Is this the holy grail they found , or is it the one from Indiana Jones?
Posted on 10/28/2024 5:37:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
British archaeologists recently made a discovery that sounds like something straight out of an Indiana Jones movie: a secret tomb under the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, according to a press release from the University of St. Andrews.
The archaeologists, led by Richard Bates, a professor at St. Andrews, and Pearce Paul Creasman, the executive director of American Center of Research, were exploring Petra’s iconic Treasury building, which was featured in 1989 blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. (In the film, the building is home to the Holy Grail, though its actual purpose has remained mostly a mystery.)
For decades, archaeologists have known that there were tombs around the structure, but had been unable to fully explore them. Then, this year Bates, Creasman, and the team were approved by the Jordanian government to use ground-penetrating radar on the site. When the survey found the strong possibility of subterranean chambers in the Treasury, they were given permission to excavate. The team found a buried tomb, believed to have been undisturbed for two millennia, containing the remains of 12 skeletons and a collection of grave offerings.
“The discovery is of international significance as very few complete burials from the early Nabataeans have ever been recovered from Petra before,” professor Richard Bates from the University of St. Andrews School of Earth and Environmental Science said in a press statement. “The burials, their goods, and the human remains can all be expected to help fill the gaps of our knowledge in how Petra came to be and who the Nabataeans were,” he added.
One of the skeletons was even holding a chalice that resembled the cinematic Holy Grail. Josh Gates, the host of Discovery Channel’s “Expedition Unknown,” which filmed a soon-to-air TV program on the tomb excavation, said in a press statement, “It was the ultimate moment of life imitating art.”
“When we spotted what looked like a chalice, all of us just froze. It looked nearly identical to the Holy Grail featured in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, set in the ancient building directly above the tomb,” he said.
Detailed analysis of the ceramic vessel revealed that it is the top part of a smashed jug that is thought to date back to the first century BC.
“The tomb was most likely built as a mausoleum and crypt in the Nabatean Kingdom at the beginning of the 1st century AD for Aretas IV Philopatris,” Bates said. “Like many tombs in the valley, few remains have ever been found in the tombs due to their subsequent use and reuse over the last two millennia.”
Is this the holy grail they found , or is it the one from Indiana Jones?
If I remember correctly, they dropped it on their way out.
These guys just found a movie prop.
“ was even holding a chalice ”
Uh sorry that’s mine.
I knew I left it somewhere
Apparently this grail didn't have healing properties, because the guy died anyway and someone buried it with him. :^)
NEVER MIND! It is just an old Hollywood set that was buried.
This is a hoax for TV: https://youtu.be/KD3UaYLnfgg?si=9w3O_4hVvkP7MWwa
The Inverted Nuns?
Sounds like a female punk rock band.............
🙂👍
Bad, bad, wicked Zoot!
A warehouse full of Holy Grails? 😁
It does, because humor is the best medicine.
Funny [bones, the essential framework] --
(It's one of those days)
This year '85 (5785 ה'תשפ"ה) is actually a year when inverted nuns frame out the text in-between [תשפ], because the letter nun [נ] = 50 and the letter hei [ה] = 5:
"The reversal of 50 is 5." ~ Numbers Aplenty
That's right! Numbers 10:35-36 😉
I'm firmly on topic because concerning the Release Date of the Lost Ark, on the day the Chumash opened with those same verses,
some here may recall that the Hebrew word for the Ark [of the Covenant] -- aron, ארון -- is also the same as Joseph's coffin (Gen 50:26), which according to the midrash had been sunk deep in de Nile.
(It wasn't only sunk in a river in Egypt, but even in a US government warehouse!)
So back to the text that sits between the reversed nuns (a ה and a ה) this year -- it's the numeral 780 [תש"פ]. I looked into my list to see what's buried in there, 780, notables such as
יום פרל הארבור Pearl Harbor Day (sleeping giant wake-up call)
לוגריתם טבעי natural logarithm (loge ---> goel)
הגוף של אמריקה the hull of America, America's body (guf)
יוסף יוסף הגיעה שעה Joseph Joseph the hour has come
On this date in history:
Shabbat, May 14, 2005 5 Iyar, 5765
State of Israel proclaimed (1948)
"She was the largest warship ever sunk."
As for the source of the last ones:
How did Moses know where Joseph had been buried? They said: Serakh daughter, of Asher was of the same generation, and she went and said to Moses: "In the Nile River, Joseph is buried. And the Egyptians made for him metal skewers and affixed them with wood." Moses went and stood at the Nile River and said, "Joseph, the time has come (יוסף יוסף הגיעה [שעה] ) for the Holy Blessed One to redeem [גואל, goel] Israel. Behold, the Shekhina is delayed for you, and the Israelites are delayed for you, and the clouds of glory are delayed for you. If you reveal yourself, good (okay!), and if not, we are cleansed of the oath which you have sworn upon our fathers." Then the coffin of Joseph floated to the surface and Moses took hold of it and went.
And you should not wonder at this, for behold, it says (2 Kings 6:5), "And as one of [the disciples of the prophets accompanying Elisha] was chopping down a tree-trunk, the iron [axe head] fell into the water, etc., and the man of God said, 'Where did it fall?' and he showed him the place, and he cut off a stick and threw it there, and the iron [axe head] floated up." And behold, these matters are a kal v'chomer (a logical deduction): If Elisha, who was a disciple of Elijah, who was a disciple of Moses, could make iron float 🚢 ⚓, then how much more so could Moses, who was the master of Elijah, who was the master of Elisha, [bring up the coffin of Joseph]!
There are those who say that Joseph was buried in the crypt of the kings, and Moses went and stood above the crypt and said, "Joseph! Joseph! The time has arrived (יוסף יוסף הגיעה שעה) for the Holy One, Blessed be He, to redeem [גואל, goel] Israel. Behold, the Shekhinah awaits you, and Israel awaits you, and the Clouds of Glory awaits you. If you reveal yourself it would be well, and if not, we will be free (lit., "clean") of the vow that our fathers vowed." Immediately, the coffin (aron) of Joseph stirred, and Moses took it and carried it off. And there were two aronot* traveling together: The aron kodesh (the Holy Ark), and the aron shel met (the "ark" of the dead). And all the passersby would say, What is the nature of these two aronot? They said to them, one is the Holy Ark and one is the ark of the dead. They said to them, And how is it possible for the Holy Ark to travel alongside an ark of the dead? They said to them, the dead who is in this ark fulfills what is written in that which rests in that Holy Ark.
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People like to make fun of Christmas songs, even the religions ones for getting some detail horribly wrong, like the season, time of visitation. "Everybody knows" that shepherds would not be outside at Christmastime, brrr!
And how many times do kids 'mishear' the lyrics?
The first Goel the angel did say
Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay
In fields where they lay keeping their sheep
On a cold winter's night that was so deep [בתרדמת]
Goel Goel Goel Goel
Born is the King of Israel...
Need a burning BUSH 🔥 for warmth, especially for the message inside (Hebrew and English, same intel, 50).
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American History made EZ (just floating this out there):
Born on Purim, Moses', bris:
How many layers?? Few care to know! At least here's the documentation.Isaac Hull (March 9, 1773 – February 13, 1843) was a Commodore in the United States Navy. He commanded several famous U.S. naval warships including USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides")...
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For the infant U.S. Navy, the battle of USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere on August 19, 1812, at the beginning of the war, was the most important single ship action of the War of 1812 and one that made Isaac Hull a national hero.
Early Life
Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut (some sources say Huntington, now Shelton, Connecticut), on March 9, 1773.[2][3] Early in life he joined his mariner father, Joseph, on local voyages and longer trips to the West Indies.[4] After his father died while still young, Isaac was adopted by his uncle William Hull, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War.[5][6]
Hull:
(“seed covering, hull of a ship”)
In Isaac is Abraham's seed called, and the Constitution got her nickname when Isaac Hull was her captain:
"She is the world's oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat."
Josh Gates Explores Petra To Find The Lost Legendary Treasure!
Expedition Unknown | 8:35
Discovery UK | 4.78M subscribers | 10,378 views | November 16, 2024
Sucks, just as the movie did.
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