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Egyptian Police Officer's Bone Whistle Found
Archaeology Magazine ^
| September 15, 2025
| editors / unattributed
Posted on 09/18/2025 8:04:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A bone whistle likely used by an ancient Egyptian police officer was unearthed at the site of Amarna, Live Science reports. Around 1347 b.c., the controversial pharaoh Akhenaten (reigned ca. 1349–1336 b.c.) established a new capital city at Amarna, though it was abandoned after just 15 years. The artifact, which was crafted out of a cow's toe, is the first of its kind ever to be found in Egypt. It was recovered by archaeologists from the Amarna Project through the University of Cambridge's McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at a part of the site known as the Stone Village. Researchers believe that this district likely housed workers involved in the construction of the king's royal tomb. The whistle was located within a structure that appears to have served as a checkpoint where guards were stationed in order to monitor people coming in and out of the Stone Village. "This area appears to have been heavily policed in order to keep the sacred location of the tomb known and accessed by only those that need to know and go there," said Griffith University archaeologist Michelle Langley. For more on Akhenaten's reign, go to "Rediscovering Egypt's Golden Dynasty."
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: 18thdynasty; amarna; bonewhistle; egypt; godsgravesglyphs; tweet
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09/18/2025 8:04:08 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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09/18/2025 8:04:34 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: SunkenCiv
“Do you know why I pulled your chariot over?”
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09/18/2025 8:07:13 PM PDT
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BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BradyLS
🤣🤣😃😄
Stop or I’ll toot! 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶
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09/18/2025 8:10:14 PM PDT
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SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: BradyLS; Red Badger; null and void
Bumper sticker on chariot:
I brake for a parting Red Sea
Hey I’m copyrighting that one 😄
©️©️©️©️©️©️©️©️
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09/18/2025 8:12:28 PM PDT
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SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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09/18/2025 8:13:17 PM PDT
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SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: SunkenCiv
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09/18/2025 8:15:36 PM PDT
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balk
To: SunkenCiv
Musta been hell writing up a parking ticket using hieroglyphics on papyrus....
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09/18/2025 8:17:08 PM PDT
by
decal
(They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
To: SaveFerris; Red Badger; null and void
😄😄😄😄
“Does your mummy know you’re driving her chariot?”
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09/18/2025 8:19:11 PM PDT
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BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BradyLS
“You’ll be pulling stones up the side of the pyramid for this.”
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posted on
09/18/2025 8:20:18 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: BradyLS
“Do you know why I pulled your chariot over?” "Because I was driving like Jehu, the son of Nimshi?" (2 Kings 9:20)
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09/18/2025 8:20:30 PM PDT
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fidelis
(Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
To: SaveFerris
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09/18/2025 8:20:45 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: decal
And if found guilty, the judge would throw the scroll at ya.
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09/18/2025 8:21:24 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: BradyLS
Drunk Charioteer: because I caught air after I hit that speed bump?
Officer: That "speed bump" was a priestess of Hathor.
Drunk Charioteer: Oh...
They then hung him over the door of the tavern where he got drunk and left him there until his body disarticulated. It was then thrown in the river ensuring that he was punished in this life and the next.
It is the first recorded drunk driving accident.
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09/18/2025 8:22:44 PM PDT
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Harmless Teddy Bear
(It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
To: SunkenCiv
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09/18/2025 8:23:54 PM PDT
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BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BradyLS
The Driver’s License must have been made from stone 🪨!
What’s in YOUR wallet? 😜😛😄😂😃
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09/18/2025 8:26:31 PM PDT
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SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
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09/18/2025 8:26:55 PM PDT
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BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BradyLS; SunkenCiv
I don’t know which is more fun - SunkenCiv’s erudition and contributions here, or the wits who respond to him.
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09/18/2025 8:27:07 PM PDT
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Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: decal
Because of accusafions of abuse, the police chariots began to carry dash-scribes.
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09/18/2025 8:28:20 PM PDT
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I-ambush
(From the brightest star comes the blackest hole-You had so much to offer, why didya offer your soul?)
To: Jamestown1630
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09/18/2025 8:31:47 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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