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Posted on 11/13/2010 6:10:38 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Saudi archaeologists have discovered an ancient hieroglyphic inscription mentioning an Egyptian pharaoh on a rock near the ancient oasis of Tayma, Tabuk province. The discovery, about 400 km north of Madinah and northeast of the ancient Nabatean site Madain Saleh, marks the first confirmed hieroglyphic inscription discovered in the Kingdom.
"The rock was bearing an inscription of King Ramses III, one of the kings who ruled ancient Egypt from 1192 B.C.to 1160 B.C.," said SCTA Vice President for Antiquities and Museums Ali Ibrahim Al-Ghabban at a news conference on Sunday at the Commission on National Museum.
Al-Ghabban said the discovery was made in July... The find comes at a time when Saudi Arabia is working to implement a policy of promoting the country's oft-ignored historical sites, especially pertaining to its pre-Islamic period.
Tayma is mentioned in ancient Assyrian texts dating back to the 8th century B.C. and referred to numerous times in the Hebrew Bible. Babylonian King Nabonidus spent 10 years in Tayma. His royal complex is currently being excavated. Last year a fragment of a cuneiform text mentioning Nabonidus was discovered there.
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TRANSLATION: "You must be this tall to rule"
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Didn’t he move to Arizona? ;)
As remarkable as finding Spanish graffiti in Memphis.
It’s not Muslim in origin, therefore BLOW IT UP!
I guess what I'm saying is that phoney inscriptions can be produced.
Actually,it says-Don’t miss the light show at Luxor!
I etched Led Zep rules! into a desktop in high school... wonder if it’s found thousands of years from now if it will be determined that Led Zep was a person of some importance.
You cute lil vandal, you.
Hi Shimmer! I was going to write Class of 83 Rules!, but that would have been a lie.
Good thing that Egyptologists are informed enough, and have enough dating techniques, to be able to validate or disprove that sort of thing.
If it is indeed some kind of forgery, then there will be a rebuttal of the finding. Zahi Hawass probably has a team there already, as he is always looking for new opportunities to burnish the history of Egypt.
Most of the occurrences of Narmer's name are on jars and jar fragments; an astonishing number of serekhs has emerged in the last 25 years from excavations in Israel and Palestine (Tel Erani, En Besor, Arad, Halif Terrace/Nahal Tillah, Small Tel Malhata, Tel Maahaz, Tel Lod and some more) signifying an apex of commercial contacts between Egypt and Canaan which lasted all through [Early Bronze I] ...These data and the excavation of many Southern Palestine sites, are proof of a very complex series of interrelations between Egypt and peoples centred beyond North Sinai lasting more than two (or three) centuries. It has been ascertained, mainly on the base of ceramic types and fabric, that Egyptian colonies did exist in this area, which must have worked either as tradingposts or as bazaars or points of exchange, storage and forwarding to Egypt of products (wine, oils) and raw materials (wood, ores, copper, resins, honey... In many cases the evidence of imported foreign pottery in Egypt and of Egyptian ceramic types in Palestine (both locally made or imported from Egypt), dates back to early Naqada II (thus before EB Ia, in late Ghassoulian and late Beersheba contexts. Some more serekhs of Narmer have been excavated at Minshat Abu Omar, Tell Ibrahim Awad and Tell Farain-Buto in the Delta and at Kafr Hassan Dawood in a c. 1000 tombs cemetery on the southern limit of the Wadi Tumilat.
One of *those* topics.
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This appears to another “second run” clickbait history regurgitator websites. This is sort of an update to this 12 year old topic.
The longest inscription in Saudi Arabia turned out to belong to the last king of Babylon
By Leman Altuntaş
25 July 2021
Arkeonews
The Future is the Product of the Past
https://arkeonews.net/the-longest-inscription-in-saudi-arabia-turned-out-to-belong-to-the-last-king-of-babylon/
The top of the inscription from the last king of Babylon shows engravings showing Nabonidus and four symbols. (Photo: Courtesy Saudi Press Agency)
https://arkeonews.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/babilion-king-Nabonidus-min.jpeg
Hail is a region rich in ancient history.
https://arkeonews.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Al-hait-min.png
Nabonidus went into exile at Tayma, some 160 miles north of Al Hait, four years after ascending to the throne of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, possibly as a consequence of a coup, as his inscriptions expressly disclaim any royal heritage.
Historians disagree on why Nabonidus decided to reside in what is Saudi Arabia for such a long time. The cause for his self-imposed exile from political and religious authority is unknown, although disputes with the clergy and elite over his attempts to change Babylon’s god hierarchy and declare the moon preeminent above all others are believed to have played a part.
At the conclusion of Nabonidus’ reign, the Babylonian Kingdom was attacked by the Persian Empire, led by King Cyrus the Great; Babylon was conquered by the Persians in 539 B.C., and the Babylonian empire fell. It is unknown what happened to Nabonidus following the fall.
According to Arabnews, details of the discovery will be released after specialists have more time to analyze. It will be linked to previous results that have been documented in the northwest of the Kingdom.
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