Posted on 10/15/2023 6:25:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A German-Austrian team led by archaeologist Christiana Köhler from the University of Vienna is investigating the tomb of Queen Meret-Neith in Abydos, Egypt. She was the most powerful woman in the period around 3,000 BC. Recent excavations prove her special historical significance: the researchers found 5,000-year-old wine and other grave goods. This fuels speculation that Meret-Neith was the first pharaoh of ancient Egypt and predecessor of the later Queen Hatshepsut.
...Her true identity remains a mystery...
The archaeological team found evidence of a huge amount of grave goods, including hundreds of large wine jars. Some of them were very well preserved and even still sealed in their original state. They contained the remains of 5,000-year-old wine...
Meret-Neith's monumental tomb complex in the Abydos desert, which includes the tombs of 41 courtiers and servants in addition to her own burial chamber, was built of unbaked mud bricks, clay and wood.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
=:-)
The original box wine...
From the article:
” Meret-Neith may have been the first female pharaoh”.
The problem is that you have to let it “breathe” for a very long time.
Thanks to careful excavation methods and various new archaeological technologies, the team was able to show that the tombs were built in several construction phases and over a relatively long period of time.
This looks like a very thorough excavation.
I thought these guys found Queen Hotsy Totsy years ago.
Yes, I can read, but that still doesn’t address the human sacrifice issue. They could have started construction at her birth, stopped and started at various times during her life. Then on her death they could have killed all her slaves and courtiers and entombed them. The author didn’t disprove that possibility. They didn’t define what a “relatively long” construction time was. I don’t care if they did or did not perform ritual executions. I’m complaining about the lack of logic in their interpretation. Are they eager to dispel the idea of human sacrifice? If so, why?
Not sure why they want to dispel that. This particular Pharaoh was from the first dynasty, when there was some human sacrifices in the form of retainer sacrifices. Archaeological evidence points to this being abandoned in subsequent dynasties. So we know it was there initially, and then for some reason it died down. This is also recorded by the ancient Greeks.
They were told not to wrap them in linen strips and bury them. What a buncha maroons.
From the article:
“This fuels speculation that Meret-Neith was the first pharaoh of ancient Egypt”
It looks like Meret-Neith was a heavy drinker....
Abydos? Isn’t that where the stargate was found?
What’s the word?
Thunderbird!
“What’s the gist, physicist?”
And the Dude, hence, the Dude Abydos.
I fell in love down in Mexico
Thunderbird wine’s the only way to go
I been in love ten thousand times
All you got to do is remember my line
And they buried it with her...
Yes, that's exactly what they did, so it's obviously very likely.
Meret-Neith...We will sell no wine before it’s time...
Ancient Egypt of the time operated on a meret-neith-based system.
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