Posted on 04/30/2021 10:28:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Egyptian archaeologists working in the Nile Delta have uncovered dozens of rare pre-dynastic tombs dating to the period before Egypt's Pharaonic kingdoms first emerged more than 5,000 years ago.
They also found tombs from the later Hyksos period (1650 to 1500 BC) when Western Asian migrants took over the country, putting an end to Egypt's Middle Kingdom.
The tombs include 68 from the Buto period, which began around 3300 BC, and five from the Naqada III period, which was just before the emergence of Egypt's first dynasty around 3100 BC, according to a statement from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities released on Tuesday.
They also include 37 tombs from the time of the Hyksos, who first began migrating across the Sinai into Egypt around 1800 BC. [sic]
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
One of the things that I have read about the sphinx is that it predates the pharaohs. I’ve read that some archaeologists say this is because of the deep water erosion around the sides. The rains stopped in the sahara about 3500 BC.
A further assertion is that the face of the sphinx was originally a lion that was chopped down into the face of pharaoh.
That this was done because the pharaoh people were different from the ones who made the sphinx. Here’s an article that shows a carving of a lion in exactly the same pose as the sphinx that predates the pharaohs.
Encyclopedia is less convinced but but shows all the arguments which taken together give greater weight to the old sphinx theory.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/science-magazines/great-sphinx-twice-old-egyptologists-and-archaeologists-think-based-recent-geological-evidence
“They keep digging up your old hang outs from former lives!”
Highwayman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFkcAH-m9W0
The length of Egypt’s history is hard to grasp for those of us more used to reading the histories of modern nations.
So very true. What I wondering once upon a time, was the oldest “city” mentioned in the Bible. Damascus is the oldest still populated today, from what I remember. One of the oldest I can remember is Ninevah, though. Not sure why, it’s just a city (and story, of course) that seems to stay in my near memory, not buried memories.
And, oddly enough, Damascus being a city for 5000 or so years makes it kind of interesting to those who believe the Bible and it’s timeline of the ages.
They keep digging up your old hang outs from former lives!”
Highwayman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFkcAH-m9W0>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Well done.
And another:
Connor McLeod Forges a New Sword ( to Live).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsE7qTovxRs
[singing] Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore... [/singing]
more about Sphinx dating, in the wildly popular “shesepankh” keyword (shesepankh is the source for the name sphinx, and means “living image”).
https://freerepublic.com/tag/shesepankh/index
Ruins of 7,000-year-old city found in Egypt oasis
1/30/2008, 12:36:38 AM · by Fred Nerks · 43 replies · 1,863+ views
Source: ABC (Australia) | January 30, 2008 - 9:47AM | U/A
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1961826/posts
The tough part is, feeding the landscape into the card reader...
Yes, but they accept heqats of grain in lieu of money.
My pleasure, and thanks for the ping!
And the Dead Sea was only sick......
My father marveled at my I phone when I showed him a picture my son had just taken in front of the Eiffel Tower and a video of his performance the night before in a Paris Cafe. He recalled the invention of the telephone when he was a young man. And then stated “I wonder what will evolve in Charlie’s life. (His great grandson who had been born earlier in the Spring! )
Are the tombs carved out of a wall or flat rock?
Seems they're finding lots of stuff.
I thought they'd "radar mapped" ALL of Egypt underground long ago and so I searched and found this from ten years ago (2011):
Satellite Imagery Uncovers Up to 17 Lost Egyptian Pyramids By Heather PringleMay. 27, 2011 , 4:56 PM
Is this study the basis for all these new discoveries?
;-)
Asking for a friend ..
The technology improves all the time, plus, no, Egypt hasn't been radar mapped, probably Zahi "Zowie" Hawass blocked it because, imperialism, colonialism, Zionism.
These appear to be boxlike structures built of stones. Naqada phases have distinctions in the way they made (for example) their pottery, and what kinds of things they included in their burials. According to the wiki-wacky, the crania been found to be distinct from modern Niger-Congo specimens as well as Mesolithic Egyptians, but related to Bronze Age neighbors and some others much farther afield.
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