Posted on 11/08/2022 8:19:29 AM PST by BenLurkin
The 4,281-foot-long (1,305 meters) tunnel, which brought water to thousands of people in its heyday, was discovered by an Egyptian-Dominican Republic archaeological team, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a statement(opens in new tab).
Ancient Egyptian builders constructed the 6.6-foot-high (2 m) tunnel at a depth of about 65 feet (20 m) beneath the ground, Kathleen Martínez, a Dominican archaeologist and director of the team that discovered the tunnel, told Live Science in an email.
Finds within the tunnel included two alabaster heads: one of which likely depicts a king, and the other represents another high-ranking person, Martinez said. Their exact identities are unknown. Coins and the remains of statues of Egyptian deities were also found in the tunnel, Martinez said.
At the time the tunnel was built, Taposiris Magna had a population of between 15,000 and 20,000 people, Martinez said. The tunnel was built beneath a temple that honored Osiris, an ancient Egyptian god of the underworld, and Isis, an Egyptian goddess who was Osiris's wife.
Previous work in the temple uncovered a hoard of coins minted with the face of Cleopatra VII. Excavations at Taposiris Magna and analysis of artifacts from the site are ongoing.
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Aliens..................always aliens...............
I heard they found channels that the Egyptians used to transport the stones that comprise the pyramids. Either that or they were runways for flying cars that were suppressed when the Ptolemy’s took over.
The tunnel at Taposiris Magna dates to the Ptolemaic period (304 B.C. to 30 B.C.), a time when Egypt was ruled by a dynasty of kings descended from one of Alexander the Great's generals.
Yes, the Ptolemies closed the flying car runways. [see post 5]
Maybe here is a reason for an aqueduct.
Not new and Edward Malkowski books are available on Amazon.
If you were to read more carefully, I didn’t suggest it was new. The article headline uses the word ‘new’ but then again, the article came out in 2010, the gist being a ‘new’ look at an old theory.
Hellenistic or Roman in date.
Since Giza’s not particularly near Taposiris Magna, no.
That’s not fair! You’re just using geography, facts and science to shoot down their theory.
Don't forget temporality -- the Giza pyramids were built with hand labor more than 2000 years before T. Magna was constructed. Anyway, I would agree, but Giza-was-a-waterpark ain't no theory. :^)
Right now someone from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is looking at this story and wondering how they can steal water from the Nile and send it to Los Angeles.
Darn right we are. Hoo-ah!
Look what they’ve done to Lake Mead... Bodies comin’ up all over the place!
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The first twenty minute downpour, and the whole lake will fill right up again, at which point, a lot of retired mobsters will breathe easy again.
You don’t live there or you would know there is no such thing as a “twenty minute downpour.” That place gets 3” a year!
But then, the dry heat is why I lived there so long. ;o]
No point in posting a story that is basically a book review without saying its is such.
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