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Posted on 05/26/2019 10:32:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the ruins of an ancient fortress dating to the 26th Dynasty, the last dynasty in which native Egyptians ruled before the Persians conquered the country in 525 B.C., according to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities.
Researchers uncovered parts of the mud-brick stronghold -- including the northeastern and southeastern towers -- at the Tell El-Kedwa site in North Sinai. Previously, in 2008, archaeologists had excavated the military citadel's eastern wall, but the fortress is so large, it took until now to unearth more of its remains...
Curiously, the old citadel also has chambers full of sand, broken pottery and debris, which might have helped to support its heavy walls, Nadia Khadr, head of the Central Department of Lower Egypt Antiquities, said in the statement. These chambers may have also served as rainwater drains, which was characteristic of the 26th Dynasty...
The excavation also uncovered an almost 280-foot-long (85 m) wall on the fortress's southern side and the remains of houses within the western part of the fortress. One of these houses had an amulet with the name of King Psamtik I, who kicked out the Assyrians from Egypt and reunited the country when he founded the 26th Dynasty. He died in 610 B.C.
Based on this amulet, "initial studies suggest that the fortress most probably dates back to the first half of the 26th Dynasty, specifically the era of King Psamtik I," Hussein told Ahram Online.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
And yup, the Persian rule of Egypt lasted until Alexander the Great took over.
An army swallowed up by a sandstorm. Wow. Seems some believe it and some don’t.
How the heck do you know all this stuff?
Do you teach it? Is it a hobby?
Don’t feel bad. It’s hard keeping your nose in the books when the Italian Bakery on the corner is putting fresh cannollis out east morning. Hey, have a great day today.
Just a hobby.
I spent a year in the Sinai as a UN Observer and wandered all over. Didn't see that fortress but found many, many ancient structures. Hard to believe they paid me to be there!
The 19th Dynasty existed in the 7th not the 13th century. The 19th and 26th Dynasties are the same as Velikovsky has claimed.
For those who may be interested in pursuing Velikovsky’s writings about Egypt and what happened in prehistory: “Mankind in Amnesia”, the “Ages in Chaos” series Vol. 1-3. He is primarily known for his “Worlds in Collision” & “Earth in Upheaval”. Lest someone think he’s just a crackpot, in the 1950’s he correctly predicted what atmospheric conditions of Venus - then thought to be very Earth-like but with heavy cloud cover.
Thanks for the excerpt Civ.
Leave the gun, take the cannoli.
What did they do on west mornings?
My son put Egypt into perspective: Cleopatra lived closer to the age of cell phones than to the building of the pyramids.
Wasn’t Alexander Persian?
Alexander was Macedonian; his father Philip II made improvements to the phalanx form and made other improvements, which made it possible for him to conquer neighboring areas, including Greece. When Alexander inherited the throne, he led his forces across to Anatolia and started his conquest of the Persian Empire. After his untimely death, his empire split up into pieces ruled by his various generals, the longest lasting was that of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt.
My pleasure.
Figures the gov't would send you to the Sinai as a UN Observer, when the UN is located in NYC. /jk
Sounds like a great time. It's remarkable that such a dry area has had so much activity, even over that many thousands of years.
I wish we knew more about ancient America. It is troubling to see South American ruins without detailed history to go with them.
The decipherment of written Mayan has revolutionized the study of precolumbian central America, but precolumbian Andean writing doesn't appear to exist -- apart from quipu, which may have been a mnemonic system or even an accounting system, rather than a system of sort-of writing. Writing from precolumbian North American contexts is limited to short inscriptions left by ancient navigators from elsewhere. Even the purported Mayan colony in, hmm, Georgia I think, has no known inscriptions in it.
#5 What it was turned into : )
It even say Establish 1921 BC
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