Posted on 12/07/2013 12:44:04 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The city of Heracleion was engulfed underwater 1500 years ago. This grand city had been mentioned by the Greek writer Herodotus, the 5th-century BC historian. He had told a wonderful tale of Helen of Troy, who traveled to Heracleion, then a port of 'great wealth', with her Trojan lover, Paris.
When French marine archaeologist Franck Goddio stumbled upon some relics, it led them to one of the greatest finds of the 21st century; a city underwater. The discovery took place when Goddio had been in search of Napoleon’s warships from the 1798 Battle of the Nile, when he had been defeated by Nelson in these very waters, but to his surprise, he stumbled upon this magnificent discovery.
The discoveries include the colossal statues of the Egyptian goddess Isis, the god Hapi, and an unidentified Egyptian pharaoh, all preserved in excellent condition by their muddy burial shroud. Along with these 16ft statues there are hundreds of smaller statues of Egyptian gods, among them the figures that guarded the temple where Cleopatra who was inaugurated as Queen of the Nile. Dozens of sarcophagi have also been found, containing the bodies of mummified animals sacrificed to Amun-Gereb, the supreme god of the Egyptians. Many amulets, or religious charms, have been unearthed, too, showing gods such as Isis, Osiris and Horus.
Evidence shows that Heracleion slipped into its watery grave sometime in the 6th or 7th century AD. The discovery of Heracleion will now add depth and detail to our knowledge of the ancient world, because among the discoveries, there are perfectly preserved inscribed pillars decorated with hieroglyphics.
Paging Dr Daniel Jackson...
That 1.9m tablet pictured at the link looks like polished “Jet Black” granite with ‘skin cut’ letters.
I am in the monument trade. People today get tomb stones in that style, and much more than once, I have come upon such a person while he was in the middle of re-thinking the wisdom of such shallow letters.
They ask me if I can cut the letters deeper. I say “yes, but then you’d have to pay for it and you would not like that.” They then invariably say ‘But look how SHALLOW they are, won’t they disappear with time’?
That’s when I laugh. I laugh and I laugh and I laugh...
I was thinking the opposite. If the Mongolian plate is rising, wouldn’t another have to sink? Or would that take millions of years? I want another continent to rise with Hawaii at the center. What would that do?
Anyone remember about those “ancient cities” off the coast of Peru found back in 1966? There were reports of them in several real newspapers back in March of 1966.
I’ve never seen anything mentioned of them again.
Earthquake, maybe, with a severe drop in elevation?
Thanks! I knew I wasn’t crazy or senile!
NTBCW a modern-day, self-styled god & Pharaoh:
Hah...LOL’S
Please explain the term...skin cut...thanks.
“Skin cut” is a current term for very very shallow letters. A stone is polished to mirror gloss, a template is glued on and sand blast (sometimes steel shot) takes the polish off. Depth may only be one sixteenth or 3 thirtyseconds. After that there is u cut and after that there is v cut. V cut usually requires a no polish panel to be more visible as the letters darken as they v out.
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I think Gobekli Tepe is more important.
Heck, it was already buried under the dust ten thousand years before Romulus and Remus changed their diapers!
“The god Hapi was the god of the flooding of the Nile, “. Heh
I’ve read that periodically sections of the Egyptian coastline slide into the Mediterranean. Earthquakes.
Me too. With the African and Arabian Plates being subducted under the European Plate, conditions exist for many events like that over geologic time.
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