The stone consists of two parts: the upper part depicts King Set Nakhat lying prostrate with the blue crown on his head
Posted on 12/18/2006 2:58:26 PM PST by blam
Ancient Egyptian carving sheds light on Karnak
temple Sun Dec 17, 5:11 PM ET
CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt announced the discovery of a carving dating back to the 12th century BC which could hold the key to valuable information on Karnak temple, the largest ancient religious site in the world.
The large quartzite stone, carved with 17 lines of hieroglyphics, highlights the achievements of high priest Bak En Khonso and his contributions to the grand hall at Karnak.
The 170 cm by 80 cm carving (5.5 by 2.5 feet), unearthed by a team of archeologists in the southern Nile city of Luxor, also depicts the high priest's family tree.
"This is very important because we never knew anything about Bak En Khonso," the second most important man after the king, said Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
"This is going to reconstruct history and will enrich our understanding of Karnak," he told AFP. The stone was found by a team of Egyptian archeologists.
Bak En Khonso lived during the reign of King Setnakhte, founder of Egypt's Twentieth Dynasty.
A high priest was considered to be the most important man after the king, performing duties, religious rituals and offerings on his behalf.
Karnak Temple in the southern city of Luxor is the largest ancient religious site in the world. Of its four main parts, only one is accessible to tourists.
"There are still so many treasures underground," said Hawass, who believes that 70 percent of Egypt's antiquities are yet to be discovered.
thanks for sharing another great find
The stone consists of two parts: the upper part depicts King Set Nakhat lying prostrate with the blue crown on his head
Calling upon any freeper who knows how to interpret hieroglyphics. I am very interested in what this says. Go to http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=4545 and click on picture for a larger view. If anyone knows a freeper who knows hieroglyphics please ping them. Thanks.
Sorry, no. I struggle with English only.
This topic was posted , thanks blam. One of *those* topics.
[snip] This result of the present reconstruction is probably the most unexpected of all. Yet in Peoples of the Sea (1977) the time of Ramses III and with him the entire Twentieth Dynasty have already been shown to belong into the fourth century; and the volume Ramses II and His Time (1978) has carried the task of identifying the Nineteenth Dynasty as synonymous with the Twenty-sixth, that of Necho I, Psammetichus, Necho II, and Apries.
The so-called Nineteenth Dynasty will be found to have been displaced not only by the five hundred and forty years of error in the dating of the Eighteenth Dynasty, but also by an additional one hundred and seventy years—the duration of the Libyan and Ethiopian dominations over Egypt: and the total error will be found reaching the huge figure of seven hundred years. [/snip]The Assyrian Conquest: The Sequence of Dynasties Immanuel Velikovsky
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