Posted on 01/05/2015 7:56:08 AM PST by bgill
An Egyptian citizen, identified as "Nagy" by Arabic news site Ahram.org, was illegally digging in his backyard when he found a tunnel leading to the Pyramid of Khufu. The pyramid, nicknamed the Great Pyramid, is the oldest and largest of the three Giza Pyramids. Nagy, a resident of the El Haraneya village, near the Giza Plateau, dug 33 feet beneath his house before he found the corridor, made from stone blocks. Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities sent archaeologists to the scene, and a committee confirmed the passage to be the pyramid's legendary causeway.
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Illegally digging? To what purpose? 33 feet? was he looking for oil?.....................
heh heh hee.....................
Has Geraldo set up shop yet?....................
He lives near the pyramid - article would have been more interesting if he lived in, say, Belgium or Taiwan.
Man discovers passage to White HOUSE — under his outhouse
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A Kenyan citizen, identified as “Nagoody” by Kenyan news site AhBumram.org, was illegally digging in his outhouse when he found a tunnel leading to the White House.
Nagoody, a resident of the D.C hood village, near the Washington Monument, dug 33 feet beneath his outhouse before he found the corridor, made from stone blocks. He found the corridor was filled with sh_t.
If this Hawass fellow is to continue in sho-biz, he also needs some serious wardrobe help. Very “Dollar Store,” trailer park safari. Hasn’t the guy ever seen an Indiana Jones Movie? For starters, no self-respecting Goodwill would take that funky hat. TOTAL MAKEOVER, DUDE!
Someone might want to inform the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
http://www.sca-egypt.org/eng/sca_contact.htm
I’m glad you put that up there. I’ve been looking for this, the people writing under the article wrote that Hawass was reappointed.
Couldn’t find info on it. Thanks:)
The notion that “no sarcophagus were ever found in the pyramids” is a bit of a myth. They have been found in some pyramids, just not in the largest and most famous pyramids, as those pyramids were completely looted when they were opened by modern researchers.
There of course is the “granite coffer” in the pyramid of Cheops also, which would be about the right size to contain a sarcophagus, but we found it empty after the graverobbers got there first.
When you say ‘we’ do you refer to archaeologists in general or were you one of them?
One can only imagine what had been removed.
Just saying “we”, as in “we modern people who documented what we found in these ruins”. Lots of people were there before, but they didn’t bother to tell us what they found, so we can only speculate.
Thanks for that info and that perspective.
http://www.cairoscene.com/ViewArticle.aspx?AId=84803-Man-Discovers-Tunnel-Leading-To-Pyramids
Many a thing may be found in one’s garden. A swing perhaps, maybe a lovely arrangement of daffodils or some large terracotta vases. Very rarely does one find an ancient mythical tunnel leading to The Great Pyramids of Giza. It’s only happened to us like, twice before, masalan.
According to Ahram.org, this has happened once again as an Egyptian citizen named Nagy was illegally digging in his backyard when he found a tunnel leading to the Pyramid of Khufu, the oldest and largest of the three.
Nagy, who resides in the El Haraneya village, near the Giza Plateau, dug 33 feet beneath his house before he found the corridor, made from stone blocks. Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities sent archaeologists to the scene, and a committee confirmed the passage to be the pyramid’s legendary causeway.
The funny thing is archaeologists have been in search for this tunnel for decades. It had been mentioned in the Histories by the Greek Herodotus, who claims to have visited it in the fifth century B.C. Herodotus wrote that the passage was enclosed and covered in reliefs, but before Nagy’s excavation, only small remnants of the causeway had been found.
The Khufu pyramid complex is known to have connected to an undiscovered temple near the Nile River. Thanks to the new discovery, archaeologists believe the temple may be buried beneath the village of Nazlet el-Samman.
from 2009:
http://www.andrewcollins.com/page/news/nazlet1.htm
Nazet el-Samman, Egypt, October 23, 2009 - Last month saw the death of six people in Nazlet el-Samman, next to Giza’s famous plateau, when an illegally dug pit collapsed as treasure hunters attempted to retrieve a cache of valuable Egyptian antiquities. After the police and Egyptian officials descended on the residence, arresting two men, various items are said to have been removed from the site close to the Sphinx monument.
I now have a brief description of those antiquities, which were recorded on a cellphone video as they were carried from the residence. Although I have not personally seen the video clip, I understand it shows that:
” … mummies were discovered along with many other items … the picture of the mummy coffin is very ornate and a most unusual painting on it … the image of a crocodile over the back of the hippopotamus with a moon (not sun) above the head. A small gold statue of a crocodile and gold soldiers, were some of the items shown.”
These finds sound extraordinary. The coffin’s croc and hippo imagery is very likely astronomical in nature. Both creatures are depicted together in New Kingdom funerary art as sky figures among the so-called “Great Ones of the North of the Sky”, equated with the ‘ihmw-Ωk, ‘Imperishable Stars’, or ‘Indestructible Stars’. These Great Ones are thought to represent the northern constellations associated with the place of the afterlife. The hippo is Draco, with the croc thought to be either Ursa Minor or another aspect of Draco - probably the later.
The “Great Ones of the North of Sky” started to be depicted on coffins during the First Intermediate Period, c. 2100 BC, but they did not appear in full glory until the New Kingdom, c. 1585-1087 BC, when they are found frequently on tomb walls or on sarcophagi.
The moon depicted above the croc and hippo on the coffin found at Nazlet el-Samman is a departure from the conventional sequence involving the Great Ones of the North of the Sky. It suggests a variation away from the standard imagery cited above, perhaps indicating a later tradition from either the Late Period or Graeco-Roman times.
The separate statue of the croc might suggest that the person was a devotee of Sobek, the croc god whose cult was associated with the Faiyum Oasis as welll as the city of Crocodopolis (Egyptian city of Shedyet), southwest of Memphis, where there was a major temple of Sobek. The croc god rose to prominence in the Twelfth Dynasty, about the time of the female queen Sobek-nofru, the daughter of Amenemhet III, whose name honours the god. She was the daughter of Amenemhet III, and the sister of his successor Amenemhet IV, and ruled for three years around 1800 BC. Sobek-nofru is believed to have completed the fabled labyrinth monument at Hawara in the Faiyum Oasis, following the death of her father and brother. Following her death, which wound up both the Twelfth Dynasty and the Middle Kingdom period, the cult of Sobek continued through into the Second Intermediary Period, with no less than five kings with names honouring Sobek. The croc god’s cult waned thereafter, but was revived towards the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty in the New Kingdom by king Horemheb. It then probably continued on through into the reigns of Rameses I and Seti I, hence the latter’s name, since the evil god Set, brother of Osiris, was seen as the father of Sobek.
That’s about all I can say for the moment. I understand that Dr Zahi Hawass, the Secretary General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, has taken charge of the investigations surrounding the bizarre happenings in Nazlet el-Samman. Yet so far there has been no official word on the discoveries, and no confirmation of earlier rumours that a lost Temple of Khufu had been found at the illegal excavations.
With all the other projects that Dr Hawass is coordinating at this time, adding another one in Nazet el-Samman makes it more unlikely that he is ready to admit the existence of Giza’s cave underworld following his earlier denial of its existence back in August. This is despite the fact that I now understand that he IS aware of the natural caves, accessed via a tomb in the plateau’s northern cliff face.
from April 2014:
[snip] Before the 2011 revolution, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) initiated a programme of constructing concrete security walls around archaeological sites in an effort to define the areas and to protect them from unauthorised visitation, looting and development. The first of these was completed at Giza in 2008, to prevent a the neighbouring village and the cemeteries of Nazlet el-Samman from encroaching any further on the pyramid site, as well as to block illegal entry to vendors. Walls were also built at Abydos in Middle Egypt and around the palace site of Malkata in Luxor.
At the time, the walls’ construction drew criticism from local communities, especially from the villagers of Nazlet el-Samman who complained that the structures blocked not only their access to the site but also the much-needed income from tourists. Others complained that the walls damaged the sites’ aesthetic appeal.
In the face of rampant looting, however, the walls appear to have been successful. [/snip]
He was looking for Rolling Rock.
from Nov. 22, 2014:
http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/7211446-74/egypt-sphinx-restoration
[snip] Former army chief Abdel Fatah al-Sisi won the presidency in May on a promise to restore stability. Not surprisingly, the tourism-dependent Gizan village of Nazlet al Samman strongly favored him.
That support has stiffened with the insurgency in Egypt’s Sinai, where the Ansar Beit al Maqdis terror group swore allegiance to ISIS, and growing terrorist attacks across the country.
“Most Egyptians want to live in peace, work and watch football — maybe date, that is all,” Nasr said. “When the Brotherhood came to power, it was like someone stealing your identity, your culture. It was personal.”
One Islamist, he recalled, condemned the pyramids and the Sphinx as idols and “wanted to destroy (them) — wanted to destroy Egypt and make it like Afghanistan.” [/snip]
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