Posted on 09/19/2022 6:16:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
An Egyptian archaeological mission working in Giza’s prominent Saqqara necropolis has unearthed several blocks of white cheese dating back to the 26th dynasty of ancient Egypt (664–525 BC).
A statement from the country’s antiquities ministry said the find was accomplished during the first round of excavations of the mission’s sixth season, which kicked off on Saturday.
According to the statement, the mission unearthed a number of clay receptacles containing the cheese, inscribed with Demotic script — ancient Egyptian writing also found on the Rosetta Stone royal decree.
The mission reportedly found a number of other containers that are expected to be opened in the coming days.
The Saqqara necropolis houses one of Egypt’s largest collections of relics. Since 2018, various missions in the area have unearthed a number of high-profile finds, including a cache of more than 100 sarcophagi, which was the subject of a 2020 Netflix documentary.
On Friday, the Giza plateau inaugurated the King Khufu Centre, a new visitor facility on the western side of the plateau.
High-end restaurant Khufu’s also opened there on Friday.
The centre and restaurant were built by Orascom Pyramids Entertainment, a private developer.
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Fondue, anyone?
Have Mikey taste it.
"The Biggest Cheese in Washington"
https://boundarystones.weta.org/2017/11/30/biggest-cheese-washington
From the article...
"While Presidents of the United States have received all different kinds of honors and gifts throughout the years, there is one particular 19th-century trend of presidential gift-giving that stands out…or maybe stands alone.
Giant wheels of cheese have appeared at the White House multiple times in presidential history, starting in 1801 when Thomas Jefferson was gifted the 4 foot-wide, 17 inch-high, 1,235 pound Cheshire “Mammoth” Cheese from the citizens of Cheshire, Massachusetts.
The cheese was made of milk from 900 strictly Republican cows"...
..."Meacham’s cheeses were ornately decorated with customized paintings and mottos, and created with the “intention of pomp and circumstance.” His final 1835 product for President Jackson was an impressive 1,400 pound wheel of cheddar that arrived in Washington in a cart pulled by a fleet of 24 horses; the mammoth cheese then sat in the White House foyer for the next two years."...
..."President Jackson began a tradition of opening up the White House for extravagant parties,
... No party was as memorable, however, as the celebration he threw in honor of George Washington’s birthday on February 22, 1837...
...Jackson had the two-year-old, viciously fragrant (Washingtonians could smell it blocks away from the White House) mammoth cheese hauled from the foyer into the East Room, and invited citizens from all over Washington to come to the White House and help eat it. Washingtonians did not miss the chance to help consume the presidential cheese, and it is rumored that the party was so crowded that “people who could not fit through the doors were climbing in through the windows.” A crowd of 10,000 turned out and “hacked” at the cheese—eating pieces, and taking large hunks away with them as well. In just two hours, the entire 1,400 pound wheel of cheese had been demolished, with only a small piece saved for Jackson.
“The air was redolent with cheese, the carpet was slippery with cheese, and nothing else was talked about at Washington that day.”
Was it ‘sharp’?...........................
DON'T ORDER THE CHEESEBURGER!....................
Or the hamburger, unless ya really like goat.
With enough garlic, even goat tastes okay...................
For that matter, with enough goat, garlic tastes okay! In the case of a goatburger, the tough part is making those goat-shaped buns.
Good thing he liked nachos!
“Why don’t we have cheese fondon’t for people that don’t like cheese fondue?” — George Carlin
You surely know how to sling a cheesy pun. Goliath would be Swiss Cheese after that Sharp Cheese attack.
David chose five smooth stones from the brook, but he only needed the one. The other four could have been like the queen's marmalade sandwich that she famously kept in her black bag.
For emergencies... "four later".
(Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for brie.)
Tap the spoon to keep time. We will we will rock U...
• • ―
1 Samuel 17:49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
Forty days?
"Past your eyes!" ~ Sassy Lil David, with a twinkle in his eye and a spring in his step.
(Everyone knows the scene in the previous chapter, where Samuel had asked Jesse, "You got any more sons", 'cause... you can't be serious.)
Babybel, a French version of Dutch Edam cheese, is sold internationally by 'The Bel Group, France' since 1952.
1952, can you believe it? 70 years! Truly the Old World was buried along with the Queen. Time flies.
So, Babybel is an Edamite?....................
Dutch Edamite.
I mean where to start?
Jacob knew to grab his heel even before Esau got that nickname of "Red".
Probably figured he wouldn't share!
Jeremiah 1:5 ►
New International Version
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Jeremiah 29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
Join the Navi, see the word.
As long as the Old World was buried with the queen,
All good-hearted people should be able to figure out how to get along finally. It was all a big, inextricable misunderstanding, a Goudian knot.
God Bless Gilda Radner, eh? She had the scoop.
After all, what really comes between U and R? It's a TY.
A man of letters. Accept no substitutes!
Peniel, Penuel... Punuel? Gid out of town. Giddy up!
Egypt means "the house of the ka (life force) of Ptah". That particular temple was located in Memphis. Who hasn't heard of the great house in Memphis, the palace of the king? Like it is with the Ark of the Covenant -- any regular, helpful guy or gal on the street would be more than happy to point the way, even as experts remain stumped. Gee I can't imagine why!
Pharoah had to experience great personal devastation before he was finally willing to show Moses the door for good.
"There's the door!"
Put One Foot in Front of the Other - Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Die critics, die! ~ EZ key L (otherwise known as a hex key).
"The party is about to start, Your Majesty."
Graceland!..................😉
Quite a departure from UR.
Genesis 12
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Willing to take off to the Far Side, on a promise.
"Say -- what's a mountain goat doing way up here in a cloud bank?"
😉
Who was allowed to cut the cheese in ancient Egypt?
Probably some ancestors of the Kurds.
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