Egypt's Culture Ministry says a team of Egyptian and European archaeologists has unearthed a large head made of red granite of an ancient pharaoh who ruled Egypt some 3,400 years ago.
Posted on 03/01/2010 9:22:54 AM PST by TaraP
Egypt's Culture Ministry says a team of Egyptian and European archaeologists has unearthed a large head made of red granite of an ancient pharaoh who ruled Egypt some 3,400 years ago.
WOW - his head must be well preserved!
His head was made of red granite? He was stoned to the bone!
Gives the term ‘hard-headed’ new meaning.
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandius, King of Kings,
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
— Shelley
(of course, the poem is not about Amenhotep III, but it will do)
he looks like a ANNUAKAI
But he may have looked exactly as this statue and he may have been a very beautiful, very handsome man,” Sourouzian told the Associated Press.
Amenhotep III’s massive mortuary temple was largely destroyed, possibly by floods, and little remains of its walls.
The expedition, however, has unearthed a wealth of artifacts and statuary in the buried ruins, including two statues of Amenhotep made of black granite found in March.
Wow that is a remarkable find.
Reading the article title brought to mind Dib from Invader Zim.
I really should be ashamed that’s what came to mind first.
Hope a new Scooby Doo movie is coming! Remember King Shagenkummen?
Oh. I read the massive head part, and thought this was another Obama thread
Geez, you need to provide a warning before you do something like that!
L.O.L.!.....I know!....It is a shock!
Ping
http://www.biblehistory.net/newsletter/moses_pharaoh.htm
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/moses.htm
A little lite reading and something to think about.
Does anyone know what the rectangular hole in the crown portion would have held or been used for?
Surely something was plugged in there. Huge jewel? Alien lifeform or mind controller box?
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