Posted on 03/02/2009 4:50:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Maintenance workers at Egypt's Giza Pyramids have found an ancient quartzite statue of a seated man buried close to the surface of the desert, the culture ministry said on Tuesday.
The statue, about life-size at 149 cm (five feet) tall, was found north of the smallest of Giza's three main pyramids, the tomb of the fourth dynasty Pharaoh Mycerinus, who ruled in the 26th century BC, the ministry said in a statement.
The man was wearing a shoulder-length wig and was seated in a simple chair, his right hand clenched on his knee and holding an object. His left hand was resting on his thigh.
The culture ministry said the statue had a number of cracks in a shoulder, its chest and base, and some facial features had been worn away. The head of the statue was only about 40 cm (16 inches) below ground level.
The statue bore no inscriptions, making it hard to identify, though the style suggested it might date to the early years of the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt, close to Mycerinus's time.
The Giza complex, containing the pyramids and the Sphinx, on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital, is one of the country's most popular tourist sites, attracting millions of visitors every year.
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Parts of ancient 5,000 year old statue unearthed in Pre-Cataclysmic America layer. Scientists debate if statue was part of religious ritual or had a more mundane purpose.
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“Another deity, apparently a god of plenty, was portrayed as a timeless child-god, lofting a platter of food with one hand...”
There’s a bust in an Austrian (?) museum, reconstructed from fragments excavated at Giza, made from the same material. I think these must have been images originally displayed in mortuary temples associated with the pyramids. :’)
Meanwhile, a mysterious and incongrous temple of a sea diety is being unearthed in a far inland area, seemingly called Squansin in a surviving local dialect.
Not only does it hold in its tentacles ritual items probably mirroring cultic usages, but the mechanical assemblages inside the temple itself....
I enjoy the movie, but the setup is not even logically consistent (assuming such a gateway gizmo were possible). :’) My favorite doofus-like line in it is, “CATHERINE: This is as far as we have ever been able to get.” They didn’t know what the text said until Daniel was brought onboard, so how’d they have any idea how to hook up the “device”, or even know what the “device” was?
Bar-rock Obama?
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