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To: SunkenCiv

Jokes aside - the next question is "Then who *did* deface/destroy her obelisks?" Because IIRC, someone went through and did a pretty good job of obliterating her from history.


6 posted on 04/22/2006 3:11:53 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

"Then who *did* deface/destroy her obelisks?"

Had to be the Talithebans!


7 posted on 04/22/2006 3:15:52 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Spktyr
I have always been of the opinion that it was the priests and that the reason was that she was the Pharaoh of the Exodus.

The time line fits and something happened that caused her to be erased.

8 posted on 04/22/2006 3:16:50 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Ditch the 1967 Outer Space Treaty! I want my own space bar and grill)
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To: Spktyr

Father Time, which includes sometimes the hand of man. It's much simpler to grab dressed stone, treating existing but abandoned structures as quarries. That's what happened to the pyramid of Djedjefre, Khufu's son and successor.


13 posted on 04/22/2006 4:39:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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