UK press conference for The Lost Gospel
Posted on 12/21/2014 7:38:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The Egyptian archaeological community is in a tizzy. They are accusing foreign Egyptologists of being Israeli agents hell bent on altering their history. It seems Israel's ultimate goal is to reclaim the Pyramids. This charge was recently laid by Amir Gamal of the "Non-Stop Robberies" movement. It was published in Egypt's Elaph newspaper...
Some of this is funny, and some of this is not. When I filmed archaeology in Egypt in 2004 for a documentary film on the biblical Exodus, the Egyptians were watching us like hawks. In Egypt, the bible is current history. Even though the Qur'an says that the biblical Exodus is a historical fact, modern Arab regimes see Mideast history as a zero-sum game -- if it's good for the Jews, it's bad for the Arabs. So any archaeology connected to the biblical Exodus is suppressed for fear that it might support Israel's claims in the area. For example, a statue discovered at Avaris in the Delta is thought by some scholars to be a representation of the biblical Joseph. Because of the possible connection with the Jewish patriarch, the statue has now "disappeared" from the Cairo museum. It wasn't easy for the statue to disappear, since it weighs a ton.
More than this, Egypt's obsession with biblical archaeology influences the views of Egyptologists. If you claim you have found proof of the biblical Exodus, they ban you from Egypt. If you're an Egyptologist, that's a big problem. So -- not surprisingly -- Egyptologists tend to find nothing connected to the Israelites. Recently, Charles University professor Miroslav Barta tried to connect the bible to Egyptian archaeology. As a result, he's being accused of working for the Mossad. His mission: falsify Egyptian history. Not exactly a climate for free academic debate.
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UK press conference for The Lost Gospel
Joe Zias, a physical anthropologist and archaeologist who formerly worked for the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) but was let go during a budget squeeze in 1997... in August 2003, Zias (unnamed) had given a sworn deposition to the Israeli police swearing to having seen the ossuary in the antiquities shop -- without "brother of Jesus" on it.update:
Former IAA employee Zoe Zias told several archaeologists and BAR editor Hershal Shanks in 2003 that he had previously seen the James Ossuary in a Jerusalem antiquities shop without the words "brother of Jesus" at the end of the inscription. At the trial, he admitted he had not seen the inscription and could not read it if he had. -- Joe Zias Under Oath | Excerpts from the Forgery Trial of the Century | Biblical Archaeology Society Staff | 06/14/2012
[Egyptian journalist]Al-Gamal wants the gold or an equal sum in U.S. dollars – with 3500 years of compounded interest – paid by Israel to Egypt.
Interest is against the Koran.
This man must be a Zionist spy.
Well, neither did they! They are not the inheritors of the ancient Egyptians, but mere thugs and conquerors. Of course, the ancient Egyptians were thugs and conquerors in their own day! But that day is long long gone ... ancient history, so to speak.
Heh... and Simcha sez, pay reparations for the centuries of slavery.
Well, yeah, that too. What Simcha doesn’t seem to know is, the Israelites may have built at least some of the Middle Kingdom pyramids, which survive, and were indeed built of bricks.
http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/black-pyramid-dashur.html
http://www.varchive.org/ce/joseph.htm
There are several archeological sites that were the homes of the builders of the pyramids, who were Egyptian. IF the Israelites ever built any of the pyramids, it’s obvious that not all of them were built by them.
[Egyptian journalist]Al-Gamal wants the gold or an equal sum in U.S. dollars – with 3500 years of compounded interest – paid by Israel to Egypt.
Gee, didn't pharaoh give the treasures of Egypt to the Israelites when he released them from bondage? Maybe the muhammadans should get their gold from the ancestors of pharaoh, they gave it away.
Number one, I specifically stated that it was the Middle Kingdom (not the Giza, Old Kingdom) pyramids, and number two, the worker (slave) village at Giza (or the one up in the hills by the Valley of the Kings) don’t have mailboxes, no one knows where the labor force came from.
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Not really sure how this ties in with the topic.
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