Posted on 08/19/2018 8:05:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
#10. Definitely Mississipian era fossil. Crinoids, Blastoids, Foramenifora. Love them oldies.
It actually looks like some kind of animal fossil to me, maybe even a dinosaur? I’ve been involved in a lot of study of that sort of thing. Think about it: dinosaurs were very much alive during the period of time when the pyramids were built, as many Creation scientists say that there is every possibility that these creatures—in their youth—were brought two-by-two into the ark that Noah built by God’s careful instruction.
It is still an issue of great fascination among both the secular and Biblical archaeological community about just how the massive and heavy blocks were placed to build the pyramids. What I’ve seen in long-past documentaries of the subject just doesn’t cut the cake with me; the physics just don’t add up.
Oh, and yes the very strange lack of photos...but boy just the one...just study it for a few minutes.
Oh yeah.
Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, or 64,995,500 years before the Great Pyramid was built.
That should pose quite a few riddles for archaeologists.
I understand that you did your best, but that picture Sphinx!
Remember hearing him on Art Bell’s program.
Was always over the top about how much secret stuff they knew but couldn’t disclose.
Made me think they just found rabbit and gopher holes underneath.
Heh... yeah, all those top secret looted thousands of years old tombs. :^)
/rimshot!
Glad they're being careful, but it would be nice to see more detail. Looks like fragments of a broken statue of a standing pharaoh, something like that, and given its locale, probably 18th dynasty. OTOH, the 18th (e.g. Hatshepsut) strongly identified with Middle Kingdom and even Old Kingdom ruins and pharaohs, understandable since the 2nd intermediate period saw Egypt under foreign rule for centuries.
In one of those fast-moving and pretty pointless new-style Egypt documentaries a French team was shown excavating under one of Hatshepsut's obelisks (not the smartest idea, btw) why I don't know, and they uncovered a seated colossal statue of one of the Middle Kdm pharaohs, apparently deliberately buried as a sort of foundation deposit. I think it was one of the Sobekhoteps. Her famous temple at Deir el bahari stands right next to a much earlier temple by one of the Mentuhoteps.
Didn’t they go ex-sphinx a few thousand years ago?
:^) It seems like a few thousand years ago, but that’s because I’m getting older — Leon was the last Sphinx, retired after Tyson beat him.
from the forbidding depths of the hard drive:
[snip] Minerva July-Aug 2000 had article containing abstracts of papers given at the Egyptian conference back in late March/early April. Check out this:The so-called Dream Stela of Tuthmosis IV does not mention that the Great Sphinx was created by Khafre (Chephren), but the older stela of Amenhotep II mentions both Khufu and Khafre. It is located within the quarries of Khufu. Since the causeway of Khafre runs slightly to the southeast, rather than straight to the east, and since his valley temple lies beyond the axis of his pyramid complex, also toward the southeast, it is suggested that it was to avoid something important that already stood there -- the Great Sphinx. The features also point to Khufu -- the square face and broad chin, the pleated nemes without a band, the wide open eyes and large ears, and the fact the statue was beardless in the Old Kingdom. -- Rainer Stadelmann, "The Great Sphinx of Giza -- A Creation of Khufu/Cheops"Another abstract on the same page (42) pertains to some of the tomb items from Tutankhamun -- these items had been made for Smenkhkare, Tut's immediate predecessor, which is difficult to explain to Christine Mahdi et al, who claim that Smenkhkare was none other than Nefertiti, on the flimsiest basis possible. Sorry, no website. In fact, the only magazine-related email address I found was on Compuserve. [/snip]
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