Divers find long lost carvings of Tutankhamun's grandfather and other Egyptian pharaohs at bottom of Nile River

Daily Mail UK ^ | July 24, 2024 | Nikki Main

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The slabs included hieroglyphic inscriptions about the kings' achievements, including King Amenhotep III, also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent and ancestor of King Tut...

The ancient artifacts were discovered in the area in 1960, but were lost the following decade during the construction of the Aswan High Dam in Aswan.

Archaeologists had rushed to remove them before they were lost underwater, but many couldn't be relocated in time...

The researchers used underwater filming and photographing techniques to document the discovery.

They are also creating 3D models of the images using photogrammetry - the process of using surface measurements from pictures to create an accurate three-dimensional version.

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism did not provide a translation for the hieroglyphs nor did they describe what the carvings looked like...

For the first time, a team of Egyptian and French archaeologists have dived to recover the lost treasures including the carvings of at least five rulers who reigned during the 18th and 26th dynasties...

[Aswan] is also home to the Philae temple which is the location of where the last known hieroglyphic inscription was written in 394 AD.

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Archaeologists have discovered mysterious carvings of ancient Egyptian pharaohs that have been submerged underwater for decades

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[SunkenCiv]

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Theses for the Reconstruction of Ancient History | Immanuel Velikovsky

172. The so-called Nineteenth and Twenty-sixth Dynasties are substantially one and the same.
173. Ramses I is identical with, Necho 1. He was one of the viceroys under Essarhadon. After the death of Essarhadon, when the viceroys took sides with Tirhaka the Ethiopian and were killed by Assurbanipal, Ramses I, pardoned by the Assyrian King, was installed by him as the king of Egypt.
174. Shamash Shum Ukin, King of Babylon, and brother of Assurbanipal, corresponded with Tirhaka and allied himself with him.
175. Psammetich-Seti II, son of Ramses I, rose from vassal to the position of an ally of Assurbanipal in his war against Shamash Shum Ukin.
176. Psammetich-Seti II (Seti the Great) repeatedly invaded northern Palestine. He mentions smaller conflicts with Manasseh, referring to the latter by his name.
177. The city Pekanon to which he laid siege and which he captured was a fortress-capital of Peka, King of Israel, who lived two generations earlier. Being a capital, it was probably Samaria.
178. Beth-Shan-Scythopolis was the city where Seti met the vanguard of the Scythians. He occupied the city, as he reported on his stela found there.
179. Seti built a fortress on the Oronteg, at Tell Nebi Mend; it is Riblah of the Scriptures.
180. Seti participated in the war in the valley of the Euphrates on the side of Assurbanipal and against Nabopolassar. The Egyptian army referred to by Nabopolassar in his annals was that of Seti.
181. Greek soldiers sent by Gyges of Sardis to Egypt in the days of Seti became the first Greek settlers there.

114. Among the correspondents of Amenhotep III and Akhnaton are biblical personages: Jehoshaphat (Abdi-Hiba), King of Jerusalem; Ahab (Rib Addi), King of Samaria; Ben-Hadad (Abdi-Ashirta), King of Damascus; Hazael (Azaru), King of Damascus; Aman (Aman-appa), Governor of Samaria; Adaja (Adaja), Adna (Adadanu), Amasia, son of Zihri (son of Zuhru), Jehozabad (Jahzibada), military governors of Jehoshaphat; Obadia, the chief of Jezreel; Obadia (Widia), a city governor in Judea; the Great Lady of Shunem (Baalath Nesse); Naaman (Janhama), the captain of Damascus; and others. Arza (Arzaja), the courtier in Samaria, is referred to in a letter.
115. Mesha, King of Moab, is often mentioned in the Letters by his name (Mesh). The omission of the name of the rebel king by the translators of the Letters is not warranted.
116. The King of Hatti, who for years invaded and harassed Syria, was Assurnasirpal and after him Shalmanassar.
117. The following correspondents of Amenhotep and Akhnaton are known from the inscriptions of Shalmanassar; Adima, Prince of Siana and Irqata; Mut-Balu (Matinu-Bali), Prince of Arvad.

155. The letter addressed by Subliliuma to Hurria does not belong to the el-Amarna collection. It was written in the seventh century and addressed to Tirhaka-Hurria, the Ethiopian. It should be a matter of further investigation, whether any other letters are wrongly ascribed to the el-Amarna archive.

189. The treaties of Subliliumas with Azaru of Damascus, with a patricide prince of Mitanni, and with the widow of Tirhaka, make plausible his identity with Shamash Shum Ukin. This would signify also that Nabopolassar was a son of Shamash Shum Ukin.
190. The people and the kingdom of Mitanni did not “disappear” in the thirteenth century. Mitanni is another name for Medes; the northwest part of Medes retained this name as Matiane (Herodotus).

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the link!

BTW, I've never before heard "Amenhotep the Magnificent" used, sounds like some lame-assed bogus made-up crap from Zahi "Zowie" Hawass.

[SteveH]

The heiroglyphics seem to read “Bob [...] your uncle.”

I wonder what this could mean...

[AdmSmith]

sounds like some lame-assed bogus made-up crap from Zahi “Zowie” Hawass

LOL! and I have met him

[left that other site]

Was he...

buried in his jammies?

[Ezekiel]

King Amenhoteb III, also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent...

ATM for short? He must have been rich.

What'll they fish out next, the bones of Joseph?

[Larry Lucido]

Sounds like they are all in de Nile.

[SunkenCiv]

I’m just glad these articles lotus up on information.

[mass55th]

"The heiroglyphics seem to read “Bob [...] your uncle.”"

More like: "For a good time call Kamala Devi..."

[Billthedrill]

Ah, yes, the Aswan Dam, built for the same purpose that the Three Gorges Dam was in China. They'll tell you flood control and electricity generation, but the true story is...Zombies. Some things are better left inundated.

[bgill]

Was excited to see this was from The Daily Mail so we could get pictures this time. Greatly disappointed. What is it with archeology that they ALWAYS hide the finds from view?

[SunkenCiv]

Archaeology doesn’t always hide the finds from view.

[SunkenCiv]

lol, the desert heat got to another group of Egyptologists!

[moovova]

If I had a time machine and could follow just one piece of these artifacts... what an incredible trip that would be. It would also answer the question “How in the heck did these wind up at the bottom of the Nile?”. Didn’t they have a Goodwill Store back then, when cleaning out the palace?

[Larry Lucido]

;)

[Cronos]

It is ironic that a minor Pharaoh like Tutankhamun is better known than Thotmose III

[SunkenCiv]

Even he never thought he’d see people stand in line to see the boy king.

[SunkenCiv]

:^)

[SunkenCiv]

Most personal possessions went into the tomb. Even Tut’s smallish tomb was stuffed with all kinds of things, including a chariot. :^) The temples were built to last, but the palaces all went away for the most part, mud brick with some kind of painted plaster coating. That was intentional.