Posted on 12/07/2006 10:28:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv
An Egyptian farmer found under his residence an over 3,000-year old temple with important inscriptions and drawings from that time, belonging to the New Kingdom (1539-1075 BC).
The site, in the locality of Sohag, 500 kilometers south of Cairo, was found six meters deep in a place where it is thought that there are other temples of pharaohs of the 18th and 19th centuries.
According to local Al Ahram daily, on the walls are written names of kings, inscriptions and drawings.
Archeologists continue with excavations to find new buildings devoted to divinities Anoris and Miht of the New Kingdom.
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Yawn. I find stuff older than that in the back of my barn all the time.
Don't even ask about the stuff I actually take the trouble to dig up outside. The cannonball, one of the more modern finds, (solid-shot, not bomb-shell) wasn't even buried.
How old was it? I mean, was the fuse still lit? ;')
As I said, solid-shot. 16 pound, rough-cast iron, with flats & scrapes.
No provenance to it, as it was half buried in an intermittant stream bed that is highly disturbed. One driveway crosses it on one side of where I found it, and another drive crosses on the other side of it, about 25' away.
SIX METERS DEEP?
This farmer was digging a 20 foot deep hole?
Now THAT is sowin' them seeds deep!
That seemed a bit curious to me as well. Probably he'd heard about that Egyptian villagers who for decades (at least) have been looting the ancient burials over which their village had been built, and started to wonder what was under his place.
South Dakota, cannonball, huh... any ideas?
Lots of posibilities, including a ball "liberated" from in town, by a previous resident of the ranch.
Another idea I had: The State Veterans Home, since the turn of the [last] century; & a VA Domiciliary & hospital, pre 1930s, are less than 3 miles as the crow flies, down-canyon. Both have/had old smooth bores on their grounds, and in the old days, July Fourth celebrations could get pretty wild....
In the 1870s it was quite legal to own a cannon or two for "home defense".
Custer moved through near here in the 1874 expedition; maybe?
Shucks, even in 1950s Jacksonville, OR, somebodies rolled the library/museum cannon into the street, and touched it off of an early Sunday A.M. "The Wake Up Call Heard Round The County"! Not long after, the disgruntled, humorless authorities permanently spiked it.
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