It's only the beginning," added Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani.
Egypt has gone at great length to revive its vital tourism industry, still reeling from the political turmoil that followed a 2011 popular uprising. It hopes such discoveries, along with the inauguration of the museum at the Giza plateau, will help encourage more tourists to visit.
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Guess you haven’t read any of the comments yet.
Those darned Jews again....
Iceberg, Goldberg, Greenberg...what’s the difference?
No, I posted my thoughts immediately after reading the excerpt.
Oy!
Archaeologists in Egypt discover ancient mummification worskshop
Wow, the Great Pyramid of Greenland.......I had heard about it but I thought it was only rumors.
I got here late. What’s this about a small town in Greenland about to be inundated with icy Egyptian mummies?
...never mind
So...the cover-up is on, eh?
Trouble is, titles don’t show up on previews. I clicked preview and all was ok. Didn’t realize I hadn’t changed the title to the other article I switched to.
The thread is now immortal. Sometimes you just gotta go with it... ;-)
LIMA, Peru - A top Peruvian anthropologist said Friday that President Clinton's joke about the sex appeal of an Inca mummy was "tacky" and criticized the display of the mummy in Washington.
Clinton joked during a political fund-raiser Wednesday that the 500-year-old frozen mummy, known as the Ice Princess, was "good-looking" and if he were single he might ask her out. "That mummy looks better than I do on my worst days," he said.
Anthropologist Sonia Guillen said, "Obviously, there's a lack of respect" in Clinton's remarks.
"Called Juanita by Peruvian scientists, the 12 to 14-year-old girl apparently was killed by a powerful blow to the head 500 years ago and sacrificed to the gods atop 20,000-foot-high Mt. Ampato."
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-05-25/news/mn-8167_1_inca-mummy
Thanks ETL. One of *those* topics.
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Thanks ETL.
At least one question comes to mind. How come the mummification shop was found still in working order? Why did the embalmers leave and never return? It surely took centuries for nature to close in and bury it.
It’s as if one afternoon the Memphis radio station spun a Don Henley CD, “Quitin’ time; quitin’ time...” and all the help hung up their lab coats, grabbed their lunch coolers from the break room and left, never to return.
Why would such an intense enterprise end so abruptly? How does this line up chronologically with, say, the Hebrew Passover night, when every firstborn in Egypt was stricken dead in on night by Almighty God’s death angel?
This COULD BE more instructive than your average unbeliever would care to discuss.
It’s as if one afternoon the Memphis radio station spun a Don Henley CD, “Quitin’ time; quitin’ time...” and all the help hung up their lab coats, grabbed their lunch coolers from the break room and left, never to return.
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Well, look at Bodie, Calif.
Were those actually photos on the wall of hillary, feinstein and maxine waters?
Did anyone notice that the embalming fluids are the same as the skin treatments being used by Pelosi Galore?
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