Posted on 10/03/2007 8:06:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The previously concealed architectural elements reveal well-preserved hieroglyphics and unique scenes depicting the powerful pharaoh. The discovery is likely to touch a nerve among religious leaders, because the newly exposed reliefs contain representations of humans and animals, which are forbidden inside mosques, the experts said. The mosque was erected as a shrine to Muslim saint Abul Haggag in the 13th century A.D. on the site of an earlier Christian church, which was itself built on top of the ancient temple, the archaeologists explained... Christians, and later Muslims, frequently built their shrines on top of ancient Egyptian holy sites, said W. Raymond Johnson, an Egyptologist at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago who has seen the newly exposed temple sections... [page 2] Now that the depictions have been uncovered, archaeologists will likely have to negotiate with local religious leaders who see the exposed renderings in their mosque as a violation of Islamic law... The researchers expect to reach a compromise, they said, which might include retractable coverings or screens over the inscriptions. Removing the ancient features entirely would likely cause damage to the mosque.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
Sections of columns and elaborately inscribed reliefs from an ancient Egyptian temple were recently discovered behind the walls of a mosque in Luxor. The oval relief, or cartouche, at center depicts the name of Ramses II, the pharaoh in whose name the temple was built around 1250 B.C. -- Photograph courtesy Zahi Hawass, Supreme Council of Antiquities
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For this stuff to have made it to the present, the adaptation of this temple into use as a church -- later desecrated and destroyed by Moslems -- must have been non-destructive. |
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The Moon Rock Cult should hate the Sun Cult!
At least they didn’t blow it up like they destroyed the ancient Buddhist statues.
Reminds me of the gorillas in Planet of the Apes who had a “forbidden zone” that they refused to let the populace see because they couldn’t “handle the truth” that Man once spoke and had technology.
At least they didn’t blow it up like they destroyed the ancient Buddhist statues.
Reminds me of the gorillas in Planet of the Apes who had a “forbidden zone” that they refused to let the populace see because they couldn’t “handle the truth” that Man once spoke and had technology.
Heretic! We must follow the sign of the shoe!
Splitter.
it was not their mosque to begin with.
Now that they’ve uncovered the inscription, the Scorpion King will be bustin’ out of his sarcophagus and coming after the bass turds.
It just goes to prove that we Freemasons were there first. Allah came much, much later.
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